Italian Artist, Lorenzo Mattotti—illustrations Of THE SEVENTH SEAL, Dante’s DIVINE COMEDY, HARRY

Some art from the RETURN OF THE JEDI SKETCHBOOK that I haven’t featured before. (Art by Joe Johnston, Nilo Rodis-Jamero, and Ralph McQuarrie.)

British artist, Paul Rumsey.

‪What is one of the scariest movie scenes you know? For me, it has to be the subway peddler scene from THE WIZ (1978), one of my all-time favorite films. It’s a slow, wordless nightmare, with no payoff: the last time we see the clown puppets, they’re still nonchalantly roaming the subway, looking for prey.‬

When Dorothy and her friends flee up the stairs, the patterns on the floor look like pools of blood.

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.

The 1933 KING KONG armature.

Soviet-era bus stops, photographed by Christopher Herwig.

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 interesting world of medieval manuscripts. I’ve always wondered what a medieval Yoda would look like...

Something off about these houses...

“Laura!”