Zombie Monkey Projects: Odd Things For Odd People
Just uploaded all of pics from HorrorFind Weekend, which technically is still going, so there may be some later. There’s also some shots of the tour of a local haunted house, GoatMan Hollow, which as you can tell from the photo to the left was quite the time. And yes, the fellow on the right is a skinned Ken doll. Really, just look at the lack of junk… even in the trunk.
Quote of the weekend, thus far… “Pimp-slapped by Death“.
I’m heading to the spring HorrorFind Weekend, one of the most ass-kicking horror conventions around. Reports and photos of the mayhem will creep in as I have them. If you happen to be there look me up in the Art Show room where I’ll be lending fellow artist Chad Savage a hand running it.
There’s some pretty swank seminars including a “Corpsification for Beginners” course, a Weird Tales Magazine Retrospective and slew of movie screening. The full events schedule is here.
And for the hell of it here’s an outtakes reel of Doug Bradley (AKA Pinhead from Hellraiser) recording a TV/Cable ad for HorrorFind V.
Ain’t It Cool’s Moriarty got his hands on the script for the upcoming adaptation of Max Brook’s highly acclaimed zombie book World War Z. And by the sounds of it this film may very well be groundbreaking, like Oscar award wining groundbreaking.
Moriarty says that:
“This isn’t just a good adaptation of a difficult book… it’s a genre-defining piece of work that could well see us all arguing about whether or not a zombie movie qualifies as “Best Picture” material.”
Best Picture material? A zombie film? Really? Please don’t be teasing us dude. ‘Cause us zombie fans won’t take that too lightly. We are after all a fragile sort really.
He says about the script:
“The book is an oral history of the great zombie wars, compiled by a nameless editor as part of a government report. The book is all of his unfiltered data, since much of it was censored from the official report. That’s all the narrative that the book offered, but it was enough for JMS to use, and the result is much sadder than I would have expected. In the first five pages, we see GERRY LANE collecting stories, and the first two interviews are with a flight attendant and a border guard. Both manage to play as horror shock beats, but the way they’re told also sets the tone right away… JMS is after the human truth underneath the horror, and in a way, that makes it much, much harder to take.”
He then goes on to say:
“The world of the film reminds me of CHILDREN OF MEN on the page. Realistic but set in the near-future, in the aftermath of the zombie wars. We see a flashback to Gerry being given his assignment to write a report about “where the system worked, where it didn’t, how and in what ways the various organizational infrastructures failed.” It’s a politically shitty job because no one wants to know that they were responsible for anything that went wrong. Gerry’s hesitant because it’s going to take at least six months away from his family, just as the world is starting to right itself. He takes the job, and as he travels to his first interview, we see how hard travel has become.”
Sounds pretty swank really. Though I won’t be holding my breath for the Academy to all of the sudden take a shining to an actual horror film, let alone a zombie one. I think I would have a better chance of seeing pigs fly of their own accord before that happens.
I’ll just be in the ZMP Genetic Labs working on the development of asto-swines in the meantime.
I know there’s a lot of GTA fans out there salivating for the next installment of the ultraviolet franchise, Grand Theft Auto IV. Below are two possible leaked tidbits to get you, the rabid GTA fans a little more droolish.
This may very well be the detailed transit map of Liberty City. It’s been making the rounds and apparently Rockstar Games has been requesting it to be removed by those who post it. I haven’t seen that happen as of yet but hey, who knows. It just adds to the idea that this is legit.
And below is possibly the intro to GTA IV game itself. It’s kind of hard to say if this is legit or not. I can’t find anything to say either way so I say let’s all be fanboys here and roll with it.
Source - Topless Robot and Kotaku
I don’t even know where to begin with this one folks other than the video below is most certainly not safe for work. This is a trailer for the upcoming Troma film Poultrygeist, Night Of The Chicken Dead, cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy with musical numbers, which is about the following:
“When the American Chicken Bunker, a military-themed fried-chicken chain, builds a restaurant on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground, local protestors arent the only ones crying fowl! The previous tenants, fueled by a supernatural force, take possession of the food and those who eat it, and the survivors discover that they must band together before they themselves become the other white meat!”
The film is set to show at the following:
New York City: Opening May 9, 2008!
(Village East Cinema, 12th St & 2nd Ave, NY)
Los Angeles: Opening June 13, 2008!
(Laemmle Sunset 5, West Hollywood, LA)
Source - Horror-Movies.ca
The above freaks (their from California, what else could they be) The Creature Feature are one of my favorite bands of the moment. Their sound is somewhere between a hellish carnival and a sadistic cartoon. Which obviously means I have to share with you all. The above video is for the song Buried Alive from their album The Greatest Show Unearthed. It’s not necessarily an original video, focusing mostly on the band in a dark setting full of gothyness, shadows and some sort of Nosferatu skulking about. But there is a latex-clad bombshell slinking about so it’s all good.
Founding member Barney Jones, also know as Jonba Hehol, of the Holyhead Jedi Church said that he and his cousin were attacked by Darth Vader while tending their garden of Jedi lameness for some documentary.
As Barny, err I mean Jonba describes it: “Myself and my cousin were doing some filming for a documentary on the Jedi Church, when we were attacked.
“Someone jumped over our front garden wall wearing a black bin bag cape and said he was Darth Vader, before hitting us with a crutch.”
This just in dude - Darth Vader hates the Jedi! Like to the point of beating them with a crutch ’cause he’s so bad-ass he don’t need no lightsaber to lay a beatdown on your sissy Jedi asses. Yeesh, get with the program my man.
Source - North Wales Chronicle
I have to admit that I’m a promowhore, and as such I give you all the following whoring of me:
To the left is the cover design I did for the upcoming book Orgy of Souls by Maurice Broaddus and Wrath James White, two extremely talented authors who love to give you a good scare. Just click the image to see a larger version of the cover. You can order Orgy of Souls at Apex Publishing and it’s available as a hardcover and trade paperback. The hardcover will be a limited edition (numbered 1 to 350), each signed by the authors and myself.
The story itself is one of brothers, the priesthood, male models, and twenty souls drenched in blood, powdered with cocaine and more than one kind of ecstasy. How the hell can you go wrong with that I ask? How?
Apparently this is a Japanese TV ad for an anti-itch cream. Which come to think of it makes some odd sence to us. And just in case you are wondering, this is work safe. Not brain safe though.
Source - I Heart Chaos
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