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"I believe I have made a significant find in the Kandarian ruins, a volume of ancient Sumarian burial practices and funerary incantations. It is entitled 'Naturum De Montum', roughly translated: Book of the Dead."
(Tape recording machine, Necronomicon and shotgun by NECA / from Evil Dead 2 – Ultimate Ash )
Diorama by RK
Yep, that's right. The original The Evil Dead!!! :D
That is one of my very favorite movies ever. I never got to see it on the big screen, so this was a special treat. It was in NYC at the Landmark Sunshine Theater, part of their Midnight screenings. So yeah, it's 3:30 in the morning, I'm going to bed...more tomorrow. Thanks everyone for your visits and comments, I'll catch up with everyone soon!
"It lives ... out in those woods, in the dark ... something ... something that's come back from the dead."
('Deadite Ash' by NECA / Evil Dead 2 – Ultimate Ash)
"Yes! Your love was a lie! And now she burns in hell!"
('Linda's head' and 'Ash' by NECA / Evil Dead 2 – Ultimate Ash)
Diorama by RK
"You're pissing me off, you ugly son of a bitch !"
('Evil Ash' by McFarlane Toys / Movie Maniacs Series 4)
Evil Dead Week begins at ye olde Geek Creek photostream!
I've shared a few photos of NECA's Ultimate Ash from Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn in recent weeks, but this week will be consumed with portraits of the two new Ash figures, based on his appearance in the Starz series, Ash vs Evil Dead. (I've finally started watching said series. It's delightful).
Both Ash figures feature two interchangeable heads and a new style of (fantastic!) elbow articulation.
They are absolute masterpieces... which is what I've come to expect from NECA.
This photo was captured in our local Wal-Mart.
"Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas."
('Ash' by McFarlane Toys / Movie Maniacs Series 3)
18" talking Ash Williams from Army of Darkness by McFarlane Toys that arrived earlier today. "Groovy."
"The book of the dead. The book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond. It was written long ago, when the seas ran red of blood. It was this blood that was used to ink the book."
('Deadite Ash' by NECA / Evil Dead 2 – Ultimate Ash )
"Even now we have your darling Linda's soul, as she suffers in torment!"
('Linda's head' by NECA / Evil Dead 2 – Ultimate Ash)
Diorama by RK
Movie poster mock-up for The Evil Dead.
The Evil Dead is a 1981 American independent supernatural horror film written and directed by Sam Raimi, produced by Robert Tapert and executive produced by Raimi, Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, who also starred alongside Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManicor, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly. The film focuses on five college students vacationing in an isolated cabin in a remote wooded area. After they find an audio tape that, when played, releases a legion of demons and spirits, four members of the group suffer from demonic possession, forcing the fifth member, Ash Williams (Campbell), to survive an onslaught of increasingly gory mayhem.
Raimi, Tapert, Campbell and their friends produced the short film Within the Woods as a proof of concept to build the interest of potential investors, which secured US$90,000 to begin work on The Evil Dead. Principal photography took place on location in a remote cabin located in Morristown, Tennessee, in a difficult filming process that proved extremely uncomfortable for the cast and crew; the film's extensive prosthetic makeup effects and stop-motion animations were created by artist Tom Sullivan. The completed film attracted the interest of producer Irvin Shapiro, who helped screen the film at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Horror author Stephen King gave a rave review of the film, which resulted in New Line Cinema acquiring its distribution rights.
The Evil Dead grossed $2.4 million in the US and between $2.7 and $29.4 million worldwide. Both early and later critical reception were universally positive; in the years since its release, the film has developed a reputation as one of the most significant cult films, cited among the greatest horror films of all time and one of the most successful independent films. It launched the careers of Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell, who have continued to collaborate on several films together, such as Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.
Source of info: Wikipedia
The Necronomicon Ex-Mortis - also known as The Book of the Dead and Naturom Demonto - is said to have been written by the Dark Ones, bound in human flesh and inked in human blood. This text contained prophecies, funerary incantations, and demon resurrection passages.
This appeared this month in the Ontario wide antiques newspaper the Wayback Times which features all the antiques shows, articles by collectors and dealer ads in Ontario. I wrote this featuring my top 30 Horror Classics, with a feature section which is an interview with director and fellow-Torontonian George Romero.
Here is the link to the online article -- which is considerably shorter with fewer pics:
www.waybacktimes.com/halloween96.html
And here is the text only of the above printed article if you don't have 20/20 vision:
Top 30 Horror Classics
By Brenda McNeilly
Looking for a good scary flick come this Halloween? Here’s my top 30. Plus an interview with my friend, George Romero, famed Director of Night of the Living Dead, featuring his top 3. So don’t take it from me, take it from someone who knows s*&! about scary movies!
1. The Exorcist, 1973. See ‘George Romero’s Top 3’, inset. If you think the movie is scary, wait till you see ‘The Fear of God’ in the Extras.
2. Night of the Living Dead, 1968. “They’re coming to get you, Barbara”. So starts NOTLD with a bang, in the now iconic cemetery scene. As visceral and archetypal a nightmare as has ever been captured on film. NOTLD and its Director George Romero reinvented horror and created the zombie sub-genre in one fell swoop. The granddaddy of them all and a cult classic. I’m not worthy!
3. The Innocents, 1961. See ‘George Romero’s Top 3’, inset.
4. Carnival of Souls, 1962. This once-forgotten and now well-respected movie features one of the most eerie and haunting locations ever filmed, an abandoned salt-water pavilion in Utah. Unforgettable performance by Actor/Director Herk Harvey.
5. Nosferatu, 1922. For me no other vampire can hold a candle to Max Schreck in this seminal silent film classic. Schreck’s spidery, insidious portrayal of the undead and F. W. Murnau’s stark, unnerving cinematography make this an important film.
6. The Haunting, 1963. A team of psychics and researchers descend upon Hill House to determine if things really do go bump in the night. Trust me, they do. Famous “breathing door” scene scared me out of my skin.
7. The Thing From Another Planet, 1951. See ‘George Romero’s Top 3’ inset.
8. The Evil Dead, 1981. You won’t know whether to laugh or scream. A group of murder-worthy teens rent a cabin in the woods and unleash demonic forces. Favourite line: “My wife has become host to a Kandarian demon. I fear the only way to stop her is through the act of … bodily dismemberment”. Would you believe the first movie Sam Raimi made after graduating film school?
9. The Night Stalker, 1972. I was just 12 when I saw this movie, and since then I have been searching for another that could scare me as much as this one did. I have yet to find it. A vampire is loose in Las Vegas. Darren McGavin is gold, and would you believe the vampire is character actor Barry Atwater, aka Spock’s dad?
10. Salem’s Lot, 1979. Based on the Stephen King vampire epic. Some horror fans feel Mr. Barlow is the scariest vampire ever.
11. The Blair Witch Project, 1999. BWP was to horror what punk rock was to music. The young amateur creators of the film hid in the woods and played wilderness games with the actors, allowing them to run out of food and dry clothes, leaving them script directions, for improvising. Original, important, it changed everything that came after it.
12. Let’s Scare Jessica To Death, 1971. A best-kept horror secret, this film is a gem. Is it a vampire flick, a ghost story, or is Jessica having a breakdown?
13. The Ring, Japanese and American versions, 2002. The Japanese horror aesthetic is eerie, searing, primal. This WILL scare you.
14. The Grudge, Japanese and American versions, 2004. Directed by Takashi Shimizu and produced with due reverence for Japanese horror by Sam Raimi, of Evil Dead fame. I get goosebumps just writing about it.
15. The Wicker Man, 1973. Christopher Lee felt so strongly about this film that when funding ran out he did it for free. Incorporates historically accurate pagan rituals. Highly acclaimed and considered by some to be one of the best films ever made -- in any genre.
16. The Phantom of the Opera, 1925. As breathtakingly beautiful a horror/tragedy as has ever graced the screen. The ethereal physicality and emotional power of the great Lon Chaney is at its peak in this silent masterpiece. His performance is like watching horror ballet. Phantom proves that horror can be beautiful.
17. The Shining, 1980. “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrence” croaks the boy Danny, in one of many chilling lines from this horror thriller. Director Kubrick and author Stephen King may have had creative differences, but, the Outlook Hotel is breathtaking and terrifying, Nicholson and Scatman Crothers are genius. Get ready for a machine-gun barrage of horrific images in a film that scared a lot of people. Badly.
18. 30 Days of Night, 2007. I’m a tough judge of horror flicks. It’s hard to create anything original in the vampire genre, but this movie impressed me. The sheer cruelty and viciousness of these vampires – as well as their unique dialect – is jarring. The lead vampire is bloody brilliant.
19. Psycho, 1960. Chilling, visceral, shocking to this day, Psycho stars Anthony Perkins in the performance of his life. Directed by the master, Alfred Hitchcock. Ahead of its time, believable, this movie gets right under your skin. Shower anyone?
20. Halloween, 1978. Its everytown feel and unpolished acting make this film work. Its famous soundtrack, written by Director John Carpenter, sounds like demented ‘chopsticks’.
21. Rosemary’s Baby, 1968. Mia Farrow stars in this tale of witch’s covens and the occult, filmed on location in the Dakota, NYC, where Lennon was shot.
22. The Omen, 1976. The original, with Gregory Peck and Lee Remick, is mad scary. Brilliantly scored by Gerry Goldsmith who composed a Satanic homage to Carmina Burana which takes the movie right over the top -- and will take you to the edge of your seat.
23. The Legend of Hell House, 1973. Roddy McDowell gives a 5-star performance in this tale of a scientist, his wife and psychics who descend upon the “Mount Everest of haunted houses”, to prove or disprove survival after death. The house has a history of death, sex, destruction and evil. Scary fun.
24. Frankenstein, 1931. Boris Karlof creates the ultimate monster, which he makes both frightening and deserving of our sympathy at the same time. On the set, in order not to frighten the little girl actor, Karlof would wiggle his pinky finger as a sign that there was no need to be afraid, in spite of his frightening visage.
25. The Mummy, 1932. Egyptology and horror, like chocolate and peanut butter, are two great things that go great together! Karlof, brilliant – is that redundant?
26. London After Midnight, 1927. The holy grail of “lost” films. Lon Chaney is said to have thought it his most terrifying film. As legend has it, the last copy was destroyed in a fire. A reconstructed composite of PR stills and scripts is all that remains.
27. White Zombie, 1932. You’ll love Bela Lugosi in the eerie outdoor ritual scenes and period costumes.
28. The Creature From the Black Lagoon, 1954. Impressive underwater scenes and a kickass location in the oppressive and awe-inspiring Amazon jungle make this a treasure.
29. Paranormal Activity, 2007. Take Blair Witch and bring it indoors, set it in a house that’s just like your friends’. Start subtle, build the tension slowly, and end massively, and you have Paranormal Activity. Your house will never sound the same.
30. The Rocky Horror Picture Show, 1975. OK so technically it’s not scary – unless you’re morbidly homophobic. In which case, you’re the scary one. Boom!
INTERVIEW WITH GEORGE ROMERO IN TORONTO
Director George Romero’s Top 3 Horror Flicks
Night of the Living Dead Director George Romero describes his philosophy as “more of a story teller than an image maker.” His top 3 are stories that haunt, disturb, shock and push our boundaries. I dig his choices. And do I need to tell you, George is pretty cool, too? Note: Spoiler alert.
1. The Thing From Another Planet, 1951. “I was 12 at the time I saw it, a very vulnerable age. I was completely knocked out by it. Howard Hawks was genius, he used fast, overlapping dialogue, rapid fire. And the movie’s all about doors. Every time a door opens, The Thing appears or something shocking happens. The pace is like an attack. For me, this was the first movie that seriously asked ‘What if science isn’t the answer? What if aliens really are evil’? Stephen Hawking believes they are.”
2. The Innocents, 1961. “I was old enough when I saw this that it shouldn’t have scared me like it did. I was in college! There are scenes in it that are so memorable, once you’ve seen them, you never forget them, like the ghost in the lake, and Deborah Kerr in the classroom. It’s an incredibly made, scary film.”
3. The Exorcist, 1973. “I was raised Catholic, so this film really hit me. I heard stories of what Billy Friedkin was like on the set, from people working on the movie. Whatever the case, it is a really great film. The way it ends is interesting. The priest gets the demon to leave the girl and come into him, and hurls himself to his death. But, evil continues to exist, good continues to exist. I mean the devil still goes on his way, he’s out there…”
Rosemary's Baby - Alternative Movie Poster
Original illustration - posters, prints and many other products available at:
Here is a mock, toy ad I shot for the custom ASH VS THE EVIL DEAD figure I made. I edited the ad to look like something recorded off the TV in the 80s.
Dawn Of The Ducks!
Watch the film here:
When the ducks at the local pond are fed a strange poison, George soon finds that all his friends start dissapearing. Before long he discovers the town is filling with zombies and they're after his flesh and blood! Can George run for his life or must he stand and fight???
Zombie Halloween Horror!!!
Dawn Of The Ducks!
Watch the film here:
When the ducks at the local pond are fed a strange poison, George soon finds that all his friends start dissapearing. Before long he discovers the town is filling with zombies and they're after his flesh and blood! Can George run for his life or must he stand and fight???
Zombie Halloween Horror!!!
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