Who was the 1950s-1960s film promoter who used to advertise that anyone who came to see his horror films had to sign a waiver that they were not susceptible to heart conditions?
The “warning” in the ad read just like one of his ads.
Ukulele Ike said:
Ah, so maybe it was actually you who was sleeping like a log (in the sense sirjamesp meant it).
tomndebb, I believe you’re thinking of Roger Corman, king of the b-horror flicks. Didn’t he also use gimmicks like slight electric shocks in the theater seats at a crucial moment, and something like a phosphorescent skeleton wired to fly over the audience? Schlock, but fun. And if I’m correct, he bragged that he never lost money on one of his films (probably because most of them were made for what you could buy a decent used car for, I suspect).
Get this:
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SURFING: You have received emails that people have been “repulsed”, made “physically ill” and “suffered from blackout/mind control experiences” just by viewing pictures of the painting???
L.B.: Yes. (SNIP) SURFING: When you say “3 very different responses,” What do you mean?
L.B.: An exorcist type of voice, along with a blast of hot air, like standing in front of an oven door. Two friends crying after this experience and praying until a minute had passed and everything went back to normal.
A new Epson printer that ate and mutilated page after page when the user tried to download images of this oil.
The Native American who became so ill he had to cleanse his house by burning white sage.He warned me not to put this item around small children, and that there is great evil contained here.
SURFING: What do you plan to do with the painting?
L.B.: ** I plan to sell it, or perhaps first investigate selling high quality limited edition prints of it. I have several offers from people to buy the original or good reproductions. **
So, Josaphine Average Citizen has a potentially dangerous painting that she keeps in her house with her child and instead of destroying this <sarcasim>foul and evil thing<sarcasim> she decides to spread the misery about by selling copies at $300 each!
I could not find what thing they were talking about and neither could another person I asked, who is very much into the psychic stuff and ghosts and pictures of similar type have shown up in mystery books over the years. That spooky doll figure is a favorite of spooky artists in creapy drawings.
This is all crap designed to hype up the price of the painting and to get suckers to buy copies!
[Edited by Ukulele Ike on 10-26-2001 at 10:07 PM]
So, I wonder who the artist is. If the owner is selling copies, the name of the painter ought to be listed. The person makes it sound as though it is someone famous.
It’s cool that someone followed up on it, though.
There appears to be two different paintings, though I don’t know why.
Look at the first set of pictures. In the first pic, there’s some brown thing that looks like the body of a guitar. It’s not present in the one next to it.
Below that is a pair of pictures of the boy’s head. If you compare “horizontal” lines, like the cut of the mouth especially (it is significantly more slanted in the one on the right), you’ll see that either it’s a second painting or it’s been scanned crooked. I’m not certain, but I don’t think it’s scanning.
(WTF? Hercules was attacked by a robot centaur? Is anyone else watching this old Lou Ferrigno bum flick?)
The rest of the pictures mean nothing to me.
I like the painting, though. Creepy. Like Lou Ferrigno’s bum.
That would be William Castle. John Goodman did a nice homage to him in Matinee.