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January 06, 2009, 03:08:43 PM Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 03:21:15 PM by frodo
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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az40e63ZClU

Return to Oz - 1985

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipivUGVydMY

Dune - 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg06ZBdHb5M

Labyrinth - 1986

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp2BIoSKI7o

The Dark Crystal - 1982

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzgVPB5dpgg

Frogger

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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*
"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."Mao. "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." Ernesto Che Guevara. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth" Lenin. "Religion is the opium of the masses." Marx.

frodo

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January 06, 2009, 03:52:58 PM Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 04:01:58 PM by frodo
It doesn't necessarily have to be dark, just weird.

Muppets from Space - 1999

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R94eV8nxvrA

Merlin - 1998

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FW7lYb9gRf4

Psycho Circus

#3
January 06, 2009, 03:53:44 PM
Krull, Willow, Hawk The Slayer...  :thumbup:

Doggett

#4
January 06, 2009, 03:54:51 PM Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 04:00:28 PM by doggett
Krull, definitely.
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JJ80

#5
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.
There are few things more beautiful than a sporting montage with a soft-rock soundtrack

Frogger

#6
January 06, 2009, 04:49:54 PM Last Edit: January 06, 2009, 06:05:50 PM by MrPassmore
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zT6akoSCzpw

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...

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view."Mao. "At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality." Ernesto Che Guevara. "A lie told often enough becomes the truth" Lenin. "Religion is the opium of the masses." Marx.

Andrew

#7
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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Badmovies.org

Doctor Menard

#8
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)...


Zardoz


What's that rushing sound? I think the inmates are loose again.

JJ80

#9
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"?
There are few things more beautiful than a sporting montage with a soft-rock soundtrack

Derf

#10
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.
"They tap dance not, neither do they fart." --Greensleeves, on the Fig Men of the Imagination, in "Twice Upon a Time."

peter johnson

#11
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.

peter johnson/denny crane
I have no idea what this means.

Psycho Circus

#12
January 09, 2009, 02:06:47 PM
Edward Scissorhands, 13th Warrior, The Witches...

trekgeezer

#13
January 09, 2009, 03:00:40 PM
Not so dark, not a movie, but definitely had to be influenced by drugs.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5e9yCB-hiw



And you thought Trek isn't cool.

Raffine

#14
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.


Anyway, here's his take on Alice's first encounter with the White Rabbit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s

And here's his version of the Caterpillar scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odlrs-1sqO0&feature=related
If you're an Andy Milligan fan there's no hope for you.
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