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Director: Russell Mulcahy

Russell Mulcahy directed some of the most recognisable music videos of the early 1980s, including Video Killed the Radio Star, and brought that visual grammar into features. Highlander is the result: swooping crane moves, hard cuts across centuries and a Queen soundtrack doing structural work.

The film was poorly received and became a lasting cult property, generating sequels, a television series and a franchise that has outlived most of its 1986 competition.

His later work, including Resident Evil: Extinction and a long run in television, is less distinctive. Highlander is the picture, and its visual influence is easy to trace in later fantasy filmmaking.

The Lost Battalion (2001) film posterRussell Mulcahy

The Lost Battalion (2001)

The Lost Battalion is an A&E television movie that punches above its budget. Rick Schroder plays Major Charles Whittlesey, a New York lawyer who took five hundred and fifty-four men of the 77th Infantry Division into the Argonne Forest in…

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Highlander (1986) film posterRussell Mulcahy

Highlander (1986)

Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan, the giant Mongol-Russian immortal who killed Ramirez and has spent four hundred…

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