The Matrix (1999) influnced by Doctor Who, 1976

 The Tom Baker episode “The Deadly Assassin” has them fighting in a dream world virtual reality, in their minds, and are basically plugged into it via lying down on tables with mechanical things attached to their heads while asleep. The whole thing is controlled or relates to a vast system of computers in green metallic and just green backgrounds, rooms, cups, etc. They say “the matrix”... and according to wikipedia they say if you die in the matrix you die in real life   .  Wikipedia also saying this is probably the first virtual reality reference ever, as it applies to computers... way back in 1976  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(Doctor_Who)

Sword and Sorcery art

 http://www.castaliahouse.com/sword-and-sorcery-artists-manuel-sanjulian/

 

 

 

Red Sonja 1985 Movie, great backgrounds and sets

 https://www.cultcelebrities.com/red-sonja-1985/?unapproved=3848&moderation-hash=ab6f99bdc2de26d34da563ea42062cc7#comment-3848

 https://attackofthefeature.com/red-sonja-1985/ 

https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Sonja_(1985_movie)

http://www.yourstupidminds.com/2010/02/red-sonja-1985.html

The set backgrounds / set pieces are incredible in this movie. That giant stone skull-faced bull with the strange scaled monster beneath is a perfect example… I want to know what that place is. What do those statues represent. What is the scaled creature? In another scene there are giant abstract faces forming a wall. In others giant human statues or remnants of them, hugely thick stone walls, or massive temples of stone. It is all very inspiring and imaginative.

Pict from my TV, better shot of the weird head. It almost looks like a rooster but then it has 3 big horns on it's head and if that's not a bird beak on the bottom right it might be a tusk. In other shots during the scene there were some other giant tusks being shown... appeared to be from a stone colored head I think. This orange roostery head is probably not bird at all the more I think about it, scales, 4 feet, horns all over. A monster. And worth note, inside/under the bull, the orange skin was flapping around... so maybe this represents a killed monster that someone used as a wall for their camp under the bull. I would love to find out more about this whole thing, maybe it's in a Red Sonja book/comic somewhere. 

Close ups of RoosteryHead's horns and possible tusks: 

And this shot of the skeleton bridge ... this giant creature has 4 legs and a huge single horn. No telling what it is: