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nother Monster Carnival has come and gone again. It never ceases to amaze me how this con just keeps getting bigger every year. This year they brought back some amazing guests and also added in a few new to participate in the fun. Some of the guests included, but are not limited to:
mostly to stay and hang out and all sales after booth costs are just the cherry on top. Art's main goal and drive for this convention is to help promote the Guests he has coming to his show and to fuel the sales of local artists. He knows that helping out the local artists is The Legendary Count Gregor of course was in attenda mandatory thing to keep this “underground” culture ance. It just isn't the Underground Monster Carnival or going. He's also very keen on having vendors that any Art Sunday show without Count Gregor! Count make hand crafted merchandise that you can't just buy Gregor is known as the local horror host of the show on the internet. He strives for uniqueness and very well “Shock Theater”. The Count aka John Ferguson is also gets that at his shows and also at his store that he co known for hosting and acting in many other great hor- owns with his lovely wife, Stephanie Sunday. Together ror related shows truly earning him “Legendary” status. they make a great team and are just so sweet and Scream Queen Anjanette Clewis is one of our very down to earth and when talking to them you can tell own talented local actors who has been in many horror that this IS their passion. If for some reason you missed movies like, American Nightmare, Through Hell, Pump- this show I suggest you check out their store Dig It in ken and Witchcraft 13, just to name a few. OKC, on the Plaza. There you will find a sampling of Craig Scott Lamb came to grace us with his presence what kind of vendors you might see at the shows. as well. Lamb is the owner of American international Pictures and Castle Films. These are just to name a few. Art also realizes that to make his Underground Monster Carnival special and to keep this culture going is to get I would really like to point out some of my absolute the younger crowds in the doors. To do this he offers favorites that I consider to be great friends as well. costume contests and coloring contests. And boy were Writer Dennis McDonald was there making some killer there some wonderful kids costumes this year. I absosales of his books, Ebon Moon, 13 Nightmares, and lutely loved this little Sally from “The Nightmare Before his newest book Undead Flesh. Christmas” that was running around. And what's even Felix Matos came all the way here from Louisiana to more fun is the adults can dress up too and not feel out come back and sale us some of his awesome art. of place at all. Some of my favorites this year in adult Among his other talents is writing and directing, one of costumes was The Monster High Girls, Darth Vader, Dr. those films he wrote and directed was the aforemenWho, A porcelain doll, and a really great Joker with tioned Pumpken that starred Anjanette Clewis. And Harley Quinn. Not to mention a life size R2-D2 making there of course were so many more guests and artists the rounds during the con. Well needless to say I had a that I did not name. blast and I look forward to next year. So mark your calendars and get ready for THE UNDERGROUND MONI think the real star of the show is Art Sunday. This STER CARNIVAL IV on March 7th, 2015!!! convention has been his dream become reality. Art has definitely put his heart and soul into making a show Link: that is almost like a big party/con family reunion of http://www.undergroundmonstercarnival.com/ sorts. The feeling of closeness I get being a part of this convention is unreal. I set up a booth at this convention
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for a third astronaut who figures very briefly and Ed Harris’s voice as mission conThe trailer for this film set the tone of anxiety and terror months before its release. Having seen it before a
trol) are caught in a chain-reaction of debris that reduces their shuttle to catastrophic failure status. Now, two fig-
viewing of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the trail- ures whose lifelines (figuratively and literally) are severed er left a distinct impression of dread that influenced my
must figure out how, if at all, they’re going to get back to
unconscious mind even during the three-plus hours of Peter Earth. It is with regards to the general fragility of the huJackson’s fantasy epic that followed. Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity shares its trim 90
man figure that Gravity proves most successful, as the relationship between two human beings and the indifferent
minutes of running time with its narrative time, creating a
oppressiveness of space proves that the former have no
tension that builds commensurately with the ticking away
business confronting the latter on any terms. Granted,
of minutes. A chain reaction of catastrophes befall Sandra Gravity is not a horror film in the sense of genre, but its Bullock’s Ryan Stone and George Clooney’s Matt Kow-
use of the empty vastness of space as monster, as the ele-
alski in a real-time procession of spectacle after spectacle. ment of the unknown that a successful horror film requires But whereas numerous other spectacle-reliant films tend to in order to capture an audience’s attention, is just as efficonfuse with on onslaught of visual overload (the entire
cient here as any slasher could be. As treated by Gravity,
Transformers franchise), Gravity marries its high-action to
space is foreign and unpredictable except in one way;
the beauty of its realistic (and terrifying) setting to present
space is a cold, indifferent killer, and in that specific re-
a delicate choreography of visual stimuli that never dis-
gard one can be certain.
tracts, only engages.
Considering Sci-Fi/Horror hybrids, a very real
By now the generalities of the plot are well known: comparison can be made between Ryan Stone and Althe film’s two protagonists (and only two characters but
ien’s Ellen Ripley, and not just by the obvious fact of gen-
der. Both Stone and Ripley enter their respective narra-
occurs in the film is impossible. For me, the accuracy of
tives with a certain misplaced sense of knowing how life
whether or not certain plots points are realistic is only
ought to work and what their places are in it, and both
important at the subjective level from viewer to viewer;
find that certainty stripped away once confronted by the
after viewing, you can decide for yourself whether its
horror of a violent unknown. By the end of each film,
inaccuracies ruin the movie or whether you are able to
both characters have been forced to reconsider their ide- extend the limits of belief far enough that you don’t care, as regarding who they are and what exactly their place
because, consciously or not, we’re all doing that with
is in a world that just got much scarier. Ripley carries this every film we watch anyway. Granted, Gravity does not newfound
sell itself so much as a
knowledge
galaxy-far-away space
throughout the
opera so much as it seems
course of the Al-
to base its narrative on the
ien franchise,
current science our age
and there is a
deals in; we can forgive
sense that is there
more in Star Wars than
was room for a
we can in Apollo 13. But
Gravity sequel
consider the ridiculousness
(please don’t) Ryan Stone would be a very different char- that is Armageddon’s entire running-time and, at least in acter as well. Since its release, Gravity has undergone quite a
my opinion, the fallacies in Gravity are much easier to look past. What is certain, is that Gravity is able to deliv-
bit of possibly well-deserved scrutiny with regards to its
er more anxiety and terror in its 90 minutes than any re-
excessively liberal application of the laws of physics.
cently produced horror film I’ve seen in quite some time.
Various interviews conducted with astronauts, experts from NASA, and, most famously, the celebrity-physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson reveal that most of the action that
he history of St. Patrick’s Day, which started out as a Holy Day for the Irish Catholics in the 10th or 11th century, goes all the way back to the late 3rd century when a small boy was born in Roman England by the name of Maewyn.
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Maewyn and his family lived in a small town where his father was a soldier in the army, and a member of the town government. Some accounts say that Maewyn was an agnostic and some say that his family was Christian, but weren’t very strong in their faith. Either way, it doesn’t really matter because it was what happened later in his life that gained him his notoriety. When Maewyn was only 16, there was a raid on his village from Ireland, in the Irish Sea. They captured Maewyn and many of the villagers, and took them back to Ireland as servants and slaves for the local Irish. After 30 years of missionary work, he died on March 17th. This is the day that has gone down It was here in captivity that it is reported that in history as St. Patrick’s Day, for the patron Maewyn accepted God, and began to talk to saint of Ireland. him. In fact, legend has it that he often spoke to God in prayer up to one hundred times a day. St. Patrick’s Day today has grown into much And Maewyn was under the authority of a Celtic more than just a Holy Day for Catholics. Strict family, so he learned the Celtic language and Catholics around the world though do remember how to speak it fluently. Six years later, when St. Patrick, usually in an early Mass on March he was 22, Maewyn escaped from his servitude, 17th. But everyone joins in as a celebration of and ran to France. There he joined a monastery St. Patrick’s Day and becomes Irish for the day. and under the direction of the Bishop of France, It has now become a celebration of spring with he studied the Bible. It was this Bishop who parades special Irish meals, green tinted drinks gave him the name Patrick. Legend has it that and beer, etc. “The wearing of the green” and while Patrick was here in the monastery, he the Leprechaun have come about over the years heard angels calling him back to Ireland. to be Good Luck and prosperity to all and everything green typically represents the turning to After spending 12 years in the study of theology spring – green is the color of life. and Catholic Laws, he departed and went to Ireland to preach to a heathen nation. He spent 30 So, with one day to be Irish, take advantage, years in evangelistic and missionary work across and have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day. the land. He won many converts over, healed people, and it was even said that he raised some people from the dead. Everywhere he went he announced God, and he built many schools and churches to help promote the Catholic religion. Legend has it that angels followed him everywhere, and even told him where and how to go.
Hailing from Mandurah, Western Australia, spawns what is speculated to be insane-in-themembrane alternative model, Macabre Lilith. This fascinating creature can only be described as creepy, sadistic and morbid with a sarcastic, smartarse, twisted sense of humor. Macabre Lilith can often be seen dwelling in the woods (or in various other locations) dousing herself in blood in the name of photographic art.
shallow concept of the alternative realm, one which scares and deters them, therefore never discovering the majestical beauties of the dark side that lie within. In turn, jeering at what they don’t understand. It was not long later, while doing her first photo-shoot who encouraged her natural beauty, that Macabre Lilith discovered the epiphany that would pave the way to her current career. She doesn’t model for fame or glory. She models to show the world that the “alternative” side of life Since establishing herself as a freelance alternais pretty much the same as the “mainstream” side tive model in 2011, this 5 foot freak has collabo- of life in the sense that we can express emotion in rated with a plethora of photographers, make-up art. We can be serious, funny, scary, formal, etc... and hair stylists whom have aided the concepts We dress different, we act different and our music that derive from the cogitation of her own conis different. But that's what the world is all about. sciousness, screaming to be released to the world. Being different and having variety. Through her She has been internationally published in various modeling, she hopes to change (even just one permagazines and has even appeared as a guest on son here and there) the minds of those who don't radio show, being interviewed by the gorgeous understand the alternative world. To accept everyJoan V. Along in her quest, she has modeled Aus- one as they are, even if their interests do dwell in tralian clothing brands, Dusk Moth and Red Dusk the darker concepts. and even recently promoting band merchandise for local Western Australian death/grind metal bands, CorpseFlesh and Facegrinder. Macabre Lilith never adjusted to the mainstream society and despite being teased at school, remained steadfast to her true darker self. She would struggle with self esteem issues for many years, thinking there must be something wrong with her for being different and standing out. Being judged for how she dressed, what interests she possessed and how she was as a person. As the years went passed, however, Macabre Lilith discovered that is it actually majority of society have a very
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