Tonight’s late-night funky, macab festivus is 1962’s Carnival of Souls I hope you enjoy this one mucho.
From Google: Carnival of Souls is a chilling, and slightly distrubing, cult black and white film from 1962. A talented young organist called Mary Henry is the only survivor of a car accident. Her two friends, like the car they were in, remain lost somewhere at the bottom of the river. After the accident Mary leaves town and heads for Salt Lake city where a new job and a rented room are waiting for her. Before she even reaches the City though strange things start happening to her. As she drives past an abandoned carival pavillion, Mary looks out of the passenger side window of her car and sees a man’s face staring in at her.
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This bit of video is clearly a bit of “odd” so to say! The drawing is quite literally elementary. But the systems of pulleys, levers, and automated funk it showcases might have a future!
Tonight’s B movie classic is the harrowing tale of a young woman working for a cosmetics firm who finds herself the first human test subject of a new beauty serum made from wasp enzymes. she so stereotypically fails to think (as cheesy movies go) of the grotesque side effects that even a pharmacist of the Cialis era might think twice about!
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Starring Susan Cabot
Directed by Roger Corman
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Check back here next Saturday for more Funky Flicks from the Outskirts!
I remember watching Bob Ross on PBS during the 80s, and thinking it can’t be that easy. I would watch Bob start off with a blob of paint and produce a fabulous painting. And every week, as he finished the painting, I would say, “That looks pretty good, Bob. . . NO! What are you doing? It was great without that tree! Oh. Well, you’re right, that looks much better.”
I was devastated when Bob died in 1995. My Saturdays suddenly became empty and drab.
I consider myself more of a cartoonist than an artist. I have been cartooning my entire life. Late in 2006, I decided to try painting and looked up my old friend and took the plunge. So far, as I write this in early 2007, I have produced over 30 paintings–most copies from the show–and find myself with a new passion: Painting!
