There are many films I’ve seen and covered here. Of them, I consider the subject of this piece, the 1977 Charles Bronson film The White Buffalo, one of the strangest, most bizarre films I’ve ever seen. That’s not necessarily a bad thing! You can be forgiven if you’ve neither heard of or seen it. I … Continue reading Sketchin’ 96
Ah, Escape From New York (1981). I could write pages and pages about this vexing -and much beloved- film. The visual style of the film was supposedly inspired by the then recently released original Mad Max (1979). Kurt Russell, who would play the wonderfully cranky Snake Plisskin in the film, was supposedly the one to … Continue reading Sketchin’ 95
The 1954 film Creature From The Black Lagoon is a late entry into the Universal Horror film stable and the creature itself has clearly served as a template for other water based creatures to come (looking at you, The Shape of Water). With this piece, I’ve hit most of the “major” monsters that came from … Continue reading Sketchin’ 94
Released in 1941 and featuring Lon Chaney Jr. (son of the famous actor who originated the roles of The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, to mention but two), The Wolf Man is another success for Universal Studios and their stable of “monster” features. Ten years had passed since the release … Continue reading Sketchin’ 93
Boris Karloff achieved great fame in 1931 with his portrayal of Frankenstein’s monster in the original Frankenstein. In 1932 he would appear as another monster and the subject of this piece, The Mummy. Between those two films he would appear in a whopping nine films, including appearances in Scarface (1932), The Old Dark House (1932), … Continue reading Sketchin’ 92
It still impresses the hell out of me how much author H. G. Wells contributed to/created within the field of science fiction. Time travel (The Time Machine, 1895), alien invasion (War of the Worlds, 1898), genetic modification/horror (The Island of Doctor Moreau, 1896) and, of course, the concept of invisibility (The Invisible Man, 1897). In … Continue reading Sketchin’ 91
If you’ve followed my art presentations, you’ll see that sometimes I get hooked on a particular genre and keep at it until its time to move on. In that spirit, we have here a third piece presenting the Universal Monsters of the past, this time 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein. Present is Elsa Lanchester … Continue reading Sketchin’ 90
Having completed Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein (or, more appropriately, Frankenstein’s monster), the follow up to that piece was obvious, amiright?!
If you don’t know the subject of this piece, you need to expand your movie going experiences!
Yeah, just posted one picture but, what the heck, why not go ahead and post another? In this case, I’ve moved away from movies and actors that fascinate me and into something far more personal. As I’m getting closer to finishing my Corrosive Knights series of novels, I’ve been considering re-doing some of the covers of … Continue reading Sketchin’ 87