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''Artemis 81'' AKA ''Artemis '81'' (1981)

==Summary==
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The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death. 

==Details==

* Release Date:  1981
* Country/Language:   UK, English Welsh and Scottish Gaelic 
* Genres/Technical:  Fantasy, Sci-fi, Drama, made-for-TV
* Setting:  [[1980s]] [[UK]] and [[Dreamlands]]
* Runtime:  3 hr 5 min
* Starring:  Hywel Bennett, Dinah Stabb, Dan O'Herlihy, Sting
* Director:  Alastair Reid
* Writer:  David Rudkin
* Producer/Production Co:  British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
* View Film:  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xur13R23Qlk link])
* IMDB Page:  ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082030/?ref_=nv_sr_6 link])


==Ratings==
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* Rated:  (not rated) (not rated, but appears to be roughly TV-PG for mild Violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
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* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

I've not watched this film, but at a glance there doesn't seem to be anything overtly "Lovecraftian" in it; the characters apparently travel between dimensions or worlds or times in some under-stated way, and the beast "Magog" and the two "angelic" beings might be construed as "Lovecraftian" Great Old Ones in some manner; apparently a strange Pagan artefact (at least one viewer suggests a resemblance to [[Chaugnar Faugn]]) looted from Denmark breaks up in its journey to England and drives the people around it to madness and suicide.  The vaguely baffled reviews I've read, which mention the dream-like dialogue, plot, settings, and imagery, suggest this might fit well in the loose category I've been referring to as "Eldritch Location" films (which contains a number of more or less surreal art/experimental horror and fantasy/sci-fi films)....

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===
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==Synopsis==
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The epic battle for the future of mankind is fought between an angel of light and an angel of death. 
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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* deity:  Magog  (a beast which will destroy the world)
* deity:  Helith (a good angel)
* deity:  Asrael (an evil angel)
* artefact:  grotesque statue (one reviewer compared it to [[Chaugnar Faugn]])


===Keeper Notes===
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