
The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury, a collection of eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast space of stars and blackness, the sight of g... (Full plot summary below)
Enjoy FREE movies and series with your Prime (USA) subscription or when you start a 30-day free trial!
Links compiled using automated software. Availability of offers subject to change / might be region specific / out of date.
The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury, a collection of eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin, visions as keen as the tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that indelibly stain the body. The images, ideas, sounds and scents that abound in this phantasmagoric sideshow are provocative and powerful: the mournful cries of celestial travelers cast out cruelly into a vast space of stars and blackness, the sight of gray dust settling over a forgotten outpost on a road that leads nowhere, the pungent odor of Jupiter on a returning father's clothing. Here living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled by the good life and the glad hand, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.
Leave your thoughts about The Illustrated Man.
| Kansas City KansanSteve CrumInteresting if not totally successful adaptation of Bradbury's stories. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeRod Steiger does what he can to anchor this slightly dreary and depressing film version of Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaUma antologia mal disfarçada de unidade narrativa, o filme é terrivelmente datado e conta com um ritmo irregular, desperdiçando o material original de Bradbury. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIt has its weaknesses -- of acting, of character -- but they are not fatal. What finally brings the movie down is its inadequate attention to the expectations of the audience. |
| User ReviewElizabeth MRarely seen- is there a DVD release - if not - why not? A great Ray Bradbury adaption. |
| User ReviewMellow CI seen this a long time ago. Would love to see it again. |
| User ReviewJo Y3 stoires linked together upon looking into the magic of the tragic living tatoos. Go open your mind up well! |
| User ReviewLandoflee SThis is a classic. The naysayers need to list their IQs. That would explain the low rating. |
| User ReviewKttn LI love this film and would love to know where the campfire scenes were filmed. |
| User ReviewChrysta Bno matter what the critics say the ending still frightens and haunts me decades later....the end with Steiger's angry is terrifying...the end with Drivas reaction is terrifying... |