FYI,
the FBI defines the term ‘mass murder’ as murdering four or more people during
a massacre
with no “cooling-off period” between the multitude of
murders.
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~ The criminal
mastermind character can be found within the set as a 9-piece puzzle, and located
elsewhere as a skateboard deck and as an exclusive convention promo card.

~ The ghostly character can be seen as described by Wiki as: “an elderly
male ghost in a cloak and top hat, leaning on a cane with a wavering hand and
clutching a hatbox in the other (DoomBuggies).” The attraction illusion was
for its head to vanish and reappear within the hatbox, which didn’t quite work
in 1969. NOTE: sporting light blue-stripted CPK shoes.
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The spooky specter character can be found within the set as a 9-piece puzzle and
elsewhere printed on a skateboard deck.

~ The carnivorous, man-eating plant is seen securely gripping the victim’s
head between its sharp chompers. In the musical and movie, Seymour, a nerd florist
who loves strange and interesting plants, works in a small flower shop with his
colleague, Audrey, with whom he has a crush on. What’s barely seen of the character
is just the top portion of his body, all scrunched into the mouth cavity of the
bloodthirsty, Venus flytrap-like plant. Blood is like Miracle-Gro for the plant,
which has been lovingly christened “Audrey II” by its owner.

~ The bizarrely stylish thug can be seen wearing a mask on his mug, a black
derby hat, a white dress shirt (with the infamous eyeball cufflinks), white dress
pants, a white supporter (innerwear as outerwear), black boots, and a straight
walking cane. The movie is labeled as a dystopian crime film, but definitely has
some horrorific moments throughout. “As queer as a clockwork orange”
is British slang implying extreme strangeness and/or madness.
~ The antisocial
delinquent, ableit, charismatic character, can also be found printed on a skateboard
deck for the release.

~ He Who Shall Not Be Named—as
to prevent any movie spoilers—is the main antagonist in the “I Know
What Youd Did Last Summer” trilogy.

~ The psychological thriller, based off of a Stephen King’s novel, centers
around a ever-so-slightly, over-obsessive fan who holds an author captive and
forces him to write another story. As in the movie, the antagonist is seen wielding
a sledgehammer that’s used on the protagonist to prevent him from escaping. [SPOILER]
The painting somewhat depicts the infamous ‘hobbling’ scene within the film, where
the character places a board between the restrained legs of the author and uses
the sledgehammer to break both of his ankles to prevent him from leaving. The
character is sporting red-striped CPK shoes to match the pooling blood.

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The ‘cult’ description is based around the small group of aliens having practices
regarded by others as being strange or sinister.

~ The theatrical release poster stated “There’s Something Wrong With
Esther”. The character can be seen with her severely parted hair and pigtails
with black ribbons, but she is dressed in a parody of the “Little Orphan
Annie” comic strip character, made popular with the 1982 movie “Annie”,
wearing her red dress and holding her decapitated head with its signature locks
of orange hair. Both characters having been adopted from an orphanage, a residential
institution for the well being and education of children without biological parents.
The character is also seen gripping a butcher’s knife coated with blood.

THE
TERROR-IBLE TRUTH:

~ The horrorific flashback character can be seen
standing upright with her trademark collared night dress and food drippings. The
character suffered and eventually died from spinal meningitis, which trumatized
her sister, Rachel. The dying girl was played by actor Andrew Hubatsek because
the filmmakers could not find any female gaunt enough to portray the character.
The nomenclature pays tribute to “The Legend of Zelda” video game, whose
Princess Zelda character is the complete opposite of the horror character. The
Stephen King book was released in 1983 and a remake of the movie was released
in 2019.

THE
TERROR-IBLE TRUTH:

~ A minor character featured in the Day of the
Dead movie, Dr. Tongue (nicknamed by designer Tom Savini) is the first zombified
undead to appear in the franchise. At some point during the breakout plague, he
died and was reanimated into a zombie. The painting depicts the majority of his
lower face, especially his missing jaw, as mutilated… quite possibly from a
gunshot wound, rendering the character still functioning but (humorously) unable
to consume anyone that he might kill. The victim-made-stalker is sporting red-striped
CPK shoes.

THE
TERROR-IBLE TRUTH:

~ The main protagonist, sporting a pig head, is
seen ripping through the background with his bloody chainsaw. The narrative follows
the motel manager (a farmer, butcher, and entrepreneur of fine meats), who traps
travelers and harvests their bodies for his human sausage meats. It is a satire
of modern horror films, and is allegedly based on a true story out of Wisconsin.
The character is wearing red-striped CPK shoes.

~ The Sanderson sisters are stitched together, left-to-right, Mary Sanderson
played by Kathy Najimy, Winifred “Winnie” Sanderson played by Bette
Midler, and Sarah Sanderson played by “Sarah Jessica Parker. The three are
standing singularly, with two remaining limbs, stirring a soul-sucking-potion
within a very, large red cauldron. The three villainous witches are resurrected
on Halloween night in the town of Salem, Massachusetts.

~ The evil-doer is characterized by his pitch-black eyes, his pale skin, his
crouching (hiding) positions, and from the haunting meowing sounds he makes …
as represented in Pingitore’s playful painting. One theatrical movie release poster
version had a close-up of Toshio’s face with a red number “2” as his
eye pupil. The ball of yawn (aka cat toy) brings in a nice red element
into the image.

~ The humanoid stick figure(s) is the signature symbol of the Blair Witch
and were used in her black magic rituals. The Twana is a five-point symbol with
an upside down triangular center. The reoccuring stick men theme, starting in
The Blair Witch Project (1999) and non sequel Book of Shadows: Blair
Witch 2, finds itself as the main subject on the theatrical movie poster with
warnings such as “There’s something evil hiding in the woods”.

~ The co-characters are seen hovering over an ouija board, and the human character,
sporting a pajama nightgown, is holding the evil planchette character. The theatrical
movie posters ran with the taglines: “Keep telling yourself it’s just a game.”
and “When you talk to the other side, you never know who will be listening.”
The ouija board, aka a spirit board or talking board, uses a wooden (or
plastic) planchette to spell out messages during a spiritual séance or
a slumber party. Allegedly an ideomoter phenomenon, response or reflex.

~ The vicious and animalistic attacker is seen peering out of his trademark
head cage and dressed in his straightjacket and loose(ned) straps. The Jackal
is the eleventh ghost featured in the eldritch Black Zodiac, a dark inversion
of the normal Zodiac, showcasing twelve earthbound ghosts. The Latin inscription
seen beneath the Jackal’s symbol (in the movie) in The Arcanum is “Canis
aureus” which translates to ‘the golden dog’. Within the movie’s original
script, the character was called “The Hyena”.

~ The near dark (sunset, dusk) movie is a vampire Western without the clichés,
except for the rising sun that causes character vampire’s flesh to smoke and burn.
The main antagonist can be seen sporting his black leather jacket, dark shades,
cascading wavy hair, and black charcoaled skin. The character is sporting a set
of violet-striped CPK shoes that goes perfect with the moonbow-like sunset sky
and background. The Kathryn Bigelow directed film performed poorly, but has gained
a large cult following over the years; the theatrical poster read: Vampires can
only kill you once, but they can terrify you forever.

~ The much-feared Judge of Toontown, the main antagonist, who dissolves Toons
in “the Dip”, is seen maniacally laughing as he’s hunting down Roger
Rabbit. Pingitore has painted him with his trademark black ensemble of a trenchcoat,
fedora, and gloves. He’s also carrying his pocketwatch but is missing his rimless
yellow-tinted glasses and swordstick (aka walking stick). In toon form,
the Judge’s eyes become evil red, he has a squeaky voice, and his body can become
an arsenal of tools and weapons, including a buzzsaw (and anvil) that’s tearing
up the “Horrorible Kids” header. The character is sporting a pair of
red-striped CPK shoes.

~ The later coined “Deadites” are the supernatural creatures featured
in the Evil Dead franchise, basically the “evil dead” themselves,
and the main antagonists of the films. These reanimated, undead monsters (aka
Kandarian spirits) gain their superhuman strength and powers from the ancient
tome of Naturom Demonto. Artist Mark Pingitore has captured the iconic
scene of Deadite Cheryl breaking free from the fruit cellar, in a remote cabin
“rental”, after the cellar door having been nailed and chained down
the night before to prevent escape.

~ For the parody painting, Pingitore has craftily crafted (skillfully made)
a cross between the movie The Craft and the subtle art of paper crafts;
in this particular case, for kids. “Paper craft” is a collection of
different crafts using paper or card as the primary medium for the creation of
dimensional objects for display, decoration, et cetera. So Kids, it’s not “Hammer
time”, it’s “Craft time” instead. Pingitore has included the trademark
(self-harming) knife, spiked dog collar, and adorned rosaries as seen in the film.
Nancy Downs is the main antagonist and cantakerous witch of the movie that causes
chaos and cruelty for others around her and even to her own coven. Her famous
quote from the trailer being: “We are the weirdos, mister.”

~ Pingitore has painted one of the two victims of a lycanthrope attack that
takes place on the moors in Yorkshire during a full moon. Green puffy-jacket wearing
Jack is mauled to death, while his best friend, the red puffy-jacket wearing David,
and soon-to-be turned werewolf, is only injured. In an iconic scene within the
movie, a newly undead Jack appears to David as a warning, with his mauled face
and neck barely intact, to explain the dire situation. The character is sporting
a pair of red-striped CPK shoes.

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Pingitore’s painting shows the “deformed creature” and swamp-dweller
holding a small (battle) axe and wading through his homeland outside a New Orleans
haunted swamp tour. The character can be seen sporting his trademark blue overalls
(with no shirt), his crowned clown-like mane of black hair, his Sloth-like deformed
face and missing teeth, and his foggy right eye. The first theatrical release
poster stated: “It’s not a remake. It’s not a sequel. And it’s not based
on a Japanese one.”

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Pingitore’s painting displays the cult classic character, deformed conjoined twin,
Belial in his wicker basket; a basket made of wickerwork woven from a variety
of pliable plant material. The twins seek revenge for their unwanted surgical
separation, and Belial resents being cut off from his normal-looking brother,
Duane Bradley. The theatrical movie poster showed the ‘BASKET CASE‘
title dripping in red blood and carried the passage: “The tenant in room
7 is very small, very twisted, and very mad”.

~ Pingitore’s overly obsessive clown doll with possessive capabilities is
seen sitting high on his high chair (stool) overlooking his potential victim(s).
The happy-smile-turned-grimacing-grin clown can be seen with his red nose and
rosy cheeks, orange hair, red-striped arms and leggings, blue ruffles and pointed
hat with a moon and star, white pointed collar (ending with gold jingle bells)
and diaper shorts. The minor antagonist clown character is sporting a pair of
red-striped matching CPK shoes.

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Pingitore’s full-body portait ‘caputures’ the hungry ghost in all of his pure
Ectoplasm glory and proportions. The character’s toothy, tongue-lolling smile
is similar to an obediant, tongue-wagging and dripping dog. Although Slimer was
not named until The Real Ghostbusters (as a mascot), he was often referred
to as “The Onionhead Ghost”; an incredibly foul-smelling amorphous vapor
with the shape of a green potato (hence, Little Spud). The character was also
referred to as “The Ghost of John Belushi”, “The Green Ghost”
during the early toy line, and the term “slimers” was used to identify
a particular kind of ghost in the script.

~ Pingitore’s painting humourously depicts the serial killer as a postman
carrying a ‘FRAGILE‘ package, completely covered in blood
from head to his feet, as well as sprayed all over the ground. ‘John Doe’ is obsessed
with the seven cardinal sins; he targets, captures, and tortures his victims by
representing their alleged sin: gluttony, greed, sloth, lust, and pride. To drive
his point across, of society tolerating these sins, he sets up a scene where he
represents ‘envy’ and the detective, David Mills (played by actor Brad Pitt) is
‘wrath’. The character is sporting a pair of red-stripted CPK shoes.

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Pingitore’s paraffin covered, full-body portrait is a nice tribute to the OS1
GPK character for cards 28a Oozy SUZY and 28b Meltin’ MELISSA painted by artist
John Pound. The character is a ‘human’ candle Kid, lit, and melting away. The
movie is a remake of the 1933 film Mystery of the Wax Museum and the 1953
film House of Wax. The painting depicts the secondary antagonist, the first
being his twin brother Bo, in his camel-coloured sweater and blue work apron.
The character is sporting blue-striped CPK shoes.

~ Pingitore’s parody painting shows the ancient master vampire in his tradmark
robes, Nosferatu-like appearance, dead cold blue skin, yellow and red eyes, and
wildly overgrown front teeth for puncturing necks. The character is sporting a
pair of blue-striped CPK shoes. Type-one vampires are the rarest, oldest, and
most powerful of all vampires; somewhat human-like in appearance, having two fangs,
and sometimes their eyes glow. Actor Reggie Nalder plays the ancient vampire in
the 1979 version and actor Rutger Hauer plays the type-one vampire in the 2004
version.

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