Sketches...Bubbles and the Creature...

FINISHED! I think the bubbles added in some nice background detail. It looks complete now. This one really begs for some color I think. Perhaps I will try that soon. But for now, done. Ah the classics.

30 in 30...DAY THIRTEEN...HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS in TV Land...

The Walking Dead Season 4 and American Horror Story: Coven started this past week! So last night was scary TV show marathon time!



Lots of new threats and new ways to see exposed zombie innards! This season should be a fun one!

Splitting headache...



Look behind you dummy.



Also got the first ep of the new season of AHS in...this time it centers around witches. Some season one and two cast members return led by Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Angela Bassett. Exciting!

30 in 30....DAY TWELVE. CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES, Part I (2013)

I added this documentary to my collection this year - the complete history of Friday the 13th. I am about halfway through (up to Part V-A New Beginning) and this a treat for Jason fans. Just about anything and everything and every ONE involved from the very beginning is in here. Wonderful behind-the-scenes stuff, cut scenes, outtakes, and stories! Despite the nature, repetition and overall quality of some of the films in the series, the actors involved always seem to have a good time with being a part of a truly loved franchise.



Door Test...



Diagram of one of the The Final Chapter's underwater kills...



Betsy Palmer is still amazed to this day at the fame she has achieved as a result of these movies. I hope I get to meet her one day!



Part II of the documentary will be up in a few days!

30 in 30....DAY ELEVEN...NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)

And the hits just keep on coming! I didn't catch this until a few years ago, so I missed its nostalgia inducing aspect that I would have latched onto had I seen it back in the day. Basically a comet approaches and passes earth and turns everyone to red dust who went outside to see it. Two girls who happened to be inside during the passing wake up to a world all their own...except for a few random placed Zombies who for whatever reason didn't turn to dust. Haha! One wears a cheerleader outfit the whole time and the other is a video game high score freak who works at the local cinema. Catherine Mary Stewart (who would later be in Weekend At Bernie's) and Star Trek Voyager's Robert "Chakotay" Beltran star in the camp fest. Very fun with lots of good 80s scenery...and don't forget the zombies.

The girls trying out their Uzi machine guns...in full 80s garb.





Robert Beltran as Hector...

Sketches...The Gill Man

Gill Man finished almost - may add some small details tonight but overall pretty close to done. Very pleased with this one.

30 in 30...DAY TEN...SATURN 3 (1980)

A movie I have not seen since it was the ABC Movie of the Week or something WAYYY back in the early 1980s. There are literally only three cast members in the entire film - Kirk Douglass, Farah Fawcett, and Harvey Keitel. The entire film takes place on a remote base on one of Saturn's moons. A giant robot goes haywire - imagine that - and a couple is threatened by the Captain who arrives with it in tow. Bad special effects and even worse wardrobe decisions run amok, but its an incredibly inspiring film. By that, I mean even though its clearly riding the coattails of Alien and Star Wars at this point in cinema history, so many films that came after it borrow or either outright STEAL some of its more creative elements, most notably Aliens, The Terminator, and Event Horizon just to name a few.

Yes even in space, they still wear sweat pant suits...



One of the "inspired" spaceship designs from the film...



Hector - first of the Demi-God series...collects a prize.



Really cool sets.



Kirk Vs. Robot...Kirk Douglass I mean.



If you are into cult films, this is really fun. A recent updated Blu Ray release is coming from Scream Factory so that should be fun. Also of note is a making of site I found while researching this...lots of neat info here:

http://saturn3makingof.com/

30 in 30...DAY NINE...28 WEEKS LATER (2007)

The sequel to the 2002 virus outbreak film. 28 Days Later is one of my favorite horror films of the last 10-15 years so it was going to be hard to top that. This film is much bigger and bloodier but not better. The original had such great atmosphere, music, and a core of well rounded actors that were nearly perfect in their roles. A huge cast is employed here - Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle, Idris Elba, Harold Perrineau (LOST), Catherine McCormack (Braveheart) but my favorite cast member name has to be IMOGEN POOTS. How does she not get more work with a name like that?







There is a meandering subplot throughout the whole movie of a cure that resides inside the cells of one of the kids and how their infected father - played by Carlyle - keeps popping up to hunt them down. They literally travel across the entire city of London and parts of England via car and helicopter in an attempt to escape. Man those Rage Zombies can travel fast! LOL. Still I don't hate this movie, its a worthy sequel - only not as personal and as fully realized as the original. I will give it points for quite possibly the best Zombie Kill ever put on screen...it involves a field full of oncoming zombies and a helicopter...



I hope that the third rumored film in the franchise gets made - 28 Months Later? We shall see.