NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Fun.

‪SCOOBY-DOO animation backgrounds.‬

‪The show always had these great settings. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a show where terror and humor were so ideally balanced—the villains were genuinely scary, the characters genuinely funny.‬

Concept drawings by H.R. Giger for Alejandro Jodorowsky's unrealized DUNE. 1970s.

Derelict places: Belgian photographer, Jim van Loo.

Sculptures by Scott Radke.

Nowhere beings: photos by Laura Thompson.

Covers by Polish illustrator Jacek Kopalski for Stephen King books, CARRIE, NIGHTSHIFT, TOMMYKNOCKERS, and DREAMCATCHER.

Concept art for the beings from John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (1994). Not sure about the specific artists, but the creature designs were done by the KNB EFX Group, founded by Robert Kurtzman, Greg Nicotero, and Howard Berger.

The Starchild from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), a page from Jack Kirby’s 1977 adaptation, and the original prop on display.

Krypton concept art by Chris Foss for SUPERMAN (1978).

The movie had great locations. What is a film without distinctive, memorable locations and visual concepts? Krypton, the icy Fortress of Solitude, the yellow cornfields of Smallville, the spacy nothingness of The Phantom Zone. Or look at STAR WARS: a golden robot in a desert, a lone silvery starfighter in a dark, hostile trench, the small dirty farmboy in white versus the black, armored giant.

The art of outer space: nebulae photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. It sure is brimming with activity up there.