FRANKENSTEIN's MONSTER

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Hello Pulp friends,

here's something that is really "pulp" as it's from 23 years ago: one of my first (of many) drawings of the Frankenstein Monster :)
Below you can see the original drawing, from 1989, all in charcoal (note I already had a passion to hand draw titles/text in the art at that time ;)), and above is an updated version from this morning: decided to give it a color treatment and when I was done I realized I had channeled - subconscious - a Basil Gogos vibe into it.

Any-who, hope you guys dig it and wish you all a wonderful Pulp Sunday :)

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2012 Francesco Francavilla


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31 Days of Halloween ~ 24: The Raven

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Hello Pulp Friends

Only ONE week away to the Grand Finale (make sure to tune in next SUNDAY for it).
Meanwhile hope you enjoy this other classic of HORROR, Poe-inspired: THE RAVEN! :)

The Raven
USA, 1935
directed by Lew Landers
starring: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Lester Matthews

An escaped criminal goes to a doctor to have his face changed. The doctor asks to be paid for his help by killing a woman who refused him, her father and her fiancee. The criminal rebels against the evil plan and it will be the doctor, obsessed by E.A.Poe’s tales, who will die at the end.

Cheers,
Francesco

~!~ BONUS CHILLS! ~!~


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Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

31 Days of Halloween ~ 16: The Body Snatcher

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Hello Pulp Friends

Starting this second half of the month with another little horror cult featuring two icons of the genre like Lugosi and Karloff: "THE BODY SNATCHER"!
Hope you guys enjoy :)

The Body Snatcher
USA, 1945
directed by Robert Wise
starring: Boris Karloff, Henry Daniell, Russell Wade, Bela Lugosi
A medical student works as an assistant for his doctor to pay for school. The student is disgusted when he finds that one of his jobs is to receive the corpses that the doctor uses for study, which are stolen from the graveyard by cabman John Gray. Eventually Gray starts to murder people to provide more bodies to the doctor. The student gets drawn into the wretched games of blackmailing: Gray has information he could reveal about the doctor’s involvement in the Burke and Hare trial.

Cheers,
Francesco

Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla

31 Days of Halloween ~ 7: The Mummy

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Hello Pulp Friends,

It's day 7 of our classic horror marathon, and do I even need to introduce today's feature? ;) "THE MUMMY"!

The Mummy
USA, 1932
directed by Karl Freund
starring: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan

Thanks to the reading of the sacred papyrus of Toth, an ancient mummy comes back to life. The mummy tries to reunite with its beloved princess by sacrificing the woman who is the modern reincarnation, but it will be stopped thanks to a prayer to the statue of Isis . Extraordinary horror with romantic mood.

Hope you guys enjoy it and enjoy this Anubis Guard design I did when I illustrated a book about mummies (some time ago) :)

Cheers,
Francesco

~!~ BONUS CHILL! ~!~


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Artwork © 2010 Francesco Francavilla