When last we spoke about my assemblage art, I passed on the sad news that the Pandemonium Art Gallery in Ogden would be closing.  The new news is that, at the very end, the Pandemonium got new owners, who closed for the month of July to revamp it.  Tonight is the official reopening (it’s the…

Horror Hotel (1960) – A mostly not-silly movie saddled with a silly title (its alternate title, City of the Dead, is more respectable if no more accurate), its main problem is what I call “The Psycho Flaw,” i.e., establishing a protagonist and then killing that protagonist an unconscionably long time into the movie (oops, spoilers!)….

My first poster that clearly takes its inspiration from an existing franchise (I think that, with more than forty years since the last Blind Dead movie, it’s ripe for a reboot).

Mega Python vs. Gatoroid (2011) – Given that Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) relied entirely on the novelty of (a) the title and (b) the stunt casting of Debbie Gibson (a flavor of stunt that was mimicked in the next year’s Mega Piranha starring Tiffany), Mega Python vs. Gatoroid follows the same formula-slash-shtick: Low-rent…

Somewhere, there’s an alternate universe in which this movie was made.

Jane, the owner of the Pandemonium Art Gallery where just about all of my originals have been exhibited, made an announcement that the gallery would close at the end of July; while it’s apparently earned its own keep, it cuts into her more successful ventures such as her Youtube painting channel.  Alas, I shall actually…

Rogue One (2016) – The universe of Star Wars is now so broad in the public consciousness that we can start telling — not just for fanboys, but for the general viewing public for which a $200,000,000 budget makes sense — the ancillary stories of the people caught in the huge conflicts.  In other words, we can…

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) – I guess after the events of the first movie, Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) and Jackson (Steve James) were designated as the Armed Forces’ official inter-service ninja busters, because this movie sees them being transferred from the Army to a small, undisciplined Marine base in an unnamed tropical country (actually…

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) – This was the first of Hammer Films’ Frankenstein films (which led to their other signature “classic monster” franchises, Dracula and the Mummy and thus cementing their reputation as a horror movie company), as well as being the first film to pair the classic duo of Peter Cushing and Christopher…

I will be at Salt Lake Comic Con FanX this Friday and Saturday, with a table full of my recent B-movie posters (both 11″x17″ and postcard-size), at table “Teal 6” in Artists Alley, which is… …right where the red dot is in the upper left quadrant. (Click to embiggen.) I am on exactly ONE panel…