Beware the Ides of June!

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Joshua Hoffine

Joshua Hoffine's tongue-in-cheek riffs on Hollywood horror archetypes are the perfect post for Friday the 13th - a Friday which also happens to be the Ides of June. Beware!

According to Hoffine's website,

I stage my photo shoots like small movies, with sets, costumes, elaborate props, fog machines, and special effects make-up. . . My images are not photoshop collages. . . I use friends and family members as actors and crew. Everyone works for free. We do it for fun.

Staging scenes from imagined horror films is a pretty imaginative way to bond as a family, isn't it? You can see a behind-the-scenes look at Hoffine's creative process on his new blog, along with an interesting post on Disney:

Walt Disney had a love for the macabre. Most people do not realize that he was a pioneer in the American Horror genre. He was virtually the only animator of his era that made Horror cartoons.

The first Silly Symphony cartoon ever made was called THE SKELETON DANCE, and features a group of skeletons dancing and making music in a spooky graveyard. This cartoon was drawn single-handedly by Ub Iwerk for Disney, and was made in 1929, two years before DRACULA was released in 1931. DRACULA is regarded as the film that officially marks the beginning of the Classic Horror Era that developed at Universal Studios.

I had no idea. But Hoffine invites us to "Come back next month to see an image of a man eating his own arm!" Ooh, yay.

Via Soothbrush - thanks to Rhett for the tip.