Ashley 'Ash' J. Williams

Bruce Campbell as Ash in Sam Raimi's 1987 "Evil Dead II"

Evil Dead II is among my absolute favorite movies of all time, and Bruce Campbell's over the top comic book come to life performance as Ash helps to push EDII up the list.

An interesting piece of trivia:
A glove belonging to the A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Freddy Krueger character can be seen hanging above the door of the Toolshed when Ash carves his girlfriends head with a chainsaw and when he's looking for the pages in the later cellar scenes. This was in response to the use of The Evil Dead (1981) on a television screen in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

Ash is probably the single most requested portrait you guys have asked for...
Hopefully this was worth the wait.

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Leatherface

Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface from Tobe Hopper's 1974 classic "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

The first time I ever heard of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I had spent the night at my friend David King's house, and the morning after we were having an amazing breakfast, that included fresh fuit and freshly squeezed orange juice that his Mom had made. We were sitting on their deck over looking the Colorado National Park and as I munched I was looking through a copy of Hoberman and Rosenbaum's Midnight Movies (being fascinated with the amazing imagery of David Lynch's Eraserhead even back then) and I came upon the chapter about TTCM.

David's parents were very cool sci-fi/ horror folk, and David's Dad began to tell me all about the film, and how it was based on a true story. I went to bed that night with visions of lamps made from Human arms, and chairs made from bones. It would be another 12 years before I actually saw the film, and that first viewing is still among the most disturbing films I have ever seen.

An interesting piece of trivia:

After getting into the old-age makeup, John Dugan decided that he did not ever want to go through the process again, meaning that all the scenes with him had to be filmed in the same session before he could take the makeup off. This took about 36 hours, during a heat wave where the average temperature was over 100 degrees, with a large portion of it spent filming the dinner scene, sitting in a room filled with dead animals and rotting food. Edwin Neal who played the hitch-hiker claimed "Filming that scene was the worst time of my life... and I had been in Vietnam, with people trying to kill me, so I guess that shows how bad it was."

James Bond

Sean Connery as Ian Fleming's master spy James Bond - 007

I hope you'll forgive the brief indulgence, but I've always been a huge Bond fan and have always imagined doing a series of Bond villains as well as the different incarnations of 007 himself. And I couldn't let the Ian Fleming Centenary go by without finishing at least one Bond related piece.

Ian Fleming was born May 28th 1908, 60 years to the day before yours truly.

An interesting pice of trivia:
Fleming was the cousin of Christopher Lee. Who of course went on to play Francisco Scaramanga in the 9th Bond film: "The Man With The Golden Gun"

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R.I.P. Stan Winston

I just heard the sad news that Special Effects master Stan Winston has passed away, few details are known at this time.

Stan's many credits include "John Carpenter's The Thing" "Aliens" "Pumpkinhead " "Edward Scissorhands" "Jurassic Park" "Terminator 2 "The Monster Squad" "Predator" and most recently "Iron Man"

R.I.P. Stan, and thanks for all the wonderful creature effects!

Inspector Dan Clay

Here's Tor Johnson as Inspector Dan Clay from Edward D. Wood Jr.'s 1959 Masterpiece: "Plan 9 From Outer Space"

Say what you want about Plan 9, but I've always loved it.

Tor was born Tor Johansson on October 19th 1903 in Sweden. He died on May 12, 1971 (My Wife's birthday) at the San Fernando Valley Hospital in San Fernando, California, from heart failure, at the age of 67. He was buried at the Eternal Valley Memorial Park in Newhall, California. You can visit his grave here.

An couple of interesting pieces of trivia:

The scar worn by Tor had to be moved every day, as it caused severe skin irritation.

Tor had a full head of blonde hair, but he shaved it to maintain an imposing, villainous appearance.

Tor's son Karl was a officer in the San Fernando Police Department during the filming of P9FOS and supplied the policemen's uniforms for the film.

By the way if you live in the Metro Are, be sure to catch Plan 9 this Saturday Night at 12:00 on Channel 20 Detroit on Wolfman Mac's Nightmare Sinema.

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Boris Skrulloff

In honor of Marvel Comics "Secret Invasion" I threw together this re-tooling of one of my Karloff portraits.

Enjoy!