‘Necronomicon’ Advertisement, 1980
The Simon Necronomicon, as it has come to be called, was first published in 1977 and has been in print continuously since the Avon Books edition of 1980…
“A Little Human Compassion”: Fascism and Freedom in ‘Death Wish’ and ‘Escape from New York’
By K.E. Roberts
John Carpenter wrote the original script for Escape from New York (1981) in 1974, inspired by Death Wish, Michael Winner’s film from the same year—specifically its seedy portrayal of New York “as a kind of jungle.” Both Death Wish and Escape from New York did extremely well commercially and launched their respective genres, the citizen vigilante film and the dystopian actioner…
Laserium Brochure, Circa 1977
The laser light show was innovated by filmmaker Ivan Dryer in the early 1970s, after he was introduced to laser art by Caltech physicist Elsa Garmire…
We Are the Mutants 