This weeks artistic interview takes me WAY back to those carefree days of youth and features one of my biggest childhood obsessions … The Garbage Pail Kids. I often talk about the subtle horror that surrounded me when I was growing up and I can’t think of a better example than those awesome little cards …
I posted an article a few weeks ago where I talked a little about my love for the classic ‘Kenner Aliens’ action figures. They were crazy little critters but I just can’t help admiring the imaginative designs and the sheer madness involved in the creation of a very child friendly toy line based on one …
This week’s horror art interview is with a man who has created some of the most dazzling and intense images I have ever seen. Dennis Willman uses a combination of classic art techniques and digital painting, with the end results being spectacular … and several will be featured here today. I originally contacted Dennis because …
The art of Graham Humphreys has lived in my memory for as long as I can remember. Some pieces more vividly than others, but show me anything from his horror movie poster/promo work and I instantly get transported back to Saturday afternoons throughout the early 1980s. The musty smell of my local VHS rental store, …
British TV on a sleepy Sunday afternoon rarely features programming that attracts my attention, but this week a little piece of iconic horror history suddenly appeared on the screen and it was fascinating to watch what happened next. Channel 4 in the UK has a programme called Four Rooms, (which I believe is also produced …
From the year 2000 until about 2008, it was a great time to be a fan of comic books AND Michael Myers. It was a decade that saw several companies have a ‘stab’ at creating interesting and visually attractive stories featuring characters from the Halloween universe and for the most part, they did a good …
What happened to movie posters? Did Hollywood executives just sit down one day and decide that posters no longer needed to capture your imagination and be something you would be proud to display on a wall in your home? In my youth I had posters everywhere: Several from the Elm Street movies, posters for Friday …
One of the first questions I always ask when I conduct these short interviews with artistic horror lovers is if they feel being creative was an inevitable destiny from a young age … More often than not you will then read about the wonderful support and guidance they got from family and loved ones that …
I’ve arranged short interviews with many artists over the last few weeks, amateur and professional. Some of those artists create horror art as well as work based on other genres, some have visited horror briefly then moved on to safer pastures. The individual involved in todays Q&A started away from horror … slowly found himself …
One of the most intense horror experiences I have enjoyed in recent years didn’t come from a movie or TV show … It came in the form of a video game called Bioshock and its sequel Bioshock 2. Bioshock is pure horror, the undersea city of Rapture that you have to survive a journey through …
