Horror themed playtime friends

For horror movie fans out there we present the Horror playtime friends. They are cute versions of icons from famous horror films and they are:

• Freddy Krueger (Nightmare On Elm Street)
• Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th)
• Ben Willis (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
• Ghostface (Scream)
• Norman Bates (Psycho)
• Chucky, Tiffany and Glen/Glenda (Child's Play movies)
• Chestburster, Xenomorph and Face hugger (Alien movies)
• Jerry Dandridge, Evil Ed (Fright Night).
• Librarian Ghost (Ghostbusters)
• Seth Brundle/BrundleFly (The Fly)
• Werewolf, Jack (American Werewolf In London)
• Eddie Quist, werewolf girl, Werewolf Ballerina, and marsupial werewolf (The Howling series).
• Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
• Jigsaw (Saw)
• Ash (Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness)
• Gizmo, Stripe, Bat Gremlin (Gremlins 1 and 2).
• Various zombies (Return Of The Living Dead)
• Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, Mr Hyde, Dracula's Brides (Van Helsing)
• Crypt Keeper (Tales From The Crypt)
• Jack Torrance, Danny (The Shining)
• Penny Wise (It)
• Regan (Exorcist)
• Erik (Phantom Of The Opera)
• Damien (The Omen)

Goosebumps range:

• Slappy
• Khufu.
• Master Of Scaremonies (a skeleton with a mohawk and shades)
• Monster Hamster (from the monster blood books)
• Werewolf (Werewolf of Fever Swamp)
• Horrorland Creatures (One Day In Horrorland)
• Jeff Goldblum as a vampire (Escape From Horrorland video game)
• Shrunken head (How I Got My Shrunken Head)
• Carly Beth (Haunted Mask)
• R.L Stine.

Monster Mates range:

• Vampire.
• Ghost.
• Wolfman.
• Frankenstein.
• Zombie.
• Phantom.
• Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde.
• Undead Elvis.
• Killer Werebelushi.
• Hockey Mask Guy.
• Swamp Thing.
• Dropbear.
• Tim Burtonesque demon.
• Cockroach Guy.

Tim Burton range:

• Frankenweenie the dog, Victor (Frankenweenie)
• Vincent, Abecrombie (Vincent)
• Large Marge, Clown (Pee Wee's Big Adventure)
• BeetleJuice, Lydia, Adam, Barbara (BeetleJuice)
• Batman, Joker, Vicki Vale, Catwoman, Penguin (Batman and Batman Returns)
• Edward, The Inventor, Kim (Edward Scissorhands)
• Martians, President Dale, Art Land, Tom Jones, Lisa Marie, Rude Gambler (Mars Attacks)
• Jack Skellington, Sally, Oogie Boogie, The Mayor, Lock, Stock and Barell, Zero, Dr Finklestein, Santa (Nightmare Before Christmas)
• Ed Wood (Ed Wood)
• Ichabod Crane, Headless Horseman (Sleepy Hollow)
• Ari, General Thade, Ape Councelman (Planet Of The Apes)
• Ringmaster, twins, old hag (Big Fish)
• Willy Wonka, Violet Beaugarde, Veruca Salt, Charlie, Oompa Loompas, squirell (Charlie and the Chocolate factory)
• Emily, Victor, Scraps, Barkis, Maggot, Mayhew, Napoloeon Boneapart, Mr Bonejangles (Corpse Bride)
• Sweeney Todd, Mrs Lovett, Judge Turpin, street kid (Sweeney Todd)
• Oyster Boy, Stain Boy, Char Boy, Voodoo Girl, Robot Boy, Brie Boy, Pin Cushion Queen, Girl Who Turned Into A Bed, Girl With Nails In Her Eyes, Stare Girl, Stick Boy and Match Girl, Anchor Baby, Mummy Boy, Jimmy the hideous penguin boy (Oyster Boy and Other Stories).

Dark is not evil

There has been some talk about me on Amiright and on the inthe00's message board, it seems that everyone there thinks I came across as a bad guy. In truth, I am not a bad person at all. I'm a kind, decent person. I'm not evil. Even though one of the playlists on my computer has dark kind of horror type music on it (e.g Nightmare On Elm Street theme, Psycho theme, and Toxic Love by Tim Curry) songs by Alice Cooper on it such as Black Widow, Poison and Welcome To My Nightmare, I'm still a good guy. And even though my idea of a good movie happens to involve lots of blood, killing and gore I'm actually quite a sweet guy. Me and my brother are twins and no...I am not the evil one. We do love horror movies. Probably we're the only ones in the whole family who can handle David Cronenberg's movies. I mean we saw the Fly when it first came out in cinemas in 1986, while everyone else watching the film were scared out of their wits of what was happening to the tragic hero of the story me and my brother were in awe of what was going on, and were amazed by Jeff Goldblum's performance and the special effects and makeup. When we came out of the theatre, our father asked us what we thought of the movie...our response: "awesome!". Although i'm into all things dark and creepy i'm actually a very nice person. I'm a lot like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly except I haven't been turned into a fly-like monstrosity (although my brother was turned into a BrundleFly clone at one point). And if you're wondering what my idea of a good time is, it's visiting the local cemetary and paying respects to the dead (especially to our dear old grandfather Billy). Check the pet cementary because that's where some of our old pets are burried. The moral of this post: Dark is not evil.

David Cronenberg: Evil genius.

Our favourite film genres are sci fi, animation, comedy, fantasy and horror. One of the masters of the horror genre is a Canadian director named David Cronenberg. His films are famous for one thing: the recurring theme of body mutations (known to TVtropers as Body Horror). His movies are so delightfully squicky and yet interesting. Not many people can stomach David Cronenberg's movies except me and my brother. We love David Cronenberg's movies. Our favourite films of his are The Fly, Dead Zone, Videodrome, Scanners, Crash, and Existenz. The Fly is our number 1 favourite David Cronenberg movie. We loved Jeff Goldblum's character. Some people tell me i'm a lot like him, and it's true I am quite similar to Seth Brundle (for starts we've both been mutated into something completely different than normal, and we're both scientists) The most interestingg aspect about the movie is that some people view Seth Brundle's transformation into the human/fly hybrid creature Brundlefly as a metaphor for AIDS. My brother has a telepod like the one used in the movie, he lets me use it and he often uses it himself, on one occassion he actually reinacted the experiment from the film and ended up turning into some Brundlefly clone, it took a long time to figure how to change him back to normal but we managed to do it in the end. And the second time he gave it a test drive, he left one of our Buzz Lightyear action figures in the machine with him at the time, he ended up turning into a life sized version of the Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story films. It wasn't easy finding a way to change him back but I eventually found away- most of him is pretty much back to normal now- well...except for the wings sticking out of his back (luckily they are retractable). And the explanination as to why I turned evil during my stay on Amirgiht in early 2008....somehow our neighbour's mean spirited cat Damien got into the telepod while I was in it, it was silly of me not to notice that- although it's not at all suprising considering that cat is a feline from hell, always demolishing anything he can get his paws on, always slaughtering innocent birds and bringing their dead bodies into the house, doesn't trust anyone not even his owner, he's an absolute monster. He scratched my brother's leg at least 5 times, and not to mention he almost attacked me once. That cat is our public enemy 1#. He's also a master of deceit and trickery, he pretends to be all innocent and cute but when you least expect it...he strikes like a demon in the night. He is a black cat with bright yellow eyes and a collar with a skull on it. If you see that cat, run like hell.












The telepod can be seen in the David Cronenberg wing of our interactive museum. Be warned though, the David Cronenberg wing is only for the truly daring. If you're really brave, then perhaps the Squickatorium attraction will be just up your alley, the squickatorium is a ride where you get to experience first hand the squickness of David Cronenberg's films such as The Fly, Videodrome, Scanners, Dead Zone, Existenz and Crash- ride it, if you dare.

The Fly

One of our favourite directors is David Cronenberg. We especially love Videodrome, Scanners, Existenz, Dead Zone, Crash, and The Fly. The Fly is our absolute favourite of those films. If you were born in 1950 you might recall the original version with the infamous scene where the scientist ends up with his head on a fly's body and is about to eaten by a spider and cries out "Help me!" in a tiny voice. But if you're an 80's fanatic like me then you might be more familiar with David Cronenberg's remake. It's like the original one except it's different, Jeff Goldblum doesn't end up with his head on a fly's body oh no- it's much worse he ends up turning into a really grotesque hybrid of human and fly. One crucial element that David Cronenberg never forgets to add in his movies is horrific transformations involving the body changing in really horrible ways (this type of transformation is known as either a Painful Transformation or Transformation Trauma, and is full of Body Horror).

It may have given quite a lot of viewers nightmares and Squicked them out, but it kind of inspired us. My brother owns a teleportation pod like the one Jeff has in the movie, and he actually lets me use it. Although my brother himself got the insane idea to recreate Jeff's experiment from the film and ended up turning into a clone of BrundleFly. It took four and a half weeks to figure out how to change him back into himself. The Fly has been satirised numerous times. On one episode of Beetleborgs, Flabber brings a sketch of a teleportation device to life with his magic and gives it a test run, a fly-like monster named Kombat Gnat (who has a lot of razor sharp teeth and the ability to shrink) gets into the machine, their dna gets merged together and Flabber ends up turning into it like Jeff Goldblum in the movie. However he gets turned back to normal in the end.

Some of our work feature a homage to The Fly. One of which is the episode of The Misadventures Of Doc M where I test out my brother's teleportation device and Chumsley the werejohncandy accidentally falls into the machine, our dna gets merged together and I end up slowly changing into Chumsley. It also happened to my brother one time, my brother was testing it out for the first time, just as soon as the machine starts the sequence he realises that his Buzz Lightyear action figure is in the machine with him and he ended up turning into a life sized Buzz Lightyear. It took a long time to figure out a way to change him back to normal in the end but luckily I found a way to do it. We turned most of him back to normal, except when he came out he still had the "wings" sticking out of his back (and he still does).

These are pictures of Flabber's transformation into Kombat Knat in the Beetleborgs episode Buggin Out.

Gene Splicing

I read quite an interesting thread on the IMDB message board for the 80's remake of the fly, basically the person who invented the thread ask "If you could gene-splice with any kind of animal what it would be?" , all the other people who posted gave such interesting responses. I have quite a few interesting responses to that too.

Animals I would choose to gene-splice with:

• Panda (so I could be like Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda)
  
• Koala (because no one ever does koalas, and koalas are just so cute)
  
• Any kind of cat especially a big cat such as lion or panther (cats are always cool).
  
• A fish of some kind (If done properly, I could come out as some sort of merperson, if done wrongly however I could come out as some sort of fish creature)
  
• Dog (umm....mog, anyone?)
  
• A racoon (cause racoons kick serious ass, they're like thieves)
  
  Characters I would choose to gene-splice with:
  
  
• Buzz Lightyear (just so I could fly by Tom Hanks and laugh "Ha! Ha!" ala Nelson from The Simpsons)
  
• Brian Griffin from Family Guy (so I could amaze people with my knowledge of life and what not)
  
• Barry B.Benson from Bee Movie (just because he's cute)
  
• Gaston from Beauty And The Beast (So I could annoy people by showing up randomly when they're in the middle of doing something and boast "No one (verbs) like Gaston!" in Gaston's voice)
  
• Bugs Bunny (eh....what's up Doc?)
  
• Any John Candy film character (especially Del, Buck, Barf, or Irv)
  
• Po from Kung Fu Panda (awesomeness)
  
  People I would choose to gene-splice with;
  
• Eugene Levy (for the eyebrows)
• Jay Leno
• Jerry Seinfeld
• John Candy (so I could be a werejohncandy)
• Josh Peck (for the cute factor)