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Underworld / Transmutations (1985)

Published: June 21, 2022, 2 p.m.

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This June is \u201cVHS Cover Art\u201d month at Catching Up On Cinema!

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Every week we'll be reviewing films with incredible cover art from the VHS era.

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This week, Trevor sits down for a solo review of George Pavlou's, Underworld (1985)!

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Also known by the title \u201cTransmutations,\u201d Underworld served as famed horror novelist Clive Barker's first writing gig in the world of film.

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Poorly regarded, and scarcely referenced among Barker's extensive body of work, the film has largely been discarded and forgotten by both it's author and the horror fandom alike.

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Not lacking in obvious subtext and themes relevant to the author and his body of work, the film, with it's low budget and pedestrian production values, feels in retrospect to be an incomplete vision, one that would later be much better actualized on screen in the form of Barker's later film Nightbreed (1990).

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