The Black Cat (Universal Pictures – 1934) Starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
Featuring the disembodied flying head and hand of Bela Lugosi, this movie poster is every single flavor of awesome.
darkinthedark does not claim copyright on these images. If you are the copyright holder and object to their presence here, please contact me and I will remove them.You may be asking me, “But the Tim Burton movie comes out in 2010! What does Alice in Wonderland have to do with 2009?” The answer is: anticipation. Besides, there are more items coming than just a Tim Burton movie. 2010 promises to be the “Year of Alice”. There are two movies, two video games, an MMO and a SyFy Channel miniseries coming. One of the video games will be Disney’s, based on the Tim Burton movie. The other game will be the sequel to American McGee’s Alice. The other movie is Malice in Wonderland, which IMDB currently shows as having been released, somewhere or other. Also, there has been an anticipatory avalanche of coolness.
Alas, no animal hats.
I can hear the moaning from my attic lair already. “Luna Lovegood!?!” you ask? Well to be honest, the choice was between Luna Lovegood and Bellatrix LeStrange. Let’s talk about the finer points. Bellatrix is crazy, dangerous and loves to scream about how she killed this or that person, and that’s fine. She also cuts a great pose with her mad eyes and crazy hair.
BUT…
Luna Lovegood has an Animal Hat
I know. I know. She’s about 200 years too young for me, but let’s be serious: Luna Lovegood is Really Weird. She has a name that really belongs to the deadly romance interest in a James Bond movie. She sees things that other people don’t. She doesn’t freak out at the sight of blood. She talks about weird things all the time. (Hm. She’s sounding a lot like all my exes.) To Harry Potter and the world, she is a secret sharer and an anchor in that dark place where nothing makes sense. She also has an animal hat and looks like a fairy. MMMMMMM. Yes, sometimes that marginalized strange girl who “sees things” turns out to be right in the end.
Besides, those funny glasses make me confused and excited. Hey lady, why don’t you look my way? Have you seen too much with those x-ray eyes?
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I first noticed Ghostella when she was the pale and frightening host of “Ghostella’s Haunted Tomb of… Horror and… Terrible things” or whatever it was that episode. I didn’t care. I was just waiting for her to turn the creepy music on. MMMmmmmm. With enough makeup, Ghostella can pass for a living person, under which guise she pretends to be Heidi Martinuzzi, founder and editor of Pretty Scary dot Net, a blog “For Women in Horror, by Women in Horror”. Our favorite episode of Ghostella’s Tomb was Noir D’Ivoire.
Little did this prepare us for her truly terrifying 2009 role in a movie by Stacy Ponder, (a.k.a. Final Girl) titled “Deadly Dress 4: Never A Bride“. Her role as a crazy lady in a pink dress who menaces the bride and then later meets an untimely death at the hands (or should we say hem) of a haunted wedding dress really made us sit up and pay attention. Wow. Like Nabokov writing Lolita in his third language, Ghostella is able to play a normal person playing a modern day witch in a pink dress with a horrible blond wig and kill it! If I was Paula Abdul, I’d be dancing.
Finally, Ghostella has an animal hat. This will make sense later, trust me.
Ghostella's Animal Hat
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Fhtagn Spoken Here.
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