![]() The film was a box office disappointment, grossing $12.9 million during its U.S. The first time I saw this I must’ve been 6 or 7, my dad is a lifelong David Bowie fan with cassettes and records that I would come to listen too, as my musical taste evolved from the Turtle Rap! Slightly… Underground We had loads of films like this from Temple of Doom and Flight of the Navigator to Who Framed Roger Rabbit and E.T. She would get a new VHS and record a movie off the tv, cut out the image and description of the film from the newspaper and stick it to the back of the box. I would say it was BBC1 because my parents in their wisdom, well, my mum… she recorded it onto a video, something that I feel is a lost art. So, I only saw this when it was shown on the telly. Labyrinth was released in 1986, one whole year after I was born. Written by Dennis Lee and Jim Henson, whom also directed, screenplay by the late great Terry Jones, and starring the legend that is David Bowie, it is a film that is filled with humour, stakes and some brilliant memorable music from Bowie himself. ![]() I have been tasked with this week’s 80s Movie Challenge giving my personal memories of the film Labyrinth. We’ll hand you over to our resident Ultimate Movie Geek who has fought his way here through hardships unnumbered and dangers untold (well, he watched a film and wrote some words about it) as he takes us back to 1986 and invites you to enter the Labyrinth! ‘Allo pals! (Did you say “Hello?”, Ed.) No, we said “‘Allo,” but that’s close enough.
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