Monster of the Day #3283

Updated on October 6, 2022 By Ken Begg 10 Comments

Well, I mean, you *are* wearing a mask. It’s just a mask of your own, er, face.

Man, Gil Kane was since a distinctive artist. That skull alone is a dead (no pun intended) giveaway, at least to anyone conversant with his Ghost Rider covers back in the day.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Um, no one else is really “masked” per se. Wasn’t this a clue for you, lady?

    I like the hep combo up in the upper right.

  • Gamera977

    Going back to awful 3D effects in movies we saw in ‘Amityville 3D’ last night I watched ‘House of Wax’ with Vincent Price. From the titles I assumed it was a 3D film and yeah, yeah it was. Good solid film but one effect was a guy with a paddleball* smacking it right at the camera which must have looked painfully silly in 3D. And yet they seemed pretty proud of the effect since he’s on screen for about three-four minutes including staring straight into the camera and telling the audience that he’s going to smack the popcorn bag right outta some guy’s hand.

    *It’s a rubber ball attached to a wooden paddle with an elastic cord that you bounce back and forth.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Charles Bronson in 3D!

  • Ken_Begg

    I saw House of Wax way back in the day. It was a newly struck 3-D print and they really nailed the projection. To be fair, aside from the goofy paddle ball scene, the 3-D is mainly used for depth of focus shots, like the amazing climatic fire. The most famous trivia bit about the film is that the director had one eye, and hence couldn’t himself see in 3-D. Which…is kind of an odd choice. It’s not like two-eyed directors were sparse on the ground.

  • zombiewhacker

    Somehow Death stripping his mask to reveal another skull face reminds me of Robert Stack whipping off his sunglasses in Airplane.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    More trivia, De Toth also made a 3-D western “The Stranger Wore a Gun” and not to be outdone, fellow one-eyed director Raoul Walsh made a 3-D western “Gun Fury” the same year.

    i think I am the only westerns fan here.

  • Gamera977

    Oh it’s a great film, and Price as usual is terrific I’m just knocking the whacky paddleball scene. Hadn’t thought about the depth effects for the huge fire- that’s something I’d love to see it in 3D for. Interesting about the director not having depth perception though!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I just watched that one myself last night on the Movies! channel. My favorite 3-D scene was the can-can dancers in the music hall. I bet many a little boy there for the horror must have wondered why that scene was there. And many a bored father or older brother felt grateful it was.

  • I literally just got a DVD of the 3D anaglyph version of HOW in the mail today as lagniappe from DVDparty dot com when I ordered some other 3D stuff, but haven’t had time to watch it yet. He also threw in a disc of rare 3D short subjects and some sampler discs, including a G. Gordon Murray one. I was already planning to get more stuff as he has a TV Horror movie box set that I am coveting.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Of course, the DP and the 3D consultants probably had two eyes…each, I mean. De Toth might have gotten some, uh, perspective from them.