Monday, January 31, 2011

Movies mentioned in the first three Sandman Slim books

I get asked about this a lot so I put this list together. It's by no means comprehensive, but it's a good first pass. I can recommend everything here except for Herbie and To The Devil A Daughter. You have to be truly obsessive to sit through those.

Akira
And God Created Woman
Apocalypse Now
Badlands
Bamboo House of Dolls
Barbarella
Bedazzled
Black Sunday
Blue Velvet
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Cape Fear
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Danger: Diabolik
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Death Rides A Horse
The Devil in Miss Jones
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave
Dust Devil
Earth Girls are Easy
El Topo
Eraserhead
Evil Dead 1 & 2
Fitzcarraoldo
Four of the Apocalypse
The Getaway
The Great Silence
The Haunting (the 1963 version!)
Halloween
Herbie
High Plains Drifter
The Killers
L’Inferno
Le Samourai
Master of the Flying Guillotine
Miyuki-chan in Wonderland
My Darling Clementine
Once Upon A Time In The West
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Race with the Devil
Scarface
Shout at the Devil
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombie
Suspiria
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Third Man
The Thomas Crown Affair
To The Devil A Daughter
Three-Penny Opera
Thunder Road
The Wild Bunch
The Wizard of Oz
Zardoz
Zombie

1 comments:

  1. I was at my doctors office for a serious case of bronchititis and while in the waiting room I picked up snadman slim I started reading it and I was hooked anyways sandman slim. I stole it from the drs office. Best drs visit ever and I was hooked on your work! I however did pay for kill the dead and will be paying for. Aloha when it comes out. I love your work from metrophage to every single short story on matrix especially larks aspic! I will watch all the movies :)

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