Post by darkglobe on Aug 12, 2006 14:04:52 GMT -5
Anybody else a fan of Richard Stanley's films? He's not made many but what I've seen have been pretty good (or could have been good). First off, he did Hardware, a sci-fi story about a killer robot, drug abuse, and a wandering Iggy Pop in a Blade Runner-ish future. Not exactly an original premise, but interesting in tone. Next up was Dust Devil, about an Aboriginal demonic force stalking humans under their noses... quite good, with a nice mythological take that Nightbreed fans will like.
His final main film is the 90's remake of The Island of Dr. Moureu. He was kicked off his own film by ego-master Val Kilmer, and eventually he had to sneak back onto the film as a monster to see what they did to his film. And the great Marlon Brando, who was attracted to the film based on Stanley's script and personality, was reduced to acting wearing an ice-bucket on his head. Astounding.
In any case, here's a cool site on his films and some of his research into voodoo (the credible kind of voodoo research, not poseur stuff). I'd love to have seen him finish The Great God Pan as a film though....
www.everythingisundercontrol.org/nagtloper/
His final main film is the 90's remake of The Island of Dr. Moureu. He was kicked off his own film by ego-master Val Kilmer, and eventually he had to sneak back onto the film as a monster to see what they did to his film. And the great Marlon Brando, who was attracted to the film based on Stanley's script and personality, was reduced to acting wearing an ice-bucket on his head. Astounding.
In any case, here's a cool site on his films and some of his research into voodoo (the credible kind of voodoo research, not poseur stuff). I'd love to have seen him finish The Great God Pan as a film though....
www.everythingisundercontrol.org/nagtloper/
