Category Archives: Theater Fantastique
The Thing (1982)
Has there ever been a more egregious case of critics and audiences getting it wrong than that of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)? The film was released in the middle of a cluttered summer season, one which has become the … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Alien Invasion, Antarctica, Dean Cundey, Donald Moffat, horror, John Carpenter, Keith David, Kurt Russell, Richard Dysart, Richard Masur, Science Fiction, T.K. Carter, Wilford Brimley
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The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) is more than a film. For psychedelic SF writer Philip K. Dick, it was a source of revelation, and he fictionalized his experience watching the film for a scene in his novel of … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Buck Henry, Candy Clark, David Bowie, Nicolas Roeg, Rip Torn, Science Fiction
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Things to Come (1936)
By the 1930’s, H.G. Wells had become one of the most prominent political and sociological thinkers and futurists of his time, writing volume after volume speculating on where mankind was headed and where it ought to go, with technology and … Continue reading
