Halloween Spirit

This past Halloween season, I was alerted by a few people that Spirit Halloween was selling a prop that resembled a scarecrow that I had featured on my blog...one that I had built for the film MR. JONES.  I took a look and definitely felt it was a rip-off.  The combination of weird long fingers, vintage dress, and an almost out-of-place doll head seemed too much to be a coincidence.  So I reached out to Spirit.  One of their lawyers responded telling me that he didn't see the similarity and that Spirit purchased the prop from another company.  He didn't tell me the name of the company, but I had already been informed by one of the folks who had initially alerted me that the company's name was Tekky Toys.  After a couple more emails from me, he simply stopped replying.  Their position was clear.  They just don't care.

I chose to sit on this and just move forward, as proving something like this legally is very difficult and very expensive.  Today I saw the below video from an artist on Instagram and wanted to share her familiar story, and my little experience.  

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Now Playing: The Talisman

By Max Corbacho.

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For Tjalgahorn...

Mr. Jones

Been a while since I've watched this film.  Oh, the memories.  Currently living in the past and it feels fine.

Click below for a fun scene (and the full movie [don't tell anyone])...

Random Rot

MR. JONES On Xfinity

Hey, if you have Xfinity as your [overpriced] cable company, MR. JONES is now available "free" to watch if you have the premium channels.

Long Limb Man Scarecrow On Bloody Disgusting

Mr. Jones On CthulhuWiki

Never knew there was a Lovecraftian Wiki.

Very happy to see someone added MR. JONES to it...

The CthulhuWiki is an information resource relating to Jazz Age Horror and Weird Fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft and works inspired by his writings, including the Cthulhu Mythosand Lovecraftian games and media.

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Rebirth

Writer/director Karl Mueller's (Mr. Jones) second feature film, on Netflix July 15th.
Looking VERY forward to this one.


Click below for the trailer.

Jones

They thought the dream world was real, not some meaningless neurological side effect of sleep. There was the waking world of order; cause and effect time and space and another, a very real world that you glimpsed in dreams. These talismans were created by the holy men to patrol the boarders of the two worlds as they overlapped to keep the chaos and insanity and nightmares of the dream world from entering our own.

Mr. Jones, 2013

Rebirth

The next feature film from Karl Mueller (writer/director of MR. JONES)...
Sounds interesting so I'm really looking forward to seeing it in July when it hits Netflix.


Click below for a nice review at dreadcentral.com:

Creepy Old Ladies Dig It

Thanks, Noah!

Mr. Jones Lives

Sketch by mirandarose_artist.

Mr. Jones Review

From John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV.

It’s a horror film (and found footage film) that doesn’t rely on a body count to thrill or terrify, and, oppositely, creates a genuine and pervasive atmosphere of dread.  This is a movie in which -- by the half-way point -- you will feel that there is something wrong or off-kilter with reality itself; that the universe has been suffused with forces both dark and sinister.

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Thanks, girl6!

Nightmares

"It’s like we’re living next door to J.D. Salinger, or Banksy!"

 Image from doodletome.

The Corn Reaper

Going through old photos from the Mr. Jones build.

Here he is in the yard...

And here he is in the film.

I really dig how menacing he looks in the shadows.  You can't tell where he begins or ends. 

The Scarecrow That Wasn't

Back when I was working with director Karl Mueller to build the scarecrows of Mr. Jones, he talked about found-objects being incorporated into some of the designs.  Like the Jones guy builds his totems with stuff he finds along the road, dumped in the woods, or thrown out in the trash.  The request came in to build one with a doll's head.

As a guy who doesn't really do that sort of thing, I came up with the below design, and off it went to California for the shoot.  I dug the concept and love how it came out, but was very relieved in NY watching the premiere when it never showed up in the movie.  Only after rewatching the film on dvd did I notice that her dress and head were removed and she became the scarecrow that Penny and Scott knock over during their first encounter with Mr. Jones.

I felt really bad when I bought the doll off of ebay and the kind lady selling her wrote me the nicest note "I just know she's going to be so happy in her new home!"  Awful.

I'm a [doll] child murderer.

I'd like to leave this on someone's property and just drive away.

Campfire Reel

Cool production reel featuring scenes from Mr. Jones and a bunch of other cool films.

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Netflix Streaming: Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones has been added to Netflix Instant.

Anchor Bay Horror Trailer

Awesome to see one of my scarecrows from Mr. Jones in this horror reel trailer.

Lots of nice company here.