Spooky Goat day twenty! SPOOKY ALAN ORMSBY!
4ALAN ORMSBY!
/image alan ormsby children shouldn’t play with dead things
In 1986 I bonded very heavily with a zombie movie titled Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things. It was about a theater troupe who go to spend the weekend on a cemetery island, dabble with necromancy and eventually are eaten by zombies. It starred Alan Ormsby as Alan, and he also wrote the screenplay and did the makeup.
He went on to write many screenplays, including Deathdream, Deranged, My Bodyguard, Cat People, Porky’s II and Popcorn. At the same time, he created the doll Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces and wrote the Scholastic book Movie Monsters: Monster Make-Up and Monster Shows to Put On.
/image hugo man of a thousand faces doll
Hugo looks so much like Billy Barty.
/image alan ormsby movie monsters book
Here is a link to the archive.org copy:
https://archive.org/details/movie-monsters-ormsby/mode/2up
Long story short: Alan Ormsby is amazing and My Bodyguard is a great movie. But it’s not scary, so watch Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things instead.
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Hugo also looks disturbingly like Bob Elliott, now that I think about it.
/image hugo man of a thousand faces doll
/image bob elliott
@mossygreen
Hugo sure came with a lot of creepy scars/stitched wounds!
I had that book as a kid. Read and re-read it many times. Even tried several of the makeups. Again, never made the connection between the puppet, the movie, and the book. Thanks for that.
@walarney SO COOL.
50th anniversary Blu-Ray release date for “Children” is November 22. I saw it on TV in the early 70s. Haven’t seen it since, but always remembered it.
Also, I can’t understand how I could possibly be that old. It doesn’t make sense.
Blu-ray release kept getting pushed out. Finally arrived yesterday. Includes a 90-minute interview with Alan from 2022. Haven’t watched either the movie or interview yet, but looking forward to it.
@walarney OH MY GOD THAT SOUNDS AMAZING