One
particular film reference Hittman mentioned was White Epilepsy, a film by Philippe Grandrieux.
Not exact matches
Instead, this
particular video game movie fits squarely into Johnson's established «brand» and could have easily been an original sci - fi
film about The Rock battling giant monsters, had it dropped the
references to the original games.
There are also loads of internal Spider - Man
references and teases at future
films that Spider - Man fans will easily spot, but one in
particular that I barely caught.
This isn't a
film filled with
references, nor is it influenced by a
particular type of
film.
Not only does the
film cater to the bloodthirsty fanboy, it
references classics from the subgenre — Sleepaway Camp and Madman in
particular — and takes all the well - worn ideas therein and gives «em a head noogie for 90 or so minutes.
So they were always
referencing films, and I think that's what's really fun about this
film in
particular is this is one where they just said, «Okay.
Sci - fi fans in
particular should have a lot of fun uncovering the many
references to popular TV shows,
films and video games that litter the landscape even if many of them are rather cringe - worthy in their attempts at humour.
Visually, the designers of Clock Tower had a
particular love for the
films of Dario Argento with Suspiria and Phenomena being major points of
reference.
Both draw on the mythologies of the frontier culture of the American West and in
particular, the loaded iconographies of the Cowboy, here imbued with a homoerotic quality redolent of Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, while also
referencing the work of Martin Scorcese and David Hockney and continuing, as with Julien's earlier
film work, to subvert preconceptions of race and sexuality.
In her latest show of work, Lachowicz
references not the plaques of Carl Andre or boxes of Donald Judd, readily recognized by gallerygoers, but a
particular film from early in Clint Eastwood's career, High Plains Drifter (1973).