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At Home With Monsters
Nov. 1st, 2017 08:14 pmThe world continues to be terrible; when it isn’t deliberate malice it’s nuclear installations collapsing or fuel tankers colliding on a highway.
Andrew and I escaped for a while to a cozier if Gothic world — I’d bought us an AGO family membership this year instead of a ROM one, so we could see the exhibit of Guillermo Del Toro’s notebooks, props and his collection of inspiring artworks. Possibly more than once, as it’s an embarrassment of riches to take in — apart from the movie props, there were at least two pictures by Mobius, three by Gahan Wilson, two by Hanes Bok, and I forget how many Kate Nielsens and Arthur Rackhams. Oh, and then there were the life size, hyper-realistic silicon marquettes of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Love craft, the casts of Freaks and Bride of Frankenstein... There were giant props and masks. There was a room with false windows where it was always raining.
We don’t need them at the moment, the drizzle began on our way home. Now we’re currently watching Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace, starring several dozen of those red candles he used in all his Poe movies (a discussion thread from 2007 says he ordered 2,000 of them for The Pit and the Pendulum and just used them in everything for the next five years.)
Andrew and I escaped for a while to a cozier if Gothic world — I’d bought us an AGO family membership this year instead of a ROM one, so we could see the exhibit of Guillermo Del Toro’s notebooks, props and his collection of inspiring artworks. Possibly more than once, as it’s an embarrassment of riches to take in — apart from the movie props, there were at least two pictures by Mobius, three by Gahan Wilson, two by Hanes Bok, and I forget how many Kate Nielsens and Arthur Rackhams. Oh, and then there were the life size, hyper-realistic silicon marquettes of Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Love craft, the casts of Freaks and Bride of Frankenstein... There were giant props and masks. There was a room with false windows where it was always raining.
We don’t need them at the moment, the drizzle began on our way home. Now we’re currently watching Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace, starring several dozen of those red candles he used in all his Poe movies (a discussion thread from 2007 says he ordered 2,000 of them for The Pit and the Pendulum and just used them in everything for the next five years.)
