Event Horror Thursday: Office Killer #31DaysofHorror You've done something special with horror if you make this hardened fan think you're whole story is really strange. I like weird horror. I embrace the unusual. I especially like to celebrate when what seems like a by the numbers horror film on paper turns so
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 14: Bat #31DaysofHorror I'm not ready to go into detail yet, but there is a greater rhyme and reason to my subject choices for #Drawlloween. A bat as a defensive weapon is just as horror as a vampire bat. Vine charcoal and pastel pencil on toned gray paper. 5.5"
Event #31DaysofHorror The Vampire's Coffin Review (Film, 1958) The Vampire's Coffin (El ataúd del Vampiro) is the sequel to The Vampire (El vampiro). Together, they are a pair of Mexican horror films from 1957 and 1958 about a vampire hypnotizing and claiming beautiful young women in a small village. Unfortunately for us, The Vampire is not
Art New York Comic Con 2015 from a First Timer Even though I did not attend New York Comic Con this year, a close friend of mine had his first big convention experience. One of his friends bought tickets for Thursday and they met up to experience it together. What I know is the pair were discouraged by how many
Event #31DaysofHorror Creep Review (Film, 2014) Creep is about nine different horror film set-ups presented as one narrative. That's the problem. It's unfocused. You can't fault its ambition, but you can easily fault its execution. Mark Duplass and Patrick Brice write and star in this two-hander; Brice also serves as
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 13: Frankenstein #31DaysofHorror Ah, Frankenstein. I've said it before and I'll say it again. You're either a Frankenstein person or a Dracula person. I'm a Frankenstein person, myself, and try to influence my students to come to the science fiction side of horror. Since I
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 12: Moon #31DaysofHorror Not much to say here. It's the moon. I can draw it. Compressed chalk and pastel pencil on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Event Halloween 2015: Broodhollow Haunt Part 2 #31DaysofHorror It's been a productive week bringing this wild Broodhollow haunt to life. First, I got half of The Last Halloween cemetery done. Why half? Because I have another 6 or 7 stones to paint for the other side of the walkway, plus a few more figures to clean
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 11: Raven #31DaysofHorror Hey, not too bad considering holding the compressed chalk actually hurt, so I had it at a weird angle and drew from my shoulder to minimize pain. Carpal tunnel sucks. Compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Event #31DaysofHorror Tetsuo: The Iron Man Review (Film, 1989) There's no sense trying to define a plot for Tetsuo: The Iron Man. It's essentially a series of very 80s experimental video shorts strung together into a very loose thematic structure. One man chooses to inject himself with metal, while another transforms into metal. That'
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 10: Alien #31DaysofHorror Don't blame me. I'm not the one who created American Horror Story: Asylum, forever conflating aliums with whiny characters and animal mutilation. Graphite crayon on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Event Watch: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Trailer #31DaysofHorror The wait isn't over yet, but it certainly seems to finally be coming to an end. Remember when everyone had a good laugh that someone updated Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to include zombies all the way back in 2009? And remember how many people picked
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 9: Eyeball #31DaysofHorror When I saw the theme for Drawlloween Day 9 was eyeball, I knew what I had to do. I love drawing eyes. I'm good at it, too. I wanted to get another entry done for the Chiller Theatre Expo art contest and, from my experience there, they respond
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 8: Zombie #31DaysofHorror I crashed hard after a long practice yesterday and forgot to upload my Day 8 zombie sketch for Drawlloween. Here it is now. Compressed chalk and charcoal on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Event Horror Thursday: Sisters #31DaysofHorror When I think of great horror directors, I don't think of Brian De Palma. That's not an insult; I'm more familiar with his later, non-horror work. Then I started digging around while working on my review of the Margot Kidder-starring Sisters and realized he&
Books/Print Watch: Bumps Gonna Goose Ya! feat. Jack Black #31DaysofHorror I don't have high hopes for the new Goosebumps film. I like the property (I grew up reading the original series, plus all of Fear Street). I think Jack Black will be great in this R.L. Stine role. My concerns all come from trying to include too
Event #31DaysofHorror Evidence Review (Film, 2013) If it wasn't for the last two minutes of Evidence, I would be writing a very complimentary review. Unfortunately, I cannot write a review of a film that technically doesn't exist, as those last two minutes literally ruin everything positive Evidence had going for it. Evidence
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 7: Haunted House #31DaysofHorror I have plans for a much larger piece inspired by the Bates Motel in Psycho. I figured Haunted House day in #Drawlloween was a good place to start. The proportions are a bit too squat, but the idea came out pretty easily. I would use a ruler and actually work
Theater Dante's Theme; or, A Look at My Educational Theater Work I've convinced a high school I work with to do the amazing play Geek by Crystal Skillman. They're doing the HS edition because it cleans up some of the language and, more importantly, expands character roles and refocuses the narrative on really positive messages for young
Event #31DaysofHorror Starry Eyes Review (Film, 2014) One of the big writing tips you learn over and over again is steal from the best. Study the masters. Find a work you really love, learn it inside and out, and apply it to your own work. There's obviously no real way to know if writers/directors
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 6: Pumpkin #31DaysofHorror Another day, another spoopy drawing. Only this one isn't spoopy at all. It's actually my most straight forward entry in Drawlloween so far. The theme for day 6 is pumpkin. I delivered in sanguine. Compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Art Halloween 2015: Broodhollow Haunt #31DaysofHorror I don't know if/when I'll get a new episode of The Haunting Ground up, though I'd like to think the existing series entries are a great tool for novice home haunters. What I do know is that I feel the need to start
Event #31DaysofHorror Shutter Review (Film, 2004) Photography often plays an important role in film. Some truly great films actually focus on the act of photography itself, including Rear Window, Blow-Up, and Fur (among countless documentaries). It's surprising that more horror films don't focus on irregularities in photographs. Sinister/2 and Ginger Snaps
Art #Drawlloween 2015: Day 5: Werewolf #31DaysofHorror Do you even lift, brah? I didn't intend to create a super buff werewolf, but once the shape started to come through, I couldn't resist. Vine charcoal and compressed chalk on toned gray paper. 5.5"x8.5"
Event Must Watch: Twin Peaks Teaser #31DaysofHorror Ok, so it's really happening now. Production is on for the new season of Twin Peaks. David Lynch is on board. Much of the original cast is returning. Amanda Seyfried is joining in a pivotal role (Veronica Mars, anyone? She was the murder victim who appeared in flashbacks
