William Castle's 1959 low budget masterpiece.  It made a fortune.  The house in the poster looks nothing like the actual house used for the exteriors, the 1924 Ennis house in Los Feliz, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.  Hitchcock made "Psycho" as a low budget movie after being inspired by this. Extensively used for movies, including Blade Runner. Filmed in Emergo.  That is a balloon with a skeleton popping out of the screen.  All these were destroyed by boys with slingshots.  Fuckin'A! Over the top camp masterpiece! My favorite actor. Elisha Cook!  Hell, now we got a movie.  Popcorn, please! Not to be confused with that other masterpiece of horror, Hill House.  Get it straight! Bet your bottom dollar I do!  Back in the day these movies worked for me because I was young and naive.   I mean, this house even had a vat of acid in the basement, how cool was that?  I

Meaning?  There is no meaning to be found on this site, just drawings. Wait- perhaps there is some meaning here.  Still, just a drawing.  But I think a very good one!   steve @_livingdog - Instagram

Bal des Ardents, dance of the burning ones.   January 28, 1393, Charles VI of France, along with five other nobles, are covered in tar and flax, to portray wildmen.  A spectator moves too close with a torch, and the men are ablaze.  The spectator was the king's brother, the Duc d'Orleans.  Torches and all fire had been forbidden, but the brother, drunk, pushed his way in.   The fifteen year old Joan, Duchess de Berry, throws her skirt over the king and saved his life.  The only other survivor was the Sieur de Nantouillet who jumped into an open barrel of wine.   The king was already crazy as hell and seems to have been a paranoid schizophrenic.  The French people saw this as a judgment and it further deteriorated the trust in the court.  Charles had already attacked and killed four of his officers while going to war, thought he was made of glass and wandered the court, naked, howling like a wolf.  Poe used this incident for his story 'Hop-Frog'. https://ww

Jack Chick. April 13 1924- Oct. 23 2016. Using the "Tijuana Bible" format, these comics were in every laundromat and phone booth when I was growing up.  They combined laughable artwork with threats of eternal damnation if one did not toe the fundamentalist line. Tijuana Bible.  Better art and story.  And theology.  I remember that some of these were better drawn, like by an artist.   The only people who think evolution means we are descendants of monkeys are Creationists. These things are wide open for mockery.  This is from some smart ass named Johnny Ryan. Ha Ha!  Another one.  This by Howard Hallis. I got this off of Newspaper Rock, an American Indian meets pop culture forum.  This one is about a warrior who gives over his spirit in order to kill a native Christian woman.  Fuck, a box of shells would run about 20 dollars, or you could just strangle her. But Jesus still

Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, known as Antonin.  The above is from Carl Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc. He had a most forceful personality. As Marat. Marat, signing death sentences.  From Napoleon, Abel Gance.       Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat. https://misterscribbles.blogspot.com/2018/11/apotheosis-or-behold-savior.html Toujours le Avant Garde, Non?   A very good artist in France just contacted me (9/13/21) and pointed out that this is Jean Cocteau.   https://www.deviantart.com/nat-ti   Pardon, monsieur Cocteau!  Parfois, je suis assez inconscient. A life of drug addiction and schizophrenia. As Savanarola.  Lucrecia Borgia, Gance.  Very fitting. Theater of Cruelty.  As a stage actor I say now that nothing can be crueler than the theater.  This guy was on top of things! One's art can reflect the inner person. Once so handsome.