Hey guys, haven’t updated in a while. I’ve been working on a new project which i hope to tell you all about very soon, but in the meantime, here’s an illustration. This is for one of my favourite stories by H.P. Lovecraft, “The Lurking Fear”. It’s quite under-rated, and is one of his best earlier works. More information soon, but in the meantime, you can read “The Lurking Fear” here!

Keep your eyes peeled tomorrow afternoon, i’ll be taking reservations and showing some pictures of the second “Feature Creature Sticker Set”! It’s gonna be good. I’ll put up the reserved orders, plus a few unclaimed sets, in my etsy store in the evening!

This week’s Feature Creature is John Carpenter’s sci-fi action film, “They Live”!
Here’s the plot synopsis: “Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like “Stay Asleep”, “No Imagination”, “Submit to Authority”. Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued. ” It’s cheesy, paranoid fun for the whole family!

I’ve been kind of obsessed with the design of the aliens in this film recently, so i thought i’d do up a painting! Working on some cool things coming down the road in the near future, so keep an eye out. A million thanks to everyone who purchased a sticker set, i’m eternally grateful. It won’t be the last of them, that’s for sure.

Dr. John Holden, in an attempt to expose cult leader Julian Karswell, is slipped a piece of paper containing a death curse! As strange occurences keep happening, John Holden becomes convinced that he is being stalked by a demon. His only chance, slip the cursed paper back to Karswell without him realizing it! And time grows short…

“Curse of the Demon” is creepy, old-school gothic horror, very much in league with the classic “The Haunting”. The titular demon is seen quite early in the film, which was very much not the director’s intention. The demon was supposed to be always hinted at and glimpsed, without ever showing the audience a good look at it’s face. The producers of the film thought otherwise, and eventually, the demon was decided to be featured prominently in the film and poster art. I love the creature design, obviously, but i’m a huge sucker for films that can get away with hinting at the horrible. Your mind is your own worst enemy in these cases, and will scare you with what is suggested, not shown.

That said, “Curse of the Demon” is still surprisingly suspenseful for the time it was made, and the monster (realized through puppets, sound-effects, and fog) is really damn cool! Plus, it’s the only monster movie referenced in a Kate Bush song (Hounds of Love), so it’s got that going for it. Check it out!

Take a look at an early scene from the film here!

Do i even need to talk about “Evil Dead”? I don’t need to talk about “Evil Dead”. It’s safe to say you’ve probably seen that film. For the few who haven’t, the plot goes like this: Group of teens goes to a cabin in the woods. Bad things happen thanks to a demonic book called the Necronomicon Ex Mortis, the book of the dead. It’s an amazing horror film, made on a below shoe-string budget, that took off and launched the careers of Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. The Necronomicon is such a cool looking prop, i decided to focus the design of my poster on it. A version of this Necronomicon drawing is going to be part of a set of limited edition stickers down the road, with some other iconic images from some 80’s horror favourites. Hope you like it!

Probably the last great Italian horror film, “Dellamorte Dellamore” (Literally “Of Death, Of Love”) plays out like a Terry Gilliam directed, existential arthouse zombie film. And it’s a wonderful.

Francesco Dellamorte (Rupert Everett) is the caretaker of Buffalora cemetery, in a town in the North of Italy. He lives a peaceful life with his mute assistant Gnaghi, except for the fact that the recently buried dead rise after seven days. Francesco goes through his days, nonchalantly destroying the walking dead, until a mysterious woman enters his life.

Heavily inspired by a long-running Italian horror comic, “Dylan Dog”, “Dellamorte Dellamore” is a much more faithful adaptation than the recent Brandon Routh starring “Dylan Dog” film, which i hear is dreadful. “Dellamorte Dellamore” is criminally underseen, thanks in part to an American release in only 6 screens.

I hope you like that illustration, and it inspires you to seek out this gem of a film.

Check out the trailer here!

Hey guys. Returning from a long absence of Feature Creature entries, this week’s entry celebrates a great monster from an alright movie, “The Funhouse”. Directed by Tobe Hooper in 1981, “The Funhouse” subverts the classic slasher movie formula of teens being offed by a killer, taking it to weirder, scummier places.

A bunch of teenagers decide to hide out overnight in their local travelling carnival’s funhouse, only to witness a murder and end up being stalked by the deformed son of a carnie! Everything feels slightly dirty and menacing, and the film manages a really great atmosphere, but much of the film is a little slow. The monster, though, has always stuck with me since i first saw it as a kid. Ostensibly a guy in a halloween mask, the way it’s shot and lit in the film was enough to burn it into my young retinas.

I hope you like my humble tribute painting.

Here’s the trailer!

The brainchild of a collaboration between horror legends George A. Romero and Stephen King, “Creepshow” was an 80’s campy horror classic. Inspired by the infamous horror comics from the 1950’s such as “Tales From The Crypt”, “Haunt of Fear” and “Vault of Horror”, “Creepshow” was an anthology consisting of five shocking tales of monsters and zombies, with a wrap-around story to tie it all together.

The beauty of the anthology film was that if you thought the plot or the acting stunk, you only had to wait about ten minutes, and you’d get a brand new movie. My favourite of the five stories involved a horrible wolf-monkey monster that’s found in an ancient crate under the stairs of a university. Somehow, it’s stayed alive without food since 1834, and eventually it’s utilized to get rid of a professor’s obnoxious wife.

Besides that gem, we get a villainous Leslie Nielson, two seperate stories involving the vengeful walking dead, a Stephen King starring story where he gets infected with plant life from a meteor, cockroaches by the thousands, and some wicked animation to tie everything together. If you grew up with some of those vintage horror comics like i did, you owe it to yourself to see this movie. It’s just a lot of fun.

Check out the trailer here!