Richard Kadrey talks Roger Corman, and Vicenzo Natali’s Splice
Over the last couple of years Richard Kadrey has been one of my favorite writers. I absolutely loved his Sandman Slim, which I noted during a feature from last year, The Summer 6 Pack, and he was good enough to do a real fun guest post for us at BSC around the time of the [...]
Roger Corman’s Drive-in Genetics
In Vincenzo Natali’s 2009 movie, Splice, a couple of eager beaver young geneticists inject human DNA into an artificial organism and come up with a creature that’s new, odd and not exactly what they expected. In the late 60’s, trash movie king Roger Corman was doing the same thing with, appropriately enough, science fiction movies. [...]
Promo Poster for adaptation of Ballard’s High Rise
The recently deceased, and legendary SF writer J.G. Ballard’s High Rise In the Ocean is being adapted to film by Vicenzo Natali. I feel about Ballard the way I do Thomas Disch (who passed away last year) in that specifically their catalog of work just ooozes with potential for big screen adaptation. I don’t even mean direct translations, but in the way that we see numerous PKD works find their way on film (some uncredited).
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