Ray Bradbury

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Rating: ★★½
May 26, 1999Atomically-Revived Dinosaur
A classic of the genre for a number of reason - it was the film that kicked off the 1950s fad for atomic monsters, featuring an archetypal story about a dinosaur brought back to life by atomic tests. It also featured among the very first screen credits for both Ray Bradbury and stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 25, 2003Book-Burning Dystopia/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Francois Truffaut adapts Ray Bradbury's novel about a dystopian future where books are burned. Truffaut finds different things in the story than Bradbury did but creates a beautiful film
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The Martian Chronicles (1980)

The Martian Chronicles (1980)
Rating: ★★
Aug 12, 2012Human Colonisation of Mars/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Ray Bradbury's book about the human colonisation of Mars is an SF classic for its wistful, nostalgic poetry. This tv mini-series adaptation is killed by a lumbering director who over-explains Bradbury's imagery in the most literal ways
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 2, 2001Sinister Circus/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel about a sinister circus come to town and one of the films that get Bradbury right principally because Bradbury himself wrote the script
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989)
Rating: ★★
Jun 28, 2013Anime/Boy's Adventures in Dreams
Anime film based on Winsor McCay's celebrated comic strip about a boy's adventures in dreams. Despite a script from Ray Bradbury, the film waters the comic-strip down to the formula of the modern children's film
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)
Rating: ★
Apr 25, 2017Ray Bradbury Adaptation/Magical Suit
Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon adapts a Ray Bradbury play about five men who buy a suit that has magical properties. Bradbury is a great writer but this drowns in overripe dialogue, bad racial caricatures and Gordon's typically over-the-top propensities
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A Sound of Thunder (2005)

A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Rating: ½
Feb 11, 2007Time Travel/Dinosaurs Amok/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Adaptation of the classic Ray Bradbury time travel story is overblown as a ridiculous big-budget film filled with bad science where the original point of the story disappears in a script that makes no sense
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Chrysalis (2008)

Chrysalis (2008)
Rating: ★★
Feb 24, 2021Ray Bradbury Adaptation/Scientist Goes into a Chrysalis
An adaptation of a Ray Bradbury story set in an environmentally collapsed future as scientists at a research station debate over what to do when one of their colleagues transforms into a chrysalis
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018)

Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Rating: ★
May 26, 2018Book-Burning Dystopia/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
This had one simple job – adapt a book by one of the great SF writers. Instead, we go from a work set in a book-burning future to The Firemen on reality tv shows competing for Likes on social media
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