Category Archives: Theater Fantastique

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:39 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Conan and I go way back.  My first impression of the character was when I went to Universal Studios in California in 1983, just a wee tyke, taking notice of the brochure’s advertisement for the Conan the Barbarian stunt show … Continue reading →

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Night Tide (1961)

Posted on August 4, 2011 at 8:36 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Curtis Harrington’s Night Tide (1961) suggests what might have happened had Jean Cocteau been hired to direct an episode of The Twilight Zone. Perhaps it lacks Cocteau’s style of experimentation, but there is a romantic and eerie quality to this … Continue reading →

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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)

Posted on July 26, 2011 at 6:45 am by Jeff Kuykendall

“This piece of music which has gone on for some time, perhaps even since the beginning of the evening, is a kind of cyclically repeated refrain in which the same passages can always be recognized at regular intervals…” – Alain … Continue reading →

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