Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
MYSTERIOUS PLANET
One of the absolute cheapest sci fi films of 1982, a very free adaptation of Jules Verne’s MYSTERIOUS ISLAND
PARASITE (1982)
3-D monster movie silliness from Charles Band
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE (Book)
One of the more famous late Twentieth Century movie novelizations was this prose rendering of the first STAR TREK feature, credited to series’ creator Gene Roddenberry
THE BRADBURY CHRONICLES
The first major biography of the late Ray Bradbury and, I’m pleased to report, a good one
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE
A nasty ‘Nam allegory by sci fi legend Norman Spinrad
WAX, OR THE DISCOVERY OF TELEVISION AMONG THE BEES
There will never be another film quite like this shot-on-video mind-roaster from 1991
MR. TURTLE
A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger
DISLOCATION
From China, a heavily stylized sci-fi satire
INFRA-MAN
This 1975 Hong Kong outrage is a classic of sorts, and a prime example of accidental surrealism