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‘The Return of the Living Dead’ Star Clu Gulager Has Passed Away
The sad news has been spread across social media this afternoon that acting legend Clu Gulager has passed away, leaving behind countless memorable roles across his 93 years.
Here in the horror world, Clu Gulagar is best remembered as Burt in 1985 horror-comedy The Return of the Living Dead, and he also played Mr. Walsh the following year in A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge. Those are but two roles from a career that spanned nearly 70 years, with Gulager amassing an incredible IMDb resume that’s 165 credits long.
Clu Gulager also appeared in The Killers, The Last Picture Show, Mystery in Dracula’s Castle, The Killer Who Wouldn’t Die, The Initiation, From a Whisper to a Scream, The Hidden, Uninvited, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Teen Vamp, Puppet Master 5, the Feast trilogy, Piranha 3DD, Tangerine, Blue Jay, Children of the Corn: Runaway, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Clu Gulager is survived by his sons John Gulager and Tom Gulager. John Gulager directed his dad in the horror films Feast 1-3, Piranha 3DD, and Children of the Corn: Runaway.
“We need to laugh, we need to be scared, we need to hug our girl in the theater,” Clu Gulagar was once quoted as saying. “It lightens the load of this crummy life.”
On that note, we’ll be watching The Return of the Living Dead in Clu Gulager’s honor tonight. To laugh, to be scared, to lighten the load. We’ll miss you, Clu. Forever and always.
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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