Butchering Baudelaire
Clément loves Baudelaire and wrestled his translation of “Lethe” into the daily slice. A collection of Baudelaire’s poems, Les Fleurs du mal, was first published in 1857 by the poet’s friend Auguste Poulet-Malassis. It created a sensation. Eleven hundred copies...
High Voltage Voltaire
Out, out damned hypocrisy! Trust us, every supernatural being loves Voltaire. No, not the dead satirist … the ultra-dark and daring artist-musician. Are you in the 21st Century? Check out his music. It says it all. Folk, goth, darkwave, dark cabaret, new wave, whatever …...
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...
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:...
Film Fiend
Does anyone remember “Creature Features” with Bob Wilkins? Bart Frescura does. He was four or five when his aunt let him watch. “Those frightening images were burned into my consciousness forever …” says the zombie-obsessed artist. “That’s where...