the Trunchbull by illustrator Quentin Blake
My weekly pick of something creepy/scary to share with you all… Anyone who has read Roald Dahl’s Matilda will know exactly whom I am speaking about. If you haven’t, Agatha Trunchbull is the headmistress at the school Matilda attends. Continue reading
It’s time once again for your weekly creepy thing. Now I know all the newfangled moviemaking technology and CGI wizardry can deliver some pretty frightening stuff, but I dearly love the old movies and the vampire played by Max Schreck in the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu is so absolutely creepy he still stands up after all these years.
Speaking of which, here’s a film clip of him doing just that – standing up. (I love this bit.)… Continue reading
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Oh the internet! Where else can you easily find adorably freaky royal cyclops kittens?
Here’s something creepy for this week. At our house we’ve finished reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and watched the movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, so Orcs have been on my mind recently. They were bad enough in the LOTR movies…
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This week’s item of creepiness is the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Disney’s 1940 film Fantasia. Now the music by Mussorgsky is pretty dramatically frightening all by itself, so adding a host of demons to the top of said mountain just adds to the scariness.
I don’t think you need to be an arachnophobe to find this art installation creepy..
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Randomly roaming about the internet, I came across this image and followed it to the website of illustrator Aron Wiesenfeld.
The Crown, by Aron Wisenfeld
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If I asked you to make a sound that matched the word “eerie”, chances are good that you’d start mimicking theremin music.
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Last week it was a painting from 1515, this week a character from a 90s graphic novel: Kingdok from Bone.
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Renaissance paintings of the lives of the saints – or rather the gruesome torments and horrible deaths of the saints – are definite precursors to the imagery of modern horror movies. The topic was a kind of license for the painters to all at once let their imaginations run wild, deliver proper religious instruction, and scare the absolute bejesus out of sinners.
Here’s a great example: “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” by Matthias Grunewald, painted sometime around 1515 .
The best part is that old Anthony doesn’t look too perturbed by it all.
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