The next character in my Horror Icons series is the first video game character (I had Lara Croft in the movie version). Jill Valentine is one of the two protagonists of the first Resident Evil game in 1996. I never played a Resident Evil game myself, but at least I sat next to a friend …
Hannibal Lecter was also an iconic figure known long before I could see “The Silence of the Lambs” for myself. At the same time, it is one of the few films that was devalued for me afterwards by reading the book. It is often the case that one reads a book first, then sees the …
“All good things to those who wait. I’ve waited, Clarice.” Read More »
Continuing in the horror month with Leatherface. I bought the remake The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 2003 on DVD right after its release unseen and I really liked it, I think it’s great and densely staged. I only knew the original from hearsay, in Germany there was no official way to see it. I made …
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Since I never played Orcs I prefer the “Zomtober” over the “Orctober”, so it’s time for some bloody stuff now. October is for me clearly the month of autumn, horror movies and Halloween. Besides watching some classic and new horror movies (otherwise I’m not that much of a genre fan and like to put it …
It’s been a month now since my last post. Sometime life just get’s in your way. I was sick, my kid was sick, lots to do in the office and then it’s just family time that comes first. I was working on Freddy the whole time, I just started after finishing Michael. Maybe it was …
Happy Halloween everyone! I enjoyed painting Jason Vorhees so much, that I decided to go on with “classic” horror characters. Other than the “Friday” movies which I really don’t care about at all I have a thing for Michael Myers – even though I don’t like horror movies. To me he is not only the …
I don‘t really like horror movies, they simlpy don‘t entertain me. A bit of a different thing are Slasher movies, which often don‘t entertain me either but sometimes are quite fun. As I‘m not a fan I didn‘t watch a lot of the Slasher classics, but I think I saw all the remakes. The least …
