High-Rise

High-Rise heavily influenced Shivers ... a lot of similar themes can be found in the two.

Splice Director Vincenzo Natali Eyes Swamp Thing and JG Ballard Adaptations | /Film 2010

In "The Concrete Island" (1974), a man stranded in the median of a highway torches his Jaguar to signal for help; the action in "High-Rise" (1975) is triggered when a murder victim is found "embedded in the crushed roof of a car."

'The Bonfire Of the Volvos' Sam Sacks 2011

I feel for these hunters, we have had our share of these "good ideas" crammed down our throat as well from these High-Rise wildlife managers, and have seen the economic and environmental damage they create.

Seal Season 2009

The much-anticipated residential development, Arterra High-Rise, is one such spanking new project.

Piper Kujac | Inhabitat 2010

In "High-Rise" more than 30 years ago, for instance, he offered a taut little allegory about class war played out in a state-of-the-art apartment complex the tenants on the middle floors rise up against their penthouse oppressors.

'The Bonfire Of the Volvos' Sam Sacks 2011

In "High-Rise" more than 30 years ago, for instance, he offered a taut little allegory about class war played out in a state-of-the-art apartment complex the tenants on the middle floors rise up against their penthouse oppressors.

'The Bonfire Of the Volvos' Sam Sacks 2011

Empire of the Sun, an account of his wartime internment in Shanghai, brought him a Spielberg movie and a worldwide audience, but he also wrote the remarkable novels Crash, High-Rise, Cocaine Nights and many more.

The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction 2011

I feel for these hunters, we have had our share of these "good ideas" crammed down our throat as well from these High-Rise wildlife managers, and have seen the economic and environmental damage they create.

Seal Season 2009

In "The Concrete Island" (1974), a man stranded in the median of a highway torches his Jaguar to signal for help; the action in "High-Rise" (1975) is triggered when a murder victim is found "embedded in the crushed roof of a car."

'The Bonfire Of the Volvos' Sam Sacks 2011

In High-Rise the solid middle-class tenants regress into barbarity for no reason, they live in their luxury apartments like primates.

Ballardian » ‘Violence without end’: An Interview with J.G. Ballard 2008