It was a concept that came from the deepest darkest recesses of my mind,
laced with salivating evil behind it. It was an idea that glimpsed into
the future with obsidian voodoo glow skull eyes, springing up in the
synapses of my brainpan with lightning correctness and clarity.

Yes, I would make a series of posters harkening back in feel and flavor
to the Horror B-Movie posters of the 1950s and 1960s era - when
exploitation and sensationalism were the hot promotional selling points. Well along with tits & ass of course!
An era when horror movies had fun and fantasy, back when they had tush
and titties. And so I decided to do a little homework. I watched older
cult films like “The Hills Have Eyes” as well as more modern cult films
like “The House of 1000 Corpses”. I watched films like “Tourist Trap,” a
‘70s horror flick starring
Chuck Connors that is perhaps one of the most unnerving horror films
ever made.

Now I was armed with sinister inspirations and ready to rock. I would
organize and shoot 14 horror / exploitation influenced photographs and
find a genius graphics guy to mock them up with text and graphics into
sickeningly delightful posters. But where would I find a graphics guru
to collaborate with... Well they say that only if you’ve been
particularly wicked all year do you get presents from the devil just in
time for All Hallows Eve. My gift came in human form, one Brian J.
Bonislawsky, fontmaker and graphic genius.

As chance would have it, Brian and I were like-minded people on the same
dark path. I knew right away that he was meant to be my collaborator in
conjuring up these dark visions. After all, we all know that dark people
bring dark images to life, but what Brian didn’t know was that he was in
for a long haul. In the end, it would take over 20 hours to conjure up
all 14 posters.

Every incantation needs its ingredients though, and before Brian could
even begin invoking my photographs into poster form, I had to summon up
and shoot the 14 photographs to start with. Many strange props were
needed, everything from fresh pig heads, raw and bloody meat, butchers
knives, hypodermic needles, baby doll heads, demon wings and other such
things. We would also need a master makeup artist to “resurrect the
demon divas”, so to speak. Not all of these things were the easiest to
find, but somehow the darkness did its bidding and all that was needed,
including makeup artist Jim Sacca, was miraculously at hand.

In retrospect, I don’t think anyone else has ever done anything remotely
like this. Remember who created it first.

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