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Dog Watches ‘Deathgasm’ At Film4 FrightFest
Film festivals can be a unique experience to encounter a movie with a like minded audience members. Chances are you will get special treatment with guests and the such. With sold out audiences & a heightened intense setting all kinds of crazy can kick off (Did you read about the passing out & puking caused by Bite?). Film4 FrightFest just wrapped their 16th edition in London, England over their long weekend & I was subject to a strange occurrence. Arriving late at my designated seat I was greeted by a mutt & it’s companion. A visually impaired guest of the festival had snatched my seat. The seeing eye dog proceeded to watch the “Metal As Fuck” Deathgasm from start to finish. With blind demon plot points I couldn’t help but expect the doors of the movie theatre to be locked in Bava twist of fate.
#thatawkwardmoment when a blind woman & her seeing eye dog steal your seat at the UK premiere of #Deathgasm #F4FF15 pic.twitter.com/GLhinQ0pOg
— Jonny Bunning (@JonnyBunning) August 29, 2015
Inspired by these events here are ten movie hounds (from hell and other places).
Cujo
ABCs of Death
Dog Soldiers
Sherlock. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Zoltan Hound of Dracula
White God
Blood Glacier
Danny The Dog
Dogs (1977)
Ghostbusters
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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