Zombie FX
Fix that face, will you? What’s a zombie to do? If the makeup isn’t just right, call on Ed Martinez. Ed does special effects make-up. So if a creepy creature needs to powder his or her half-gone nose, he’s the man. In addition to his work on films like The Dead Pit and The Dead and the...
Alien Madness
Alice is smashing, 3-D and all, but of course I’ll dig up a moldy oldy: Mars Attacks. Oh, I love the alien invasion, the abductions, the eschewing of hypocritical human peacemaking. Art Land: If the Martians land, they’re gonna need a place to stay. Just like everybody else....
Dead is the New Alive
The girl is crazy. Emilie Autumn and her Bloody Crumpets (Aprella, Naughty Veronica, the Blessed Contessa and Captain Maggot) tear it up. LISTEN. Her violin is mad too, whining like a woman behind bars, like the girl in the asylum. It’s the starlet climbing, not the ladder, but the...
Zombie ‘scars
All this FUSS about the Academy Awards—the zombie horde got theirs in Hollywood when SOMEONE stuck a 6-foot “Zombie Oscar” up on the ridgeline of Runyon Canyon. Hikers spotted it and took photos of the award, still looking much-prized but skeletonized. The caption read:...