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The 90s: Designer Horror

Jordache Horror Somewhere in the 80s, someone got the idea that horror should be less frightening and more sexy and trendy. I am not sure where it happened, but a good starting point might be Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The “World Premiere Video” back when MTV aired videos and before its implosion was the thing to see. Director John Landis was in between the smash hit horror classic, An American Werewolf in London and the public relations nightmare of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Michael Jackson was truly The King of Pop, and his LP, Thriller elevated MTV into something else…exactly what, I don’t know, but Thriller was more than a video. It was a pop culture event and it used horror as its spring board. Vincent Price became known to a the Pepsi Generation as “the old dude who “rapped” in Thriller and laughed at the end. Academy Award winner and makeup genius, Rick Baker did the makeup effects and suddenly

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Capt McNeely
Sep 1, 2015
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Malcolm McDowell To Play Dr. Phibes In New Movie

Dr. Phibes is getting a new film. The actor to fill the role of the deranged doctor, played by legendary actor Vincent Price, is non other than Malcolm McDowell. William Goldsten, the franchise’s creator, is developing the new movie, which is just entering preproduction. The movie begins in 1925. Doctors have been dying in strange and mysterious ways. Years before the rash of deaths, Dr. Phibes was in route to his sick wife’s side, only to be involved in a car accident. Dr. Phibes was thought to have died in the accident but some how the severely burned man survived, only to find out his wife had passed on the operating table. He retreats into seclusion, there he plans his revenge against the nine doctors he blames for her death.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2015

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The 90s: Designer Horror

Jordache Horror Somewhere in the 80s, someone got the idea that horror should be less frightening and more sexy and trendy. I am not sure where it happened, but a good starting point might be Michael Jackson’s Thriller. The “World Premiere Video” back when MTV aired videos and before its implosion was the thing to see. Director John Landis was in between the smash hit horror classic, An American Werewolf in London and the public relations nightmare of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Michael Jackson was truly The King of Pop, and his LP, Thriller elevated MTV into something else…exactly what, I don’t know, but Thriller was more than a video. It was a pop culture event and it used horror as its spring board. Vincent Price became known to a the Pepsi Generation as “the old dude who “rapped” in Thriller and laughed at the end. Academy Award winner and makeup genius, Rick Baker did the makeup effects and suddenly

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 1, 2015
Horror Fuel

Malcolm McDowell To Play Dr. Phibes In New Movie

Dr. Phibes is getting a new film. The actor to fill the role of the deranged doctor, played by legendary actor Vincent Price, is non other than Malcolm McDowell. William Goldsten, the franchise’s creator, is developing the new movie, which is just entering preproduction. The movie begins in 1925. Doctors have been dying in strange and mysterious ways. Years before the rash of deaths, Dr. Phibes was in route to his sick wife’s side, only to be involved in a car accident. Dr. Phibes was thought to have died in the accident but some how the severely burned man survived, only to find out his wife had passed on the operating table. He retreats into seclusion, there he plans his revenge against the nine doctors he blames for her death.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 11, 2015