You ever see two films and think there's no way the similarities are coincidental? We're not talking the shot for shot remake of Psycho from Gus Van Sant here. We're talking about films that were made in response to other films. This week on Slipstream: The Pulp Culture Vlog, I propose that a modern Academy Award-winning fantasy classic pulls more than just a little inspiration from a radical Czech New Wave Surrealist fantasy from the 1970s. The latter already inspired one of my favorite dark fantasy/horror films of all time; whose to say that a film buff like the director of the former wouldn't have embraced the structure and story of the same film for his own purposes.
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