Spaceshift

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Movie
German title Spaceshift
Original title Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 100 (shortened 87) minutes
Age rating FSK 18 (shortened 12)
Rod
Director Anthony Hickox
script Anthony Hickox
production Nancy Paloian , Mario Sotela
music Steve Schiff
camera Gerry Lively
cut Christopher Cibelli
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Spaceshift (Original title: Waxwork II: Lost in Time ) is an American horror comedy directed by Anthony Hickox from 1992. The film is a sequel to the film Journey back in time from 1988.

action

The action starts right after the first part: Mark Loftmore and Sarah Brightman escape from the burning wax museum. Brightman's father is killed by a severed hand that escaped from the wax museum. Sarah is charged with killing her father. Before the sentencing, Mark can free her from the courtroom.

Loftmore and Brightman find the Cartagrion compass at Sir Wilfred's house , which they can use to travel through time to find evidence of Sarah's innocence. You end up in the Frankenstein laboratory . Mark and Sarah play roles from the template. Mark can free Sarah from the clutches of Baron von Frankenstein, but when there is another time jump, the two are separated. While Mark in an old black and white - Spukhausfilm (allusion to The Haunting ) lands, has the role of Sarah Ripley in a kind of Aliens - The Return accept. Mark can clear up what is going on in the haunted house and thus has the opportunity to travel to Sarah. He just frees them from the clutches of an alien.

The two end up in the Middle Ages , where Sarah is kidnapped by the evil black magician Scarabis. He plans to kill the King of England and take his place. Mark is captured while trying to free Sarah and put in dungeon. There, Sir Wilfred reveals to him in the form of a raven that he is trapped in a foreign dimension, where the everlasting battle between good and evil takes place. God apparently chose him as his time warrior. After Sir Wilfred frees Mark, he provides him with a new compass that he could use to get back to Earth.

Mark frees the King of England and faces Scarabis in a final battle. This struggle leads through several dimensions, including Dr. Jekyll , Jack the Ripper , in the silent film Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror and to Godzilla . In an environment based on the department store scene from Zombie , Mark manages to steal a zombie- infected hand. Back in the original dimension, he succeeds in killing Scarabis. Sarah and Mark now want to go back to their dimensions, but the hole is not big enough for both of them. Mark sends Sarah back alone. She manages to prove her innocence by hand. After her acquittal she receives the compass via a messenger from Mark and intends to return to him.

background

The main actress of the film posed a problem. Since the film was to continue seamlessly from the first part, Hickox planned to engage the two main actors Zach Galligan and Deborah Foreman . However, he had just broken up with Foreman, with whom he had been in a relationship since Waxworks , and she refused to participate in the film. Hickox finally cast Monika Schnarre as Sarah Brightman, who, however, looked nothing like Forman.

However, Hickox had a good hand in choosing his guest stars, so in addition to a young Drew Barrymore there are also David Carradine , Martin Kemp (musician from Spandau Ballet ), Michael Des Barres ( songwriter for, among others, Kiss and Don Johnson ), Frank Zagarino and Alexander To see Gudonov . With Bruce Campbell , Patrick Macnee , George Flowers and director Sam Raimi , old companions of Hickox can also be seen.

In addition to the allusions to popular horror films and materials already mentioned in the sub-item plot, there are also allusions to Alice behind the mirrors . In addition to an opening quote, two riddles of the plot are based on quotes from the work of Lewis Carroll .

publication

The film's world premiere took place in March 1992 at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films in Brussels . It has been released on video in most countries, including the United States and Germany. Cinema screenings took place in Japan and Spain .

The German VHS version was released in full in 1992 by Empire Video under the title Spaceshift . In the German title there was no reference to the predecessor at that time, the film was only released later under the original title. At the beginning of the film, some splatter scenes from the previous one can be seen. These scenes could not be seen in the German first version of Reise zurück in der Zeit , as they were cut out of the film. The film ran several times on the TV channel Pro 7 in a version approved for ages 12 and up , which was cut to include all the bloody scenes.

Reviews

Georg Seeßlen described the film in his book Drew Barrymore as " zapping through the history of horror films ". Some scenes were shot in " nostalgic " black and white .

"Roughly staged hodgepodge of horror motifs, which, at least in the long version, relies on the accumulation of the most disgusting brutal and mutational effects possible."

- Lexicon of international film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Liner Notes for Waxwork II - Lost in Time , Dragon Entertainment, approx. 2004
  2. ↑ Start dates for Waxwork II: Lost in Time
  3. ↑ a b Spaceshift in the online film database
  4. ↑ Georg Seeßlen: Drew Barrymore , Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-929470-34-9 , page 54
  5. ↑ Spaceshift. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 15, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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