Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Re-Animator

Re-Animator is one of my favorite films. here's some screenshots.










Re-Animator is a 1985 American science fiction horror film based on the H. P. Lovecraft story "Herbert West–Reanimator." Directed by Stuart Gordon, it was the first film in the Re-Animator series. The movie has become a cult film, driven by fans of Jeffrey Combs (who stars as Herbert West) and H. P. Lovecraft, extreme gore, and the combination of horror and comedy. It currently has a score of 92% on critic site Rotten Tomatoes.
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Plot

At Zurich University Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, Herbert West brings his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber (Al Berry), back to life. There are horrific side-effects, however; as West explains, the dosage was too large. When accused of killing Gruber, West counters: "I gave him life!"
West arrives at Miskatonic University in New England in order to further his studies. He rents a room from medical student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and converts the building's basement into his own personal laboratory. There is an instant animosity between West and faculty member Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale). West declares that Hill stole the theory of brain death from West's late mentor, Dr. Gruber. Dan discovers that West has re-animated his dead cat, Rufus, with a glowing reagent. West recruits Dan as his partner in research to defeat death. Dan's fiancee Megan dislikes West, especially after discovering Rufus re-animated in a state of dismemberment.
Hill manages to turn Dr. Halsey, the school's dean and Megan's father, against both West and Dan. Barred from the school, West and Dan sneak into the morgue to test the reagent on a human subject in an attempt to salvage their medical careers. The corpse revives and goes on a rampage, attacking the duo. Halsey stumbles upon the scene originally to force them out of the morgue for trespassing and, despite attempts by both West and Dan to save him, is killed by the re-animated corpse. Armed with a bone saw, West dispatches the reanimated cadaver. Unfazed by the violence and excited at the prospect of working with a freshly dead specimen, West injects Halsey with the reagent. Halsey returns to life, but in a zombie-like state.
Hill discovers West's work and gains guardianship over Halsey, whom he puts in a padded cell adjacent to his office. Dan and Megan break into Hill's office where they find evidence that Hill is obsessed with Megan and has lobotomized her father. Hill has gone to confront West in his basement lab and threatens to blackmail him to continue his research so that Hill can take credit for West's reagent. While Hill is distracted, West decapitates Hill with a shovel. Overcome with curiosity, West re-animates both Hill's head and body. While West is questioning Hill's head and taking notes, Hill's body knocks him unconscious. The body carries the head and steals West's reagent, returning to Hill's office. Exercising mind control over Halsey, Hill sends him out to kidnap Megan from Dan.
West and Dan track Halsey to the morgue, where they find Hill's body holding his head in a compromising position over a restrained Megan. West distracts Hill while Dan frees Megan. Hill reveals that he has re-animated and lobotomized several corpses from the morgue to do his bidding. However, Megan manages to get through to her father, who fights off the other corpses long enough for Dan and Megan to escape. In the ensuing chaos, Halsey is torn to pieces by the corpses after he destroys Hill's head and West injects Hill's body with what he believes is a lethal overdose of the reagent which began to destroy Hill's body. Hill's body mutates horribly and attacks West, who screams out to Dan to save his work as he continues fighting.
Dan retrieves the satchel containing West's reagent. As Dan and Megan run from the morgue, one of the re-animated corpses attacks and kills Megan. Dan takes her to the hospital emergency room and tries in vain to revive her. In despair, he injects her with reagent. Just after the scene fades to black, Megan screams, implying that her re-animation has backfired.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Heinrich Kley


Heinrich Kley is one of my favorite artists--his loose gestural style really does it for me.




Thursday, May 26, 2011

SUPER HERO SQUAD storyboards






These are some boards I did for the WORLD WAR WITCH episode of THE SUPER HERO SQUAD SHOW season 2.

Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Battlefield X




I submitted this to Heavy Metal, but it never got picked up--would like to do more of these

Thursday, March 24, 2011

CANNIBAL FLOWER-group show this sat. 3/26/2011 Downtown LA


CANNIBAL FLOWER
Saturday, March 26th
9pm-1am
Syrup
939 Maple Ave. near Olympic
3rd Floor
Los Angeles, Ca. 90015


Featured Artist
Michael Christy
http://www.facebook.com/people/M-Christy-Art/100000883176675

Huge Group Art Show
David Cooley, Gustavo Rimada, Raphael Delgado Jr., Michael Pukac, Nate Seubert, Crystal Sylver, Kelly Berg, Syliva Lizzaraga, Douglas Alvarez, Paul Torres, Monty Montgomery, Win Wallace, Nicole Bruckman, JoKa, Cody Lusby, Terri Berman, Eric Staniford, Laura Diamond, Stephen Canthal, John P. Wales, Andrea Iakovidis, Deryke Cardenaz, Yuki Miyazaki, Thea Saks, Greg Yoshitake, Lizzy Lane, Chuck U. Farly, Adrianne Walker, Brian Nieman, Tarikh Brown, Kristy Sandoval, Kasim Patton, Alejandro Navia, Nick Whitmire, Katherine Narducci, Julia Rauda, Frank Forte, Tim Bonette, Paula Oliva, Lynn Marie Greaves, David Mesina, Booleep, Greg Hardin, Donna Letterese, Phil Santos, Eban Lehrer, Veronica Marshall, Christopher Willingham, Rhiannon Marhi, Bob Kent, Gustavo Munoz, Diana Kohne, Sergio D. Robleto, Ivan Vega, Angela Morticia, John P. Wales, Clairfoster Browne, Benedigital, Chrystal Walker, Amy Bernays, Donna Abbate and more..

Live Painting
Yuki Miyazaki

Live Music
Bishop V. Spy
http://www.bishopvspy.com/

Live Performance
Tonya Kay
http://tonyakay.com/


$10 or $8 with one of these items OR $6 as walking art/costume
CEREAL, SOAP, SOUP, LOTION, STEW, TOOTHPASTE AND TOOTHBRUSHES, TUNA, DEODORANT, ASEPTIC JUICES, MOUTHWASH, CANNED FRUITS, SHAVING CREAMS, CANNED VEGETABLES, PERFUME / COLOGNE, PEANUT BUTTER AND JELLY

All items will be donated to the L.A. Food Bank

Free parking lot available - map attached.
Please park in lot.


www.cannibalflower.com