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This Awesome Artist Was Inspired By “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark”
Turn out the lights and prepare for nightmares.
In the three-book Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series, folklorist Alvin Schwartz offered up alarming tales of horror, dark revenge, and supernatural events. Those stories were brought to life by artist Stephen Gammell, whose whimsical and deeply terrifying illustrations helped make the books iconic slices of nightmare fuel.
The Scary Stories books served to bite countless young readers with the horror bug back in the ’80s and ’90s, and one artist in particular has been so deeply inspired by Gammell’s illustrations that his own art looks like it was ripped straight out of the pages of Scary Stories books you’ve never read.
Andy Sciazko, who illustrated the Scary Stories tribute book Nightmare Soup, has mastered that iconic Gammell style, and we wanted to share some of his awesome tribute art with you here today. If you’re a fan of the Scary Stories books, particularly the drawings, you are going to LOVE what Sciazko is bringing to the table.
Grab selects prints over in Andy’s Etsy shop and follow him on Instagram.
While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.
This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.
You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!
In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?
“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.
“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”
Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.
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