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« on: January 06, 2009, 03:08:43 PM »
What are some dark fantasy movies like Legend, Return to Oz, Dune, Labyrinth, and the Dark Crystal?

I’m looking for ones that were probably influenced by drugs.

Legend - 1985

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The Dark Crystal - 1982

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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2009, 03:15:08 PM »
Quote from: frodo on January 06, 2009, 03:08:43 PM
What are some dark fantasy movies like Legend, Return to Oz, Dune, Labyrinth, and the Dark Crystal?

I’m looking for ones that were probably influenced by drugs.

Troll 2 seems like it was written by a bunch of people on drugs it does fail on the dark side....

Considering how many of these god awful films I have watched its amazing I can not recall more.... *misses DVD collection at home*
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2009, 03:52:58 PM »
It doesn't necessarily have to be dark, just weird.

Muppets from Space - 1999

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Merlin - 1998

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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2009, 03:53:44 PM »
Krull, Willow, Hawk The Slayer...  Thumbup
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« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2009, 03:54:51 PM »
Krull, definitely.
Red Sonja.
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« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2009, 04:33:56 PM »
Possibly "The Lost Continent" (1968) featuring carnivorous seaweed, giant crabs and octopi and a lost ship-based society of Conquistadors.
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« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2009, 04:49:54 PM »
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Insane seriously insane.....

Update: I just watched it fully and I discovered the meaning that the option succide would have to me if I was forced to watch that movie again...

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« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2009, 06:48:45 PM »
Dark fantasy is not too hard, but "Influenced by drugs" is the hard part...

Wizards

Mio in the Land of Faraway

Alice in Wonderland (just about any version)
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« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2009, 07:53:20 PM »
One of the worst f**king movies ever to have wrongfully been exposed on film (what a goddamn waste of celluloid)...


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« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2009, 08:03:42 PM »
Talking of John Boorman, wouldn't "Excalibur" be a good choice. Also, what about Robert Altman's odd post-apocalyptic movie "Quintet"?
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« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2009, 12:47:33 PM »
Try also:

Naked Lunch
Forbidden Zone
12 Monkeys
Jabberwocky
Barbarella


These are not all fantasy, strictly speaking, but they would all fit under the umbrella of "speculative fiction" that was very possibly influenced by drugs.
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« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2009, 01:56:27 PM »
Man, JJ80 -- The Lost ContinentandQuintet??  That's some powerful stuff in that bong of yours --

I'd say City of Lost Children, Dark City, and the Johnny Depp Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  Pretty darn dark stuff, if you ask me --

Also, check out anything by Guy Maddin -- The Saddest Music in The World is a good place to start:  Isabella Rosallini has lost both her legs and has them replaced with glass legs full of beer.  This is not the oddest thing that occurs in this film.  Mostly shot at night, in snow, with tinted and black-and-white photography.

El Topo.   Jodoworsky only did acid once or twice, but he took what he found to help inspire --

Lucifer Rising.  Kenneth Anger has always advocated taking copious amounts of drugs before filming.  It shows.  His are some very evil/peculiar/WTF films that I'm shocked to discover aren't talked about very much in this forum.

FW Murnau's original Nosferatu, if you've never seen it.  Try to find the version with the Mt. Alto soundtrack.  Murnau was a coke and absinthe freak for a bit in Berlin.

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« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2009, 02:06:47 PM »
Edward Scissorhands, 13th Warrior, The Witches...
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« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2009, 03:00:40 PM »
Not so dark, not a movie, but definitely had to be influenced by drugs.


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« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2009, 05:49:50 PM »
Quote from: Andrew on January 06, 2009, 06:48:45 PM
Dark fantasy is not too hard, but "Influenced by drugs" is the hard part...

Alice in Wonderland (just about any version)


Jan Svankmajer's nightmare-inducing surreal version of ALICE (1988) is about the darkest version of the Carroll story you'll likely find. If any drugs were involved, they had been moldering away in the bottom of a dank sock drawer for far too long.


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