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Interview With Horror Artist Rickey Williams – iHorror
Let me introduce you to the morbidly exquisite works of Rickey Williams. Rickey is one of those really cool cats you’ll find at horror conventions up and down the Bay Area. He’s one helluva talented artist and (more importantly) – he’s one of us. Honestly, we could use more fans like Rickey who use their
This past summer I had the great honor of winning his custom Camp Crystal Lake diorama. Being a huge Friday the 13th fan – and avid collector of all things Jason related – this thing is the pride of my collection.
I recently had a chance to sit down and get to know this horror artist extraordinaire.
Manic Exorcism: “So what got you into making the best horror dioramas in history?”
Rickey Williams: “The first horror diorama I built was 6 years ago. One day I just happened to be walking through Toys R Us when I saw a Freddy action figure & replica glove by NECA. So I bought them, came home, and shortly after built my first diorama for Freddy. Shortly after I made a custom Nancy figure to display with it.”
Manic Exorcism: “Was there a specific moment when you realized the impact your art had on the horror community?”
Rickey Williams: “What inspired me to take my art more seriously was after meeting Robert Englund. I took my diorama to be signed and his reaction was priceless! He held it up and showed it off to his massive line of fans – who had all been waiting hours just to meet him – and everyone cheered for me.”
M.E: “Freddy himself approved! That’s just killer. But you were just getting started weren’t you?”
Rickey Williams: “Yeah, then shortly after I offered to build some art for an upcoming Sac Horror film fest. It’s funny because during the cosplay award ceremony the host noticed my dioramas and stopped the contest dead in its tracks just to find out who made them. I had no clue I was going to have to go on stage. I was half drunk sitting in the audience and totally caught off guard when they called me up. So I jumped up on stage (hid my slight buzz) and talked about my art. Again everyone cheered and that was the closest thing I’ve ever had to a standing ovation. Sinister Creature was just then being planned and I was asked to join in. My table was a success! So I branched out and have been doing shows all over California since.”
M.E: “I’m stoked to own one of your pieces, and there’s so much to choose from. Do you have a personal favorite out of everything you’ve made?”
Rickey Williams: “My favorite piece has to be the Dollhouse. Hands down. It’s just an awesome piece and it’s gotten around. I originally built it for a big Elm Street reunion at Sinister Creature Con in Stockton. Most of the Dream Warriors were there plus a few from Part 4. I even got to display it up on the Elm Street panel. I eventually took it to L.A for a photoshoot with the real house. It’s been signed by a lot of the Nightmare casts members, and is now being featured in Mick Strawn’s book Behind The Screams: The Dream Master Revealed.It’s the star of my collection.
M.E: “Ok so now I gotta ask, do you take custom requests?”
Rickey Williams: “Well I built Nathan Baesel his very own Leslie Vernon shadowbox.”
There you have it, my Nasties. A genuine horror fan with some searing talent. Rickey is one cool cat. Thanks to him I may have my very own custom-built Freddy vs Jason diorama. There’s a rumor that Savini’s Jason will be featured in it as well. Not to mention I may also be getting my very own Madman Marz figure shadowbox. Eeeeeee!!!
Click on over to the next page to see some more of Rickey’s macabre work and don’t forget to head over to his Instagram page and give him a like.
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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 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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