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Wonderful! I love this kind of weirdness and delighted to see the soundtrack released. I'll probably watch it this weekend!
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I remember the good old days when this would have been released on cd...
It will be along with CRACK IN THE WORLD
MV
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Um, that's pretty awesome, MV.
Congrats on your award for "most awesome label".
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I remember the good old days when this would have been released on cd...
It will be along with CRACK IN THE WORLD
MV
so was that a joke or what? A trick or a treat?
No joke
Coming in 2016
MV
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PHASE IV is one SF film of the period which I somehow never saw. I don't remember it ever being on the telly either when I was growing up, but I remember reading coverage of it in mags.
I must say, that now we know the score's coming out on LLL, I've been investigating, and the film itself looks just amazing. It's got a poor reputation, but I'm going to call it a flawed masterpiece without even having seen it.
Oh, and what I heard of the Brian Gascoigne score is astoundingly great.
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Haven't seen it in decades, but I remember thinking that it was a fair bit blander than it should have been - as if the film making technique didn't quite connect with the ideas behind it, while the lack of an adequate budget finally defeated it. Not an uncommon thing with sci-fi films of the early to mid 70s. There may have been a bit of mis-casting too.
Oh yeah, certainly imperfect but surely fascinating? I don't really want to see it now that I've built up this image of the film in my head. I used to just let the concepts overwhelm me when I was younger and less critical. "Lack of an adequate budget" - Yes, the design was too ambitious, but top marks for trying. "A bit of miscasting" - Yes, Nigel Davenport could be wooden, and Lynne Frederick could be downright terrible (but gorgeous - one of my teenage crushes). One of the most amazing films I've never seen. And a stupendously inventive score, from what I've heard of it.
"Stupendously inventive scores for brilliant but misjudged films with bugs in them" -
Charles Fox is known for his bouncy melodies, but you can't get much less Charles Foxy than his totally electronic - and stupendously inventive - score for BUG. I saw that in the mid-'70s, then a few years later on the telly. It seemed to my fevered youthful mind to be absolutely mindblowing. Subsequent perusal has led me to believe that I may be a trifle disappointed today.
THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE - One of Lalo Schifrin's most stunning insect-inspired achievements. Again, haven't seen the film/ doc, but the music is awesome.
What is it about bugs that brings out the frighteningly mind-boggling electronically-tonalised avant garde best in everyone?
Maybe this should be on the LLL announcement thread.
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