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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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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11/10/2023

This is the killer sequel article to the shocking original!  When HorrorFam.com guru Lauren Spear asked me to think about first sequels that surpassed the original movies, my list was pretty short. That just doesn’t happen too often. ...

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09/22/2023

This is a topic that is so profound, so timely, I felt I had to chime in. Lauren’s list is great, impressive. She’s recognized some horror headgear I wouldn’t have thought of. But there’s more. Let’s not forget… ...

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Horror special FX artist Rob Tharp shares his memories (and his exclusive photos!) from his time spent working on effects for Mark Lester’s Class of 1999 — the sequel to Class of 1984 (shown on season 3 of ...

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In honor of its 31st anniversary this month, special FX artist Rob Tharp joins Lauren Spear on the HorrorFam.com Podcast to share behind-the-scenes stories from when he and Cathy Tharp worked on Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice! Follow along with ...

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