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[horrorhunter]

"Lemme at 'em *hic*"

[jerod]

Too bad they never made a live action film adaptation of the Gold Key Turok comic book with Ray Harryhausen dynamation. Man, that would have been a Dinokid dream. 

How about these?

[horrorhunter]

Well... The dinos look like CGI, and that dude looks more like a Chippendale dancer than Turok. I guess I'm picky about that '60s Dinokid esthetic.

But, hey... I appreciate the effort. 

[horrorhunter]

My favorite big bug movie.

I saw it first on Big Movie Shocker with Bestoink Dooley in Athens, Ga. when I was 5 years old in 1964.

[horrorhunter]

Rather hawt promotional photo of Sir Christopher and some Hammer Hotties for Taste The Blood Of Dracula.

[Mike Scott]

How about these?

Wow! There's some really bad Photoshop work on that Turok model!

[jerod]

Wow! There's some really bad Photoshop work on that Turok model!

Can I at least get an "E" for effort?

[Mike Scott]

Can I at least get an "E" for effort?

I'm sorry! I didn't know you did those. It's the arms. Why were they replaced?

[Memphremagog]

Nice shot of the hideously disfigured PROJECTED MAN..

[ChristineBCW]

(Memph, this always poses two questions to me: (1) was that a one-piece mask that could be used over and over, or did it tear too frequently and they made the actor sit there for re-application and touch-ups; the era of the film makes me hope it was a durable mask; and (2) where did the mythology of a melted face originate?  Probably from texts in the latter 1800s, but I wonder if such horrifying disfigurements written about pre-1850?  Publishing, even then, was nascent then and I wonder if it was more restricted to news and politics, or business plotting, rather than entertainment?

[Mike Scott]

where did the mythology of a melted face originate? 

Don't know if it was the first, but there was Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar".

"As I rapidly made the mesmeric passes, amid ejaculations of "dead! dead!" absolutely bursting from the tongue and not from the lips of the sufferer, his whole frame at once --within the space of a single minute, or even less, shrunk --crumbled --absolutely rotted away beneath my hands. Upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome --of detestable putridity."

[ChristineBCW]

Published 1845, and I think it's reasonable to assume he wasn't the first but merely using imagery he'd heard about.  After all, burnings of humans is nothing new, nor is decaying.  Doing it quickly, in this case, might have been 'a first' but he was quite a reader himself so I think it's reasonable he was adding to his repertoire rather than inventing a whole new concept.

Thanks for that, Mike.  The Wiki page has a B&W drawing from 1919, but it lacks your image's Zero and Tony.

[Memphremagog]

The realization of the melting sequence from Valdemar, as shown in Roger Corman's TALES OF TERROR..

[Memphremagog]

One of the rather disgusting looking Silicate monsters from ISLAND OF TERROR(1966)

[Memphremagog]

Some classic Mexihorror images from their heyday of the 1950's-1960's:

Count Lavud of THE VAMPIRE and THE VAMPIRE'S COFFIN



The bizarre title fiend of THE BRAINIAC