Tag Archives: Fantasy

Double Feature: The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)/The Valley of Gwangi (1969)

Posted on July 25, 2015 at 2:32 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

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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Eraserhead (1977)

Posted on July 21, 2015 at 10:39 am by Jeff Kuykendall

One of the most important images in David Lynch’s debut feature Eraserhead (1977) comes toward the end of a surreal montage, meant to establish a chain of strange motifs and to cold-immerse the viewer into the nightmare world of the … Continue reading →

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Sorceress (1982)

Posted on July 15, 2015 at 6:40 am by Jeff Kuykendall

When Roger Corman saw the opening weekend box office for Conan the Barbarian (1982), he asked that Jim Wynorski turn out a quickie script for a sword and sorcery picture. Jack Hill, director of exploitation classics Spider Baby (1964), Pit Stop … Continue reading →

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