Oct 15, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 37 segments
Today we're diving into the wild world of Jim Henson and Terry Jones with David Bowie sprinkles. Yes we're finally talking about Labyrinth! We're not alone though, we're joined by our wonderful friend…
So Labyrinth is a film directed by Jim Henson with a screenplay by Monty Python's Terry Jones and a story by Dennis Lee and Jim Henson.
It stars David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly and is a pretty wacky little adventure.
But I mean, it was certainly, you know, not terribly long after it came out, like late 80s, early 90s.
This was very much a, you know, a my generation thing, because this is, you know, two phenomena that, you know, I'm really nostalgic for.
to the 80s fantasy I mean a lot of them were like really cheesy and really terrible like just recently I rewatched Legend after the passing of Tim Curry because of course he plays you know darkness in that with like the big horns and everything
The story is kind of a little bit of a mess, but he is absolutely perfect in it, and the aesthetic of it is just, you know, chef's kiss.
I have, like, an Ultimate Edition DVD, which has both the director's and the original, and, of course, consequently, both the Jerry Goldsmith and the Tangerine Dream scores, so...
And really, like, as I said in my Letterboxd review, that dance with like the demon version of
So Labyrinth is a film directed by Jim Henson with a screenplay by Monty Python's Terry Jones and a story by Dennis Lee and Jim Henson.
It stars David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly and is a pretty wacky little adventure.
But I mean, it was certainly, you know, not terribly long after it came out, like late 80s, early 90s.
This was very much a, you know, a my generation thing, because this is, you know, two phenomena that, you know, I'm really nostalgic for.
to the 80s fantasy I mean a lot of them were like really cheesy and really terrible like just recently I rewatched Legend after the passing of Tim Curry because of course he plays you know darkness in that with like the big horns and everything
The story is kind of a little bit of a mess, but he is absolutely perfect in it, and the aesthetic of it is just, you know, chef's kiss.
I have, like, an Ultimate Edition DVD, which has both the director's and the original, and, of course, consequently, both the Jerry Goldsmith and the Tangerine Dream scores, so...
And really, like, as I said in my Letterboxd review, that dance with like the demon version of
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