Artin' It Up - 2013 All Horror Week Edition - Day #4

It's actually Halloween DAY!!! One of my favorite days of the year. And a perfect time to share Tommy Lombardozzi's fourth installment of Artin' It Up for All Horror Week. This time he check in with a cult classic, Halloween III; Season of the Witch. Tommy decided to honor the memory of the great, yet often maligned, horror film by creating an image featuring all three of the Silver Shamrock masks from the film. It's tagline was "The Night No One Comes Home!", and the film is epic to me despite the fact that Michael Myers does not appear in it. I loved the creepy ass plot, and the murderous masks and the plan to kill all the kids across the land. This piece was created color pencil, ink, marker and spray paint... and was created on a BROWN PAPER BAG! Very creative, and also a cool background color for such a creepy drawing. Enjoy the full size pic after the jump, and make sure you check back tomorrow for Day #5 of Artin' It Up - 2013 All Horror Week Edition!



 

Happy Halloween From Oscilloscope Laboratories

Oscilloscope Laboratories is a great independent film distribution company that was started by the recently deceased Adam Yauch (MCA of the Beastie Boys) back in the day and has a track record of distributing really cool foreign and independent films. They also are known for releasing a Halloween short every year, and this years entry is really spooky! It involves a singing cavalcade of children, all face painted and creeping the fuck out of the adults  in the piece. Fantastic!!! Check it out after the jump, it is superb as usual.

Horror Hottie Alert: Lauren Cohen (Maggie of The Walking Dead) Sexy Black & White Pics

God, you gotta love Reddit! My main man Joe Fletch has been sending me thousands (ok, maybe not thousands... like high hundreds) of links to various Reddit threads sharing all types of cool stuff, but the ones that catch my attention are usually the ones featuring some hot chicks. Recently he uncovered three threads linking back to the Walking Dead Imgur page featuring actress Lauren Cohen, who portrays Maggie on the show, posing scantily clad and sexy in Black & White photographs. Now that is reason alone to share in a post... but the actual sexiness that she is exuding in these pics made it a must share. Enjoy your Halloween boner courtesy of Maggie and the good folks over here at CCD... doing God's work since 2010!!! Pics after the jump...

Odle Timey Halloween Was Much Creepier Than Current Time Halloween... MUCH CREEPIER INDEED!!!

Back in the day Halloween costume construction involved much more creativity than just dropping bye your local Party City and picking out which costume you will wear out of a package. Nope, the old times required people to use things like old & ripped clothes, and most masks were created out of paper mache (which would lead to some impressive masks by the way!) or odd shaped objects like buckets, etc. Before store bought costumes people were forced to be creative, and the results were often creeptastic to say the least. I was over at the Weird Tales website (one of the great magazines of all time... still kicking, albeit in a digital format, after all these years) and found an insane gallery of oldie time Halloween photos that are just spooky as hell... so take a trip down memory lane to see what creativity, hard work, and a little bit of imagination can turn out a hella good Halloween costume. Check all of them out by clicking here, or check after the jump for my personal faves...

Hi-C Horror from The Holidaze Blog

The gang over at the Holidaze Blog have been having a great time mocking up Hi-C juice boxes with a horror character theme for the Halloween season. They have had series 1 and series 2 in the past, and now we have series 3 to satisfy our horrific thirst! These are really cool, and I do enjoy the cleverness of the names of the particular juices and how they relate to the specific characters assigned to them. A great way to enjoy this wonderful Halloween with a nod back to the days of the brown bag lunch. Check them all out after the jump, the Wolfman Water is my fave by a long shot!

Lego Haunted Houses By Mike Doyle

Just in time for Halloween, artist Mike Doyle has created these beautifully detailed Victorian mansions out of nothing but Legos. He uses no outside materials when creating these houses, and one house can take up to 600 hours to make and uses 130,000 pieces to build.

Doyle says about his work that they "speak to the inherent unpredictability of those things which we call our foundation." He also mentions that "the piece offers no answers or necessarily any hope, but rather points to life’s fragility."

Artin' It Up - 2013 All Horror Week Edition - Day # 3

Today's entry in Tommy Lombadozzi's 2013 All Horror Week collection takes us camping... specifically to Camp Crystal Lake. Jason Voorhees hasn't always rocked the hockey mask that everyone is so accustomed to envisioning him. In the original Friday the 13th the killer was Mrs. Voorhees, and Jason only appeared briefly at the end when he dragged the final girl into the water... and he had no mask on to cover his mongoloid face. In Part II Jason is the killer... but he rocks a burlap sack rather than the hockey mask that he would obtain in Part III. Tommy decided to capture that look with his latest piece, and he used marker, pen, ink, paint marker and colored pencil to make this one come to life. I love this piece, particularly the fact that he went with the Burlap sacked Jason. Check it out after the jump... and you can see TWO MORE pieces on Thursday & Friday of All Horror Week.

Modern Deco Universal Monsters Poster Series by Tom Whalen For Dark Hall Mansion

Dark Hall Mansion is an interesting organization geared towards the preservation and celebration of poster art. The gallery collaborates with artists from all walks of the industry to work on projects that celebrate the poster art genre and turn out some of the best works this side of Mondo. Their most recent collaboration is a with one of our faves, Tom Whalen, and the subject of the collaboration is the classic Universal Monsters. His 6 posters are unbelievable, and they need to be shared immediately. Perfect fodder for CCD All Horror Week. Check them all out after the jump....

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70s & 80s Halloween Costumes Revisited!

Costumes that are offered today are highly detailed orientated and very true to the original source characters. But this wasn't always the case. Most of the costumes of the 70s and 80s consisted of plastic face mask with a rubber band attached with staples that kept it on your head and a plastic slipcover that featured some distinguishing characteristics of whatever the costume was. And they were glorious... glorious in their simplicity. I acme across a gallery of these old costumes somewhere on the 'Net (I lost it now) but I just had to share these awesome throwbacks. When you look at the costumes of today, remember just how basic shit used to be. Although I would rock the fuck outta that Godzilla jump off... Check out the gallery of vintage costumes after the jump...

Alien?

Chuck Norris and the Karate Kommandos!

Yoda & Chewy

Boxed Up For Jeff Bond

Green Lantern

Egon...

Godzilla time!

Jaws costume...

Jaws Costume on body...

Release the Kraken!!!!!!

Swamp Thing