Horror Movie Memorabilia (And Excuses For Not Blogging)

TheGirl has been slacking a lot on the review writing. This is for a few reasons, perhaps. One, I haven't actually been watching many movies lately (ever since I discovered "Hoarders" was on Netflix - love that show) and the ones I have seen have not been that worthy of a review. Except The Brood. Still working on that. Two, I'm on the book tour for Shock Value by Jason Zinoman and I've had to read that and write a deserving review, which I am also still working on (will be posted on July 18!). In fact, I may even read it again in order to have a more informed opinion. Whew.

So I'm trying to be more creative with the blogging thing and doing more than just reviews. Today, as I'm sitting in my room, it hit me!

Some of my most prized possessions include my little array of horror movie memorabilia. I would like to share with you some of these things I've collected - with pictures, of course - and I want to hear from you about anything horror-related that YOU have! I don't know if any of this stuff is true "memorabilia," like, if they're worth anything or whatever, but I love them and I want to acquire more!

Posters

The most obvious thing to collect for any movie lover are posters. I've collected a lot of non-horror posters (used to work in the video section of my grocery store) and the horror ones I do have I love, but there are certain ones that I still need to get. LIKE POLTERGEIST. It's my favorite horror movie. Why don't I have a poster of it yet??? Anyway, here are the ones I do have.

The Evil Dead! It used to have a primo spot on my wall, right above my bed, but got moved recently.

Love Saw, of course, but more so, I love this image from the film so I had to get the poster.

As they appear on my walls. Two eras of filmmaking converge!

Gosh darn, I loves me some Resident Evil. And this poster was free, too!

Toys/Dolls

Some of these I picked up pretty cheap on eBay, some I found at my video store. They're all great.

This is the "Splitting Ash and Deadite" doll collection from Army of Darkness. Terrible likeness, but still kinda neat, I think.

Also a terrible likeness, this is supposed to be Darla from the "Welcome to the Hellmouth" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She's got some cute accessories.

This is Jessica Biel's character Erin from the TCM remake (a little bit better likeness!). I like the movie but not sure why I bought this. I guess because I liked that she's got a big slab of meat with her.

Here's the best one! The original Movie Maniacs doll of Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre! He's got a background with the movie poster, a bloody bucket, a severed head, a meat hook... everything Leatherface needs!

Calm down, Jenny, he's not real - I have to tell myself that several times a day, too. This little plush Chucky doll is supposedly from Child's Play 2 (as the tag says) but this could be from the first film as well, I guess. So far, he hasn't shown signs of coming to life, but who knows? He could be getting up in the middle of the night and wandering around my house for all I know.

Miscellaneous

T-shirts, knickknacks, and signs - oh my! Here's some more random stuff that I have!

The first of a few Psycho related stuff. I found this on AllPosters.com (FANTASTIC site) and just had to have it. It's just a cool tin sign.

 

More Psycho stuff. I got these goodies from Dollar Bin Horror and I L-O-V-E love them! My Bates Motel t-shirt already got a little color stain from the washing machine (GRRRR), but, my Bates Motel keychain is still rockin' its awesomeness on my keyring.

Brought back to life from a previous post, here's my autographed photo of Joe Bob Briggs!

And just for fun, here is my little bookshelf that holds nothing but Stephen King paperback and hardcover books. And I still don't have them all. I picked up a few first editions (at least I hope they are) of Pet Sematary and Misery recently so that's awesome!

I also have one of those Ghostface Scream masks, but that's not as cool because they sell that every year at Halloween stores now. 

So now my horror movie nerdines is out in the open for all to see. And I'm dang proud of it! What about my amazing fellow bloggers and readers? Got any cool horror movie stuff you have that you'd like to share?

Images of Behind-the-Scenes Cameos

I'm a rebel and I'm tagging myself for the latest meme making the blogosphere rounds - the one of a collection of images from films that share a certain theme. My topic is perhaps less intellectual but it's time for some fun on TheGirl's blog. I'm doing Images of Behind-the-Scenes Cameos. That is, writers and directors and whatnot doing cameos in their movies, or in other people's movies. Some are good, some are bad, some are just funny, some if you blink you'll miss 'em.

Sorry, I couldn't find screen grabs for all of them.



1) Alfred Hitchcock in Rope. As the whole movie takes place in one apartment, playing "Where's Hitch?" can be hard in this film. Just before the film starts, though, there is a shot of the street and Hitch is one of the pedestrians. Another one I didn't know of is the pink neon outline drawing of him in the background. Clever.

2) Stephen King in Rose Red. SK has made numerous cameos in his movies, of course, but I laughed out loud when he appeared as a dorky pizza delivery guy in Rose Red. It was probably the best thing about that movie.

3) Takashi Miike in Hostel. Eli Roth's nod to one of his favorite directors (and mine), Takashi Miike makes a rather creepy appearance in Hostel. "Be careful. You could spend all your money in there."

4) Linda Blair in Scream. Random cameo that doesn't really make sense, except that she's a big horror name. Most people don't know it's her.

5) Wes Craven in Scream. Much funnier cameo. Wes plays the janitor, "Fred," wearing a red and green striped sweater, and ugly brown hat. Hm. Wonder what that's a reference to...

6) David Cronenberg in Jason X. Who doesn't love a little wild-haired Dave Cronenberg? Great cameo from the opening scenes of Jason X.

7) Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in Land of the Dead. There's a great extra on the Land of the Dead DVD about Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's visit to the set to do their cameos as zombies in the film. George Romero was apparently a big fan of Shaun of the Dead, and how could you not be?

8) Peter Jackson in Hot Fuzz. On the flip side, Peter Jackson had a very, very, very, very small cameo in Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg's Hot Fuzz as the Santa Claus who stabs Simon's hand. 

9) Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert in The Evil Dead. I'm going to have a few of Sam Raimi-Ted Raimi-Bruce Campbell cameos because they're so great. Sam and Rob (the producer) played the two guys standing on the side of the road at the beginning, as Bruce Campbell says in the commentary. Sorry, no picture.

10) Bruce Campbell in Spider-Man 2. Okay, I know that Spider-Man 2 isn't a horror movie, but I loved Bruce Campbell as the "Snooty Usher" in this scene. Runner-up best Bruce Campbell cameo was at the end of Darkman.

11) Ted Raimi in The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2. Sam's little bro Ted gets his share of cameos, as well. In the first Evil Dead, Ted plays various arms and legs and things for insert shots, and in Evil Dead 2 he plays the Henrietta monster in the basement.

12) Greg Nicotero in From Dusk Till Dawn. Ha! Forgot about this, didn't you? Greg Nicotero, one of the three geniuses behind KNB EFX Group, has a bit part as a sexy long-haired biker at the Titty Twister in From Dusk Till Dawn. His switchblade is no match for Tom Savini's penis gun. Again, sorry, no screen grab.

13) John Waters in Seed of Chucky. John Waters is big Chucky fan. John want Chucky to kill him. John get wish.

14) Ruggero Deodata in Hostel 2. The director of the classic Cannibal Holocaust has a fitting cameo as the cannibal who is eating Viktor Krum (well, you know... the guy who played Viktor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) in Hostel 2. 

15) Alfred Hitchcock in Dial M for Murder. To round out the list, another Hitch cameo, just as obscure as his cameo in Rope. Dial M for Murder also mostly takes place in one room and Hitch's cameo is him in the reunion picture that Tony Wendice shows to the potential wife-murderer, Swann. He's there in the far left corner.