Thursday 6 June 2013

The Sea of Perdition (2006)

The Sea of Perdition is short film by director; Richard Stanley.
 It follows a lone astronaut exploring the Martian landscape who......  Actually its not much more than about 8 minutes in duration so you should probably just go and find out for yourself.   It's available on YouTube as well as a number of other places and  it really is well worth a little look.
I've been a Richard Stanley fan since catching Hardware on VHS back in the day and his follow up; Dust Devil (The directors cut) is a work of dark art.  After that it all went a bit wrong and Richard became a semi obscure all be it well respected cult figure.
Somebody should probably give him a big fat cheque and a movie script  to direct but in the meantime his film shorts are more than worth the cost of admission.  Well done, Sir.  More please.  Many, many more.





Steve

6 comments:

  1. Hardware was a great little film that I enjoyed, especially seeing Lemmy from MOTORHEAD has the water-cab driver!

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  3. Heres probably the oldest on screen pressure suit/space suit from 1918s Himmelskibet - A Trip to Mars
    http://scienceetfiction.tumblr.com/post/2609635235/himmelskibet-a-trip-to-mars-denmark-1918
    And Satellite in the Sky
    I could only find a couple of suit shots from this
    http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo294/krellday/Movies/SatelliteintheSky24Spacewalk4.jpg
    http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo294/krellday/Movies/SatelliteInTheSky21Spacewalk1.jpg
    http://www.dvddrive-in.com/images/t-z/worldwithoutend6.jpg
    And Destination Space
    http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2011/11/failed-tv-pilotdestination-space.html
    And heres an interesting auction piece
    http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6321502

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  4. Heres two from 1955s King Dinosaur
    http://www.devildead.com/aventure/kingdinosaur01.jpg
    http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews29/a%20king%20dinosaur%20jungle/KING_DINOSAUR_SCI_FI_DF-3%282%29.gif
    A grizzly shot from Mission Mars
    http://www.planet-9.de/files/images/mission-mars-01.preview.jpg
    Heres a couple more from the same
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/44823747@N02/5439669481/lightbox/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/44823747@N02/5440285858/in/photostream/lightbox/
    And the cover from Murder in Space
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5gmipMgLe1qbapgqo1_1280.jpg
    Time magazine:mission to mars cover
    http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/2004/1101040126_400.jpg
    Total Recall mars suits
    http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/274597/274597_large.jpg
    http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9076810
    Space Patrol[1966]
    http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljxn6rhhl51qi8lzqo1_1280.jpg
    Gorath
    http://3btheaterposterarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/gorath-production-still_3-1962.jpg
    http://3btheaterposterarchive.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/gorath-production-still_7-1962.jpg
    Giants and toys[1958]
    http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z182/tripzone15/Giants.jpg
    The X from Outer Space
    http://www.terry-posters.com/images/product/image/21312/xn1-oww.jpg

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  5. Cheers Tim, Nice big list there. Most of these are in the To do list but you've found me some nice reference pictures to uses. If I don't get round to it sooner, I'm planning a big blog session in August where I'll hopefully get all of these out there and clear the files a little. Cheers

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  6. This is an interesting selection
    http://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/astronaut-art
    Found some good pics of one of the 2001 suits
    http://hollywoodmoviecostumesandprops.blogspot.com/2013/01/original-spacesuit-and-helmet-from-2001.html
    And theres also this one from Star Trek Wrath of Khan,I suppose it might not technically be a "space" suit but its pretty close
    http://images.auctionworks.com/hi/3/3282/tmp_ss.jpg
    And I always liked these ones from Spacehunter because they just looked so different,not to mention impractical but cool none the less
    http://7.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp0c8qDl6Q1qze5g2o1_500.gif
    http://cinemademerde.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/full_movie_image/movie_image/Spacehunter-3models_0.gif

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