Funnily enough, this is the first time I've seen this film from beginning to end.
My justification for this being, I was all of 7 years old when I first tried watching it and the monsters scared me. I 'manned' up this time though.
Plot: On a world, far, far away and in the year of our lord- 1982, Jim Henson and Franz Oz (Labyrinth) wrote and directed the story of a bunch of nasty, rat-like, 8 foot tall monsters, that delight in the genocide of a race called Gelflings and the extraction of a creatures life essence via giant crystals. On the flip side, there's these really slow moving cow/camel things that are much nicer and practise mystical powers, mainly by humming. So, the cows save the last of the Gelflings-Jen and raise him to follow his destiny and unite a shard of crystal with a much larger dark crystal, at the time of the three suns conjunction, thus saving the day, the planet and re-uniting the elements of the universe that were separated. Huzzah.
It's so slow moving. I'm not kidding. Sure, by the end of it I was into it, wanted to know how it'd all finish, but it was really slow. As with many a cult film, this one was shot in Britain, Elstree Studios, the Scottish Highlands and parts of Yorkshire (the north, but we'll excuse that).
Budget: $15,000,000
Gross: $40,577,001
Fun Fact: The long awaited sequel-The Power of the Dark Crystal, is currently on hold, as it has been, on and off since it's inception.
My justification for this being, I was all of 7 years old when I first tried watching it and the monsters scared me. I 'manned' up this time though.
Plot: On a world, far, far away and in the year of our lord- 1982, Jim Henson and Franz Oz (Labyrinth) wrote and directed the story of a bunch of nasty, rat-like, 8 foot tall monsters, that delight in the genocide of a race called Gelflings and the extraction of a creatures life essence via giant crystals. On the flip side, there's these really slow moving cow/camel things that are much nicer and practise mystical powers, mainly by humming. So, the cows save the last of the Gelflings-Jen and raise him to follow his destiny and unite a shard of crystal with a much larger dark crystal, at the time of the three suns conjunction, thus saving the day, the planet and re-uniting the elements of the universe that were separated. Huzzah.
It's so slow moving. I'm not kidding. Sure, by the end of it I was into it, wanted to know how it'd all finish, but it was really slow. As with many a cult film, this one was shot in Britain, Elstree Studios, the Scottish Highlands and parts of Yorkshire (the north, but we'll excuse that).
Budget: $15,000,000
Gross: $40,577,001
Fun Fact: The long awaited sequel-The Power of the Dark Crystal, is currently on hold, as it has been, on and off since it's inception.
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