Long leave of absence hopefully over!
December 13, 2011 at 7:16 PM | Posted in around the world, celebrations, Christmas, costumes, effects, festivals, holidays, monsters, netherworld, scary stuff | Leave a commentDear friends, thank you for tuning in to this blog when you do. I have not only been busy these past few months, but I have been afflicted with an illness called Graves’ Disease. Essentially it is something going on in my body,possibly my thyroid, that is making my eyes cross, causing terrible double vision and a very wacked-out physical appearance, to be honest. And you know, working close up on things with sewing, and drawing, and especially typing long things to read, got, well, difficult. I hope you understand. But thanks to some strong medications I seemto be getting better ad I feel like writing again.
Since we are approaching Christmas, I thought I would share with you a terrific yet haunting video of a parade of Krampuses. Magnificent costumes on these guys..just look at the variety! My only lament is the use of so much real animal material.
I wish my Halloween employer, Netherworld, could host some sort of mini-festival of this sort, given that we have several fine Krampuses in our stable of costumed characters. 
Giant Attack Spider from FrightProps!
November 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM | Posted in animatronics, bugs, giant puppets, halloween, scary stuff, special effects | Leave a commentI know it’s after Halloween, and I have a lot of my own puppet stuff to post, but I thought I’d share something with the arachnophiles out there.
Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”
March 16, 2011 at 11:51 PM | Posted in animatronics, found objects, scary stuff, videos, vintage tv, weird stuff | 2 CommentsSo, anyone else get the living daylights scared out of them by this video when they were a kid? This video was creepier to me than most horror movies. Still, it’s some great work with robots.
Here’s a brief behind-the-scenes look:
Island of the Dolls. (VERY CREEEPY)
October 16, 2010 at 8:18 PM | Posted in halloween countdown, scary stuff | Leave a comment
Sometimes dolls fall into the category of puppets, right? Well, I guess that’s not the best intro in the world for this, but, my dear readers, I MUST show you this uber-creepy place.
From Oddity Central:
Known as “La Isla de la Munecas”, by the Spanish, The Island of the Dolls is perhaps the creepiest tourist attraction in Mexico. Located within an extensive network of canals, south of Mexico City, the island is a place of mystery and superstition.
Almost every tree growing on the island is decorated with old, mutilated dolls that give anyone the feeling that they’re constantly being watched. The story behind the Island of the Dolls began when a hermit by the name of Don Julian Santana moved here. Although he was married he chose to live the last 50 years of his life alone.
Don Julian used to say he was haunted by the ghost of the little girl who had drowned in one of the canals around the island. Some say he used to fish the dolls from the water because he though they were real children, but the truth is he was collecting and placing them around his home as a shrine for the spirit that tormented him. At one point he even traded home grown fruit and vegetables for old dolls.
Ironically, in 2001 Don Julian Santana was found dead by his nephew, in the same canal that he said the little girl drowned in. Now his Island of the Dolls is one of the world’s weirdest tourist attractions. Some tourists who visited this place claim the dolls whisper and you must offer them a gift upon setting foot on the island, to appease their spirits.
And now,I bet you’re just itchin’to see this wacked-out place..am I right?Hold onto your butts, readers; if you,like me, hate creepy dolls, this is guaranteed nightmare fodder.
The Zombie Pig I constructed, In ACTION!
July 25, 2010 at 10:02 PM | Posted in animals, commissions, scary stuff | Leave a commentHere he is, Pigamortis Wrex!
You just had….a lizard.
March 25, 2010 at 9:11 PM | Posted in monsters, scary stuff, tv puppets | Leave a commentSo there’s a new version of the old TV series V,which was about about aliens known as “The Visitors” trying to take over Earth.. Well, back in the 80′s, we had our low-budget version and dangitall,I enjoyed it. I see no reason to remake it.
I have found a clip from my most remembered scene from V: The Final Battle, the 1984 TV miniseries. V: The Final Battle was a sequel to the 1983 miniseries.
V: The Final Battle was to have delivered an exciting and emotionally satisfying conclusion to the Visitors chronicles, but NBC was not prepared to make the necessary budget available to realize the special effects. As a result,the effects are even more low-budget, and..well, see for yourself:
Incidentally, the girl was named Elizabeth, which I thought was awesome, and I was sad that the second twin, a boy, died.
While I’m on the subject of alien births involving puppets, here is a very powerful and almost enchanting scene from the TV series Alien Nation, in which a male “Newcomer”, George, delivers his baby. Literally.
In the series Alien Nation, long story short, the male of a couple gives birth to the baby from a pouch on the abdomen, much like a male seahorse.
Care to take a ride?
March 24, 2010 at 8:48 PM | Posted in characters, ghosts, monsters, non-puppet projects, Puppatoons books, scary stuff | Leave a commentCreeeeeepy horses on Puppatoons Tumblr today!!
Freddy Krueger Snake Head
February 22, 2010 at 5:46 AM | Posted in monsters, movies, scary stuff | Leave a commentHere is a behind-the-scenes look at a perfectly disgusting scene from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, featuring Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, and Robert Englund.
Freddy Krueger (Englund) turns into this snake-thing, and tries to swallow Kristen (Patricia Arquette)whole. Can’t find a clip from the real movie to show you, but trust me, its pretty horrific. I can show you a diorama of the gackworthy scene. The snake head also apparently does a lot of slimy mouth-frothing which I don’t remember, but the behind-the-scenes footage brings it to full goop-pumping life.
According to IMDb, the original “Freddy Snake” unintentionally came out looking too phallic. WAY too phallic.The crew only had one hour to film the scene, and they didn’t have enough time to paint it. So, it was covered in a green slime to overcome the “pinkish hue.”
I wonder how Robert Englund felt about having distorted versions of his Freddy Face appear in such…awkward ways?
EDIT: More behind the scenes footage that actually gives you a pretty good idea of how the snake head looked before it was covered in green goo(toward the end of the clip), and how the “swallowing”scene was set up:
EDIT 2: Found it!
“Tales of Edgar Allen Poe” at the Center for Puppetry Arts
February 1, 2010 at 11:20 PM | Posted in center for puppetry arts, puppetry center, scary stuff | 3 CommentsHoping I’ll get to see this again this year. Marvelously macabre.
If you can’t take clowns…
November 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM | Posted in halloween, jobs, scary stuff | Leave a comment
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