This Halloween treat yourself to one of the many thrilling films re-released by 20th Century Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Each film, 19 in total, has a brand new cover boldly designed by the Mexican-Cuban artist, Orlando Arocena (also known as mexifunk), who's a graduate from the Pratt Institute and a co-founder of Uptown Arts. With more than 20 years experience delivering creative solutions for some of the world's most recognizable brands, Orlando has established himself as a non-conventional vector artist who explores cultural iconography, pop culture, and speculative narratives.
Presently he's collaborating with a number of art organizations located in New York City and Los Angeles, such as Republic Worldwide Inc., The Lodge Gallery, The Fountain Art Fair, Gallery 1988, Iam8Bit Gallery, and the Poster Posse. So when you've got the time, please check out the following new cover's he's designed for each of these films, with each film being complemented with one of my usual filmic-facts. Nice one, Orlando. First class art.
Presently he's collaborating with a number of art organizations located in New York City and Los Angeles, such as Republic Worldwide Inc., The Lodge Gallery, The Fountain Art Fair, Gallery 1988, Iam8Bit Gallery, and the Poster Posse. So when you've got the time, please check out the following new cover's he's designed for each of these films, with each film being complemented with one of my usual filmic-facts. Nice one, Orlando. First class art.
The Return of the Living Dead Film Fact: In order to encourage some of the zombie extras to eat real calf-brains, Dan O'Bannon, the director of this Film, ate some himself. He also paid them a little bit extra, which obviously helped. |
Poltergeist Film Fact: One of the main reasons no major stars appeared in this flick, was because Steven Spielberg and Tobe Hooper wanted to add a sense of realism to the family that would off-balance the ghost story. |
Young Frankenstein Film Fact: During the dinner table scene, where Frederick is reading from his Grandfathers journal, he's actually paraphrasing two extracts from the original novel written by Mary Shelley. |
From Hell Film Fact: Johnny Depp, one of the main stars in this mystery, is a big fan of Jack the Ripper as well as the whole mythology surrounding his murders. So much so, in fact, that he named one of his children Jack. |
Carrie Film Fact: The name of the high school featured in this Stephen King horror classic is 'Bates High'. This is a reference to Norman Bates from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, 'Psycho'. |
Jeepers Creeper Film Fact: Originally Victor Salva wrote the part of the Creeper for Lance Henriksen. Yet for reasons of his own he passed on the offer, as he felt that he was starting to get typecast in similar roles. |
Child's Play Film Fact: Chucky's full name is Charles Lee Ray, and it derives from the names of three notorious killers: Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, and James Earl Ray. |
The Hills Have Eyes Film Fact: According to the director, Wes Craven, all of this film was shot on cameras rented from a famous pornographer based in California. |
The Fly Film Fact: Jeff Goldblum wrote Vincent Price a letter before starring in this remake. He said, "I hope you like it as much as I liked yours". Now Price was so touched by this, that after he watched the film, he wrote back and described it as being, "wonderful right up to a certain point, then it went a little too far." |
28 Days Later Film Fact: The scene in which Jim, Selena, Frank, and Hannah, held a celebration was shot on September the 11th, 2001. Danny Boyle, the director of this film, said that it felt extremely strange to shoot this scene on this particularly tragic day. |
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter Film Fact: When this film was first shipped to the cinemas it was given the code-name, 'Bloody Honest', insinuating Lincon's original nickname, 'Honest Abe'. |
Victor Frankenstein Film Fact: Even though this film was told from Igor's perspective, Igor doesn't appear in the original novel yet was a convention introduced in the early series of films. |
