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Complete Your Halloween Costumes With These Replica Film Jackets
It’s September, and that means Halloween is right around the corner (don’t lie, some of you thought the same thing). A few weeks back, we showed off a store that sold replica leather jackets, including one that replicated Leon’s Resident Evil 6 jacket. And while California and UK-based Film Jackets doesn’t do video games, they do handle film and TV shows.
Like the upcoming Venom starring Tom Hardy.
With the film scheduled for release October 5th in the US, Film Jackets has a couple of Venom-inspired items, including replicating Eddie Brock’s jacket in the film, as well as those promo shirts featuring Venom’s head behind a giant V.
You can also find items such as Ryan Gosling’s coat from Blade Runner 2049, a take on Negan’s jacket from The Walking Dead, Ghost Rider’s jacket from Agents of Shield, a couple of jackets from Riverdale, and even Chris Pratt’s vest from Jurassic World. They even have Jared Leto’s ivory tux from his role as The Joker in Suicide Squad, if you’re so inclined.
Click here to get started on your Halloween costume.
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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