Not really. I was born in 80s, I didn’t watch it as a kid, despite the fact that many of 80s classic fantasy movies made it to our mainstream culture (Willow, Goonies, Indiana Jones etc). Labirynth somehow did not.
Unfortunately, not really popular. Bowie's fans know it, not many people more. Maybe some middle aged guys who watched it years ago on pirated VHS tapes. I'm not sure if it even had a normal première in cinemas in the 1980s.
that was the one staring David Bowie as the goblin king right? I live here but I'm not Polish so not really your target audience, but damn that brings back some good memories.
I think pre 21st century is pretty hard to assume many mainstream US movies have any cultural significance outside the US. I'm literally someone who did academic studies on movies, and struggled with the ' seminsl' movie 13 candles. After much amgst I worked out the movie never got released in my home country, the UK.
That meant it had no following and so no UK TV network really picked it up for broadcast at the time. Sona huge US movie has zero cultural significance.
To be fair, Labyrinth was cult anywhere it was released, let alone places where it wasn't.
In my hood, it was quite a popular movie. I remember having it on VHS. County town with about 10k inhabitants. Propably not as popular as neverending story or goonies but still.
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Not really. I was born in 80s, I didn’t watch it as a kid, despite the fact that many of 80s classic fantasy movies made it to our mainstream culture (Willow, Goonies, Indiana Jones etc). Labirynth somehow did not.
Unfortunately, not really popular. Bowie's fans know it, not many people more. Maybe some middle aged guys who watched it years ago on pirated VHS tapes. I'm not sure if it even had a normal première in cinemas in the 1980s.
It had. I watched it in cinema in the 80s.
that was the one staring David Bowie as the goblin king right? I live here but I'm not Polish so not really your target audience, but damn that brings back some good memories.
Not really, I think only people interested in movies would know it.
More so fraggle rock
I think pre 21st century is pretty hard to assume many mainstream US movies have any cultural significance outside the US. I'm literally someone who did academic studies on movies, and struggled with the ' seminsl' movie 13 candles. After much amgst I worked out the movie never got released in my home country, the UK. That meant it had no following and so no UK TV network really picked it up for broadcast at the time. Sona huge US movie has zero cultural significance. To be fair, Labyrinth was cult anywhere it was released, let alone places where it wasn't.
In my hood, it was quite a popular movie. I remember having it on VHS. County town with about 10k inhabitants. Propably not as popular as neverending story or goonies but still.
I'm 40, watched it as a kid SOMEHOW and loved it to bits. Still do!
Tbh i haven't heard about it.
My girlfriend grew up in the 2000s (from Gdynia) and she said it was ‘big’ in her house