Late last year Geek Native featured The coolest Kaiju films that didn’t feature Godzilla. It was a post from freelance artist and comic creator Joe Badon. Badon’s back with another Kickstarter – The Man with Ten Thousand Eyes
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1857321894/the-man-with-ten-thousand-eyes
That’s some surreal storytelling right there! Imagine having all that power but all those eyes running wild over your body. Crazy. Geek Native was curious to know where Joe got his inspiration from. Are there five posters that might give us clues? Joe made good and gave us these examples!
Eraserhead
Eraserhead was a big influence for the Noir of the look of the comic. Also, I love the horror-like quality of the movie even though it’s not a horror movie per se. I feel like my story is similar in the way that it isn’t a traditional horror story but it’ll definitely make you feel freaky.
A Space Odyssey
I looked to 2001:A Space Odyssey for a lot of visual references especially during the ending of the movie when Dave has his hallucinatory melt down. In THE MAN WITH TEN THOUSAND EYES, the main character Wendell has similar apocalyptic visions.
The Dark Backward
The Dark Backward made a huge impression on me when I saw it as a teenage and I’ve always wanted to incorporate some of the ideas from the movie into one of my stories. In my comic, Wendell has comparable struggles with new third eye as Judd Nelson’s character had with his new third arm. Although, the stories go in wildly different directions, I think you could see the complementary ideas.
Stranger Than Fiction
In Stranger Than Fiction, Will Ferrell’s character led an extremely mundane life but suddenly found himself in a much larger than life situation. I’ve always loved the idea of a ordinary person doing extraordinary things. I definitely wanted that concept in The Man With Ten Thousand Eyes.
Three Women
Three Women was based off of a dream that Robert Altman, the director, had. When making the movie, he wanted to be as faithful to the dream as possible even leaving us with an open ended, interpretive ending. In the same way, I wanted to give my comic book a definitely dream-like feel.
