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Archive for February, 2008

Updating Hitchcock.

No not the Gus van Sant shot for shot recreation of Psycho, which still perplexes me to this day.
Vanity Fair recently put (current issue maybe?) a photo series of iconic Hitchcock scenes using modern day actors and actresses. Not crappy D list celebrities either, they managed to pull quite a few A listers. I’m not [...]

Illustration of a Phantom Stranger

Here’s a sneak peek at a full page illustration of Rob Zombie appearing in an upcoming issue of Revolver Magazine. It’s going into their monthly “Going Postal” column, where rock stars answer fan mail. I’ve been a huge fan of Zombie’s music and art ever since “La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1″ made the hair [...]

Sinister Seven: Julie Benz (Part Two: Dexter)

Here’s the second part of my interview with Julie Benz, where we talk about one of my fave TV shows, Dexter, in which she plays the title character’s emotionally damaged girlfriend Rita. (Ff you want to read the first seven questions, where we talk Rambo, which she co-stars in, go here.)
Although Benz isn’t a scream [...]

Banana Seats

I-Mockery dug up this insane old bike safety film featuring the scariest monkey masks ever made. Was it the product of an overzealous Planet of the Apes fan, or simply a two-wheeled simian nightmare committed to film? Whatever disturbed mind gave birth to this burned some truly creepy images into my brain.

*Note to Dario Argento: [...]

Hallowiener

I was going through a bunch of old family photos this week and I found a few boyhood Halloween pics. As you can tell, we didn’t have a store-bought costume budget.

1. Dracula (or, in Canada: Dracula with a Parka). I went as a vampire more than once, I recall. The cape was homemade and the [...]