In which a gaggle of space clowns turn people into cotton candy, kill crowds of onlookers with living shadow puppets and…
is a 26-day project that highlights some of our favorite horror films from each letter of the alphabet. The only criteria: The films chosen can’t have been used in our previousa 100-day project to choose the best horror film of every year from 1920-2019, nor previous ABCs of Horror entries. With many heavy hitters out of the way, which movies will we choose?
With that said, there is a certain mythic power in the title alone. To wit: I can vividly remember being a junior high school student and first hearing someone speak in hushed tones about a movie called, of all things,might very well be some transgressive artifact you’d need to track down in a grungy trinket shop by providing the correct password to a grizzled shopkeep. There was something in that title that suggested cinematic taboo in addition to bad taste.
The Chiodos, as they’re always collectively referred to, have served a long tenure as Hollywood FX workers, specializing in animatronics, clay modeling, puppetry and stop motion animation. Along the way, they’ve contributed effects to films fromremains the property that any horror fan immediately thinks of when they hear the Chiodo name invoked. Some 32 years later, it’s still the only film the trio has directed together.
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