Software: Painter
When I found out about this contest I knew I would enter, and I immediately knew I would try to create a poster as authentically true to the genre as possible. I had an idea right away, and quickly began sketching it out. The plot I envisioned would revolve around a mysterious and scary fellow descending upon the hapless residents of a small town somewhere in middle America. The image itself would be that wonderful blend of salacious fleshiness and near-over-the-top horror we all crave from our B movies.Yummy!
The fellow I envisioned in the title role would have the qualities of a Rasputin, with a peasant’s profile, long stringy hair, and a pair of truely chilling and intensely hypnotic eyes. His horrible gift is control over the dead, affording him an ever-growing army of minions to assist him in his evil plans.He would of course fixate upon the most beautiful girl in town, prepared to raze the place to get control over the object of his desire. It is a lonely life, after all, what with the dead and one’s own corrupted soul as one’s only company!
And so we find ourselves with this image, which I concepted as two scenes from the movie composited for dramatic and narrative effect to help guarantee a box office rush. The poor girl (played by up and coming young starlet Dalia Shire) is being chased through the churchyard by family and friends alike, even her now zombified newlywed husband. To make matters worse, she has been roused directly from her nuptual slumbers and must search for sanctuary wearing little more than her birthday suit. Could she be more vulnerable and pity inducing?Towering over them all is the evil corpse king (none other than the great Claud Franz, a staple of B movies), seeming to direct his necromantic legions from above, like a god (or demon!).
