Nude For Satan

Nude For Satan  is one of those great movies full of fantastic surreal scenes . Most of them containing nude women. I’m not sure if I seen Satan in the film, but as the title promises there is nudity.

Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

Don’t Deliver Us From Evil is a french film that has elements of nunsploitation and by popular opinion, the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker , that also inspired the film Heavenly Creatures by Peter Jackson. Two girls at a convent school start out playing at evil and rebellion but things quickly escalate into true blasphemy and murder.

Satan’s Blood

Satan’s Blood also known as Escalofrío is great Spanish horror.Below are some posters inspired by the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075999/

Retroccult

revamp

1280x720

Alucarda fanart

Deadbeat at Dawn

If  I could choose any movie to be remade It would be Deadbeat at Dawn. Same director of course.I think Jim Van Bebber’s film would definitely have big box office potential. With all the grindhouse style movies around the Deadbeat at Dawn plot would not only fit in fine but possibly dominate. Hopefully Jim Van Bebber will choose to revamp or remake the film.

Below are some posters inspired by the movie

Nosferatu DVD sleeve

Nosferatu is one of my favorite  films. I am always on the lookout  for new versions.Searching for  cleaner and more whole productions. As a result I have many versions on discs and drives. In the future I would like to do a fan edit but never have the time or software it would take. Just in case I ever do get around to it. I will be occasionally mocking up DVD covers and posters. Below is an Early stage design for a Nosferatu DVD sleeve

SLAY RIDE

I kept passing up a film listed in the media center because there was no poster or plot info. So I decided to create a poster for it and input plot and cast info. I thought this is a good chance to to create a piece of fanart before I am a fan. Turns out the film is a part of An anthology movie called Faces of Schlock hosted by Slutpira. The tagline is great ‘To Avoid Fainting, Just keep repeating… they made it with camcorders…they made it with camcorders…they made it with camcorders’. Even if it is bad it’s probably the good bad. So I searched through the film for a few stand out screen captures.Read the end credits and created a faux VHS cover for SLAY RIDE.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1446068/

Of course the video is way to modern for VHS, but the vibe I took from what I saw was old school slasher. I could be wrong I’ll need to wait until I watch the complete film to see. I would like to have the whole anthology film. I’m curious about Slutpira. Sounds like a deep character.

Steppenwolf

This is some fanart for the movie and novel Steppenwolf. A multimedia poster for multi medias. I’m a fan of Hermann Hesse and Max Von Sydow, great to see them combined in the film. For those not familiar.The story has nothing to do with physical lycanthropy. There is a real nice animated sequence in the film for the reading of the Treatise on the Steppenwolf.

 

IMDB link   Hermann Hesse Wikipedia

the Exorcist

Eli Roth stated

“The Exorcist” traumatized me at the ripe age of 6. I saw that film and literally could not fall asleep for two years without believing the devil was going to possess me. My parents would argue that we were Jewish and that we didn’t believe in that stuff, but I was certain I would be the first test case.”

  This is a statement echoed by many people myself included. Maybe minus the jewish argument. Before seeing the Exorcist at the age of 6 or 7, I had been watching what I was told were scary films with great joy and no stress. the Exorcist was the first true horror film I ever seen. No offense to Vincent Price. I enjoyed watching the film. It was intense but I knew it was a movie and could handle watching the horror. The real anxiety came later in the dark at bedtime. All the conversations I overheard about the movie being based on a true story echoing in my head. Now I was living the horror. Every time I shut my eyes to sleep … I seen the face. Most people will know the reference. The subliminal flash of the face that most accept as Pazuzu. As a child for some reason I imagined it was the face of Father karass’s mother. This face is one of the many things that is not essential for the Exorcist to be a good movie. But helps it it to be a great one.

I didn’t know at the time that beneath the effective makeup of Dick Smith was the actually attractive face of Eileen Dietz, who also doubled for Linda Blair in some of the more physically and morally challenging scenes. She went on to other roles some with much more dialogue (General Hospital, Halloween II(2009), Exorcism, and a very cool loking zombie in Constantine to name a few) but none of them would impact me as much as those quick cameos. Check out her website for more info http://www.eileendietz.com/.
A few years after seeing the movie I began reading credits (and monster magazines) and became aware of the make up artist Dick Smith who did the make up effects for the Exorcist, as well as the Godfather, the Sentinel, Alterd States and won an Oscar for Amadeus. I learned that Max Von Sydow was wearing makeup to appear much older. This cleared up the confusion I felt when seeing him as a younger man in other films that came after the Exorcist. It also amazed me. I was completely fooled and thought I was pretty keen on spotting effects at the time. Check out the Dick Smith website for specifics on his work http://www.dicksmithmake-up.com/
I believe the Exorcist is possibly the greatest horror film ever and one of the greatest films ever. The perfect storm of story, sound, talent and timing. The book and script are great. The direction is excellent. The acting is excellent. The soundtrack is unforgettable, and it all came at a time when in my opinion, a film like this was taken more serious.

below are a couple of designs I was doing inspired by the Exorcist

the blue one is a silkscreen shirt type design the other a more restrained comic book VHS cover style

Martyrs

There was a short period of time when I thought the horror genre had jumped the shark.It seemed to me all the franchises were marketed for children and almost overlapping their remakes.During the time I blindly kept this opinion there were plenty of gems being re-released from the 70’s and 80’s to satisfy my taste for the bizarre. After a while I began seeking out good modern horror. Martyrs is one of 5 films I viewed in a short period of time that showed me the horror genre is not only alive and and kicking, but that really great movies seem to be appearing more frequently than ever

Most people, even the casual horror fan has known about the asian infuence sometimes referred to as J-Horror for some time now.If you have ever bought an issue of Fangoria or fondly remember the VHS tape your’e probably someone who knows a bit about the Italian Masters of Horror, as well as the English Horror from Amicus and Hammer films.

A big contributor to the modern horror scene is a collection of films being referred to as the New wave of French horror. It seems ironic that the creator of one of the strongest films in this subgenre Pascal Laugier has commented that he doesn’t recgonise any major movement in his home country

“So I know from an American point of view and probably an English one too, there is a kind of new wave of modern horror film, but it’s not true. It’s still hell. My country produces almost 200 films a year and there are like 2 or 3 horror films. It’s not even an industry, French horror cinema is very low budget, it’s kinda prototype. I think that a genre really exists when it’s industrially produced like the Italians did 600 spaghetti westerns. So we can’t really say that there is a wave of horror in French Cinema, I don’t believe it.”

This opinion may have changed I’m not sure. What I am sure of is that Martyrs is a great film no matter where it hails. For those who haven’t seen Martyrs, many scenes are admittedly brutal, but it is a horror film. If your squeamish and put off by the violence try to stick with it . There is an explanation for it besides the usual demented reasons. Also if your cynical and think you know where the film is heading in the first ten minutes do not dismiss it and turn it off. You will most likely be surprised more than once.You may think you know, but there is more to it. There is no Shyamalan type mystery here, it’is more of a shock than that. More of a “What the hell” rather than a “That’s what I thought” moment.

Pascal Laugier has also written and directed the film ‘House of Voices‘ and starred in’ Brotherhood of the Wolf‘ so it seems obvious that wherever his career takes him,there are many reasons he is already firmly seated as a master of horror and Martyrs is on the top of that list.

                      Below is an unfinished poster I was working on

unfinished Martyrs poster