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These Faux Horror Trading Card Packages are Retro Awesome
That rock hard gum though.
There was a time, in a past so distant that it’s become hard to remember, when popular horror movies were given their own trading cards. Franchises like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Jaws all spawned trading cards, and who could ever forget Topps’ Fright Flicks line, which collected together many of our favorite horror icons from the ’80s?
Sure, those days may be long behind us, but artist Zack Wallenfang is nostalgic for them and he’s taken it upon himself to bring them back. For a couple years now, Wallenfang has been turning his favorite movies – horror and otherwise – into faux wax packages that look like ’80s Topps offerings, and they’re so authentic that we can almost smell the gum.
Wallenfang, clearly a horror fan, has given the retro Topps treatment to a heaping handful of classic horror flicks, including The Exorcist, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Hellraiser, The Thing, and even more recent faves like Death Proof and It Follows.
But enough yapping. Check out Zack’s nostalgia-inducing handiwork below!
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‘Dead Mail’ Exclusive Images: SXSW Horror Movie Begins With a Blood-Stained Postal Box Delivery
One of the genre films we’re looking forward to checking out at SXSW this year is Dead Mail, written and directed by Joe DeBoer and Kyle McConaghy and premiering on March 9.
Meagan Navarro will be reviewing Dead Mail for Bloody Disgusting as part of her SXSW coverage, and she writes in her preview for the upcoming fest: “Dead Mail leans heavily into the ’80s analog aesthetic, delivering a unique crime thriller unafraid to get offbeat with its dark narrative. Expect its characters to be as atypical as Dead Mail‘s sense of style.”
In the SXSW 2024 horror film…
“On a desolate, Midwestern county road, a bound man crawls towards a remote postal box, managing to slide a blood-stained plea-for-help message into the slot before a panicking figure closes in behind him. The note makes its way to the county post office and onto the desk of Jasper, a seasoned and skilled “dead letter” investigator, responsible for investigating lost mail and returning it to its sender. As he investigates further, Jasper meets Trent, a strange yet unassuming man who has taken up residence at the men’s home where Jasper lives.
“When Trent unexpectedly shows up at Jasper’s office, it becomes clear he has a vested interest in the note, and will stop at nothing to retrieve it…”
Sterling Macer, Jr., John Fleck, Susan Priver, Micki Jackson, Tomas Boykin, and Nick Heyman star in Dead Mail. Preview the film with an exclusive image gallery below.
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