Most of the visual effects on Labyrinth were achieved in-camera with several notable exceptions. The most prominent of these postproduction effects was the computer-generated owl that appears at the opening of the film. The sequence was created by animators Larry Yaeger and Bill Kroyer at Digital Productions [39] [40] and marked the first use of a realistic CGI animal in a film. [41] The owl head maquette was rescued from a skip when the animation company Omnibus went bankrupt in 1987. [42] Remley, Hilary (July 5, 2022). "Enter the 'Labyrinth' With New VR Mini-Golf Course Inspired by the Jim Henson Classic". Collider . Retrieved March 8, 2023. Handler, Rachel (January 23, 2016). "David Bowie's Labyrinth Is Getting A Sequel". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on January 24, 2016 . Retrieved January 25, 2016.

And as Labyrinth shows, there’s particular danger in being a teenage girl . Connelly’s Sarah is 16, and Jareth, we learn, doesn’t just want a new baby to be reborn as a goblin, which is disturbing enough. He wants Sarah. He wants her to love him, and his longing increases, becoming more and more creepily clear, as the movie progresses. There’s both a paternal appeal and stranger-danger in Jareth, a confusing and unnerving quality given Bowie’s alleged statutory rape of two young fans in the ’70s (reports that only intensified after the singer’s death earlier this year). Frankly, it makes Labyrinth difficult at times to rewatch as an adult. Labyrinth' Music Video Applauded". Sun-Sentinel. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. July 4, 1986. p.23. ProQuest 389704937 Ones with unfair step-mother and unwanted younger sibling. Unable to reason, Jareth kidnaps the babies and the cycle repeats. Only this time, the Sarahs follow.

You remind me of the babe...

Sarah is an imaginative girl with hopes of becoming an actress like her mother. She feels her stepmother constantly interferes with her goals – especially when she is made to look after her younger stepbrother, Toby. Life is not fair and Sarah knows to complain about it; one night she decides to give into her frustration and to give her baby brother a fright by calling upon her fantasies to save her. Much to her surprise, the Goblin King does appear and takes Toby away. Nothing Sarah says can sway the King to return the baby – not unless she solves his Labyrinth within thirteen hours. Yes - if you're already familiar with the story. Smith excels at the supporting characters, his prose is agreeable (especially the casual poetry quotations throughout!), and occasionally the divergences from the movie improve on it. Sarah's friends don't reappear at the end here. She sees them in the mirror but ultimately has to face her dad and stepmother at the end of the long night.

While in the park with her dog Merlin, 16-year-old Sarah recites from a book titled The Labyrinth, but is unable to remember the last line. Realizing that she is late to babysit her infant half-brother Toby, she rushes home and is confronted by her stepmother who leaves for dinner with Sarah's father. Frustrated that Toby was given her treasured teddy bear, Lancelot, and by his constant crying, Sarah rashly wishes that Toby be taken away by the goblins from her book. Toby disappears and the Goblin King Jareth appears, offering Sarah her dreams in exchange for the baby. She refuses, instantly regretting her wish. Jareth reluctantly gives Sarah 13 hours to solve his labyrinth and find Toby before he is turned into a goblin forever. Sarah meets a dwarf named Hoggle who aids her to enter the labyrinth. She has trouble finding her way at first and meets a talking worm who inadvertently sends her in the wrong direction.

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Henson, Jim (June 3, 1985). "6/3/1985 – 'Shooting Labyrinth – David Bowie shoots. Blind Beggar scene, Jareth and the Goblins.' ". Jim Henson's Red Book. Henson.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2013 . Retrieved December 20, 2020. Brian Froud (2007). "Audio Commentary by Conceptual Designer Brian Froud". Labyrinth (Anniversary Edition) (DVD). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

Our first character met on our journey. She hasn't even gotten into the Labyrinth and she is learning lesson two: Not everything is as it seems. I love the added dialogue and getting to know Hoggle a little better. Jareth’s land, an eerie expanse of bullies, traps, and two-faced allies, is pretty much an exaggerated blueprint of childhood. In Labyrinth, as in childhood, everything is magnified and inexplicable. Things are kept from children in the interest of protecting them, but in the absence of knowing, kids supply their own answers, which are usually awful. Much of what I remember about my youth involves worrying: that there was a man staring at me from the air-conditioner vents above my bed, that a tornado would come in the night, that robbers would come in the night, that wolves would come in the night. Childhood is full of such demons. Or goblins. Harrigan, Stephen (July 1990). "It's Not Easy Being Blue". Life. Vol.13, no.9. pp.92–96. ISSN 0024-3019.Schneider, Karl (May 18, 2006). "Exclusive First Look at RETURN TO LABYRINTH Manga Cover". Mania.com. Archived from the original on July 27, 2014 . Retrieved January 26, 2012. Cameron, Jen (October 26, 2005). "Movie Review: Mirrormask". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011 . Retrieved January 28, 2012. Sauter, Michael (June 1986). "Playing Hooky". Elle. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012 . Retrieved January 28, 2012. Froud, Brian; Jones, Terry (2006) [1986]. The Goblins of Labyrinth (20th Anniversaryed.). New York: Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-7055-7. Henson came "the closest I've seen him to turning in on himself and getting quite depressed" following the film's mixed reception, his son Brian told Life magazine. [87] It was the last feature film directed by Henson before his death in 1990.

The 80 best '80s Movies' ". Empire. September 5, 2016. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018 . Retrieved January 29, 2018. a b Henson, Jim (May 5, 1985). "5/5/1985 – 'To Amsterdam – (Filming Labyrinth) – Forest – Wild Things, Shaft of Hands.' ". Jim Henson's Red Book. Archived from the original on August 16, 2014 . Retrieved January 13, 2012.

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Labyrinth". Metacritic.com. Archived from the original on February 10, 2021 . Retrieved January 25, 2012. Archaia released a Labyrinth short story titled Hoggle and the Worm for Free Comic Book Day on May 5, 2012 [134] and another titled Sir Didymus' Grand Day on May 4, 2013. [135] Archaia published Labyrinth: 30th Anniversary Special, a collection of seven short stories, in 2016 to mark the film's 30th anniversary. [136] Cory Godbey's stories from this collection were also released in picture book form as Labyrinth Tales. [137] Another six-story collection was released the following year, titled Labyrinth: 2017 Special. [138] In 2018, the two were compiled as Labyrinth: Shortcuts, which also included two new stories, [139] and another three-story collection was released as Labyrinth: Under the Spell. [140]