Concept Art from 5 Great Movies

I'm a total geek when it comes to concept art, I fuck'n love it! I love looking at it, it one of the reasons I've watched the special features on the Special Edition King Kong (2005) so many times, because it show so much of it. The image above is actually from that movie!

And if you like concept art, then you need to read this article because I'll be show concept art from 5 different movies! All of which are monster movies!

#5. Return of the Living Dead

I only have one photo for this movie, and it's amazing. Is is one of my favorite movies, and my second favorite zombie movie.Is is some beautiful art, I really like the Tar Man and First Corpse, they really are incredible. The Half Corpse is pretty badass too. Jaws also is badass, but you know what, they are!

#4: Godzilla vs Mecha Godzilla (1993)

Okay this has some of the greatest concept art you'll ever see. It's the first one that I can have a group of pictures too. I personally think that the concept art is way cooler cooler than the stuff in the movie, especially the Mecha Godzilla stuff. The one above I'm really not a huge fan of, but these ones below are awesome, and I think that they should have gone with the red one below. 

 #3: Alien 

I'm sure we've all seen this already, but I thought I include it anyway. There is some weird shit in this. H. R. Giger imagined these monster very different, and much, much more weird. 

#2: Critters

I thought this was pretty cool. I've never seen this concept art, and it's pretty cool. The one above is most likely the final design. There's a bunch more of these pictured below.

#1: The Mist

Well this is one of my favorite movies, and it's got some of the best concept art ever. It's some of my favorite. And it's one of the movies where the concept art is way cooler cooler than the monster that are used in the movie. These flys are some of the coolest too, and the Behemoth.

Well that's it, I'll try and get a couple more articles in by Halloween. Thanks for read...

Three More Lovecraftian Horrors!

Well I guess we're doing another one of these. So let's talk some more Lovecraftian Horrors. I think we've gone over what Lovecraftian Horrors are enough, so let's just get straight to the Horrors.

Splendor Man

Splendor counts as much as Slender, because they're basically the exact same thing, one just isn't evil. Splendor birthed from a YouTube video, in which we shows up to make people happy. Though, he was originally happy and nice, with the internet, things change. Splendor Man became a part of the contemporary Slender Man Mythos.

As stated above, he isn't as happy anymore. People have adapted him into contemporary, he is often depicted as Rage Splendor Man, where he is much more evil looking and scary, with a red lined mouth and red pupils. And in his rage form, he's evil, and scary, and way, way, way cooler.

Splendor Man appears in my on-going series SlenderTruth, which you can read here!!! - [LINK]

Nyarlathotep

It just now accrued to me that we've been taking about Lovecraftian Horrors and we haven't included a monster created by Lovecraft himself. So why not include Nyarlathotep? I really like the common interpretation of Nyarlathotep, even though I tried reading the debut story, and couldn't follow it in anyway.

I do know what he is though, I just didn't read his book, this is how I am with most of Lovecraft's Horrors. I don't have a lot to say about Nyarlathotep though.

The Operator

So because I'm lazy, I'm gonna include another version of slander man... Yay! The Operator is from Marble Hornets, and in my opinion, the scariest version of Slendy to ever be.

The Operator, though, isn't really a different version of Slendy, well according to the creators of Marble Hornets that is... But he's still Slendy, tee hee.

Marble Hornets doesn't even use the Slender Mythos apparently, which also means that Masky and Hoody aren't really proxies.


Welp, that's it for now, this little series could very well last after the Halloween season. But for now, it's over... Maybe...

Lovecraftian Horrors

Of course we all know Lovecraft, but what many don't know, is that he is the grandfather of an entire genre. Lovecraftian Horror is a genre that deals with the cosmic, the weird, and of course tentacles. Slender Man, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, and The Thing are all examples of Lovecraftian Horrors, monsters that can shape shift, are amorphous, can cause madness just by seeing them, or are at the very least, tributes to Lovecraft's writing. And today, we'll be talking about some Lovecraftian Horrors.

Hedorah

I'f you ask me, Hedorah put all of Lovecraft's Outer Gods to shame. Lovecraft would died from amazement to see Hedorah in all his pollution glory.  Hedorah all most deserves his own article this Halloween, but because we are talking about Lovecraftian Horrors, I had to include him.

Hedorah comes from the Godzilla Series, one of the last places you'd expect to a Lovecraftian Horror. Hedorah comes to Earth on a meteor as a group of microbes. The microbes quickly feed on the pollution of Japan's ocean and grow and evolve into four different forms. He also can change instantly back to each of these forms and then back again.

Watch his movie, it's incredible, and probably the strangest Godzilla movie ever made. It seems to be made for people on strong, strong hallucinogenic drugs. With cartoons, strange fish mask night clubs, and of course, Godzilla. So what more could you want in a movie.

Slender Man

If you've prowled the dark side of the internet for long enough, you know of Slender Man. I personally am somewhat new to the Slender Man Fandom. Only learning of him last year, I was immediately entranced by his faceless beauty.

Slender Man was created by Victor Surge on SomethingAwfulForums. And ever since he's been a huge internet success. Also, he's become a large part of the Creepypasta culture. He's probably the most iconic Creepypasta character ever, with Jeff the Killer following after him.

Hunson Abadeer
Hunson Abadeer appears in the cartoon Adventure Time as the father of one of the series' most iconic characters, Marceline. An ancient creature coming from the Nightosphere, this demonic creature makes his appearance in the episode "It Came From The Nightosphere" and comes to the Land of Ooo, to eat the souls of many creatures. By the end of the episode, he transforms into a badass, soul sucking, eldritch abomination. And then sadly he turns into a big softy after hearing Marceline's french fry song, which you can listen to on the internet, it's become a real song nearly.



That's it for now, this is gonna be a 2 part (maybe more) article, so to be continued.

Stop Motion Mastodon

Today  I discovered one of the greatest things I've ever seen. A fan made stop motion music video, for Mastodon's song Bedazzled Fingernails!!! It features The Creature From The Black Lagoon, Bosk from Star Wars, Eddie from the Iron Maiden album covers, and a Wizard from nothing. The entire thing is the three monsters and one wizard jamming out in the forest.

After awhile a bunch of little critters (not the thing's from the movie) show and start jam'n out with them too!!! It's like the greatest thing ever.

The animation is incredible, plus the music is from my favorite band ever. That's really all I have to say about it though, I just felt like it needed to be shared, plus I thought it was pretty Halloween-Like.

Me and Greedo

"Going somewhere, Solo?" (listen to him sam it, HERE!!!)

Today we start the Halloween 2014 Marathon which will last until Halloween.

And today we shall talk about my favorite Star Wars alien, Greedo. I've always loved Greedo, ever since I saw Star Wars, I immediately connected with Greedo. Maybe it was the way he looked, maybe it was his suspiciously (and somewhat racist) asian sounding voice, or the way he was shot below the table by Han Solo. 

When I was probably about six or seven, I was given, a Greedo and Han Solo action figure, I'm not sure which ones, but they had black packaging and they where my favorite toys for  like a week, as new toys always seem to be when you're small. I had Greedo for probably like six months, and one day I couldn't find. And I never saw him again.

Around the same time I had this toy Greedo, I had a nightmare involving an alien that looked just like Greedo. In the dream, this Greedo doppelganger came into my room and stole my toy Greedo. And the thing is, no one believed me in my dream, till they found lotion in the toy box, and they said "I guess you're right, aliens love lotion.", I still to this day, don't know how this came into my mind. But the reason this dream was so scary to me at the time (other than the fact that there were alien thieves in my room), was that it was around the time that my Greedo toy went missing.

That's really my history with Greedo, a strange history if I might add, but I still have one little story to tell. For probably, the last year, I've been searching for a new Greedo action figure for my collection. And I finally got one. Recently I went to a local store called Time Bomb, and picked up a Greedo from the 1990's toy line, and he stands, out of package, on my shelf. I'm still looking though, for a better Greedo, I hope to find the one I had when I was kid, but for now I'll probably get the Saga Legends one.

That's it for now, and I hope this was good start for the Halloween Season, so HAPPY SOON-TO-BE HALLOWEEN!!!

Some More Lesser Known Monsters

 

Well I guess we're doing another one of these then. I really didn't plan on doing another, but I was forced to by my own monster loving mind. So lets get going we got some pretty cool monsters this time. Also, if I give any small typos, I apologies, my keys are super sticky.

Arizona Crawlers

Well because we have no picture, I'm gonna have to give description. And the reason I have no picture, is because none exist. The Arizona Crawlers are a group of creatures, possibly a race. They are all different it seems, The first one seen has white skin, and huge black eyes, then there's one that has deep, nearly black skin. The next one was a smile that stretches from ear to ear, and to many limbs, it describes them as nearly insect-like. Now there are a couple more, but I really don't remember what they look like. They come fro the creepypasta called Arizona, go read it or listen to Mr. Creepypasta read it. Also, for the record, I don't even know if that's there real  name.

The Being

The Being is from the 1983 film of the same name. Now, I've never seen this movie, but I've read about it, and it sounds awesome. But never mind the movie, we're talking about the monster itself right now. The monster is born from radiation, and kills lots of people. The Being is massive, has a huge head, one single eye on it's head, and massive mouth full of large teeth. The monster is killed at the end of the film by being hacked up with an ax. But as I've read,  a new monster reaches from the ground at end of the movie. This monster is badass if you ask me, his design, his movie sounds amazing, and did I mention that his tongue can be used as a tentacle?

The Trash Pack

 The Trash Pack are a toy line of silly, disgusting and some times even disturbing monsters. The one pictured to the left is Flesh Eating Virus, and isn't just adorable. Now, this guy is supposed to a germ, but that's a human hand in it's mouth. So is he microscopic, or fucking huge! All of these monsters seem to be like this, but of course they aren't all germs, some are animals that are dead and disgusting, some are even parasites. They are a beautiful group aren't they. You can check out some more Here, here, and here.

The Townsfolk of Ashley, Kansas 

This isn't an official image. 

The Townsfolk of Ashley, Kansas are a group of resurrected people from the town Ashley, Kansas. They come from the Creepypasta The Disappearance of Ashley Kansas. They don't appear till the end of the pasta, after a series of unexplained events. They are also unexplained, it really doesn't say what they are, just that they came from the woods on fire, and that they are all people that died or disappeared in the town. This happens to be one of my favorite Pastas ever, and these guys are some of my favorite Creeps. 

Iguana 

The Iguana comes from the film Caveman starring Ringo Star. This guy has a great design if you ask me, and he's brought to life through  beautiful Stop Motion. He's at the beginning of the film and near the end. I really haven't seen this movie for a long time, and don't remember much of it, just that it's amazing and retarded at the same time.

That's it for now, there might be another one of these articles, not sure, but probably.

Some Lesser Known Monsters

We all know the main monsters of media, Freddy, Jason, Godzilla, The Predator, ect., ect. But there are so many great underrated or even UNKNOWN monsters, either from movies or maybe even in real life. Lets give some of these guys some love and attention and get on with the article!

Peter Griffin's Hairless Twin

Now I know you don't really think about monsters when you think about Family Guy, you think about poop and wiener jokes, but Family Guy really does have some good and sometimes even disturbing creatures, and The Hairless Twin fits in both those categories. The Hairless Twin makes his first and only appearance in the episode Fresh Heir where it is shown that Peter keeps him in the Storm Shed and is mean and cruel to him. He is fed egg shells and coffee grounds and the moon light burns his skin. Watch his first and beautiful appearance here!!! (WARNING: Crappy video quality)

The Deadly Spawn

The Deadly Spawn are from the 1983 film The Deadly Spawn. They start out as a tadpole type creature and quickly grow larger and larger and eat everything in sight. The young boy is the first person in the family to see the monsters when he finds them in the basement eating his dead mother and he also figures out that the monsters can't, but they hunt by hearing things. I don't want to ruin the end of the movie for you, because it's badass. Go watch this film, it's not great, but it bad, and there lot's of monsters, and what more do you really need in this movie. You can watch it on YouTube, so go watch it now!

 Ghoulies 

Now the Ghoulies franchise has a fairly large cult following, but I felt I should put these guys in any way. The original three Ghoulies (The Fish, Cat, and Rat Ghoulies) are in the first three film. And after The Ghoulies Go To Collage, we get a new set of Ghoulies. I've never truly seen the the last two movies, only the the first two. I saw the second one first, when I was small, and wouldn't see the first one till years later. These movies are some of the first Horror Films I ever saw, or at least remember seeing. But enough of my little sappy nostalgic story. 

The Ghoulies are little demons from hell (of course), that reek havoc. The first movie has more demons than the second one does, because it's not just the five little demons that everyone is used to from the second movie. The first movie has at least three of the green guys, and a few demons that never make into other movies, like a woman with a tongue that chocks people, and a melting clown that turns into a green demon thing, and lots of other cool stuff. But the second movie, has the puppet monsters that everyone is used to seeing. The fourth film has only two demons, and they're completely different ones. They aren't puppets, and the where cloths, and they look more like people. They're also little people in costumes instead of puppets.

Sumatran Rat Monkey

The Sumatran Rat Monkey is from the film Dead Alive (a.k.a. Brain Dead) made by Peter Jackson. The Sumatran Rat Monkey play a big part in the movie, he bits the protagonist's mother, causing her to turn into a zombie. And here's a lovely little piece of trivia, he's from Skull Island. His cargo cage also makes a little cameo appearance in the 2005 King Kong film. Not only is the monster badass, but the film it's from is badass. It has an awesome array of zombies, and if you haven't seen it, go check it out, it's worth it.

Eyeball Creature

The Eyeball Creature, comes from Big Trouble In Little China. The film, directed by John Carpenter, is pretty well known, but the creature itself never really gets any love. The creature acts as a spy for Lo-Pan, and is a lovely little character. I think it might be brought to life by using Stop Motion, which I absolutely love. The Creature's design isn't only awesome, but it's also beautifully down.

Scarabs

The Scarabs appear in the Mummy Remake Series. The films themselves are pretty well known, but the creatures aren't. These flesh eating little beetles, are beautiful. In the second film they go into people throats, and eat them from the inside. I really haven't seen the first remake, in quite awhile, and I really don't even remember if these guys are in that movie.

Well that's it for know, I might write a sequel article, but I wouldn't count on it, but maybe.