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Chulsoo and Younghee by South Korean photographer, Suk Kuhn Oh.

Chulsoo and Younghee are the main characters from a series of popular South Korean children’s books. A bit like Jack and Jill perhaps. The monstrous doll from SQUID GAME (“Red Light, Green Light”) was based on Younghee I believe.

And now that I mention THAT: that was one of the more effective examples of the “cute doll that kills” cliché actually. If you haven’t watched SQUID GAME yet, you might want to familiarize yourself with it. I think it’s the only show that I’ve ever binge-watched (that’s high praise I suppose). Tense, visceral. Aesthetically intriguing. Unpredictable. Tragic.

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One of those “Today I Learned” things. The creature Molasar, from 1983 fantasy horror THE KEEP, was designed by French comic book artist, Enki Bilal. (Another HEAVY METAL magazine heavyweight—there is a big tome to be written on the influence of French comic art on Hollywood—Métal hurlant in particular.)

I first learned of the name Enki Bilal in a Dutch book on comic book history. I was 7 or 8. Each name was new to me, each one a world to be explored. Bilal came after Barks—and whenever I looked up Barks, which I did a lot, I came across Bilal, who was featured with one of his illustrations from his 1982 portfolio, DIE MAUER (The Wall) (last image). As a wee kid, I thought the art was weird and off-putting, but intriguing, and I didn’t forget it. A similar concept of people trapped in walls appears in THE KEEP by the way; and Bilal’s influence on the film reaches a bit further even, as he also designed its poster (image 4).

I should also mention that Tangerine Dream did a wonderfully sinister and atmospheric score for THE KEEP: an evocative 80s soundscape.

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Concept paintings by Mary Blair for Disney’s PETER PAN.

“I forget people after I kill them,” Peter Pan says in PETER & WENDY. Was that in the Disney version?

One of the great “lost movies”: in the 1960s, there was talk of making a live action Peter Pan movie with Audrey Hepburn as Peter Pan, Peter Sellers as Captain Hook, and Hayley Mills as Wendy. The world was robbed of something wonderful there…

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