We just saw this in a little local theater yesterday! If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a feature length surreal stop motion film, extremely gruesome, created by the same artist who designed many of the creature effects for the original Star Wars trilogy and more!
He actually began work on it thirty years ago when he was working on Jurassic Park. He shelved it because he thought audiences didn’t want stop motion anymore. So it’s technically been “in production” for most of my life and longer than most of you have existed.
Not recommended for people who are squeamish about basically anything you can be squeamish about, but it’s technically incredible and the story you can unravel through its visuals is a fascinating one. If you’ve already seen it and are still totally lost, or you would rather just go in already having an idea of the plot:
On this day, 17 July 1936, a Spanish military uprising began in Morocco as right wing generals declared war on the new Republican government. The rising had been due to begin at 5 AM on July 18, but the plot in Melilla, Spanish Morocco, had been uncovered, and so a local military officer decided to initiate the coup attempt a day early.
The rebel officers arrested loyal officers, seized all the public buildings in the city, as well as the aerodrome, and made lists of union members, left-wing activists, Republicans and Freemasons, and arrested them all..
Some residents in working class districts attempted to resist, but they had no arms, and so were quickly overcome. Anyone who resisted was summarily shot, including the mayor and the loyal local general. Rebels in Melilla then telephoned plotters in Ceuta and Tetuán, who then initiated their rising as well, resting or executing anyone who resisted.
The following day, workers across Spain began to go on strike and requisition weapons to defend themselves and the Republic, even though the Republican government would refuse to give them arms.
These events marked the beginning of the Spanish civil war. In the coming days,full-scale social revolution would break out which would set the Spanish working class, and volunteers from across the world, against the combined might of the bulk of the Spanish military backed up by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy.
Our podcast episodes 39-40 give an overview of the conflict: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/
Pictured: Spanish Republican militia members https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2036426306542509/?type=3
On this day in 1985, “The Stuff” oozed into theaters! Larry Cohen’s satirical splatter show tackles consumerism with goo and gore! If The Blob were packaged and sold at Yogurtland, you would have something akin to “The Stuff.” It’s a unique monster movie that combines clever commentary with gross-out effects and good old-fashioned creature carnage. Are you eating it… or is it eating you?
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