Quatermass and the Pit

back cover i did for Little Shoppe of Horrors #40

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Illustration for Little Shoppe Of Horrors #39.

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The Creeping Flesh

 

 

 

The Lost Continent

 

Spot illustration for Little Shoppe of Horrors #37.

 

 

 

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. Drawn for Little Shoppe of Horrors #37.

 

 

 

Captain Kronos

Drawn for a Brian Clemens tribute in Little Shoppe of Horrors #34

Return of the Ripper!

 

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Kah and Zombie slave drawn for Little Shoppe of Horrors #32.
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Roll up - and die!

Vampire Circus is easily one of the strangest and most stylised of all Hammer movies. It has a sensibility of a dreamy euro art-house horror, like Jean Rollins - but with real actors, dramatic storytelling and rich production values.
...and, yes, much blood, sex and violence.

Like Captain Kronos, this adds new lore to the bloodsuckers handbook and conjures up a reality that's more Bros Grimm than Transylvanian Gothic.

Dick Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors # 30 lovingly celebrates its unique charms.

A real pleasure...

 

 

Nine Killed Her – Nine Shall Die!

 At long last...
Little Shoppe of Horrors #29 gives you Vincent Price and The Making of THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES and DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN. 

Rejoice!

Horror of Frankenstein

Little Shoppe of Horrors #28 spotlights The Woman in Black. This is Hammer returning to the Gothic, with a sumptuously dark screen version of Susan Hill's classic ghost story.

Personally, though Daniel Radcliffe wasn't half as bad as i thought he'd be (still terribly miscast) and the production design and cinematography delivered in beautiful moody gloomy spades, it all left me feeling a little flat. I wasn't convinced, wasn't involved enough, and it seemed too much like a series of creepy set pieces than a tight-knit narrative.

But it was a triumphant success for Hammer and will hopefully pave the way for more traditional  'tales of the supernatural'. And, for me, that's all good.

...issue 28 also fits in a loving tribute to the brilliant Jimmy Sangster. I chose to illustrate Dave Prowse from Horror of Frankenstein.

It's an entertaining misfire of a movie, part Carry On farce, part straight-face melodrama: it was Hammer's attempt at rebooting the franchise, but it didn't impress critics and it failed to launch Ralph Bates as the new Doctor Frankenstein (Four years later Peter Cushing returned in the superior Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell).

Bates does a good turn, and along with Kate O'Mara, seems to be enjoying himself. But Dennis Price is the best thing about it, he plays a wonderfully macabre body-snatcher, all charm with a pinch of Noel Coward camp. His stand-out scene is in a misty midnight graveyard. Price drinks wine, eats sausage and talks about fathering another child, whilst his dear delighted wife digs up a mutilated corpse...

Pardon me, but your teeth are in my neck

Over in Little Shoppe of Horrors #27 the full moon shines down on Dance of the Vampires/The Fearless Vampire Killers.

This is my contribution. At a quick glance it should look like Sharon Tate.

Fang you for looking.

Ya canna whack a bit of Jack(and Drac)

Some prelim sketches and the finished illustrations for Little Shoppe of Horrors #26.
This issue focuses on the making of Hands of The Ripper and other standout works by Peter Sasdy.

As ever, the mag comes highly recommended.

Hammer Wrap

Torn from the tomb to terrify the world, half bone, half bandage - MUMMIES!

I'd never drawn a mummy before, but I've popped that cherry 3 times... kinda glorified zombies with better table manners.

...and the glossy pouting glam among the dust and blood, the amazonic Valerie Leon.

Splendid films, splendid mag - Dick Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors #24, on sale now.

Dead Men and Snake Woman

Three illustrations done for Little Shoppe of Horrors #23, spotlighting John Gilling's Plague of the Zombies and The Reptile, two of Hammer's finest.

The issue includes the usual intensive research, in-depth interviews, movie posters, rare stills/photographs, and plenty of artwork from, among others; top bloke and top talent Neil Vokes, Ade Salmon, and the Mighty Bruce Timm.

Satanic Rites

A Chris Lee pic i did for Little Shoppe of Horrors #22, which spotlights the 70's set Hammer Dracula movies. A very groovy issue, have a viddy over at; http://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

More Hammer

Two spot illo's i did last week, for Little Shoppe of Horrors #21. It's the first time(and not the last) I've contributed to Richard and Nancy Klemensen's lovingly produced magazine, a personal favourite, and required reading for anyone who cares about Hammer, or British horror movies in general. It's a fanboy thrill to participate.

#21 will focus on The Curse of Frankenstein , out in September.