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Here’s a cheap way to get some original art: for $25, cartoonist Len Peralta will draw you a monster based on your suggestion, then mail it to your home address. Add ten bucks more and he’ll film it and send you a link where you can watch the magic happen on YouTube. You’ll probably want to spend that extra ten bucks–just look at these examples below:
Redneck bar wipeout from “Near Dark”
My favorite scene from one of the best vampire movies of my childhood. Rediscovered via Cinematical.
New haunted house concept puts audience in center, hands them guns
I love haunted houses, even goofy/elaborate dark rides that are more about animatronics and motion than genuine scares. So I was excited to read, via The Haunted Report, that a Belgian company has announced a new haunted ride concept–one that’s part dark ride, part shooting game for up to 30 audience members. The Alterface Haunted House concept centers the audience on a rotating platform in the middle of the performance space, instead of moving through a space on foot or via a track system. The platform is designed so that the audience can only look forward, which lets the ride designers direct the attention of the audience as necessary by moving the platform–sort of like a giant Doombuggy crossed with a House of the Dead game. Each wall is a combination of physical sets, animatronics, and digital projections. And, of course, the seats move and shake for added immersiveness.
Check out Alterface’s website for the press release and more photos, as well as a video of the model in action with mocked up projections. No word on when or if it will be built in the U.S., but apparently it was favorably received at an Orlando trade show recently.
SNL video: bathroom terror with Ellen Page and Dracula
If you don’t watch SNL, I don’t blame you, but you may have missed this short last year that spoofs the gotcha! moment in horror movies when someone appears out of nowhere in the bathroom mirror.
Note: if the embedded video doesn’t show up below, blame NBC, not my blog, and click here to view the clip on their site.
Bloody squirting heart
I don’t know what’s funnier, the idea that this was on display at a black tie affair at the ritzy Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City, or the cheery music being played in the background as the costume-shop heart “beats” and squirts blood all over the inside of its plexiglass box.
My favorite part: the end, where the mom and her kid are grinning and staring at it. That’s a cool mom.
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