#Hal Barwood

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Dragonslayer (1981)

#dragonslayer gif #ralph richardson #vermithrax pejorative #80s fantasy movies #dragons #ulrich of cragganmore #walt disney productions #matthew robbins #hal barwood #phil tippett #ILM #special effects #1980s #1981 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[onlylonelylatino]

Dragonslayer by Marie Severin

#dragonslayer #marie severin #marvel comics #bronze age #denny o neil #hal barwood #matthew robbins

[theoscarsproject]

Dragonslayer (1981). A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.

I struggled to get into this one, in no small part because I found the protagonist pretty weakly drawn, but there was enough there still to make it worth the watch. The visual effects of the dragon in particular are pretty staggering, and it was nice to watch a fantasy movie that leant into it's darker elements. I'm surprised it's not a better known film though, especially since it seems to fit quite neatly into the Labyrinth / Willow / Dark Crystal world of 80s cinematic fantasy. Worth checking out, particularly if you're into the genre. 6/10.

#dragonslayer #1981 #Oscars 54 #Nom: Score #Nom: Visual Effects #matthew robbins #hal barwood #peter macnicol #caitlin clarke #ralph richardson #fantasy #america #american #dragons #romance #6/10

[l-ultimo-squalo]

Warning Sign (1985)

#warning sign #warning sign 1985 #thriller #disaster movie #sci fi #science fiction #horror #Sam Waterston #Kathleen Quinlan #yaphet kotto #Jeffrey DeMunn #Richard Dysart #G.W. Bailey #movie screencaps #film screencaps #my screencaps #my screenshots #movie screenshots #Hal Barwood

[thebutcher-5]

Sugarland Express

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati a parlare di fumetti e per la precisione nel panorama italiano, dove abbiamo ripreso una serie che, nonostante i suoi difetti, continua ad affascinarmi, Kalya con il suo settimo volume. Dopo il fallimento di Raal nel prendere l’Alkest, Varnon decide di usare l’arma che ha appena ultimato: attraverso il suo elixir riesce a…

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[josefksays]

#Warning Sign #opening card #titles #Hal Barwood #cult #film #Richard Dysart #my edits

[monsterasia-zero]

The Cinema Movie Of The Week - Dragonslayer

Directed By Matthew Robbins

Story By Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins

Starring Peter MacNicol, Caitlin Clarke, and Ralph Richardson

Music By Alex North

Distributed By Paramount Pictures

Release Date June 26, 1981

Country United States

#dragon movies #dragonslayer #fantasy movies

[nickmakura]

INDIANA JONES & The Tomb of the Gods (SNES, Unreleased)

It had been 5 years since the last Indiana Jones movie came out, but the interest for a good video game was still there. In 1995, Factor 5 (Indiana Jones' Greaest Adventures, Super Star Wars) and LucasArts (Indiana Jones & The Fate of Atlantis, Monkey Island) came together for Tomb of the Gods, a point & click action platformer. The apparent idea from recovered screenshots was that the gameplay would switch according to what was happening in the story.

The game was set to have an original story written by Hal Barwood and Rob Williams. After meeting with a former colleague, in New York, Indy is lured again into a globetrotting race against the Nazi's. However, in the search for the Tomb of the Gods, he starts feel something dark... The question now is if Indiana Jones' mind will survive the adventure?

It seemed the plot took some major inspirations from the works of H.P. Lovecraft in this horror themed adventure for the Archeologist. While it never quite got off the ground, Rob Williams did repurpose this plot in 2008 for the Dark Horse Comic of the same name.

#indiana jones #pixel art #fake screenshot #mockup #super nintendo #super famicom #snes #point and click #platformer #cosmic horror #fate of atlantis #adventure games

[jedivoodoochile]

El 13 de junio de 1929 nacía en Gary, Indiana (Estados Unidos) el diseñador e ilustrador futurista Ralph McQuarrie, también conocido como el "ilustrador de los sueños". Y tal vez mucha gente no sea consciente de lo mucho que el cine le debe a este genial artista.

Ha participado como diseñador de arte conceptual para saga de "Star Wars" (de George Lucas) y muchos de sus diseños se siguen usando aún hoy. Además, participó con sus trabajos en películas como "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Battlestar Galactica" , "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" , "Cocoon", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" y "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home".

Se graduó en Ilustración en la Art Center College of Design de Los Ángeles. En los años 60 realizó trabajos para la NASA y para la CBS. También trabajó como ilustrador en la Boeing Aircraft Company.

A comienzos de los 70, efectuó un trabajo para el guionista Hal Barwood. George Lucas, amigo de Barwood, vio los dibujos y decidió incorporar a McQuarrie a su propia aventura espacial. Su trabajo fue decisivo en la realización de ese gran proyecto que se llamó "Star Wars".

Falleció el 3 de marzo de 2012 debido a complicaciones derivadas del mal de Parkinson que padecía.

Después de la muerte de McQuarrie, George Lucas dijo: "Su genial contribución, impulsó e inspiró a todo el equipo de la trilogía original de Star Wars. Cuando las palabras no podían transmitir mis ideas, siempre podía señalar una de las fabulosas ilustraciones de Ralph y decir, 'hazlo así'.

#ralph mcquarrie

[docrotten]

DRAGONSLAYER (1981) – Episode 222 – Decades Of Horror 1980s

“You’ll be dead Galen Bradwarden, Sorcerer’s Apprentice. You’ll be dead, the dragon will still be alive, and I’ll still be a virgin! You’ll be dead, and I don’t care!” Sounds like a good foundation for a lasting relationship, right? Join your faithful Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, Crystal Cleveland, and Jeff Mohr  – as they check out probably the most realistic dragon (did I hear someone say wyvern?) set to film in Dragonslayer (1981).

Decades of Horror 1980s Episode 222 – Dragonslayer (1981)

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A King has made a pact with a dragon where he sacrifices virgins to it, and the dragon leaves his kingdom alone. An old wizard, and his keen young apprentice volunteer to kill the dragon and attempt to save the next virgin in line, the King’s own daughter.

  Director: Matthew Robbins

Writers: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins

Music by: Alex North

Cinematography by: Derek Vanlint (director of photography)

Film Editing by: Tony Lawson

Visual Effects by:

Sam Comstock (animation supervisor: ILM)

Alan Maley (matte painting supervisor: ILM)

Dennis Muren (supervisor of special visual effects: ILM)

Ken Ralston (dragon supervisor: ILM)

Thomas G. Smith (effects production supervisor: ILM) (as Thomas Smith)

Phil Tippett (dragon supervisor: ILM)

Gene Whiteman (equipment engineering supervisor: ILM)

Selected Cast:

Peter MacNicol as Galen Bradwarden

Caitlin Clarke as Valerian

Ralph Richardson as Ulrich of Cragganmore

John Hallam as Tyrian

Peter Eyre as King Casiodorus Ulfilas

Albert Salmi as Greil (dubbed by Norman Rodway)

Sydney Bromley as Hodge

Chloe Salaman as Princess Elspeth Ulfilas

Emrys James as Simon (Valerian’s Father)

Roger Kemp as Horsrick, Casiodorus’s Chamberlain

Ian McDiarmid as Brother Jacopus

Dragonslayer is Bill’s pick. Surprise! He had read about the technique called go-motion and really enjoys it, calling Vermathrax Pejorative one of the greatest dragons ever put on film. It is also one of his favorite kinds of fantasy movies; one where the world is messy and dirty, and a noble character does not get rescued despite audience expectations.

Crystal labels Dragonslayer as one of her all-time favorite movies. It would not be nearly so memorable for her without the special effects and the dragon. She also points out that technically, it is a wyvern, not a dragon.  Not a big fan of pure fantasy movies, Jeff loves seeing Dragonslayer for the first time, especially the work from professionals like Phil Tippett & Dennis Muren. The Grue-Crew is universally impressed with Caitlin Clarke’s performance as Valerian and wishes that she was given much more work as a female lead.

If you’re in the mood for a great fire-breathing wyvern, née dragon, you can’t do better than Dragonslayer. At the time of this writing, it is available to stream from Kanopy, Prime, and Paramount+. As far as physical media, a Blu-ray version of Dragonslayer is scheduled for a 21 March 2023 release from Paramount.

Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Crystal, will be Pet Sematary (1989), directed by Mary Lambert from the novel and screenplay by Stephen King. Sometimes, dead is better.

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William Atherton, Michael Sacks, and Goldie Hawn in The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg, 1974) Cast: Goldie Hawn, William Atherton, Michael Sacks, Ben Johnson, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly, Louise Latham, Harrison Zanuck, A.L. Camp, Jessie Lee Fulton, Dean Smith, Ted Grossman. Screenplay: Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins, Steven Spielberg. Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond. Art direction: Joe Alves. Film editing: Edward M. Abroms, Verna Fields. Music: John Williams. 

Critics disagree in the most interesting ways. When Roger Ebert reviewed The Sugarland Express in 1974, he disliked Steven Spielberg's use of the automobiles: "If the movie doesn't finally succeed, that's because Spielberg has paid too much attention to all those police cars (and all the crashes they get into), and not enough to the personalities of his characters." But for Pauline Kael, the cars were one of the major reasons she referred to Spielberg's first theatrical feature as "one of the most phenomenal début films in the history of movies": "Spielberg patterns the cars; he makes them dance and crash and bounce back. The cars have tiffs, wrangle, get confused. And so do the people." For once (and I don't think it always happened), Kael's insight into a director's gift was more acute than Ebert's. She got at the essence of at least one aspect of Spielberg's genius as a moviemaker: the ability to provide an environment for characters, to express their personalities through their toys and tools. Goldie Hawn never gave a better performance than she does in this film, perfectly capturing the naïveté, the vanity, and the implacable determination of Lou Jean, showing the grit behind the giggle. (She and William Atherton do a wonderful scene in which they do almost nothing but laugh.) I think Ben Johnson is a little underused as the highway patrol captain in charge of trying to capture Lou Jean and Clovis, while at that same time trying to rescue the young officer (Michael Sacks) they have hijacked, but maybe that's because Johnson was such an old pro that we naturally want to see more of him. The film was unaccountably not a box office success, but to my mind it's one of Spielberg's best movies, with a texture of supporting characters (and cars) that aptly reminded Kael of Preston Sturges.

#The Sugarland Express #Steven Spielberg #William Atherton #Michael Sacks #Goldie Hawn

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Mark Hamill and Annie Potts - Corvette Summer (1978)

#mark hamill gif #annie potts gif #corvette summer gif #70s movies #70s comedies #matthew robbins #hal barwood #seventies #1978 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[adventurerooms]

#Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis #Lucasarts #1992 #Hal Barwood #Noah Falstein #Adventure Games

[museumbelongings]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (1992)

“You know, a lot of my discoveries seem like tall tales, even to me. At least there's some evidence now.”

#lucasarts #indiana jones #fate of atlantis #computer game #three paths #sophia hapgood #archaeology #atlantis #1990s #hal barwood

[may8chan]

Warning Sign

#Warning Sign #Hal Barwood

[cultfaction]

Preview- Warning Sign (Bluray)

Preview- Warning Sign (Bluray)

When tampering with the natural order of things, man must not ignore the Warning Sign.

In the rolling Utah countryside, a small town is host to a fortress-like research facility, which the townspeople believe is developing new advancements in agriculture. But deep within is a top-secret project to create a bioweapon that turns anyone exposed to it into a raging, psychotic killer. When the…

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#Dean Cundey #Hal Barwood #Halloween #John Carpenter’s The Thing #Kathleen Quinlan #Matthew Robbins #Sam Waterston #Warning Sign #Yaphet Kotto