Sentences with phrase «at classic science fiction»
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At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.
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A new exhibition and season of events at the Barbican Centre in London offers a fun, frantic sprint through the scenery of classic science fiction.
A fair stab at adapting the classic novel by science fiction novelist Ray Bradbury, this is still the definitive screen version.
Carpenter is responsible for at least six classics that transcend the horror and science - fiction genres» supposed low - brow pleasures, including The Thing, Escape from New York, They Live, Starman, Christine, and most notably, Halloween.
Tobe Hooper's 1986 Invaders From Mars is a remake of William Cameron Menzies» 1953 science - fiction / horror classic, though at times it plays like a direct response to the movies of Steven Spielberg — including the Hooper / Spielberg collaboration Poltergeist.
In fact an early scene in which the mythology and back - story of the inhabitants of Barsoom is laid out in voice - over sent shivers up my spine recalling the opening scene of David Lynch's misbegotten 1984 film Dune, a failed big budget adaptation of classic science fiction literature hailed at the time as the «new Star Wars».
As such, though set in modern times, the film takes a decidedly spoof - y look at science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s, with nods to such classics as The War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Neil Marshall's acclaimed British horror - thriller «The Descent» draws on plenty of other genre classics for visual inspiration, from otherworldly mysteries («Picnic at Hanging Rock») to oudoor adventure («Deliverance,» «Jaws») to science - fiction («Alien») and straight - out horror («The Blair Witch Project»).
As with most classic science fiction there is a small mishap at the lab and the accelerator malfunctions leading to Lester being transported in to Another World.