On a shoot in San Pedro, Steven Spielberg suddenly decided he wanted a new shot, and had Yuricich line up his 65mm camera at a bridge toll booth to film the action of the cop cars racing left to right. Predator (1987)The aliens in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s sci-fi/action flick are hunters with a similar gait to the creature in Stranger Things, but the true link between them is sound. The Thing (1982) There’s a poster for John Carpenter’s gory horror remake in the basement of Mike’s house, which means his parents must not fret as much as Joyce did about Poltergeist. ‘Close Encounters’ awareness is up this week, what with a national mini-release of the 1977 Steven Spielberg hit, so I reached into the bottomless Savant archives for something to show-and-tell. What is wrong with you?” As potent as his words and his slap are his furious eyes and the implicit threat in his raised brow. She, too, is supposed to be used as a weapon against men — in this case, Soviet targets in the Cold War — but the mission backfires. Log in or link your magazine subscription, WELP: Guess How Many People Voted for ‘President Kanye’, Steve Kornacki Has at Least Been Forced to Take a Break, Savannah Guthrie Interrupts Trump’s ‘Not True’ Speech, Watching CNN on Election Night Felt Like Being Dipped in Boiling Oil. As he constructs Devil’s Tower out of mashed potatoes and shovels piles of dirt into his living room, his wife and children can’t get out of the house fast enough. The brain sensors worn by Barrymore’s character for “the Wood Chip Test” resemble the apparatus placed on Elle’s head whenever she’s monitored in the lab. Kristeva 1980 describes text as ‘constructed as a mosaic of… With their new Netflix series, Matt and Ross Duffer have created something more like an immense nostalgia bath, drawing on the work of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, Stephen King, and a host of others from a familiar era in popular culture. But by “Chapter Three,” almost everyone manages to transcend type. The image of Jonathan peering through the blinds with telephoto lens as Nancy is about to lose her virginity recalls Body Double and its poster. I also took some of the only photos of the special effects work, and was able to keep a few pictures — any black & white photos you see of flying saucers being filmed in smoke rooms, etc., are probably mine. Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) is the skeptic, keeping the group grounded in the plausible and the pragmatic. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) The Empire Strikes Back was released three years before Stranger Things’ story begins, so it makes sense it would be a primary obsession for adolescent boys. You need to enable JavaScript to use SoundCloud, The original name of this song is close encounters by hunter prey. As he walks, Millie Bobby Brown’s reflection appears in the mirror carefully positioned in the hallway: Even as Brenner carries her into the light, part of her remains in darkness. It worked amazingly well. 174 Followers. In episode one, a flashback shows Joyce surprising Will with tickets to Tobe Hooper’s suburban ghost story, which thrills him because she had forbidden him from seeing it. Her level gaze as Dustin tries (and fails, and tries again) to coax her into levitating Mike’s Millennium Falcon is as loaded with sardonic wit as anything any character has said aloud. It’s not that Stranger Things gets a pass because it evokes nostalgia. It also hints at abstract ideas and deeper themes. It seemed to take almost a year to get the Close Encounters visual effects factory up and running, to churn out flying saucer shots. Sure, the show is anchored by its devotion to (and note-perfect rendition of) horror tropes, and by its rich recreation of a time gone by. All Gregory Jein had to work with was a clip of a 65mm shot of the booths. Her system of communication, with its array of blinking lights, also mirrors the climax of Close Encounters. Her quick dispatch makes Barb a throw-away character, but it’s a smart way to establish exactly what’s become of Will—and to raise the stakes for viewers by showing how deadly serious his predicament is. It’s not just an assortment of period-appropriate trinkets and decor, but a whole landscape of distinctly different interiors and exteriors. It’s hard to distinguish between flaws that arise from Stranger Things’ writing (“Chapter Two” is written by Jessica Mecklenburg, directed by Shawn Levy) and those inherent in its source material—the pulpy, sometimes hackneyed genre films, novels, and shows it so deftly recombines. Like Comic-Con. On Close Encounters things went much more slowly, as Greg completed his impressive artwork piece by piece, before he turned his attention to the mothership. I would later help Gregory Jein get a much larger miniatures effort going for 1941, based in an airport hangar in North Hollywood and shared with A.D. Flowers’ physical effects crew. Altered States (1980) Elle (Millie Bobby Brown) can only reach her full psychic potential when she’s placed in a sensory-deprivation chamber, which allows her mind to travel to another plane of reality known as “the Upside Down.” A sensory-deprivation tank also figures strongly in Ken Russell’s trippy Altered States, which puts William Hunt’s character under the influence of various psychotropic drugs. Users who like HuntorPrey - Close Encounters C418 Remix, Users who reposted HuntorPrey - Close Encounters C418 Remix, Playlists containing HuntorPrey - Close Encounters C418 Remix, More tracks like HuntorPrey - Close Encounters C418 Remix. In the second image, note the decreasing size of the telephone poles, the detail in the asphalt surface, the ditch, the furrowed crop on the left, and the tiny farm implements and trees in the background. Meanwhile, Lori Loughlin Is in Prison and Reportedly Miserable, Meanwhile, he tweeted, “I am an eternal fire and burning love, either leave with a tan, a 3rd degree burn, or stay and die in love.”. And so is something horrific that stalks this world from that one, bursting through the fabric of reality to capture its prey right here. And like Neary—or like Close Encounters’ Jillian, who’s also searching for her son–Joyce knows how deranged she must seem. A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Whenever Elle uses sensory deprivation to access the Upside Down, she’s vulnerable to the spindly-fingered creature and dependent on a trustworthy person to pull her out when things get dangerous. The boys’ science teacher is also watching the film when Dustin calls him at 10 p.m. on a weekend, asking for detailed instructions on how to build a sensory-deprivation tank. Glenn Erickson left a small town for UCLA film school, where his spooky student movie about a haunted window landed him a job on the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS effects crew. After Joyce (Winona Ryder) realizes that her missing son is signaling her through the electrical wires in her house, she buys stacks of Christmas lights from the pharmacy, paints Ouija-like letters on the walls, and even drives an ax through the front wall in a futile attempt to reach him. In both Stranger Things and A Nightmare on Elm Street, devising a strategy to stop the monster involves trust, because a fully conscious person has to rescue the dreamer when they’re attacked. So is an entire world, like their own but eerily desolate. In that way, its very clumsiness is almost fitting. (When they’re flashing trance-like stares, look out.) Combining the limitlessness of those fantasy worlds with the unknown objectives and mind-boggling technological reach of Hawkins Lab, the possibilities get ominous indeed. Just Some Good TikToks to Watch While You Wait for Election Results, Drakeo the Ruler Finally Released From Prison Following Contentious Legal Battle. Trailers From Hell. Glenn is grateful for Trailers From Hell’s generous offer of a guest reviewing haven for CineSavant. The sideways-running road is a ribbon, and the fields and additional roads beyond are foreshortened and crammed into less than 1/5 the width of the table. A chillingly distinct clicking sound can be heard before they strike. Richard Yuricich lined up the shot, and I assisted Greg in plotting it out – mainly, I held up little pieces of plastic while he directed me through the viewfinder, as if I were a surveyor’s assistant. And when a monstrous creature breaks into her communion with Will, Winona Ryder gets an unexpected chance to stretch Joyce’s emotional range. It’s a thin reference, but any movie about an ambiguous images — or sound, in the case of descendants like The Conversation and Blow Out — owes something to Blowup. Dragged back to her cell for refusing to hurt a caged cat, she lashes out at her guards, and Brenner rewards her with the scrap of affection she’s been pleading for. The mother lode. She’s the only real winner to come out of Election Night. When our heroes improvise the same thing out of a kiddie pool and road salt, the image of her floating in supernatural reverie distinctly recalls the “pre-cogs” in Spielberg’s Minority Report, who require a special bathtub to visualize future events. The ending, backed with Peter Gabriel’s towering orchestral version of “Heroes,” is so sharp it cuts. He’s a writer and a film editor experienced in features, TV commercials, Cannon movie trailers, special montages and disc docus. : The Extra Terrestrial (1982) Comics Wire: Marvel teases Avengers future. The show also tips its hat with a walk along the train tracks in the fifth episode, when Mike, Lucas, Dustin, and Eleven are following their compasses to search for Will. The cover font for Stephen King’s Needful Things immediately leaps to mind with the show’s block-lettered title, but Greenberg’s font for another King adaptation, The Dead Zone, is equally pertinent. Comment by Wilhelm Prey. See Exhibit A: Sony Pictures recently unveiled that new poster for Close Encounters’ 40th anniversary digitally remastered 4K edition which had a limited one-week run in theaters on Sept. 1. A similar effect can be seen whenever the creature tears through the seams of the Upside Down to attack. Because the boys in Stranger Things play D&D, for example, they’re able to make sense of the Upside Down as something akin to “the Vale of Shadows” in their role-playing game.

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