“Coraline” Film Team Honors The Kreep

Gothic poet and illustrator The Kreep (a.k.a R. O’Donnell) has received an entirely handmade box of treasures collected specifically for him by the CORALINE team at Laika films. Inside the box, numbered 46/50, are highly decorated secret compartments that contain relics from the film including a bat/dog model, a bat body mold, authentic skeleton key with secret password, and a wing skeleton prototype #3. An old envelop with a wax seal with inlaid black button (as used for the eyes of the witch) and a hand-typed note explained the curious gift:

DEAR R.,

INSIDE THIS OLD BOX IS A ONE-OF-A-KIND COLLECTION WE’VE AMASSED AND CATALOGUED WITH YOU AND YOU ALONE IN MIND…THE PLAIN TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, WE ARE PRETTY OBSESSED WITH DARK STORIES. LIKE YOU. WE ADMIRE YOUR DEDICATION TO THE KREEP. PLEASE KEEP UP THE SUPER WORK. WE’LL BE READING.

SINCERELY,

THE CORALINE TEAM

For the last three years, 351 of the world’s oddest and most talented animators, artisans, and puppet fabricators have been hand-making CORALINE. Led by Henry Selick, the director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH, this team has created the first stop-motion feature shot entirely in 3D. Based on the beloved best-selling children’s classic by Neil Gaiman, CORALINE is a fairy-tale nightmare steeped in classic storytelling, craftsmanship, and the old-fashioned art of moviemaking magic. CORALINE hits theatres February 2009.

Still NO. 93. BAT/DOGS

Wing Relic † Skeleton Prototype (3)

Bat Body Mold (Unfiled)

Skeleton key with password: armpithair

NO. 46/50

Letter with Wax Button seal

The Kreep is produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Networx on 100% of Nothing, an art and culture ezine linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.

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photo:  Eric Hoffhines

Kreepy Gift Ideas From The Kreep

The Kreep, a Gothic poet and illustrator who celebrated his one-year publishing anniversary this past Halloween, celebrates Christmas by offering an event Kreep Kalendar with a poem each day until the 25^th.  Collecting all until Christmas on art and cultural Ezine 100% of Nothing, you can assemble the Kreep’s poem entitled “Scrooged Again” in its entirety.

The Kreep is produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Networx as a syndicated feature on 100% of Nothing  linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.  Coming soon, The Kreep offers a poem on the box office smash Twilight,  the action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human starring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan.

Day one:

T’hear chains clinking

cash registers count the coin

ghosts wail in dreams 

Kreep Gift idea:

Not sure what to stuff the stocking with, well here’s my pitch to buy forth-with;

Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”

On Disney Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition DVD

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100% Of Nothing “Kreep”ing Onwards Into “Twilight”

Art, Lifestyle, and culture Ezine 100 % of Nothing continues to publish The Kreep.  A new poem/review on Twilight,  the action-packed, modern day love story between a vampire and a human starring Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan will post Wednesday of next week.

According to the Chicago Tribune, that penned a feature this past Halloween to celebrate the writer’s first year anniversary, The Kreep’s, “…a Gothic poet and illustrator in the tradition of Edward Gorey.”

The Kreep is produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Networx as a syndicated feature on 100% of Nothing  linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes. 

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Gothic Poet The Kreep Tribs-Out For Halloween

Gothic poet and illustrator The Kreep is featured in todays Chicago Tribune Movies Section for Halloween.

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The Kreep, produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Multimedia, is offered in several social media formats such as a syndicated feature on 100percentofnothing.com, an art and culture Ezine linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.  Selected poems will also receive an audio/visual treatment and posted on YOUtube and Vampire Freaks while compilations can be found in book form on Issuu. And throughout the month of October, The Kreep is one of the Voices Of Halloween on the 8th annual Neverendingwonder.com Halloween Radio.

Source: Chicago Tribune

The Kreep Pens Horror Film Poem *Jigsaw* For Halloween

SAW V in theaters now

For the entire month of October, I commemorate Hallowe’en. I do this by watching a classic horror film franchise such as Halloween or The Nightmare On Elm Street series from its terrifying beginning until its final bloody demise. Yet reminiscent of the monsters hacking their way through these adolescent slice n’ dicers, these horror films get right back up on their feet, and keep coming back for more screams, more jeers, not to mention our hard-earned dollars and cents. These brilliantly packaged blood-letters become a never-ending scream fest of splatter one-upsmanship, where it is no longer about the plot, but in the lofty Production design: developing exceptionally inventive ways to dispose of the current crop of beautiful people up there on the celluloid screen.

In that regard, the SAW franchise is no different. The fact that David Hackl, the Production Designer of SAW II, III, and IV, directed SAW Vseems the perfect preference. And does SAW V look maniacally magnificent, and all of Jigsaw’s torture devices quite inspired and especially devastating in their wickedly painful ways. There are dozens of life-saving keys shoved in all of the inappropriate places, a really nasty sewer vault, bomb shelters to escape explosions, expanding and contracting walls, water-filled wrought-iron head caskets, beheading neck-tie traps, and pendulums ferociously swinging, whilst the body count could reach its peak supreme this time out. Yeah–SAW V really outdoes itself, returning to its roots.

But let’s be honest, my kreepy kritters, we do not sit in a darkened theater the week of Hallowe’en watching SAW V to experience anything but shear terror, and to relish in the fantastically familiar formula we have grown to fear and revere. These horrific films are as scrumptious as the candy corn that appears on the shelves in every supermarket come October–highly addictive fructose, sugar, and artificial sweeteners with no nutritional value whatsoever. Still it’s something we need to do every time the leaves turn orange and the weather cools, we shove those addictive sugar sweet candies in our mouth while we scream at the bloody “eye-candy” in such famous franchises as Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John Carpenter’s Halloween, and now the infamous SAW series. This is, for better or worse, an American Halloween tradition.

In e†ernity,

The Kreep

 

JIGSAW

I want to play a game
T’cut the cast of your conceit
Ungrateful fools abundant
O’ how simple rules pertain
Endure tic-toc, tic-toc,
Life’s transitory chore
Before the sport implodes
Sweet breathe departs
T’seize without pause
Reflect on consequence
Discern the ache of ignorance
Tear thy flesh
Pound thy bone
Squeeze crimson from a fleeting stone
See at once, eyes bulging,
Hear it now, ears brimming full,
Speak out, tongue purple swollen,
As wayward angels pluck thy chords
Blackened dirge T’your demise
C’est la vie
Game over!

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THE KREEP PENS ODE TO *THE EXORCIST*

Dear Kreepy Krawlers,

I first saw William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, in a small suburban movie theatre nestled in the heart of Media, Pennsylvania–just West of Philadelphia. Afterwards, I slept with the lights on… for weeks. The idea
that the devil could just sweep into my body, and make me spew all over a priest had me absolutely terrified. I was an altar boy after all. I even knew where the Holy Water and the wine were stashed for goodness sake. I also hung around the priests, some old enough to remind me of the exorcist himself. While others had tales of actual exorcisms they had attended over the years. It was such a creepy existence after experiencing that
horror show.

The Exorcist, directed by Academy® Award-winner William Friedkin (The French Connection) is the scariest movie in the world. Period. I visit it only once in a blue moon after many glasses of wine or when I want to feel the warm release of my bowls. Such as after Regan (Linda Blair) walks backwards down the stairs like a spider in The Version You’ve Never Seen. Oh my God. I am sitting in a darkened theatre in Chicago, Illinois some thirty years later, knowing I can handle the scares because I know the film, I know it, every creepy nook and cranny. But when Regan runs down the stairs like an arachnid on speed I screamed along with several other unsuspecting souls. We all looked at each other. We were all going to be sleeping with the lights on… again.

So step on up, ladies and gentlemen! This is the original, the one and only most terrifying exorcism movie ever filmed. Watch it alone and in the dark, folks. I double-double-dare you.

In E†ernity,

The Kreep

 

THE EXORCIST

Across the window pane an autumn leaf hovers
T’sway back and fourth
drop toward crooked street below
Float endlessly along concrete stairs
As hobgoblins n’ witches titter crosswalks
Whist beneath lamppost he stands in shadows
T’know duty holds him still
A Priest eyes the leaf,
Folding over n’ over
T’land at feet quite cold
How he knows what waits inside the girl
For it is endless
Without patience
All ego n’ bitterness scold
T’kill the slightest warmth
Bend most delicate devotion
Crush innocent soul
There in window peeking
Tiny leaf hitches another gust
T’disappear into the gloom
O’ exorcist t’cross himself
Stand more erect than his age permits
Removes his hat
T’approach such wickedness
Unyielding

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THE KREEP HAUNTS NEVERENDINGWONDER HALLOWEEN RADIO

THE KREEP’S LATEST ODE TO CARPENTER’S HALLOWEEN

The Kreep, a gothic poet haunting Ezines, social sites and podcasts all across the internet, is one of the Voices Of Halloween on the 8th annual Neverendingwonder.com Halloween Radio.

In addition to broadcasting the widest variety of Halloween themed music & comedy on three award winning Halloween Radio stations every October, The NeverEndingWonder Halloween Radio Empire includes The Voices of Halloween! This audio series will present Halloween greetings, memories and station IDs from some of the most infamous names to horror fans including The Kreep, penned and voiced by R. O’Donnell. You’ll also hear the renowned Forrest J. Ackerman himself, as well as David Hedison (star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the original version of The Fly), David Chomiak (writer of Fido), Sean Keller (writer of Dario Argento’s upcoming film Gaillo), as well as other horror writers, horror film actors, makeup and effects artists, horror hosts, musicians and more.

The Kreep, produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Multimedia, is offered in several social media formats such as a syndicated feature on 100percentofnothing.com, an art and culture Ezine linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes. Selected poems will also receive an audio/visual treatment and posted on YOUtube and Vampire Freaks while compilations can be found in book form on Issuu. A new Kreepy poem is available every Wednesday at midnight on 100% of Nothing with a link to a free iTunes podcast.

This week The Kreep pays poetic homage to John Capenter’s classic horror tale Halloween. Take a slice of Edward Gorey, a dash of Gothic angst with just a pinch of Doctor Seuss and you’ll understand THE KREEP’s sensibility.

External Kreepy Links

Available on iTunes as a free downloadable podcast on 100% OF NOTHING

NEVERENDINGWONDER HALLOWEEN RADIO

KREEPY KRUMBS – VOL. I – BOOK OF POEMS

THE KREEP ON MYSPACE

THE KREEP ON VAMPIRE FREAKS

THE KREEP ON iTUNES † 

THE KREEP ON YOUtube

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The Kreep Slashes *Halloween* On iTunes

THE KREEP ON MYSPACE

Being over 100 years old, Brazillia R. Kreep was old enough to have experienced John Carpenter’s brilliantly simple Halloween as it premiered in movie theatres all across America in late October of 1978.  It terrified me, and my rather hefty assemblage of curious horror connoisseurs good n’ plenty (candy of choice).  As I recall, our kreepy killer Michael Myers even sent some of the patrons running up the isles, and out into the lobby screaming, with a trail of spilt popcorn the only sign that they had attended this gory slash-fest.  Of course such antics only added to the fun, and I knew in an instant that we were experiencing a horror cult classic of bloody-sized proportions.

Donald Pleasence (Dracula, Buried Alive) and Jamie Lee Curtis (The Fog, Prom Night) turn in bona fide gut-wrenching performances as the robotic murdering Myers turns their little town of Smiths Grove, Illinois bright red for All Saints Eve.  But it was Carpenter’s score that took on a sinister personality of its own, alerting audiences that our brutal ripper was about to step out of the shadows for the kill.  The theme song would become as famous as Bernard Herman’s Psycho and the Exorcist Tubular Bells theme. 

Produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Multimedia, The Kreep is offered in several social media formats such as a syndicated feature on 100% OF NOTHING, an art and culture Ezine linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.  Selected poems will also receive an audio/visual treatment and posted on YOUtube and Vampire Freaks while compilations can be found in book form on Issuu.

A new Kreepy poem is available every Wednesday at midnight on 100% of Nothing with a link to a free iTunes podcast. Last week The Kreep’s poem was a tribute to one of the greatest serial killer films of all time The Silence of the Lambs, also on a deluxe DVD in stores now.

Take a slice of Edward Gorey,  a dash of Gothic angst with just a pinch of Doctor Seuss and you’ll understand THE KREEP’s sensibility.

External Kreepy Links

Available on iTunes as a free downloadable podcast on 100% OF NOTHING

KREEPY KRUMBS – VOL. I – BOOK OF POEMS

THE KREEP ON MYSPACE

THE KREEP ON VAMPIRE FREAKS

THE KREEP ON iTUNES † 

THE KREEP ON YOUtube

THE KREEP is an R. Productions, Static Multimedia, and Hoffhines Production gig. © 2008 R. Productions

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THE KREEP HAS *THE HUNGER* ON ITUNES

Dear delectable vamps,

Tony Scott’s stylish cross genre tour de force The Hunger staring David Bowie (The Man Who Fell To Earth), Catherine Deneuve (Dancer in the Dark), and Susan Sarandon (Igby Goes Down) opened to critical disdain in 1982 followed by a cult following to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Before the scores of “new” vampire spins hit the literary scene, thanks to the gifted Anne Rice and her Interview With The Vampire fable, this small, yet extremely powerful horror thriller tapped into that vain, presenting a mythical creature full of philosophical angst, social complexity, and bisexual passions–deliciously modern all around.

Mr. Scott’s The Hunger succeeds in combining a sensual, rhythmic soundtrack, seasoned art direction, along with a crisp kinetic editing style that appealed to the ever-growing MTV crowd. A younger, hipper audience now wanted their stories revealed in more ethereal, more contemporary luminosity.  So, for their adolescent sins, Mr. Scott delivered unto them the perfect cinematic “eye candy” based on Whitley Strieber’s best selling novel by the same name.

Every frame in The Hunger is so stunning to look at, and so beautiful t’behold. This is a film about immortality, after all, and as the vampire’s fade into the dust of their ruination, so we too are reminded that it is the fate of all human beings to be ashes t’ashes n’ dust t’dust. For it is not only blood the vampire desires most of all, but love of the heart, and it’s insatiable thirst for more.

The Hunger is a perfect commencement for this year’s dark n’ dreamy Hallowe’en. May you watch it with an autumn breeze through open windows, turning your billowing curtains into ghosts, with an exquisite soul mate wrapped gently in your arms, and a shared hunger that will lead to the sheets before the final reel.

In E†ernity,

The Kreep

 

THE HUNGER (IS TOO MUCH)

The hunger is too much
Unyielding n’ forever
No end
No quench
No nothing, my love
But you
The hunger is too much
Too many
Too far
Too near, my sustenance
T’be in moon shadows
Seen or unseen
I will drink of thee, my thirst
This hunger is too much

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THE KREEP DIES FOR RIDLEY SCOTT’S BLADE RUNNER

Rutger Hauer as the bloody sensitive android

The Kreep dies for Ridley Scott’s super Sci-Fi classic Blade Runner, in stores on a director approved super deluxe DVD set.  His latest dark ode, full review found exclusively on 100% of Nothing, honors the speech made famous by iconic actor Rutger Hauer as the sensitive android replicant on a blood spree to gain  more life from his masters.

Produced by R. Productions in association with Hoffhines Productions, and published by Static Multimedia, The Kreep is offered in several social media formats such as a syndicated feature on 100% OF NOTHING, an art and culture Ezine linked to a free downloadable podcast on iTunes.  Selected poems will also receive an audio/visual treatment and posted on YOUtube and Vampire Freaks while compilations can be found in book form on Issuu.

A new Kreepy poem is available every Wednesday at midnight on 100% of Nothing with a link to a free iTunes podcast. Last week The Kreep’s poem was a tribute to one of the greatest serial killer films of all time The Silence of the Lambs, also on a deluxe DVD in stores now.

Take a slice of Edward Gorey,  a dash of Gothic angst with just a pinch of Doctor Seuss and you’ll understand THE KREEP’s sensibility.

External Kreepy Links

Available on iTunes as a free downloadable podcast on 100% OF NOTHING

KREEPY KRUMBS – VOL. I – BOOK OF POEMS

THE KREEP ON MYSPACE

THE KREEP ON VAMPIRE FREAKS

THE KREEP ON iTUNES † 

THE KREEP ON YOUtube

THE KREEP is an R. Productions, Static Multimedia, and Hoffhines Production gig. © 2008 R. Productions

source: r-productions.com