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thefugitivesaint · 8 months

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Bill Sienkiewicz, ''Dune'', 1985 Source

#bill sienkiewicz #dune #marvel comics #comic adaptation #david lynch #80s science fiction #frank herbert #shai hulud

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orchidblack · 5 months

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Juan José Ryp's insane ROBOCOP covers.

#robocop #juan jose ryp #comicart #80s science fiction #frank miller #cyberpunk

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michael-biehns-domme · 1 year

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This is your yearly reminder that the horror-comedy The Return of the Living Dead (1985) has the most terrifying and deadliest depiction of zombies yet.

Why you may ask? Because…

They speak.

They run.

They are intelligent enough to set traps and deceive people.

Animals and insects can also become zombies.

They basically can’t be killed. Headshots and decapitations aren’t good enough. You have to burn the bodies to complete ash, or else body parts and bones will still come after you.

The fumes that come from incineration can still create more zombies via the water cycle (rain) being transferred into graves.

Zombies specifically eat brains to mitigate the pain that comes from being dead; It’s their only solace. This might also imply that dead people are still conscious and that 2 4 5 Trioxin only enables them to finally be animated.

Fun fact: The Return of the Living Dead is the reason why zombies are now portrayed as specifically loving brains. They literally say it constantly throughout the film that they love brains. Also, Tarman is definitely the coolest looking zombie ever!

#80s #movies #film #60s 70s 80s 90s #80s nostalgia #80s science fiction #the return of the living dead #return of the living dead #zombie #zombies #zombie movies #Dan o’bannon #tarman

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technicallyclassyperfection · 8 months

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1980 to 1987 Noriyoshi Ohrai painted a series of women from myths and legends for the cover of SF Adventure magazine.

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slimewalk · 6 months

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#they live #horror #horror movies #sci fi #science fiction #movies #80s horror #80s horror movies #80s sci fi #80s science fiction #80s movies #80s #1980s #cinema #films #science fiction horror #rowdy roddy piper #keith david #john carpenter

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fights4users · 7 months

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Something I love about the classic Tron posters is how the tag lines really tell you a lot about the world? Funnily enough it helps me to understand the world better than I had with my countless rewatches and re reads of the novel. Short, quippy and striking. It’s a little romaticised and dramatized but it’s true.

“Where energy lives and breathes”

“Video game battles are a matter of life or death”

“Trapped in a world he helped to create”

They absolutely slap. I also like how the designs and changes in tag lines and titles really show how long this movie was in development and it’s changes. It’s neat.

Honestly I’m really sad about the lost art of poster making in general, beautiful paintings and snappy tag lines that told you exactly what you were going into. It wasn’t just a advertisement it was a promise, a explanation - a summary. This isn’t to say there isn’t the occasional good poster design in the modern day but it’s really a lost art.

#tron #tronblr #tron 1982 #poster design #80s movies #80s science fiction #80s posters #Tron game

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katecursed · 1 year

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3d scan of an amaryllis flower i grew with my gf and displayed on a 1981 oscilloscope <3

#gif #retro #analog #glitch #gif art #monochrome #nostalgia #oscilloscope #video art #80s sci fi #80s science fiction #cathode ray tube #vector graphic

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theconjurervfx · 1 month

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Blade Runner (1982) Director's Cut dir. Ridley Scott.

#scifi #blade runner #dystopian vibes #mood #popular #80's scifi #80s science fiction #ridley scott #harrison ford #rutger hauer #sean young #edward james olmos #eyes #replicants #blade runner 2049 #replicant eyes #robots

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hoodart01 · 3 months

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#hoodart01 #fanart #horror #scifi #horror scifi #80s science fiction #80s movies #sunglasses #aliens #they live #john carpenter

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spacetimesally · 7 months

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An illegitimate transplant clinic operating in the shadows has been found to be abducting unsuspecting people off the street, but when Sally goes investigating, the nightmarish scenario that unfolds is enough to curdle blood, in, "The Farm"

Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series…

[Other Timelines, Other Lifetimes Series - Spacetime Sally ‘86 - Captain Sally Hannigan is a former US Space Defense pilot turned hacker and freedom fighter on the run.

After being framed for war crimes she did not commit, she battles a corporate government she once allied with and now bands together with a group of disenfranchised and marginalized misfits looking to take down the ‘Syndicate Malignant’ - an oppressive group of shadowy capitalists making certain everyone suffers.]

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schlock-luster-video · 24 days

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On April 2, 1985, Blade Runner was re-released in Italy.

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thefugitivesaint · 11 months

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Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) A film that was almost instantly forgotten when it was released just days before ‘Return of the Jedi’ hit theaters. It was the one of the last movies to use 3D as a marketing gimmick to get audiences into seats. I was 9 years old when I saw it and I loved it. Adult me? *shrugs shoulders* It’s ok. The stills I took (from a digitized VHS copy) where meant to give you a flavor of what the movie is like. The plot is as bare bones at a plot can get and the world building is severely undercooked. It all goes something like this: a luxury space ship suffers from some catastrophic space event that forces passengers to abandon ship. Three of those passengers land on Terra XI, a planet that was devastated by some kind of virulent plague and has become a kind of post-apocalyptic hellscape. Bounty hunter/mercenary Wolff (Peter Strauss) receives a “broadcast” about the stranded passengers and sets out to retrieve them and collect the reward of “3,000 Mega Credits.” Soon after arriving on Terra XI, while trying to rescue the three passengers, they are abducted by agents working for the local tyrant Overdog (Michael Ironside). Wolff decides to head off to free the women from Overdog and, along the way, runs into Niki (Molly Ringwald) and Wolff’s former colleague Washington (Ernie Hudson). The story is a loose narrative of episodic action sequences involving strange creatures and weird people that are given almost no clarification as to who they are or why they do what they do. It is briefly mentioned that Overdog was once a scientist named McNabb who was sent to Terra XI to combat the plague (with two other scientists) but no explanation is given as to why they became tyrants or why they started experimenting on the Terra XI’s population. I guess that’s all the narrative the creators thought was necessary (this movie did come out in the wake of ‘Mad Max II: The Road Warrior’ and that movie is almost purely action with hardly a plot to drive it so..) This was Molly Ringwald’s second film and the score was composed by Elmer Bernstein (who also composed the music for ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘The Magnificent Seven’ to name two). The 3D-effects are as clunky as one might suspect. The overall effects (some of the miniature work is by legendary ‘Terminator’ animator Pete Kleinow) and production design (which is doing most of the heavy lifting here) are a mixed bag of competent execution and outright jankiness. Overall, it’s one of those modestly budgeted science fiction films from the 80s that didn’t hit it big, barely raked in a profit, and quickly faded into obscurity. It’s worth one watch if you’ve never seen it. And, should you have any desire to put this movie into your brain, you can do so here (this might be a better quality copy than my digital VHS transfer). Oh, what folk have gabbed about the movie over at letterboxd.

#spacehunter #science fiction films #b movies #3d films #80s movies #80s science fiction #molly ringwald #ernie hudson #michael ironside

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orchidblack · 2 years

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