Musings Across A Continuum

Macabre Monday: Dark Dolly

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Creepy Pictures, Horror Films

Greetings and Salutations.

Hopefully your Monday has been as macabre as mine. Searching for something to further delightfully darken my day I came across this dolly. It is from the new addition to the After Dark Horror Fest: 8 Films to Die For: The Hidden.

This deviant dalliance is a Norwegian production and stars an apparently famous actor Kristoffer Joner from said Nordic lands. The synopsis for the film is as follows:

“Hidden is the story of Kai Koss who upon the death of his cruel mother unwillingly returns to the small town he ran away from 19 years ago. He is left in charge of the family home and the dark secrets that come with it. Kai soon finds himself tangled up in a series of murderous events that are beyond anyone’s control and his troubles begin to overwhelm him. He has spent the past two decades trying to forget a tortured past only to find that there are some things that you just can’t run from.”

I like a psychological horror as much as the next girl, but what I like better are dark dollies and the one in the promo shots for this film is terrifyingly terrific! Enjoy!

Ms Harker

the-doll-from-the-hidden

Tags: Creepy Creatures, Horror, Horror Films

Read more | Comments (2) | October 12th, 2009

Life Imitates Horror: Creepy Crawlies!

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Life imitates Horror

Lets start the week off in a gruesome fashion shall we? With another addition to Musings Across a Continuum’s ‘Life Imitates Horror’ collection.

I was reflecting today on the phenomenon of what is known in psychiatry as ‘formication’. This is the delusion often experienced by ravenous methamphetamine users, who may, post administration of the dirty crystals feel the sensation of bugs or insects crawling under their skin. The lovely Ashley Judd who starred in a pretty average horror film entitled ‘Bug‘, experienced such a sensation with mediocre horrendous consequences. This is leading somewhere, stay with me people…

Are there bugs in there?

So I was looking for something related to aforementioned psychiatric phenomena and came across a video on that haven for charming and classic video vagrancy YouTube: ‘Nose Maggots.’ Posted by YouubeeeTube, quoting the sage like tip “Never snort rotting meat” the video demonstrates the reality of what would happen if in fact your delusions of formication where NOT delusions, that you had a sinus cavity full of maggots. WARNING not for those with a weak stomach.

Ms Harker

Tags: Creepy Creatures, Horror, Life imitates Horror

Read more | Comments (2) | August 10th, 2009

Art that takes us dark and kooky places.

Posted by Ms Harker | Filed under Creepy Pictures, Horror Art

I feel it’s time to share some of the other sides of my horror interests. We have traveled through the dark and twisted forests of TV, film, games and various forms of literature, ducking swooping owls (who are not what they seem), flailing limbs, evil children and women, crab walking upside down.

To enrich our continuing adventure across the musing continuum I thought I would share with you an artist I have recently discovered, via a book given to me be a charming young gentleman, an artist who has quickly become a favourite.

Camille Rose Garcia, is an artist based in Los Angeles, she was born there and grew up in LA in the 1970’s. Her bio states that: “…she grew up in the generic suburbs of Orange County, visiting Disneyland and going to punk shows with the other disenchanted youth of that era.”

Garcia’s work is communicated via cartoon character based creatures, invokes disturbing yet cute images of people and creatures in dark places, enacting the themes of humanities current horrors and challenges. Her work’s maintain an ambience though which she creates by using a palette of certain colours in order to portray her theme. Her sets of work include ‘The Saddest Place on Earth’ and ‘Ultraviolence Land’. The book I recently purchased was ‘The Saddest Place on Earth’, which is a commentary on many things including the war in Iraq, the use of pharmaceuticals and the culturally enforced belief that we must always be happy. The palette used is one of oranges, reds, browns and blacks, merging to greens and purple, conveying a definite feeling of anger, frustration, oppression and disease.

Her work is twisted, cute, yet haunting and I feel it reinforces the thoughts of many, obviously myself included, that animated/cartoon based art can portray and emote some of the evils of our species; causing us to reflect on where we are today and the crossroads of where we should go tomorrow.

Ms Harker