In June of 2024, it will have been fifty years since I began a summer job making monster masks at Don Post Studios. That turned into a very long “summer!” A whole lot of monsters and a whole ...

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For Mother’s Day, we looked at Dee Wallace — the Ultimate horror movie mom. For Father’s Day, rather than doing a deep-dive into one real person, we decided it’d be fun to look at over a dozen fictional ...

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As a general rule, I’m not squeamish about gore and many kill scenes are forgotten as quickly as they occur! However, horror movie food scenes get kneaded deep into my brain and bake there for decades. Maybe it’s ...

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05/31/2024

Back when I was painting monsters in various effects shops, one of the conversation topics was “What genre movies came out the year you were born?” Since I was often lucky enough to be sitting next to my ...

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05/17/2024

There are times in life when you’ll get stuck: Either literally or otherwise. You might remember a time, not so long ago, when we were all trapped indoors  — feeling like ghosts haunting our own homes! In that ...

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When Jaws came out, it unleashed a whole can of nightcrawlers. At first, these worms attracted your typical fare — a renegade shark ruining a regatta, disrupting a scientific breakthrough, or crashing a fishing trip. The worms must ...

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