Music For a Giallo Evening

Over at the film blog groove-machine that is Cinebeats, Kimberly Lindbergs has been making horror-themed music compilations all month long (part of The Countdown to Halloween) and her latest, Giallo Note, might just be the most inspired installment. Gathering music from a wide spectrum of Giallo films, you’ll hear pieces from Morricone to Goblin and dive [...]

Read Full Post »

Edwige Fenech For an August Moon

 An illustration of Italian actress, Edwige Fenech, based upon a scene from Mario Bava’s, Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970), plus stills from some of her films (including Five Dolls).

Read Full Post »

Edwige Fenech, Italian Horror Actress

Read Full Post »

Sophia Macello: Freelance Assassin

  Sophia Macello’s character has been evolving of the past several months, as does her back-story. She has become a much darker character than what I first started with, but still with a slight camp appeal (maybe a little more serious than, say, Danger Diabolik which, initially, was my primary inspiration). She has become motivated [...]

Read Full Post »

I’m On Cinebeats!

The wonderful website devoted to 60′s and 70′s cinema, CINEBEATS, recently had a post about film art which included images from amazing cartoonists like Darwyn Cooke, Paul Pope, Shag, Pete Emslie and…me? Wow, what an an honor to be included among such amazing artists! And if you are a fan of international cinema from the [...]

Read Full Post »

Edwige Fenech

  Although this illustration doesn’t really look anything like Edwige Fenech, the Italian film actress (well, the eyes, maybe), I’ll will say that it was inspired by Edwige Fenech. Fenech has made dozens of movies, most notably many in the Giallo genre (Italian thriller/horror films). Some of her more famous Giallo films include “5 bambole per la luna d’agosto” (Five Dolls for [...]

Read Full Post »