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Death Machine (1994, UK, Stephen Norrington)
There is an endless array of youtube versions available of the movie, because it was mercilessly recut and reissued under various editions. It makes a good double feature with The Tower (1993). It’s also a movie who has characters named after Ridley Scott, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Sam Raimi – arguably the most influential sci-fi/horror…
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The Tower (TV, 1993)
The Tower has a lot to say about the occult nature of corporations. INTERCORP – the filmic corporation may be the first truly artificial, openly anti-human conglomerate, debugging itself as it debugs its human ’employees’ and their damaging activities and blunders. We can see but we cannot stop what its electronic eyes can scan, running…
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World on a Wire (Welt am Draht 1973)
File this recently rediscovered, forgotten and restored movie under visionary retrofuturistic visions, mind hacks and cybernetic paradoxes. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was always a big enigma for me and I can’t say I was able to see many of his movies. But this is one might easy make it into the top 10 sci-fi movies I’ve…
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Terminator I by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher(Romanian translation from 1994,editura Elit Comentator Bucharest)
I got this book from our friend at toate.org from a fleamarket raid ending with a few other classix such as The Sphere. This was the book the movie was based on. There are several reasons why I started reading it. First, because it introduced the cyborg as a pop phenomenon into the US. Particularly…
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Rock n Rule (1983, Nelvana Studios, Canada)
Just decided to blog about a few cult 80s animations that you might have missed. Fans of Heavy Metal should really dig after Rock n Rule. And not only because the Canadian studio Nelvana really got involved in the initial Heavy Metal melting pot. These drawings are the cleaned-up backgrounds made by Peter Moehrle and…