Hitchcock circa The Birds. (via Bohemea)
The scary story of Hallokitty
Last October @avon and I built an app and submitted it to the App Store in plenty of time for Hallowe’en. It was approved in January of this year (thanks Apple). The point of the app is to scare your friends and mums by concealing unspeakable horrors behind some cute swipe-activated purring kittens. It makes grown men weep*, and works even better if you can trick your prey into listening through headphones.
And now our devilish, best Hallowe’en app ever can be yours. Follow @hallowkittyftw for free promo codes this weekend, “because you shouldn’t have to pay $0.99 for this pap”.**
*Possibly with laughter. **US store only though, Apple’s rules.
V. Von Krolock by Sebastian Mesnard. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Terrific throwback poster by Kellerhouse, Inc for Ti West’s new horror film The House of the Devil, in US theatres next month.
![Tom Coates, in his gallery of pictures from Sydney’s recent dust storm: “[This] might be the most sinister picture ever taken.” Photo of Luna Park’s entrance by Tom Hide, and his poor Canon 5D the day after.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kqixvuJ1ck1qz6jndo1_400.jpg)
Tom Coates, in his gallery of pictures from Sydney’s recent dust storm: “[This] might be the most sinister picture ever taken.” Photo of Luna Park’s entrance by Tom Hide, and his poor Canon 5D the day after.
Ridley Scott To Direct “Alien” Prequel
The script will be penned by Jon Spaihts following a successful pitch to Twentieth Century Fox, and a string of in-production sci-fi projects. PopWatch wants Ellen Page for a young Ellen Ripley, should the story include her. I really hope this comes together.
Apple Pro profiles Digital Kitchen’s work on HBO’s True Blood:
For the True Blood title sequence, Digital Kitchen combined film clips in a myriad of styles to create a morose melange that reflects the show’s darkly comic premise: that vampires are among us, their lethal bloodlust now sated by a synthetic blood drink. The titles blend film and digital footage, along with handmade paper-cut titles that were scanned and dropped into the scene with After Effects.
Vanity from Vancouver-based artist Kelly Haigh’s “Blue” series of macabre paintings. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
You couldn’t find a better way to summarise the idiocy and emptiness of contemporary American commercial horror than this: Michael Bay’s producers don’t know how to make birds scary.
— Philip Matthews on the delayed Hitchcock remake.
48Hours is a New Zealand-wide contest to write, shoot and edit a short film in a single weekend. Technical Difficulties from Team Zombies Rule — one of my favourites from the Auckland regional final — narrowly missed making it into this year’s national final. Each team draws a random genre and is assigned elements to include in the short: a character, object and line of dialogue. These guys drew “real time” as the genre and staged their zombie attack as a cleverly cut live news report. And yes, that is Sunday Breakfast’s hilarious José Barbosa as news anchor Rex.
