This is a first for me as I’ve never seen a framed ANTICHRIST poster before. David D’ Andrea was the artist on this particular piece and if you liked this, you’re going to love the new shirt we’ve got coming that he illustrated (Should be for sale in the next week or so.) If you look in the background you can also see the Stout INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS poster we put out and his THE BIG LEBOWSKI poster.
Thanks to Gabriel for the photo.
If you’d like to have your posters featured on the blog, please send me your pictures (at least 700px wide) at Justin (at) MondoTees.com.
The site is on its own dedicated server now and will be staying that way from now on. The traffic we’ve been having on poster releases warrants it now and the support from fans has been staggering. Thank you so much for your patience and I’m sorry if you missed out on something in they craziness. To our new fans that were making their first purchase from us, thanks so much. It’s great to have no supporters and it’s a great time for you to find us. We have made a strong effort to get the best properties on the planet and to bring them to you at Mondo. To our current fans, you guys are the best. Thanks for sticking by us with all of the site problems. I know its sucked, but after today, we hope it to be the last time this happens. You have to remember that this is the first big release on the new version of the site, so bugs were inevitable. Now that we’ve worked that out, things should be infinitely smoother on the next release.
We’ll be having a lot of great stuff coming out soon and several announcements on our intentions for the next few years. Thanks again for hanging in there with us today and we hope to see you back on the next release!
-Justin
UPDATE #3
The site has been switched over to a dedicated server. If you still can’t see the site, follow these directions. It should work for you after:
If you can’t access the site it’s probably due to cached DNS records. In Windows go to cmd.exe and iconfig /flushdns, in OS X just google ‘OS X (version) flush dns’ where version is your OS X release; Tiger, Leopard, SL.
Thanks to Martin in the comments.
UPDATE #2:
FULL DISCLOSURE:
SITE STATUS
This is what’s happening RIGHT NOW. Our backend provider is switching the site over to a dedicated server which is the absolute highest option that they offer. They’re doing this on the fly so it may take a while. If you know anything about IT stuff, I’m sure you know that what I’m saying is a nightmare. I’ve talked to at least 4 different people and they are on it.
Because the site is being switched over, I cannot check inventory status on the backend. When it goes back up, I’ll let everyone know what is still available and what is sold out. My guess is that the WOLF MAN variant is, but I will confirm that when the site gets back on its feet.
Again. I’m sorry. That’s all I can say right now. You can look at it one of two ways. We either have a shitty site or we got a ton of traffic because Martin Ansin and Daniel Danger KILLED these posters. To take away from their skills and these posters just because the site went down isn’t fair to them at all. As you can see, we JUST SWITCHED sites so this wouldn’t happen, but with the high profile release, it brought WAY more traffic than we anticipated and the site went down. Does this blow? Yeah. I buy the new Masters of the Universe figures from Matty Collector all of the time and I get frustrated every time their site crashes and I have to wait. Real people run Mondo and we’re a tiny staff and sometimes things like this happen. Again, I’m sorry and we’re working on it. I’ll try to keep you updated as much as I can.
UPDATE:
We’re currently switching the site to a new server that can handle all of the traffic we’re receiving. I’ll let you know when the posters are back up for sale.
Hey everyone-
As you all know, the WOLFMAN posters went on sale at around 11am. Upon putting them on sale, the site was decimated with traffic. In all fairness, more traffic than we’ve ever dreamed of receiving, so to say this has been overwhelming is an understatement. I’ve been seeing the comments on Twitter and poster forums around the internet and I want to issue an apology for the time you’ve spent refreshing the site and waiting for your transaction to go through. I feel terrible about this and am working to do everything I can to fix the problem. We’re switching servers right now and I’ll let you all know when the posters are available again. None have sold out yet, so everyone will still have a chance at getting them.
[I recently bought several packs of film- and tv-related trading cards: everything from Growing Pains to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I plan to open one pack a week and document every card, sticker, and stick of gum I find. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll discover a hologram or two.]
Many horror fans who were kids in the mid-80s fondly remember Fright Flicks, a short-lived trading card collection that combined stills from (mostly) beloved horror and sci-fi films, lame puns and silly quips, and Ripley’s-style can-you-believe-it? creepy factoids.
The pack I bought contained cards with images from Aliens, Day of the Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street I, II, & III, Poltergeist, The Fly (1986), Ghostbusters, and Predator:
Of the nine images, my favorite – based on the badass-image/non-sequitur-tagline combo - is the “Okay, Who Took A Bite Out Of My Bran Muffin?”/The Fly card (Card #9). I’ve always been partial to the toungue-in-phone gag from A Nightmare on Elm Street, so Card #8 is a great find for me as well.
The pack also had a striking Fright Night sticker that I’m currently in the process of finding a home for. (One problem with my day job is that I have relatively few occasions to carry a sticker-covered Trapper Keeper):
That's Slimer's chin on the reverse-side puzzle piece
Finally, this pack contained a piece of the ubiquitous Topps chewing gum:
Card-collecting readers of a certain age should get an immediate and powerful sense memory from viewing this image
Although I haven’t had a piece of Topps gum for close to two decades, seeing the stick immediately made my mouth water. Even when fresh, Topps gum wasn’t objectively good. But I remember loving it as a kid because… hey… free gum! Also, it was such an integral part of the card-collecting process (open pack, chew gum, see if you got anything good) that I never even questioned whether it was a good as a stick of Big Red or a chunk of Bazooka Joe (note: it wasn’t).
In the interest of journalistic integrity, I decided to chew the 25-plus-year-old stick while writing this post, and include my thoughts on how it tasted. Like a connoisseur of fine beer, I sniffed the gum before chewing it. I was surprised to discover that it was completely devoid of any discernible odor. I suppose it was made of iocane powder.
Undeterred, I put the gum in my mouth. I expected it to be tough and difficult to chew, but the opposite was true. Within seconds, the gum had completely liquefied, leaving behind a glaze of slightly-thicker-and-sweeter-than-normal saliva in my mouth. I don’t know what the substance was that made Topps gum chewy, but it apparently self destructs in less than two-and-a-half decades.
If I die in my sleep, please bury me under this tombstone:
Best. Epitaph. Ever.
If you remember buying Fright Flicks, let me know your favorite cards or memories of collecting them in the comments.
[I recently bought several packs of film- and tv-related trading cards: everything from Growing Pains to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I plan to open one pack a week and document every card, sticker, and stick of gum I find.]
This week is full of releases for Mondo and the first of those is our posters for Ti West’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and Adam Green’s FROZEN. I’ve already written extensively about how amazing HOUSE OF THE DEVIL is (especially the VHS) and if you would like to see it yourself, it’s getting released tomorrow on Blu Ray, DVD and VHS! Frozen is also stellar. It showed at Butt-Numb-A-Thon last December and most recently at Sundance. It gets released into theaters this Friday so check your local listings to see if it’s playing near you.
Poster by Kevin Tong. 18″x24″ screen print. Signed, numbered and printed by the artist. Edition of 65.
Poster by The Silent Giants. 18″x24″ screen print. Signed, numbered and printed by the artist. Edition of 100.
I’m not at all shy in my dislike of CGI in movies. I HATE IT, HATE IT, HATE IT. Then tonight as I was watching ANTICHRIST, the Chaos Reigns fox scene sparked something in me that made me remember all of the other shitty movies with CGI animals in them. This list is by no means complete and I urge you to write your own worst in the comments section. This list is simply 10 examples that myself and my friend Tommy could come up with in about 20 minutes. We intentionally left out all SyFy movies, stuff like Frankenfish and KING KONG, but made it a rule that we had to have a YouTube video with each one to spotlight just how shitty the animals were in the scenes. I’ve also decided that putting the year next to the title of the film is essential so you can look at how, for instance, stuff in the new Indiana Jones movie is way worse than stuff in JUMANJI (I thought it would make the list, but compared to the ten we chose, it didn’t look that bad). If we would’ve had videos or videos that we would’ve been able to embed from YouTube, I AM LEGEND and DAY AFTER TOMORROW would’ve DEFINITELY been on the list. Since they weren’t, I present to you, the shittiest CGI animals ever created by man:
10. ERASER (1996)- CROCODILE
We have another crocodile scene coming up in the top 10, but the reason this one wasn’t ranked higher is because they actually used some real crocs in the scene AND this one was from 1996. Something we’ve noticed after we compiled the list is that the films from the 90’s are ranked lower than films in the late 2000’s.
9. DEEP BLUE SEA (1999)- SHARK
I legitimately like this movie and LOVE this scene. This kinda ranked up there with when Seagal bit the big one in EXECUTIVE DECISION as far as unexpected deaths go.
8. THE RING TWO (2005)- DEER
I stopped watching any horror out of Japan in the mid 2000’s and definitely wasn’t going near the remakes, so this one was pointed out to me by my friend Tommy. When I asked him what movies he could think of that had bad CGI animals in them, this was the first one he spouted off. I think you can see why.
7. ANTICHRIST (2009)- FOX
I know, I know. It’s hard to make a fox talk, but really? This? The vagina cutting and leg wheeling looked more believable. Someone get a fox voice coach over here on the double!
6. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)- DEER
This scene destroyed me when I saw it for the first time in theaters. This was my favorite movie of 2007 and I’m still scratching my head as to why this looked so bad.
5. ROGUE (2007)- CROCODILE
After WOLF CREEK, I was so psyched that Doug McLean was going to be doing a killer croc movie in Australia. I couldn’t help but think that he had seen DARK AGE before and would totally one up it. Then, I put ROGUE in, actually enjoyed it for the first 9/10ths and then someone faxed this crocodile in and it totally ruined the thing for me. Boo!
4. INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL (2008)- CHOOSE YOUR OWN SHITTY CGI ANIMAL
I cannot begin to explain the problems with this movie, mainly being the ridiculously bad CGI. When the gopher popped out of its hole at the beginning, it was an omen. The monkey scene was also unforgivable. I found this Behind The Scenes clip of the ant scene on YouTube and it’s actually kind of perfect for this list. It shows you how many people go into the process of making these abominations and how they actually think this stuff looks good. Note: It doesn’t.
3. SNAKES ON A PLANE (2006)- SNAKE (DUH)
This selection was really easy. Like shooting CGI fish in a digital barrel. I gave myself a headache because I rolled my eyes so hard at this scene. There are lots worse looking CGI snakes in this movie, but this one kinda sums all of it up perfectly. Plus, “Snake Gets The Guy’s Weiner” could possibly be my favorite YouTube video title ever.
2. LOST (2004)- POLAR BEAR
Whoa mama! Right around the 10th episode or so, there is a scene where Walt is trapped behind some reeds and the polar bear is scratching at them. Yeah. If you saw that, it was mind blowingly shitty. I love the show, but like most things on this list….they almost reach perfection, but suffer from earth shatteringly bad digital effects.
1. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008)- CATS
The absolute KING OF BAD CGI. This movie IS PERFECT except for this scene. I remember the first time I saw this I was sitting with about 8 other people in a theater at the Alamo. When this scene ended, everyone looked at each other and collectively asked what the hell was going on. It is so glaringly horrible! 1 real cat > 1,000 digital cats.
I love the matting on this poster! This is the NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. by James Rheem Davis and comes from Mike’s collection. Apparently, this was the first poster he ever got from us.
Thanks, Mike!
If you want your poster featured on The Blog, email me your photos at Justin (at) MondoTees.com.
Today’s We’ve Been Framed is my favorite yet! Arturo Gutierrez is a super fan of the Mondo Poster Series that lives in Mexico City and has done one of the most amazing frame jobs on his posters that I’ve ever seen.
Here is the photo of his room with the posters adorning the walls, but take a closer look at the two on the far wall…
Look how they are matted on a clear background so the color of the wall comes through. It looks like they are floating! SO AMAZING! Arturo, if you ever come over, I don’t want you to be mad. I’m stealing this idea!
Let’s keep this feature on the blog going. Send me your framed pics at Justin (at) MondoTees.com.
