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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorman's New World Pictures in the mid-'70s, Dante learned how to finesse movies on a frayed shoestring. He and Co-Director Allan Arkush shot their first film, Hollywood Boulevard, for a niggardly $60,000 in 1976. Dante's solo directorial debut, the 1978 Piranha, was made for slightly in excess of $1 million. In this fleet-wilted Jaws parody one could see early signs of the Dante style, which keeps tickling the spectator to remember that, in Alfred Hitchcock's famous phrase, "Ingrid, it's only a movie." At the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

Well, no. The gremlins really are an army of latex-skinned puppets devised by Special Effects Maven Chris Walas (Piranha, Raiders of the Lost Ark) and assembled for a bargain-basement $1.3 million. (By contrast, Carlo Rambaldi's E.T. creature alone cost $1.5 million.) The greenish-brown monsters, standing 23 in. tall with their 10-in. bat ears, were controlled by hands, cables, rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creature Comforts and Discomforts | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...sinful things occur. And its equatorial locale is primitive and threatening. Jungle encroaches almost to the doorsteps of Kourou (pop. 7,000), in French Guiana. Only a few miles offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most infamous penal colony, and local waters teem with piranha and alligators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Here Come the Europeans | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

Just offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most dreaded penal colony. A short distance away, piranha-infested rivers course through the rain forest. Yet out of this equatorial backwater on the steamy coast of French Guiana last week roared a gleaming, cream-colored three-stage rocket emblazoned with the flags of eleven European nations. The fiery liftoff, heard for miles around, was a noisy, jubilant awakening for an independent space effort in faraway Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NASA, en Garde! | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

...Howling, a good-looking, modern-day werewolf picture, boasts not only the writer's pedigree but a young lifetime of B-movie lore devoured and disgorged by Director Joe Dante, with whom Sayles worked three years ago on an engaging Jaws rip-off called Piranha. Their new film drops latent or blatant references to a dozen low-budget horror movies; characters are named after some of the more mediocre talents ever to win a Directors Guild card (Lew Landers, Roy William Neill, Erle C. Kenton); Roger Corman, godfather to many young directors, makes a cameo appearance, as do Forrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Saylesmanship | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

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