A-MAZE-ING STORIES
Missing that maze? Here’s a few more
The Avengers: “The house That Jack Built” In this 1966 ep Emma Peel inherits a house. Result! Except it’s actually a computerised trap – one whose op-art corridors, forever leading Emma to the same point, are designed to drive her crackers.
Doctor Who: “The horns of nimon” Who’s riffed on the legend of Theseus and the Minotaur numerous times. In this 1979 story, a bull-headed alien parasite rules from a “power complex” whose walls keep shifting, because it’s essentially a giant positronic circuit.
Harry Potter And The Goblet of fire As part of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry must travel through this giant hedge maze, grown on Hogwarts’ Quidditch pitch. In the movie, it attacks competitors by contracting its walls to crush them, and wrapping its roots around them.
Labyrinth In Jim Henson’s 1986 film, a girl encounters all manner of outlandish creatures as she traverses a huge maze to recover her baby brother from David Bowie’s Goblin King.
