Category Archives: Theater Fantastique
The Warriors (1979)
Walter Hill’s The Warriors (1979) intends to make the viewer uncomfortable from the very start. He plunges us into a New York City overrun with street gangs, with no traditional audience surrogate, no Serpico. The opening credits of red spray … Continue reading
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Tagged 70's, Action, Dystopia, Gangs, Science Fiction, Subway, Walter Hill
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Dune (1984)
It’s the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the science fiction novel which broadened the scope and ambition of the space opera. Herbert’s novel nudged the genre into new degrees of sophistication with its dense plotting, elaborate backstory, wide cast … Continue reading
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Tagged 80's, Brad Dourif, David Lynch, Dean Stockwell, Dino De Laurentiis, Dune, Francesca Annis, Frank Herbert, Freddie Jones, Jack Nance, José Ferrer, Jürgen Prochnow, Kyle MacLachlan, Linda Hunt, Max von Sydow, Patrick Stewart, sand worm, Science Fiction, Sean Young, Sting, Surreal, Virginia Madsen
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Double Feature: The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Valley of Gwangi (1969)
Cowboys vs. dinosaurs! The idea was kicking around in stop-motion animator Willis O’Brien’s head for a while in the years following his seminal work on The Lost World (1925) and King Kong (1933). It was an appealing and original notion to … Continue reading
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Tagged cowboys, dinosaurs, Fantasy, Guy Madison, James Franciscus, prehistoric, Ray Harryhausen, Stop Motion, Western, Willis O'Brien
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