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First of all, the Ray Harryhausen effect of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is glorious! This is exactly the kind of film I associate him with. I know he made effects and created stories for other types of movies as well. Mostly in the Fantasy- or Monster genres of course. I haven’t seen them all (yet) but I’m also impressed with how good the effects are for their time. There are some Sci-Fi flicks in...
I didn’t realize that the story told in Gawain and the Green Knight was actually based on a 14th-century poem until I saw this adaptation. The story itself wasn’t unknown to me though. It’s kind of a classic story anyway. If you’re somewhat into fantasy films you should recognize the basics right away. In this, a Green Knight turns up in King Arthur’s Court and wants to play a game. A deadly game it seems....
It is Halloween Month, Shocktober, or whatever you’d like to call it. So I thought a list with 31 Horror Movies you need to see was a good idea. None of these are in any particular order. They’re not listed from worst to best or anything like that. They’re just movies that I think you should see that fall under the Horror Umbrella. They’re not all core horror films and sometimes they’re mixed up with...
Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments is the latest series I’ve managed to see. I recently posted a little about it on instagram too. I wasn’t quite finished with the series then, there were still a couple of episodes to go. Let’s say that I was very eager to see how it was going to end. I predicted that there would be a happy ending to the series. Was I right? Well, I guess that depends on...
Ok, let me share what I read about The Mansion of Madness prior to seeing it. “A mysterious man is sent deep into the forest to investigate the bizarre behavior of the notorious Dr. Tarr. What he stumbles upon is the doctor’s torture dungeon, a hellish asylum completely cut off from civilization and presided over by the ultimate madman. Innocent people have been savagely chained, tortured, and stuck in glass cages, then forced to take...
If you have followed me for a while you know that I love Fantasy and adventure movies. Arabian Adventure is such a movie and it’s easy to compare it to a Sinbad Movie or the thief of Bagdad or äny of those classics. The premise is about the same. We have this hero, who is almost too down to earth despite being a prince. Someone who almost has an absurd sense of right and wrong...
The Other Side of the Mirror aka The Darker Side of the Mirror is a movie I should really enjoy. I like the premise of Alice in Wonderland being interpreted freely. There are a lot of adaptations already and perhaps we don’t need another one to exactly follow Lewis Carroll’s novel. I haven’t read it of course so I donät know how well all the other movies spanning from the early 1900s till the movies...
I love Fantasy and Adventure movies and I think I have seen my fair share och Sinbad over the years. This one – Sinbad of the Seven Seas was a new acquaintance. I don’t really care if it looks cheap or cheezy, that’s all part of the fun. But this movie…I can’t really understand what they were thinking. First of all, there’s an introduction where Edgar Allen Poe is mentioned. He’s described as this horror...
Ever since I was a kid I like magic tricks. Not that I necessarily believe in real magic but I like to be fooled by great illusionists. And I hate not being able to figure out the trick too. In the movie-realm magic exists of course. Real Magic. I have no problem with that what so ever. I enjoy it and I love fantasy movies with wizards and warlocks too. In Dr. Strange, we meet...
Of course, I realized that Dungeons & Dragons was a concept when I saw The Book of Vile Darkness. But It never occurred to me that it was the third movie of a series. I don’t think it really matters and I didn’t notice anything I needed to know beforehand. It’s probably just the concept holding together the movies anyway. I thought this was surprisingly good acted and I like the special effects even if...
Look at that poster! Isn’t it marvelous? You can see from a mile away what kind of flick The Land That Time Forgot is. You can see the adventures coming at you and you can see that it’ll take place on a mysterious island somewhere. In my world, movie poster art doesn’t get much better than this! But then there’s the movie of course. Does it keep the promises from the poster? Yes, I think...
I actually never thought of The Devil’s Triangle as the Bermuda Triangle but it makes perfect sense and I realize it’s a pretty common name for the same thing. I have seen the reference to the devil before though. Does anyone remember the Sci-Fi flick Dark Side of the Moon? A pretty unusual scenery to find a Bermuda Triangle reference don’t you think? I have no idea if this is true or not but in...
