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BEWARE THE MOON, BEACON OF THE WEREWOLF

Werewolf special-makeup-effects are a 100+ year artform that kicked off with 1913′s The Werewolf. Which is why it really gets under my skin when i see werewolves that are rendered entirely in CGI (e.g. Underworld, Twilight, Howl, etc.) To me, it’s a sign of an incredibly lazy creature-effects department. I honestly hope the love and craft for practical creature design inevitably returns for this genre. 

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“Ancient Spirits of Evil, transform this decayed form to Mumm-Ra, the Ever-Living!”

-Mumm-Ra, “ ThunderCats” (1985 & 2011)   

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Marty Feldman had been switching his hump from side to side for a few days before Mel Brooks noticed and wrote it into the script of Young Frankenstein (1974).

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Edward Gorey

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“…I can see into Bono’s heart and my own beats faster because of this and I realized that I’m receiving a message of some kind from the singer.  It hits me that we have something in common, that we share a bond, and it’s not impossible to believe that an invisible cord attached to Bono has now encircled me and now the audience disappears and the music slows down, gets softer, and it’s just Bono onstage–the stadium’s deserted, the band fades away–and the message, his message, once vague, now gets more powerful and he’s nodding at me and I’m nodding back, everything getting clearer, my body alive and burning, on fire, and from nowhere a flash of white and blinding light envelopes me and I hear it, can actually feel, can even make out the letters of the message hovering above Bono’s head in orange wavy letters: ‘I … am … the … devil … and I am … just … like … you …’”

-Patrick Bateman, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

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Gyps Fulvus:  "Melancholia"

Gyps Fulvus emerges with a new release, “Melancholia.”

Loosely inspired by the doomsday film by Lars von Trier, “Melancholia” is a three part work of cinematic, avant-garde instrumental material. It displays a segue from harmonious consonance to unsettling dissonance, representing the beauty and brutality of the universe.

Available in digital download through Bandcamp at the Name Your Price feature. Compact discs are for sale on demand in the merchandise section.

Official Website / SoundCloud / Bandcamp / Facebook / Instagram / Twitter

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The Dreaded De-meow-gorgon 🐱 via: imgur/CatCosplay

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Disney animator Millicent Patrick never received the deserved credit for her role in designing the iconic Gill-man costume for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

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“Yes, there’s a God.  You know, you’d think meeting the Devil would be interesting enough, but no: all people want to know about is him–like he’s so bloody fascinating.”

-The Devil, “Bedazzled” (2000)

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Twisted Jenius is 11 years old today!

It's October 1st, the 11th anniversary of the founding of Twisted Jenius. The winds of change continue to blow, our diabolical growth and sinister evilution progresses. Cool things are coming this year…

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Jared Leto took his role in American Psycho so seriously that he actually had himself murdered.

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by Adam Koford

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“Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?”

-Black Phillip, “The Witch”