Tag: Sci-fi

Dune

David Lynch’s 1984 version of Dune is widely recognised to be something of a disaster. The producers probably thought they were investing in the new Star Wars. What they got was weird and incomprehensible beyond belief. Lynch himself subsequently disowned the movie and whilst it has become something of a cult, campy favourite, my memory…


Zardoz / The Final Programme

These are two of the weirdest movies to come out of the UK in the 70s. I’m posting the Zardoz UK quad in memory of the late, great Sir Sean Connery, although in all honesty this is probably not the movie for which he would most like to be remembered!  Zardoz was a sci-fi movie…