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VYS0064 | Things Aren't Always What They Seem In This Place - Halloween 2026: Labyrinth Show Notes
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, we have fought our way here to the season 5 of Vayse. And to open this season, as a celebration of Halloween 2026, Hine and Buckley take a deep dive into the marvellous, mysterious and mighty muppety masterpiece: Laybyrinth.
A lot of ink has been spilled in service of examining the social/psychological/sexual subtext of this 1986 comedy/fantasy tour de force but rather than try to compete for an angle in this arena, the Vayse boys go back to their childhoods, examining the movie as an urtext of imagination and the supernatural: Buckley's obsessive twice daily screenings of the film during summer holidays as a child and his desire for escape into it's world as a teenager, Hine's fascination with how the story is woven together from illusions, magic and subverted fairy tales... and how every one of the main touch points of Vayse is explicitly or implicitly set out in this exquisite 1986 masterwork (recorded 19 October 2026)
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The Hero's Journey - Wikipedia
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Star Wars - Wikipedia
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Generation Z - Wikipedia
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Relativity by M. C. Escher - Wikipedia
Within You by David Bowie - YouTube
The Dark Crystal - Wikipedia
MirrorMask - Wikipedia
Legend - Wikipedia
Water Babies - Wikipedia
Little Monsters - Wikipedia
The Lost Boys - Wikipedia
The Princess Bride - Wikipedia
Stardust - Wikipedia
Red Sonja - Wikipedia
Krull - Wikipedia
Beastmaster - Wikipedia
Hawk the Slayer - Wikipedia
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