H.R. Giger's Designs for Alien (1979)

A Matter of Morbid Elegance

Dread Reckoning

[25 June 2007]

by Marco Lanzagorta

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While it may be hard to believe, horror imagery has its direct links in the visual variances of classic painting. It's all a matter of melancholic grace.

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This is the first time I have ever seen Rembrandt and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre mentioned on the same page.

Comment by Oliver Bean from Virginia — June 25, 2007 @ 8:56 pm

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