The View From The Mountain

When I saw a movie listed on the Amazon streaming service as Dead And Buried , I wondered if this was the very same Dead And Buried which scared the daylights out of me back when I first saw it as a VHS rental in the early eighties. The image that Amazon had was just a text title of the film’s name. So I cranked up the great Amazonian streaming machine and, lo and behold, there it truly was: Dead And Buried , freshly come back to life for me much like the characters in the film do. Taking place in a quiet coastal town, Sheriff Gillis (James Farentino--who I’ll always fondly remember as Cmdr Richard Owens from The Final Countdown ) deals with a series of grisly murders where the victims are either burned up or chopped up in vicious ways. On top of all of this is the fact that Gillis is also dealing with the strange behavior of his wife, Janet (Melody Anderson--best known as Dale Arden from the 1980 Flash Gordon ), who may be having an affair behind his back. There is one really shoc...

Back in 2003, they released Freddy Vs. Jason, which paired up Freddy from the Nightmare on Elm Street film with the machete-wielding star of the Friday the Thirteenth films, Jason. At the same time, Andrea Miniatures had released this great 1/32 scale figure of Freddy. I was tempted to build a diorama of these two Horror movie icons meeting. I created a Jason figure from a 1/32 scale blank. His clothes and mask were sculpted from Apopxie putty. Jason's machete was cut from a styrene sheet. I built the Freddy figure straight out of the box. He comes with this great, atmospheric stand that has a grate, girders and even a chain. I put both Freddy and Jason on a watery, dream-like base. The arms sticking out of the "water" (it was actually Flex-Paste) were extra parts from the blank figure box. May you all have a Happy Halloween!