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This month as we are revisiting Evangelion we wanted to document some of the films that served as key influences. While we don't have Ultraman here we have a lot of classics to choose from:

Altered States

Ken Russell (The Devils, The Music Lovers, Lair of the White Worm) directs William Hurt as a scientist who combines an untested hallucinogenic drug with a sensory deprivation tank, and begins to uncover horrifying truths about human evolution. Not a masterpiece, but an intriguing, visually stunning, and well acted sci-fi drama.

2001: A Space Odyssey

Doesn’t really need much of an introduction. The discovery of an alien artifact leads to a manned mission to Jupiter, supervised by a state of the art supercomputer known as HAL 9000. One of the most unusual major studio films ever made, with long sections of minimal to no dialogue, and a spectacular ending that’s still discussed to this day.

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

The rare opportunity to see a Miyazaki/Ghibli movie on SoC. 1000 years after the apocalypse, a warrior princess struggles to keep two warring nations from destroying what’s left of the world. Hideaki Anno, the director of Evangelion, is a lifelong friend of Miyazaki’s and animated the god warrior featured at the end of the film.