Pumpkin Wrecks.

I mentioned in the last post that I found a cheapish pumpkin, just right for carving into the perfect Jack o' Lantern. When I got it home, I discovered that it was afflicted with kabi. (Mould!)

It was soft and mushy. This will be a tough carve. At least I got some funky face stickers!

And a cool box.

So around 10:00 am, I put on some Twitch movies (starting with The House on Haunted Hill, I know this movie well, so I don't need to pay much attention) and researched some templates hoping to salvage this gourd.

I chose my quarry and starting digging into my kabocha. I had an awful lot of mould to excise.

Lots of seeds and guts later, I was underway.

(By this time, HoHH was over and the next movie, Gargoyles, had begun.)

More cutting and it started to look a bit like its template. (Fast forward, lots of cutting and scooping and swearing and now it's time for the third movie, Queen of Blood.) I'd never seen QoB and say is that Dennis Hopper? John Saxon too!

I'm done and using this movie as a soundtrack, filmed a three second video. I showed that plus some photos to a few friends and they were unable to identify my creation.

Oh well. I decided to do a ton of laundry and wait until dark so I can get a better view of my sculpture.

 

Have you got it yet? Think of as being green and watch this short. Still no go? Thus the title of today's post, Pumpkin Wrecks.

I'll identify it later...

I watched the latest episode of Fear of the Walking Dead and though not great, it was still better than Daryl!

I popped a beer and watched the new colourized version of Werewolf by Night.

Damn! It wasn't in colour! Oh well. This will become an annual Halloween experience for me. 

And then drank another one while I organized my socks and watched SNL. (I actually smiled once or twice, as opposed to last weeks yawnfest. Highlights, Mick Frickn Jagger!!)

I should have saved the 9-tailed Fox for the same day as a Werewolf. Oh well.

No matter, let me introduce Nuppeppo. He just an ugly lump of flesh (much like my pumpkin guts!)  He also stinks and if you hear his song, you'll instantly turn into an old man. (HA! Too late!)

 

Today's Venom. (I hope I'm not repeating any.) Ooh. Sparkly!

I shall now reveal the template of my Pumpkin. Did I do it justice?

More pumpkins over at fellow Blogger, October Branches. No wrecks there!

WwBN.

Late last night, I caught the very first Marvel TV Special featuring Werewolf By Night. I loved it from beginning to end! Without getting all spoilery, I will make a few observations. 

I liked WwBN comic when it first came out. I missed a few first appearances but read it consistently from about issue 5 onwards. Mike Ploog rules. Ploog also ruled with early Man-Thing art of which I read every issue. I also read and enjoyed the first few appearances of Ulysses Bloodstone. 

 

Those covers were scammed from the internet. Enough comics talk and back to the special.

Opening credits...AWESOME! Cameo head appearances by several famous monsters. Great fight scenes albeit a little gruesome for Marvel. I'm sure the black and white format helped. ALL the leads were wonderful. Ted looked great! 

The dude who played one of the hunters, Jovan, is Kirk R. Thatcher. He was the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV who was taken down by a Vulcanized nerve pinch. There are a few nods to Wizard of Oz in this special and Kirk also happened to direct Muppet Wizard of Oz!

Another unintentional coincidence is that Verussa Bloodstone is played by Harriet Sansom Harris. She was also Frasier's agent on his sitcom. The dog Eddie on that show was a Jack Russell Terrier. Awooo!

Nice little heads up to several (not all) the creators in the end credits.

Furthermore, I like this Special Thanks as well.

I hope there will be future TV specials and many more horror characters brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. One small quibble about this show was the lack of mention of Moon Knight. Ah well, it was only 52 minutes long.

I happen to have a few items of a lycanthropic nature in my collection. Such as this Silver Bullet.

Apparently if I keep it in the freezer and then place it in shot of whiskey, it'll remain cold.

I also have another boozy item. I think it's a spout that attaches to a wine bottle so it pours slowly and grotesquely. 

I also have a large sticker, though nowhere to stick it.

No Wolfman t-shirt handy. How about a Frankenstein instead?

I've already watched two Dr. Phibes movies today and the new Scooby Doo. Yay Velma comes out! (Spoiler but Google spoiled it already.)

I probably going to watch a werewolf movie now that I've never seen before. (Ginger Snaps, maybe.)

May I suggest that you check out AEIOU and sometimes Why just to see what they've got cooking this Countdown...