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Tag Archives: dark fantasy
Pulp Appeal: The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Last week Matt tackled the 1982 film The Dark Crystal, one of the most impactful movies of my childhood, right up there with Stand by Me, Labyrinth, and the hundreds of action movies I devoured in the 80s and early … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, dark crystal, dark fantasy, Jim Henson, muppets, tv show
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Pulp Consumption: The Dark Crystal
A race of godlike beings is shattered into two separate, disparate species when a crystal is broken. As each of the creatures ages and dies, its counterpart in the other species also ages and dies, leaving a power vacuum. The … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, children's films, dark fantasy, Jim Henson
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Pulp Appeal: Elric of Melniboné
I can pinpoint exactly when I first came across Elric, the doomed albino sorcerer-king of Melniboné. I was a freshman in high school, and there, among the rest of the science-fiction and fantasy books in the school library were … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-hero, dark fantasy, elric, michael moorcock, new wave science-fiction, Pulp, sword and sorcery
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