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Artist Trevor Henderson & His Wonderful World of Terrifying Creatures
If you have ever wanted to buy original artwork that will be worth a lot of money someday, but didn’t know where to start, examine Toronto artist Trevor Henderson’s gallery of terrifying urban legends and start investing.
Already web-famous, the elusive Henderson is something of an internet urban legend himself. His drawings have given this generation some of the most disturbing images to click over. He’s inspired fans to create wild memes, fan-made videos, and caught-on-camera sightings of the creatures born from his imagination. He’s the creepypasta of the art world.
The best way to explain his style is to say he captures that instant when fear takes hold. That moment when you see something so terrifying you can’t rationalize it and you either accept it or go completely mad. His paintbrush hosts those spectral monsters that trigger emotional feelings just before waking from your deep sleep nightmares.
His love for found footage also explains why his works emulate the rawness of an unfocused cellphone, polaroid, or pinhole camera. Action pictures capturing nightmares in real-time. There is an uneasiness to his artistry, creatures with long necks, and deformed mouths hiding just beyond the penumbra.
Henderson uses hazy light to make building-sized monstrosities lumbering through the fog just out of sight, or deformed ghosts hiding under the yellowish light of a desolate neighborhood alley.
So profoundly creepy and just realistic enough, some people have added to the mystery of his work by giving his paintings stories. One is that of Siren Head.
When you think of giant menacing creatures that terrorize people, you don’t usually envision a cryptid with air sirens for a head. Yet that is exactly what Henderson’s Siren Head is according to fans; a slender and towering being that lures its victims into the woods using garbled distress signals. There’s even a video game based on this character.
There isn’t much to say about Henderson, he seems to keep pretty much to himself. His social media pages don’t give too much away about his private life or what he’s working on next. His Patreon is full of information though.
He has apparently been on Reddit and offered some insight into how he creates his works, “Hey!! I draw on top of photos using a couple specific photoshop brushes, and then play around with filters like noise and gaussian blur to try and mesh the two together!”
Exploring his life isn’t as interesting as his art anyway. The best way to experience what he does is to see it for yourself. Below are only some of his illustrations. You can see more of his creations HERE.
If you want to see more of Henderson’s work click HERE.
Or check out his huge catalog of work on Facebook.
Or join his Patreon HERE.
Here is a fan-made short based on his Siren Head:
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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