Sunday 30 July 2017

INTERZONE DISPATCHES: Report #4.5




Time to resurrect this long running series of posts, celebrating alternate art inspired by the films of David Cronenberg.

Previously:





Today it's time to don your blood-red surgical gown, and dust off your trusty Clark Nova. We're diving into two tales of addiction: a gynaecological nightmare, and the hallucinatory birth of one of the 20th century's greatest works of  literary art. So, roll up your sleeves and have a taste of the Black Meat, this is DEAD RINGERS and NAKED LUNCH.


DEAD RINGERS









Scream Factory blu ray cover (artist unknown)




Of Stick and Bone




Beautiful artwork for Mondo's OST by Randy Ortiz










NAKED LUNCH





















Lovely journal entries from Emanuel Santos








Lavish poster design from Maxime Dickner




The winner this Dispatch is Rich Kelly for his stunning work for Mondo's vinyl soundtrack






Next time: M. BUTTERFLY + CRASH + EXISTENZ


Monday 17 July 2017

George A. Romero




I could write thousands of words on the life of George A. Romero, but frankly I'm feeling too gutted to put the words together. His influence on horror, on cinema, is inestimable. His influence on me personally since 1979 has been profound.

Cultural iconoclast. Cinematic maverick. Rebel. Romero's films held a mirror up to the western world, encouraging us to reflect on and examine some of our ugliest problems: greed, xenophobia, social injustice, militancy, and nationalism. In his life and work he was fiercely independent, never compromising his values, toiling to the end outside of the corporate studio system that he railed against.

And the man was quintessentially cool, a quality that saturates his entire filmography. Countless imitators have tried to equal the badass chemistry of Peter, Roger, Fran and Stephen, but only Romero could have created an elite squad of apocalyptic survivors as perfectly cool as that foursome.

In 1968 the release of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD heralded the modern era of horror cinema. The father of that epoch is gone, but his legacy lives on in every film, every shot, every frame of the genre that he was so instrumental in shaping.