Ellen Greene's looking worried on the front cover of Cinefex #30, and why wouldn't she? She's face to face (or is that lips?) with carnivorous space-plant Audrey II in a scene from Frank Oz's 1986 musical Little Shop of Horrors. The voracious vegetable was created live 0n-set by Lyle Conway in a tour-de-force of puppetry. … Continue reading Revisiting Cinefex (30): Little Shop of Horrors, The Gate, The Golden Child
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Revisiting Cinefex (22): Return to Oz, Baby
In a scene from Walter Murch's 1985 film Return to Oz, the monstrous Nome King prepares to devour Dorothy Gale's new friend Jack Pumpkinhead. This perilous snapshot makes for a striking cover to Cinefex #22, but how many of you were actually able to name the movie? Not everyone, I'm guessing, which is a shame … Continue reading Revisiting Cinefex (22): Return to Oz, Baby
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