Gregory Burkart
This Artist’s Humongous Graffiti Spider is Horrifyingly Awesome
Attention arachnophobes: you might want to steer clear of this article (sorry about the lead image, but we have serious reporting to do here). All others: you’re in for some of the coolest, most insanely amazing monster street art you’ve ever seen. Portuguese artist Sergio Odeith has mastered the technique of painting murals that employ […]
Gregory Burkart
Volunteers Appear to Eat Their Own Flesh in This Shocking FB Live Video
[Warning: Graphic images ahead] On March 6, a Facebook Live feed streamed from a museum in Riga, Latvia sparked outrage and controversy through its depiction of a man and woman seemingly cannibalizing themselves in the name of art. The video documents a real-time exhibition titled Eschatology by Latvian artist Arturs Berzinš (who can be seen […]
Gregory Burkart
The Bizarre Viral Mystery of Daisy Brown and Her Pet Monster
In past features, we’ve delved into the output of some pretty disturbing, baffling and unexplained online media “celebrities” — including the still-active “Chip-Chan” or the even more demented ANIMALHEAD, to name just a few. It’s impossible to keep up with all of them, since dozens more seem to pop up every day. But when one user/creator […]
Gregory Burkart
The First Trailer for SLENDER MAN Sparks Instant Controversy
The most notorious name in the creepypasta universe is finally coming to the big screen this year… and we now have a gruesome peek at the first official trailer for the forthcoming Sony Pictures/Screen Gems release. [If you’re not up to speed on this ever-evolving legend, check out this link for more on Slender and […]
Rebekah McKendry
The Creepy Cute Art of Diana Levin and Ghoulish Bunny Studios
Haunting and adorable are not concepts that are often successfully used together, but they both perfectly describe the awesome artwork of Diana Levin. She pulls a lot of inspiration from horror figures and fairy tales and is able to tease out both the terror and the innocence to create a style of artwork she describes as […]
Gregory Burkart
Have You Seen THIS MAN? You’re Not Alone…
When I first launched this column nearly two years ago, I offered a quick primer on some of the most notorious and heavily-shared viral tales known as creepypasta. Among the most enduring of these legends are a nightmare gallery of villains… of course, there’s the iconic and headline-grabbing Slender Man, but creepy web lore contains […]
Rebekah McKendry
Horror Artist Profile: Jenny Parks and Pop Culture Cats
Love cats and horror movies? Artist Jenny Parks has found a niche creating pop culture cat art. She began making a living with her fuzzy creations after drawing a line of STAR TREK cats and then expanded into everything from STAR WARS, to DR WHO, to a variety of horror properties. She currently resides in Colorado, but you can find […]
Gregory Burkart
CINEMA IN EXTREMIS: Exclusive Images from Anthony DiBlasi’s EXTREMITY!
In previous installments of this column, I’ve offered some tantalizing behind-the-scenes information on the making of EXTREMITY, a sure-to-be-controversial work of transgressive cinema from talented director Anthony DiBlasi (LAST SHIFT, DREAD), including interviews with the director and his creative collaborators David Bond and Scott Swan, who share an enviable list of genre credits (including John […]
Rebekah McKendry
Dia de los Muertos Meets Lowbrow: The Unique Art of David Lozeau
A few weeks ago at Phoenix Comic Con, I was walking through the aisles of art, when something caught my eye. It was a booth full of skeleton art. Some were comedic, some somber, some colorful and vibrant, and some more sinister and dark. But all skeletons were portrayed as if alive. I was mesmerized […]
Rebekah McKendry
Monster Babies: The Adorably Horrific Artwork of Will Terry
Last weekend while wandering through the aisles of Phoenix Comicon, I stumbled upon on a booth filled with fascinating and imaginative art. The booth was decked out in what appeared to be children’s artwork, full of whimsy and merriment, but the subject matter was much darker. I became captivated not with just the adorably morbid, colorful monsters, but […]
Gregory Burkart
The VHS Atrocities of Psychic TV’s FIRST TRANSMISSION [NSFW]
Not long ago, I explored the dark and mystifying lore of “snuff cinema” in its many forms — including works of alleged onscreen murder and mutilation which, though stomach-churning in their realism, were either hoaxes, misrepresented footage or works of transgressive underground “murder art.” In another feature, I examined a notorious example of the latter […]
Gregory Burkart
Erotic Artists INSIDE FLESH Blur the Line Between Sex and Horror [NSFW]
Welcome back, brave readers… this time, I’m going to be testing your tolerance in a slightly different way by daring to enter the endless, often hostile debate over the vague and ever-changing definitions of art and obscenity. I’m not going to recap the history of that argument; you can easily look up the works of […]
Stephen Johnson
The Incredibly Bizarre World of Ghana’s Horror Movie Posters
Horror movie posters from Ghana are amazing. Painted by local artists to promote roadshow screenings of bootlegged foreign movies, these totally unauthorized images have a rawness and power that the slick Hollywood promotional materials can’t touch. In the 1980s and ’90s, “video clubs” sprung up all over the West African nation of Ghana. They screened […]
Witney Seibold
How Dante’s INFERNO Shaped the Modern Image of Hell
A recent article encountered in the Washington Post, studying adult reading habits from 1982 to 2015, found that there has been a steady decline of literative reading in the United States. That’s not to say that people aren’t reading, but it does say that American adults, when looking for a book to read, are less […]
Gregory Burkart
Trigger Happy: The Hallucinogenic Horror of Shaye Saint John
Back up, boys and girls… this is gonna get weird. In a way, the following story fits into the pantheon of creepypasta without necessarily being labeled as one; that’s mainly because the mythos which has grown up around the utterly bizarre, surreal and morbidly fascinating character named Shaye Saint John has long since overshadowed the […]
