Okay kids, get ready for a Jamboree of Necromantic Hijinx!
After donning your 3D glasses, click the picture below to begin the automated slideshow:
If you're too weak to withstand the supreme realism of 3D, or if you don't own a pair of glasses because you're a big jerk who smells, then hey, it's cool. We don't judge people here. Click this picture to start the 2D version:
Once again, these are Monster Scenes models, originally issued by Aurora in 1971, reissued in 2008 and 2010. I did additional sculpting and casting to improve on them. A single view-master reel of these photos will soon be available in my etsy store.
I haven't heard of this until a few minutes ago. It was recommended by a friend who bought a VHS tape of it at a video store's going-out-of-business sale.
I found most of it on vimeo.com, but haven't seen it yet. The first few seconds here already look like trouble, with the title "A Jim Wynorski Film". Oh boy, a movie by the man who brought us "Deathstalker II". I mean, Roger Daltrey gets top billing, and Angus Scrimm is in it, so there's that, but still... how much of it can you stand?
Don't answer yet, because Part 3 is missing (presumably pulled by vimeo for having nudity or violence), but you get the idea. The other 3/4 is easily enough.
I don't know if I can do it. You're on your own, man.
From a seven-hour documentary on a Norwegian Rail line, this incredible anaglyphic video is best seen when expanded to full-screen with the monitor a few feet away.
All the best parts from Planeta Bur (a Soviet science fiction movie in the public domain), synced up with a track from LDS10, the latest (and final) album under the LDS moniker.
We've changed our stupid name, so expect the LDS pages to disappear from this blog and my site eventually. I'm also in the process of uploading all of our music to my own website's server, as the divshare playlists have become too unreliable.
Two years ago, some of the rare and notorious 1971 Monster Scenes models were re-released. I wrote about it here.
I got one fact wrong in that post… not all nine models were released, only six of them, which I bought right away, built and painted, then shot these 3D pictures. I also entered a contest with the above image (click to enlarge). I didn't win, but I did get a T-shirt for participating.
In the last week, the remaining three models have been reissued: Pain Parlor,Gruesome Goodies and Vampirella (the last of which is already in my possession, as pictured above, but that's an original which I've had since I was a kid). This means I'll definitely have to stay officially unemployed till Christmas or so. And I'll need to set aside this new diorama I've been working on (which, so far, contains pneumatically animated figures, motorized figures, a black light, LED lights, phosphorescent paints, a stereoscope and five gallons of water), as well as halt my experiments in physical computing and synth building. Monster Scenes take priority. Soon the final two components will be assembled and painted. When added to Dr. Deadly's Dungeon, I shall finally shoot that 3D View-Master reel I've been dreaming of. I squeal with anticipation just thinking about it.
Unrelated, less personally embarrassing note: I just sold my penultimate crab lamp. Only one left. I believe I've sold about ten of these now, and although this final crab is my best one yet, the time-consuming and chemically scary process of casting and painting them is too much. Huge public demand excepted, I won't be making any more. This crab will go up on etsy soon, or you can contact me before then to reserve. Still $100 plus shipping.
We have a couple of rough ones tonight, so put the kids to bed early.
9:00 p.m: Galaxy of Terror
With a poster looking like it was based upon a pencil sketch from the inside cover of a junior high student's trapper keeper, Galaxy of Terror delivers everything it promises. It's a refreshingly tasteless piece of exploitation cinema.
But all you ever hear about is the worm scene. Half of the items on the imdb.com trivia page reference it. For example, did you know that James Cameron, the second-unit director, shot that particular scene? Also, the worm was named "Maggie the Maggot" by the film crew. It weighed 1,000 pounds, and nearly crushed the actress beneath it. Also, "several frames had to be cut from the worm rape scene in order to secure an R rating. Moreover, the sound effects of bones breaking and snapping also had to be softened in order to appease the MPAA". Lovely.
But it's like the tree rape scene in "The Evil Dead", in that it takes too much attention away from the rest of the movie, and temporarily robs it of its fun. So although I'm not a fan of mutant-rape, the rest of the movie is entertaining trash, with lots of gratuitous, outrageous scenes. You get to see Joanie of 'Happy Days' head explode, for example. You also have Sid Haig, Robert Englund and My Favorite Martian. And the set design looks great.
You shouldn't be seeing this here, really. Go buy or rent the new Shout Factory DVD release instead, with hi-quality picture and lots of extra features. Also check out the not-as-good-but-still-excellent Forbidden World, also produced by Corman and designed by James Cameron, and shot on the same sets.
Intermission
Why not visit our snack bar?
11:00 p.m: Inseminoid
Let the obnoxious title be a warning… this is second only to 'Faces of Death' as the sickest thing to appear in Futurechimp's Movie of the Week. In terms of both quality and taste, it's several grades below 'Galaxy of Terror'. But the intensity is still disturbing and memorable in a very unique way.
Director Norman J. Warren reminds me of a British version of Andy Milligan; a filmmaker with almost no talent, but he's still going to do the task with all the energy he possesses, as if he's trying to cough up a tumor. He ends up with incompetent but visceral films, with constantly agitated and violent characters and a nasty underlying contempt for humanity and repulsion towards sex. Check out his 1978 film 'Prey', if you can find it. Hardly any of his films are available on region 1 DVD. Anyway, brace yourself:
Sometime in 1982, I had a terrible cold or flu or something and stayed home from school. That evening, my dad convinced me to come along and see 'Time Walker' at a nearby theater in Cicero. My physical state, along with the extremely sick condition of the film, made for an unforgettable experience.
These last two minutes are just about the only thing that happens in the whole feature. Just before the credits rolled, the audience let out a combination of sighs, curses and guffaws, then quickly got out of there to try and forget the whole thing.
The Metal Robots have cranked out their loudest, most cacophonous song yet.
instruments: v-drums, bass, guitar, moog synth, chimera, banshee, theremin and vocoder. No software instruments were used.
This video is the first I've done using Apple's revamped iMovie program, and the first with found footage. I downloaded three films from the Prelinger Archives and started cutting them together. The software is very intuitive, considering it's my first time using it. Easy and fun.
This song completes the Robots' second album, the mp3's of which will be available for streaming in a week on my website. Contact me if you want a full-fidelity 24-bit audio CD.
The wife and I built this from remnants of a cinderblock and concrete wall that I sledgehammered down in my backyard. Additional materials were a flexible liner, a water pump and a bag of cement (total cost of about $75).
a thin layer of gravel is in the floor, and rocks are piled up on the walls to hide the rubber liner. For the falls, I sealed the concrete pathway of flowing water with a clear epoxy gel. Live plants can be grown in the soil planters on the sides.
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