David Lynch on product placement.

Daily poster: Cut-Throats Nine.

Happy birthday to one of the most brutal Spaghetti Westerns, Cut-Throats Nine. IMDB has the film premiering in Barcelona on July 10, 1972. Good times.

A group of outlaws is being transferred to a new prison. An ambush and subsequent escape leaves only an Army sergeant, his daughter, and a group of convicts alive. The convicts are all chained together. The Sergeant is unusually desperate to get to civilization. The land is harsh. The convicts are ruthless and cunning. The Sergeant's daughter is weak. One of the convicts may be kind, or he may be devious. Will they starve to death? Freeze to death? Or kill each other? A cool story.

Cut-Throats Nine is the heaviest of Spaghetti Westerns. Only The Great Silence comes close. The music is somber, rhythmic, and depressing. There are no good guys. Everyone is hate-able except the Sergeant's daughter, who you can tell is only there to be violated and traumatized. The film is also the goriest of Spaghetti Westerns. Coming near the end of the Spaghetti Western cycle, in 1972, the film stretched the genre into the village of the exploitation film in order to sell some tickets. The gory violence is a tool to this end.

A couple of years ago, rumors began circling that Harvey Keitel was going to film a remake. The second act of the original is so very heavy and so slow; while the core story is excellent, Cut-Throats Nine is a perfect candidate for a remake.

The trailer has quick cuts of gore and boobs.

Anacondoa squeeze!

My friend, Eric, sent this horrifying picture over today. It's from a friend of a friend on Facebook.

DESDE LA AMAZONIA DEL BENI -BOLIVIA HASTA EL RESTO DEL MUNDO!!!!! ESA E UNA SICURI.

From the Amazon of Beni, Bolivia to the world.  It's an anaconda.

Thank you for being a friend.

50 greatest matte paintings.

Matte painting is a dead art, another casualty of the ham-fisted CGI industry. Shadowclocked.com has sifted through film history to curate The 50 Greatest Matte Paintings of All Time.

I love that the author comments on each selection and gives a bit of information on the artist and the matte's history. Great stuff on a subject that I am little familiar with.

Rottenwaters.

Please, Kill Mr. Kinski.

UPDATE: It looks like Mr. Schmoeller found this upload and requested it be taken down.

An oldie, but a goodie. This is the cleanest version of this short I've seen.
David Schmoeller's short, Please, Kill Mr. Kinski used to only last a few months on YouTube. Inevitably, we would see a take down order from Mr. Schmoeller, himself. Perhaps he has realized that while this short is an amazing piece of work, it's not a money maker.

The film, Crawlspace has got to be seen to be believed. If you you are a Klaus Kinski fan, you've got to get your grubby mitts on this film.

While I watched the film for the first time, I was texting a friend. Here are those notes (BEWARE: SPOILERS and terrible writing.)
- I've never seen Crawlspace with Klaus and I'm watching it on Netflix right now. The opening scene is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RAAAAAAAAAD!!!!!!!!!

- It's only about 30 seconds but he is such a rad douche. "She can't talk, I cut her tongue out.......... It's too bad. I liked you." And then some complicated contraption kills the lady. It's fucking crazy. HA!

- The next shot was him with a single bullet with his name etched into the bullet casing. He rubs some blood on it and plays Russian roulette. Then roll opening credits.

- Crawlspace is great stupid fun so far. I'm loving it. Klaus especially pissed me off because this cute nerdy chick was just about to take a bath and he distracted her. Hahahahahahahah, now he's putting on makeup in front of Martha, his slave friend in a cage.

- WAIT
It makes perfect sense. Klaus put on the makeup to watch films of Hitler. Duh.
 
- Now she's crawling through the crawlspace and he's chasing her on a fucking crawlspace SLED!

- Klaus is so fucking slimy and horrible. I love him.
It's a very good movie. It is so cheesy and terrible, I love it.
Martha looks like some chick in Martyrs but with 80's low budget lighting where there is NO MOOD. 

Just to show I wasn't exaggerating, here's the trailer. "Between the wall... and Hell. Crawlspace."

Godland poster.

Artist, Tom Scioli just posted this triptacular Godland blacklight poster.
In addition to his graphic duties on Godland, Tom has been working on a super cool and endlessly strange web comic called Final Frontier lately. The story revolves around a space age band and their adventures. It is super fun. Check it out HERE.

Just a Superman fan film.

Disney animator, Robb Pratt created this "fan film." It is a short, but amazing piece of animation.

Last year, Pratt released, Superman Classic. I guess I was living under a rock. This year's film, Bizarro Classic, is even better. Amazing work.

Here is Superman Classic as well.

OH YEAH!

I don't know who made this, but I got THIS link from Matt. Awesome.

The shiny and wet looking art of Dieter Van der Ougstraete.

Monster Brains just published a wondertastic gallery of art by Dieter Van der Ougstraete.  I love the almost sexual, almost gory, nature of his work.

The gallery is HERE.