STRANGE TOONS: SKYWHALES

Tuesday, May 25, 2010


Skywhales is a 1983 short film that does a really remarkable job of depicting the culture of another world, all without a single word of human language spoken. While the look of the film is arguably a little dated, this is a brilliant example of world building, taking us to a strange and eerie place that seems like it's been around for a long time before we got there. That's Red Dwarf's Robert Llewellyn handling the hoots and grunts of the various aliens.

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"Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes, then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket." - W.H. Auden

Who is he, this one who is called "Greg Stacy"?

Greg Stacy began the MONSTERS AND ROCKETS blog in April of 2009. Prior to that, he was editor of the popular sci-fi/horror news website DARKWOLDS.COM. He has also written for LA WEEKLY, OC WEEKLY, UTNE READER and LOS ANGELES CITYBEAT. He always feels weird writing about himself in the third person.

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