Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Pop Art: 1980s Storybook Edition
award-winning creator of the web series Abnormal Fixation (2024), the audio drama Enter the House Between (2023) and author of 35 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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As a child of the 80s, I thank you for these. Amazing what's buried in the memory. Didn't have the TRON, Dune, or Bond ones.
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ReplyDeleteMy pleasure. It is amazing to think back about your childhood and the things that informed it, and yet...are no more. I'm proud of having this Bond one...such a crazy movie to have a storybook.
I was going to write the same thing - thanks for the flashback. I had a couple others you don't have here "Dragonslayer", "The Secret of NIMH", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and "Clash of the Titans". The "Titans" one was especially bizarre because it didn't feature any actual stills from the movie. It had these gorgeous full color illustrations instead based off the images from the film. They kept the look of Harryhausen's creatures perfectly and followed the story from the film. It was the same size and had the same type of cover as most of my other storybooks, so I think it still counts. I'm guessing the reason for the illustrations was because stills from the movie might show more of the effects lines than they should have.
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