The ‘Horror Elite’ take a bite into literature!
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Reading
Greetings and Salutations.
The honourable B_Sol over at The Vault of Horror has taken it upon himself to collate the opine of blogging horror minds; this time on the topic of literature. An email was sent to yours truly to participate and I undertook the task with fervor. Blood, tears and blood went into my list and I’m happy to say a few made the top thirty cut. Go to The Vault and check the final list. Below is my top ten, what would you have submitted dear readers?
Ms Harker
1. Dracula, Bram Stoker
2. Let The Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist
3. Salem’s Lot, Stephen King
4. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
5. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
5. Heart Shaped Box, Joe Hill
6. Handling The Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist
7. Carmilla, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
8. Merrick, Anne Rice
9. The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, Jennifer lynch
10. The Gashly Crumb Tinies, Edward Gorey
Tags: Horror, Horror Novels
Oh the mini HORROR! The work of Adalberto Abbate.
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Art
Greetings and Salutations.
Whilst fossicking around Reddit.com I found these amusingly delightful mini horror sculptures made by one Adalberto Abbate. His site is suffice it to say minimalist, however these minuscule microcosms of the macabre tickled my fancy so I had to share them with you all. My search for information on the artist didn’t come up with much so I can only fantasize that he is an Eric Northman like Northern Italian who could sit behind me at a pottery spinning wheel a la` Partick Swayze style… What too soon?
Ms Harker
Tags: Horror, Horror Art
Camera Obscura, can you survive the supernatural lense?
Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Horror Films
The disarmingly charming Drew Daywalt from the Horror Troupe Fewdio is brewing his new webseries Camera Obscura for release this October. Drew was born to spew forth demonic delights through his camera bringing us fear and screams from our heads down to our dainty blood red painted toenails (that last part may just be me!). His bio reads like the story of a horror prodigy:
“Born in one of the most haunted houses in Ohio, writer/director Drew Daywalt knew he was destined for a life in horror cinema ever since he was a child, reading his older brother’s WEIRD TALES, CREEPY MAGAZINES and staying up late on Friday nights to watch old horror films. Drew has been bringing his highly stylized vision to features, television, animation, and commercials for 15 years. He’s written numerous screenplays with Tony Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, Brett Ratner, Neil Moritz and many other Hollywood luminaries. His first feature film STARK RAVING MAD (co-written and co-directed with David Schneider) was produced by Quentin Tarantino’s company A Band Apart. He’s spent the last year writing and directing 30 terror-filled short films for the critically acclaimed Horror Troupe FEWDIO. “
His latest work is a seventeen part webseries Camera Obscura, the story takes the audience on a freakish journey into the supernatural and the horror is presented uniquely using photography as the instrument of the grotesque and the macabre; however also as the heroine’s potential salvation:
“Camera Obscura is a web series in seventeen episodes. It’s about a young woman, CLARA CARSON (Played by Reagan Dale Neis) who is cleaning out her grandfather’s (Jack Klugman) office after he passes away. She finds a book, and in the book are these weird photographs. She had a very unhealthy relationship with her grandfather, he raised her, but he was a crime scene photographer for the LAPD and he drank a lot so he was never around, so there’s a lot of resentment in her cleaning up after he’s deceased.
When she finds this book, it’s nothing like him; it’s nothing like what he did in his life. It’s strange art photography. It’s dark, weird, photographs and they’re actually upsetting to her. She throws the book in the fireplace and she burns it because it’s just too upsetting and weird.
Then she finds his camera and she can’t get it to work. She learns this camera was a magic camera that was able to capture demons, and in photographing them with this camera, imprisoning them in this book, which she then realized she burned. Los Angeles is now hit with a rash of strange, ritualistic crime homicides, and she realizes quickly that she burned the book and she released them. She comes to know that each of these demons - six of them - had a crime profile like a serial killer would.Question is, can she capture them before they get her?”
What I enjoy about Drew’s approach to horror is his use of the supernatural and of everyday objects and happenings which in recent times have come to be seen as mundane in the production of horror, their place taken by special effects and CGI. However I will let the gentleman speak for himself:
“Despite the excellent creatures and the haunted locations and good scares, I really wanted to root this whole series in strong character and good storytelling. Too much horror and fantasy eschews the basics in lieu of special effects and that’s a shame. People watch a film or a show to see characters grow. Period. And if that’s missing, then everything else falls apart along the way. I’m confident that we have a great story to tell here, and I hope everyone enjoys the ride.”
I am eagerly awaiting the release of this webseries, it promises good scares and quality creepy creatures, with an original story line and use of environment and context. Tease yourself with the trailer below and an on set shot of the horror prodigy himself Drew Daywalt with one of his ghoulish creations.
Ms Harker
Camera Obscura Trailer from MWG Entertainment on Vimeo.
Tags: Horror, Horror Films
