I can’t believe that summer is almost over. We’d like to give a quick shout-out to the summer blockbusters that used our props.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon used our bones, including some of our elephant bones.
Cowboys & Aliens used our animal props.
Final Destination 5 used our safety weapons.
Hope you get a chance to check these out in theaters. If not, that’s what DVDs, On Demand and Netflix are for!
Over at FEARnet, they just posted Teen Wolf producer Jeff Davis’ top 5 werewolf movies of all time. Some of my favorites are missing, like The Company of Wolves. But I really can’t imagine doing a werewolf movie list where American Werewolf in London isn’t at the top. Why? The money shot of the werewolf genre: the transformation scene.
Here are my top 5 werewolf transformations:
5. Trick R Treat
4. Bad Moon
3. The Howling
2. The Company of Wolves
My personal favorite is the bizarre wedding scene (skip to the 4 min mark for the transformation action).
Although this one is amazing, too:
1. American Werewolf in London – nothing beats these FX by Rick Baker and team
What are your favorite werewolf transformations?
We’re upgrading some of our sites this week! CasualtySimulation.com will be down for the next 24-48 hours or so. On Thursday, DapperCadaver.com will be down for an hour or so and may be a little buggy throughout the day. If you have an urgent order, please give us a call! (818) 771-0818.
On her quest for more unusual holiday gifts, Audrey Cleo meets B.J. Winslow and his collection of pink skulls, sheep hearts and various implements of torture. Find more strange and unique shopping ideas at fearnet.com/giftguide.
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http://www.fearnet.com/videos/b21233_fear_finds_dapper_cadaver.html
Margaret Cho’s new music video featuring Andrew Bird, directed by Liam Sullivan. “I’m Sorry” is on Margaret’s comedy music album, “Cho Dependent.”
The camp scene from Predators (2010) with Adrien Brody features a vast array of spines, skulls, bones, and alien meat curtesy of Dapper Cadaver
“SUN VALLEY – Blocks of small industrial buildings – many of them vacant – line the strip of San Fernando Road across from the Bob Hope Airport.
The back of one of those shops, though, looks like it’s thriving.
Or is that writhing?
There are buckets of “human organs,” shelves of decomposing corpses, a warehouse of mounted skeletons and animal carcasses and a wall lined with coffins.”
A disemboweled human torso lies prostrate on a worktable, as the midday sunlight dances through the windows and hits a shelf lined with specimen jars, allowing their contents—daiphinized rat skeletons, fetal chicks, human lungs, and sheep’s eyeballs—to glisten softly against the brushed steel medical cabinetry. Utilitarian baker’s racks jammed with plastic tubs labeled “hands” “skulls,” and “legs & feet” are piled high with their respective—and bloody—contents, while morbid antiquities, roadkill, biological models, rotting skeletons, and “toe pinchers” (that’s coffin lingo), are found packed into every available corner, or in some cases, hang from metal hooks.
http://labizarro.com/2010/08/24/dapper-cadaver/#comment-1798
I recently had the opportunity to visit Dapper Cadaver, a movie prop shop in Sun Valley, California (a stones throw from Warner Brothers, Disney and Universal Studios) for an exclusive tour with owner BJ Winslow. They manufacture an incredibly diverse range of death-related props for film and television, especially for horror, sci-fi and crime shows, including The Devil’s Rejects, Silent Hill, Pushing Daisies, Twilight, 300, Law And Order, Night Of The Living Dead 3D, Criminal Minds, Saw III, Nip/Tuck, Pirates Of The Caribbean II, Dexter, No Country For Old Men and countless others. Dapper Cadaver is also open for sales and rentals to the public and I highly recommend you visit their shop if you are in the area. They also recently launched their website so you can order all of their props online as well.”
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http://www.somethingmostdreadful.com/2011/02/exclusive-video-tour-of-dapper-cadaver.html
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