April 2010

Mazes 2

Saturday, April 17th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

Above, a shot from the Vivian Kubrick documentary about the making of The Shining that’s on the movie disc, showing the production team’s working map of the “real” maze set—the one Jack chases Danny around inside of. (Note that this is yet another construction, indoors, and is not connected to the “maze exterior” location from […]

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Mazes

Friday, April 16th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

Taking a closer look at the “famous hedge maze” in The Shining. http://www.jordanorlando.com/ns/mazes

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That Big Thing Back There 7

Monday, April 12th, 2010 Horrorthon Posts

“Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due” DEPT: That Big Thing Back There, courtesy of James Cameron, who displays a triumphant mastery of the concept in the above images from Avatar. (Click for larger versions.) This stuff is so good that I was frame-advancing through the sequence just to watch the Michael Whelan painting move three-dimensionally, […]

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