Concept art by Harley Jessup for RETURN TO OZ (1985). Dare I use the word—“underrated”?
It wasn’t until today that I realized that two of my all-time favorite movies are Oz adaptations: THE WIZ (1978), and this unusually dark film, a sequel of sorts to THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939).
Poster designs by William Stout for JURASSIC PARK (1993).
Ray Harryhausen drawings for the 1966 fantasy movie, One Million Years B.C., starring Raquel Welch.
Illustrations by E.H. Shepard for the 1931 edition of WIND IN THE WILLOWS.
Ghost mall: Metcalf South Shopping Center in the Kansas City area.
Suggested soundtrack: one of those 1980s synth horror movies. C.H.U.D., or MANIAC.
Or CHOPPING MALL...
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Drawings by H. R. Giger.
Concept art and the finished puppet/suit/rig by Rick Baker for An American Werewolf in London (1981).
The first time I saw it I was about 10. That transformation scene: man. You could almost feel it happening to yourself. In later years though, whenever I would think of the film, the first images that popped up were of those misty moors at the beginning of the film. Tense.
Bart Nixon, designer of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from Stephen King’s IT (1990).
HUMAN AFTER ALL. By artists, Jan Kriwol and Markos Kay.
Design sketches (and a model sheet) for Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear. The character debuted in 1958 in the Huckleberry Hound Show.
RETURN OF THE JEDI art (Jabba stuff) from THE STAR WARS ARCHIVES (1995) book. —Look at those beautiful alien masks and models.