I believe Mulcahy is actually best-known for a little film called HIGHLANDER.

Obviously, it won the academy award for Best Movie Ever Made.

Yeah seriously, who puts The Shadow over Highlander? Do people even remember The Shadow ever existed?

Mulcahy used to have some nice visual chops...then the 80's ended.

Sigh... who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

Cable and VHS gave SHADOW a boyant life beyond its theatrical failure.

It's a good film. So was HIGHLANDER.

The Shadow is an underrated movie. I thought it was fun and pretty cool visually. If it had not been a period piece I think it could have done great business.

THE SHADOW was not good. not terrible but eh. some nice alce baldwin moments along with john lone, but...eh.

i'll take the RIO video over that anyday.

HIGHLANDER was campy and stupid and entertaining as hell ... and THE SHADOW wasn't as bad as HIGHLANDER 2.

Did anyone actually understand The Shadow? What exactly were the Shadow's powers?

However good or bad Highlander was, it was a cult phenomenon, popular enough to inspire a few sequels and a TV series that didn't do too badly itself. You gotta give Mulcahy some credit for that.

And that he used Queen for the soundtrack.

Full disclosure, I did not see The Shadow and wasn't commenting on its worth. It's just that Highlander has a healthy cult following among folks of a certain age and I never ever hear anyone talking about The Shadow.

Just got back from a screening of Resident Evilist. Right off the bat the MPAA lied when they said, "Rated R for strong horror violence throughout and some nudity." I didn't see any real nudity. Milla doesn't expose her nipples. And zombie nudity shouldn't count.

The storyline is pretty damn weak. This isn't a movie. It's an episode of a TV series. The finale fight lacks on all levels.

Las Vegas is not properly abused. It's like a backdrop in a Mortal Combat video game. The rip off of the Birds was lame. It touched on every cliche and pretty much played them as cliches. Only positive thing about this film is that it's not nearly as lame as UltraViolet.

Thank goodness I had a pass for the film. I'd hate to think I paid $20 to the fools that made this. At least we got to stare at Milla and Ali for 90 minutes.

Wow, another medicore offering from Screen Gems. I guess as long as they keep the budgets down, nothing's gonna change over there. It's shame too, because, if they actually made a decent film, they might be able to hit a home run instead of the usual single or double.

actually mulcahy's best work were the videos he directed for duran duran (rio, save a prayer, etc.). great visuals, lush settings. they were very innovative for the time and they still hold up.

i actually like an aussie film he directed in the 80s with gregory harrison called razorback...

pretty sure mulcahy was the first music video guy to start shooting features, which is quite the pioneering leap.

highlander's well ahead of its time visually and in terms of pace. sure, it's a music video... but you can't deny it's a hell of a thing.

and lots of the shadow is slyly brilliant - it's photographed like an old studio picture from the '30s or '40s - formal compositions, nice big crane shots.

watch it again and i'll bet you'll be impressed. honest.

I've never met someone that loved Highlander. They are a mysterious group of geeks that meet in secret, somewhere way outside of my usual haunts. I'm not trying to be a snarky shit or pretentious on any level. My favorite film of all time is Big Trouble in Little China. I've just never come across one of these people that support this neverending franchise and multi-property mini-monolith.

Mulcahey has ONE truly exceptional, magnificient movie to his credit ("Highlander" and "Shadow" are both tons of fun, though) and it's "Razorback." Easily one of the all-time best "Jaws" riffs, this one set in the Australian outback with a massive wild boar as it's monster.

I truly love love love Highlander. I love Connery in it, I love the music, I love the narrative, I love the sword fights (the special effects are dated though). It is not a cult movie, a guilty pleasure, or any other demeaning term you want to use. It is simply a great movie. The Shadow is no where close. I've known many people that felt the same way about the movie, and were not considered "geeks", but whatever.
The sequels and TV series were bad and pretty embarrasing (the 2nd still had Connery at least). So what, even Psycho had bad sequels.

It's a kind of magic.

I always thought the Highlander movies were boring as shit.

Rothchild, I have met the mythic Highlander cultists of which you speak. They're real. I'm not saying they're right, but they're real.

Big Trouble in Little China: cinema classic.

And Bocephus, if Highlander is boring, why did you see the 2nd one?

I saw Highlander in the theater when it came out and I really liked it. The ending is kind of murky, but Connery and especially Clancy Brown are great in it and Christopher Lambert is not a total loss.

I never got around to seeing any of the sequels or the TV series, and I gather that's actually a good thing.

I think The Shadow would have been much better had it stuck more closely to its pulp roots (and not gone the camp route). The stuff near the beginning with the Shadow rescuing the scientist on the bridge comes closest to capturing the character. But, hey, where else do you get to see Peter Boyle, Penelope Ann Miller, Andre Gregory, Jonathan Winters AND Ian McKellen share the same screen?

i mean, i love every single video mulcahy did with duran duran, with "wild boys" being the tipping point. i always thought their videos were uber-cinematic and wonderfully composed. the tour doc "blue silver" is great and more honest than you might think. if you have at all about duran duran. i do. but that's me.

"pretty sure mulcahy was the first music video guy to start shooting features, which is quite the pioneering leap."

Strictly speaking, this would be Steve Barron (Human League, Culture Club music video director) with "Electric Dreams" in 1984, two years before Mulcahy's "Highlander".

Blind spot, completely forgot about "Razorback". However, this was released later in 1984 than "Electric Dreams', so the real question is who started shooting first, Mulcahy or Barron?

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