This became one of the most successful Australian surf movies ever made, grossing over A$100,000 on its first release, followed by six-month run in London, where it ran on a double bill with René Laloux's Fantastic Planet and grossed over UK£100,000.
Madlib cites the film as an influence, using visuals from the film on his album covers and samples of the soundtrack on his songs.
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In the movie The Cell, Jennifer Lopez's character Catherine Deane watches the movie on her bedroom television.
Early depictions of Quasimoto were taken from the movie Fantastic Planet, specifically the leashed Oms who wore red masks with protruding snouts resembling skinny hippopotamus during the first "de-om".
Fantastic Planet, an alternative title for an animated 1973 science fiction film
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The track included samples from Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadassss Song, as well as Alain Goraguer's soundtrack to the French science-fiction animation Fantastic Planet.
Oms en série (lit. Oms Linked Together, translation published as Fantastic Planet) is a French science fiction novel written by Stefan Wul, first published in 1957.