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IN OTHER BOOKS
E.C. McMullen Jr.'s
short story
CEDO LOOKED LIKE PEOPLE
in the anthology
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Filmmaker's Guidebook
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RAY BRADBURY,
JOHN CARPENTER,
WES CRAVEN,
TOM HOLLAND,
E.C. McMULLEN Jr.,
GEORGE A. ROMERO,
and many more.

Extensively quoted in

PHANTASM
EXHUMED
The Unauthorized Companion

And In
CINEMA
E.C. McMullen Jr.
Head Production Designer

MINE GAMES
(Starring:
JOSEPH CROSS,
BRIANA EVIGAN,
ALEX MERAZ,
ETHAN PECK)

Dept. head
Special Effects Make-Up
(SFX MUA)

A SIERRA NEVADA
GUNFIGHT
(MICHAEL MADSEN & JOHN SAVAGE).

Production Designer

UNIVERSAL DEAD
(DOUG JONES,
D.B. SWEENEY,
GARY GRAHAM)

Art Director

THE CRUSADER
(COLIN CUNNINGHAM,
GARY GRAHAM)

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E.C.McMullen Jr.

DARK CITY

This was director Alex Proyas personal project after his incredible success with THE CROW. Unfortunately, THE CROW is a movie that belongs to a special club that no one ever wants to be a part of. A movie beset with horrific tragedy.

Thanks to the popularity of then hit TV show, THE X-FILES, movies with alternate realities were all the rage in late 1990s Hollywood and all coming from the same source. Not X-Files Producer and show runner Chris Carter, but a long deceased, Science Fiction writer named Daniel F. Galouye.

Daniel did things like co-write novels with Alfred Hitchcock's most favored writer, Robert Bloch (PSYCHO [all]). Daniel's style was like an odd cross between the psychos that move among human society that an authoritarian government holds together, which Robert Bloch favored, and the human society that helplessly falls through the metaphysical universe that an authoritarian government is helpless to control, that Philip K. Dick preferred.

They were all heavily inspired by H.P. Lovecraft in that they embraced creating their own fictional worlds that leaned into science, instead of playing in the hoary old sandbox of well-worn ancient myths of ghouls, ghosts, goblins, golems, witches, vampires, changlings, and other assorted and sundry revenants.

SIMULACRON-3 by Daniel F. Galouye

Back in 1963 Daniel wrote a Science Fiction Horror novel called SIMULACRON-3, which was released in 1964. Spurred on by Galouye and writers like Dick, soon other writers were creating computers taking over the world like D.F. Jones' 1966 novel COLOSSUS (made into the movie COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT) and Harlan Ellison's Hugo winning 1967 short story, I HAVE NO MOUTH & I MUST SCREAM, to name a few.

COLOSSUS by D.F. Jones

Mad German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted Galouye's novel into a two part movie out of it called WORLD ON A WIRE, and that became the roadmap that Columbia Pictures used for THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR (Daniel's novel is credited), Warner Bros. used for THE MATRIX, and both of those movies used many of the crew and sets from New Line Cinema's DARK CITY.

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