Congrats to the 2015 Academy Award Nominees!

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We would like to congratulate all of the Oscar nominees, especially those in the field of production design and visual effects:

Production Design
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“The Imitation Game” Production Design: Maria Djurkovic; Set Decoration: Tatiana Macdonald
“Interstellar” Production Design: Nathan Crowley; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
“Into the Woods” Production Design: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock
“Mr. Turner” Production Design: Suzie Davies; Set Decoration: Charlotte Watts

Visual Effects
“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Dan DeLeeuw, Russell Earl, Bryan Grill and Dan Sudick
“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, Daniel Barrett and Erik Winquist
“Guardians of the Galaxy” Stephane Ceretti, Nicolas Aithadi, Jonathan Fawkner and Paul Corbould
“Interstellar” Paul Franklin, Andrew Lockley, Ian Hunter and Scott Fisher
“X-Men: Days of Future Past” Richard Stammers, Lou Pecora, Tim Crosbie and Cameron Waldbauer

We’d like to issue a special congratulations to “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” who we’ve worked with in the past year. For a complete list of nominees visit http://variety.com/2015/film/news/oscar-nominations-2015-full-list-academy-award-nominees-1201405517/.

Congratulations to the 2015 Golden Globe Nominees!

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The 2015 Golden Globe Award Nominations have been released and here are the nominees!
Congratulations to everyone who was a part of these productions!

Best Motion Picture, Drama
Boyhood
Foxcatcher
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything

Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Into the Woods
Pride
St. Vincent

Best Television Series, Drama
The Affair
Downton Abbey
Game of Thrones
The Good Wife
House of Cards

Best Actress in a Television Series, Drama
Claire Danes, Homeland
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
Julianna Margulies, The Good Wife
Ruth Wilson, The Affair
Robin Wright, House of Cards

Best Actor in a Television Series, Drama
Clive Owen, The Knick
Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan
Kevin Spacey, House of Cards
James Spader, The Blacklist
Dominic West, The Affair

Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical
Girls
Jane the Virgin
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent

Best Actress in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
Lena Dunham, Girls
Edie Falco, Nurse Jackie
Julia Louise-Dreyfus, Veep
Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin
Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black

Best Actor in a Television Series, Comedy or Musical
Louis C.K., Louie
Don Cheadle, House of Lies
Ricky Gervais, Derek
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Best Mini-Series or Television Motion Picture
Fargo
The Missing
The Normal Heart
Olive Kitteridge
True Detective

Best Actress, Mini-Series or Television Motion Picture
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Honorable Woman
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story: Freak Show
Frances McDormand, Olive Kitteridge
Frances O’Connor, The Missing
Allison Tolman, Fargo

Best Actor, Mini-Series or Television Motion Picture
Martin Freeman, Fargo
Woody Harrelson, True Detective
Matthey McConaughey, True Detective
Mark Ruffalo, The Normal Heart
Billy Bob Thornton, Fargo

We’re especially excited to congratulate the following nominees that we’ve worked with in the past year; Game of Thrones, The Knick, Ray Donovan, The Blacklist, Orange is the New Black, Nurse Jackie, Fargo, True Detective and American Horror Story: Freakshow. Congratulations!

To see a complete list of Golden Globe nominations, click here.

 

Sneak Peak of the Modern Family Halloween Episode-with Dapper Cadaver Props!

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Attention all Modern Family fans! People Magazine has released a preview of the Modern Family Halloween episode. View the preview here.

The caged man you see in the background is currently available to rent! He rents for $120 for the week.
We’ve also got gurneys and straight jackets in stock for your asylum themed party!
And don’t forget to watch the full episode Wednesday 10/29/14 at 9PM.

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http://www.people.com/article/modern-family-halloween-sneak-peek

Dapper Cadaver Props on American Horror Story: Freakshow!

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Anyone catch Wednesday night’s episode of American Horror Story: Freakshow?
Our props were used in the opening scene at the oddities museum. How many Dapper Cadaver props can you spot?

Check out the rest of the season on Wednesday nights at 10PM on FX.
Missed it? You can watch the episode and catch up on the entire season here.

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Caticorn Magic

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A mystical animal that is half cat, half unicorn. It has the head of a cat with an unicorn horn and the body of a cat with an unicorn tail. It makes the sound “neow.” – Urban Dictionary entry on caticorn.

Years ago in a haunted house in Azusa, BJ found an amateur taxidermy bobcat. But only half of it. And with a nail sticking out of its nose for some strange reason. Always the resourceful propmaker, BJ stuck a horn over the nail. Voila! The Dapper Cadaver Caticorn was born.

Dapper Cadaver Caticorn

When legendary sideshow artist Mark Frierson bought the Caticorn earlier this year, we knew he would create something magical with it. Step right up and see:

The Amazing Three-Eyed Rocky Mountain Caticorn!

The Amazing Three-Eyed Rocky Mountain Caticorn

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The Amazing Three-Eyed Rocky Mountain Caticorn - Close Up

The Amazing Three-Eyed Rocky Mountain Caticorn - From Above

Mark fully restored it, moved the horn back to the center of its head, added a third eye, a snake-like tongue and pheasant wings. Simply gorgeous. And this is coming from a girl who likes cats, unicorns and most of all, supremely mystical three-eyed flying caticorns.

Check out more amazing sideshow gaffs and wonders on the Frierson Studios Facebook page. Don’t forget to hit the Like button!

Conan and The Giant Sloth

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I got the call Thursday, the 21st of January from NBC. “We need a full size Dinosaur Skeleton and we need it tomorrow.”

Conan had been doing sketches all week supposedly designed to cost the studio big cash as a comic form of revenge for his abruptly ended contract. He had previously claimed to “buy” an exotic sports car and a race horse. I’m glad to know that for his ultimate revenge he wanted a dinosaur. I know ever since I was 5 I wanted a revenge dinosaur. There’s a saying in my house, “revenge is a dish best served dinosaur”

The thing is, Dinosaurs are huge. We all know that, right, but we lose perspective on how big they are when we see them in a museum. I run a 5,000 square foot warehouse and an adult T-Rex is longer then my building and taller then my ceiling. And while the average millionaire has sports cars and horses to spare, unless you’re Nicholas Cage, you just don’t HAVE Dinosaurs laying around. I had a few smaller dinosaurs ready to go, including an 11 foot long Dimetrodon, but everyone knows Dimetrodon can’t hold the hose to spray the picasso with caviar. So that was out.

The wrong way to display fossils.

The right way to disply fossils

I was able to set aside a giant ground sloth that was about to be installed in a museum, but he had the weekend free. It was a rental, not a purchase, from a prop shop, not the Smithsonian, and cost nowhere near the $65 million dollars they said on the air. The bones are not real, but they are a museum quality reconstruction. The skeleton we used now stands in some solemn museum hall somewhere, curators and patrons blissfully unaware of Mr. Sloth’s wild weekend.

He partied with all the audience and crew, and I’m proud to say may go down in history as the most monumentally absurd set piece ever used in a comedy sketch. We here at Dapper Cadaver are proud we got to contribute to such an epic episode.

We still have access to the molds and can do the same prop for anyone else who needs one.
Buy it now! It’s not $65 Million!