The Princess Bride (of Frankenstein)

To a new world of gods and monsters!
The Princess Bride by Dave MacDowell.

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The Case Of The Mysterious Ghostface!

Zoinks! Illustrator Travis Falligant is updating Scooby-Doo and the gang with some new mysteries. 

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Scooby Dooby Trek

Velma The Vampire Hunter

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The Horror Die Cut Collection

Thirty-eight horror movie icons, one poster. Head to Max Dalton's site for the list.

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Won't You Be My Nightmare?
Classic Movie Monsters From The 1970s
Paraskavedekatriaphobia Butchery

Halloween: Michael Myers' Body Count

There is now a follow up to Andew Barr's infographic on Jason Voorhees' killing spree. Next up, Freddy Krueger.

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Won't You Be My Nightmare?

Nightmare at Cafe Terrace

Classic Movie Monsters From The 1970s

Nightmare at Cafe Terrace

Freddy Krueger is in your French nightmares! And Hillary White is giving me quite the art history lesson with her latest interpretation, Vincent Van Gogh's Café Terrace at Night.

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Vincent Van Wolverine

Won't You Be My Nightmare?

Gotham Starry Night And Other Van Gogh Parodies

Darkness Falls Across The Land: 100 Years of Vincent Price

To celebrate 100th birthday of Vincent Price, Zach Bellissimo drew 100 of his roles on Sticky Notes. Naturally, who wouldn't?

My first encounter with Vincent Price was on the cheapo Canadian TV show The Hilarious House of Frightenstein. I had no idea at the time this campy host was such a horror icon.

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Classic Movie Monsters From The 1970s

Won't You Be My Nightmare?

Heeere's Cookie Monster!

The Evolution Of Jason Voorhees

Aww, look at that little tyke, wasn't he... um... yeah, never-mind, no wonder he turned into a serial killer. (By character artist Ben Camberos; link via Fuel Your Illustration)

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Hello Jason

Classic Movie Monsters From The 1970s

When you're this groovy, they call you Frankie. Pop artist Johnny Sampson imagines what classic movie monsters might look like, circa 1974. Right on! For the Horrorwood show at the WWA gallery that pays homage to the horror film genre.

The Creature

The Wolfman

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Granny Grimm's Book of Ghoulish Grammar

Granny Grimm's Ghoulish Book of Grammar is a weekly artistic experiment by artist Nik Holmes that explores the world of horror films — It, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream — one slant, alphabetic pictogram at a time. Entries premiere every Thursday at noon at Strange Kids Club.

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Won't You Be My Nightmare?

The ABCs of Horror

Heeere's Cookie Monster!

All Work And No Reese's Pieces Makes E.T. A Dull Boy

Here's Extra-terrestrial! Yup, E.T. is back and this time, it's personal. (Shining Finger by Joao Lauro Fonte via TeeFury)

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Won't You Be My Nightmare?

"Let's pretend that Prince Tuesday has been having scary dreams..." I don't doubt it. I will too now that I know Freddy Krueger is Mr. Rogers. I knew there was something wrong with that guy. (Ignored Prayers via the incomparable Daily What)

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Goodnight Keith Moon
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Heeere's Johnny!

Heeere's Johnny

The Shining is my all-time creepiest movie. More than Psycho it has made me afraid of shower curtains. To this day I leave them open in any bathroom I'm in. It is Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson at their best.

I won't be watching it tonight. Thanks to my pal Rachel Sklar at Mediate for pulling together all the clips and Shining mashups :) but boo for spreading it over 15 pages :(

Happy Halloween everyone!


The Lego Shining
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Friday The 13th: Jason's Closet

Just in time for Halloween comes the Jason hoodie from designer Marc Ecko, which is stylish enough to use on your next convenience store robbery, once you're done terrorizing your neighbourhood as a masked lunatic, of course.

Channel the terror of Crystal Lake in this "Jason" hoodie from the Friday the 13th series by Marc Ecko.

If that's not quite psychotic enough for you, there are also version of The Joker, Jigsaw, and somewhat incongruously, Gene Simmons.

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If You Go Down In The Woods Today...

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There is no way that I can show this photo to my son — it already makes me want to hide under the couch, but I'm pretty sure it's already there waiting for me. I'm no anti-dentite, but what was that dentist thinking? It's a kindertrauma styled horror. (Link via The Daily What)

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Toy Story vs...

Toy Story vs The Dark Knight

A good trailer recut manages to blend elements from the audio and video of its movies to create something new and unexpected. It's been awhile since I've seen one that has managed to get it right, but this recut of The Dark Night and Toy Story 2 nailed it, right down to synching up the lips and voices. Plus they cast Woody as the Joker (congrats on the posthumous Golden Globe win, Heath).

Toy Story vs Pulp Fiction

There's something about Toy Story that lends itself to recuts. Perhaps it is the digital nature of the films. While this one misses on the lip movements, it more than makes up for it with pure style.

300 Toys

When you think about it, there really is a lot of action in the Toy Story films. Toys! Tonight we dine in Hell!

Toy Story: The Horror

Miles Mungo recut Toy Story into a wonderfully creepy horror of his own making. This one would give kids nightmares.

Toy Story 2 vs Watchmen

And the Toy Story mashup continues into the future.

Toy Story 2 vs Requiem for a Dream

Of course the best Toy Story recut ever is this mashup with Requiem for a Dream. Talk about changing the original tone and intent of a film! Pure brilliance.

The ABCs of Horror

An Alphabet of Horror for your pre-Halloween festivities. Jared von Hindman of Head Injury Theater has put together a ABC of horror movie monsters and ghouls (or at least he did a couple of years ago. I just got around to it via a link from Coolios, which is kindly linking to my Last Supper smorgasbord. Yay, interweb!) Anyway, Hindman's site sucked me in for quite awhile, just like current fave Topless Robot, which together make me wonder why I bother.

And seeing as I an name dropping sites, I picked the letter C above for Matt of Culture Kills who doesn't think clowns are scary, but has more than enough film-related fears to last a lifetime.