The Chiller Theater in New Jersey is doing a charity auction May 2nd - 4th, 2008, and I’ll be contributing 2 pieces from my collection a warcraft mask and a skeleton. The skeleton was used in ad campaign of Fox’s Bones. Fox’s Bones and World of Warcraft are in no way affiliated with this auction. These items are my personal property that has been used by their productions. Other items up for auction can be seen here. Stills from the ad showing the skeleton and the actors together can be seen in the below links

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I’ll also be contributing a World of Warcraft Ork Mask and the mold for making more latex Ork masks. See the finished Ork mask here .

The charity is a benefit for horror host and novelty horror music legend John Zacherley, the cool ghoul. The fund raiser is a surprise, so if you know Zach, don’t tell him!

Zach is the last of the great original horror hosts, 90 years old and still as sharp as a stake through the heart. He fell ill around Christmas and while he’s out of the hospital now, this auction is to raise the cash for his hospital bills. Along with other hosts like Vampira who passed earlier in the year, Zach helped create the campy mix of ghastly puns and ghoulish gore that is often imitated, never equaled to this day. While the honors for Vampira came mostly post-humous, this is a chance to honor a legend of the undead while he’s still alive.

As well as a character actor and horror host, Zacherley produced an unrivaled assortment of novelty horror records in the 50’s and 60’s. Often backed by the rockabilly surf style of the Dick Clark Five, or spooky organs, Zacherley’s horror limerick songs are one of the founding forces of todays Psychobilly genre Give a Listen to some selections here, and then go ahead and buy the album here. We’re trying to get the dude paid after all.

Zacherley’s music and television persona has been a huge influence on all of us here at Dapper Cadaver where his music can regularly be heard in our in store mix. We’re thrilled and honored to be able to help him out however we can. We hope whether you love Zacherley, Bones, Warcraft, or other horror swag you’ll be able to make a bid and help this delightful old ghoul out.

We just got back from the Halloween Costume, Haunted Attraction, and Party show in Las Vegas. Eileen and I had a great time and even made the paper.

From the Las Vegas Review Journal

The four-day convention includes more than 700 exhibitors and is expected to attract about 10,000 attendees from 47 countries.

In 24 years it has grown from a small event in Chicago with about 20 vendors to today’s incarnation, a multiday costume, prop and gore extravaganza for an industry worth about $7 billion.

“Something like 20 percent of people in the U.S. will attend a haunted house,” said Joe Thaler, chairman and CEO of TransWorld Exhibits, the company that runs the Halloween show. “It can be very valuable.”

Mutilated bodies, full-length Sasquatch and Yeti suits, trampy nurse and superhero outfits are among the highlights of the Las Vegas event. There’s plenty at the show to shock even the most hardened sensibilities.

The firm Dapper Cadaver of Los Angeles showed off a line of vintage medical instruments, mutilated and vandalized corpses and a collection of faux human and animal fetuses stored in jars.

Dapper Cadaver owner-artist BJ Winslow said he’s been fascinated by macabre preservation techniques since childhood.

“Even when I was a little kid and I had a toy I was no longer interested in I would stick it in a jar, fill it with fluid and put it on a shelf,” Winslow said. “My mom still has some of them.”

We’re giving everybody one last chance to get a free pass to an advance screening of Sweeney Todd, and this time we’re also going to be awarding 2 $50 gift certificates for Dapper Cadaver and other Sweeney Swag.

Enter the drawing here

For tickets to the last advance screening you’ll need to stop by my shop, Dapper Cadaver, as soon as possible. We’re at 5519 Hollywood Blvd, and are open Monday - Friday, 10 - 6.

We’re also giving away Sweeney Todd posters, stickers, and buttons.

The screening will be at
7:30 pm, Thursday, Dec 20
The Pacific Grove 14 Cinema
189 The Grove Drive at Third St
Los Angeles, Ca

Experience a relentless onslaught of evil electro, B-movie burlesque and graphic gore at the Friday the 13th event at Dapper Cadaver. Dance to the horror film freak electro rock of Creature Feature, the black metal gameboy grindcore of Sonic Death Rabbit, and masked serial killer music of DJ Nohaptimus Prime, punctuated by the mind-raping crooner antics of Danny Shurago of The Fuxedos. Bump and grind with the southern belle from hell (and Miss Viva Las Vegas 2006!) Renea Le Roux and gothic Victorian vampire Victoria Vengeance. Acquire your copy of “Zombie Cadence”, the latest book from Ink Pen Mutations, signed by authors Wynter and Kalamity J and illustrators Rudy Martinez and Antonina Gribnikova. Also, buy original artwork from the book. Admire the handiwork of dark art darling birthday boys Travis Morley and Chris Donham. And eat cake from a cadaver, courtesy of birthday girl and proprietress Eileen Winslow. 9 pm to 2 am at Dapper Cadaver 5519 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028. $5 in costume. $7 in streetwear. BYOB. Call (323) 962-1924 for more information.

Scream Queens was an amazing show! Thanks again to all the performers, especially Chain Goddess, Miss Satanica and AMF for taking performance in our space to a new level, and all of the artists. We’re still cleaning the blood off of the stage. The art work is all still on display and for sale until the end of the month, so if you missed the show, still stop on by to take in the art. Finally, a super big thank you to Heidi Bluegirl for putting the whole show together and being such a fantastic hostess.

***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Dapper Cadaver and Bluegirl Productions Present:

“Scream Queens”
A horrific celebration and retrospect of horror film, B-movies, and macabre Hollywood Babylon!

Hollywood, CA - Saturday, September 9, 2006

Calling all “Scream Queens” and “Serial Killers”! Saturday September 9, 2006 will be an evening to die for on Hollywood Boulevard!

Well, at least you could pretend to be a serial killer, supernatural fiend or scream queen from your favorite horror flick for one horrific night as you dress as your favorite Hollywood horror/b-movie film star. If “serial killer chic” isn’t your style, you could dress up as a cult murder victim (Sharon Tate, perhaps?) to honor her memory. Scream Queens of all types are welcomed too, drag or otherwise. Just be creative and get your screaming voice ready! Your efforts to dress up will not be in vain as prizes will be given for best dressed as well as other contests throughout the evening.

Hollywood Boulevard (at Western) will be lit up with frighteningly great ART, featuring works for the occasion by Gidget Gein, VK7, Louisa Greenstock, Jason Hadley, Ramzi Abed, Louis Fleischauer, Julie Simone, Chuck Hodi, Ver Mar, Heidi Calvert, and others.

CHILLING Performance Art will entertain and thrill you, featuring Chain Goddess , Miss Satanica, Sir Witch, Jezebelle X , Edie Politoske, and Miss Bianca!

AMF presents “A Symphony of Flesh”!

GHASTLY marionette show by Niños de la Tierra!

LIVE MUSIC to DIE FOR by Cabinet of Curiosities

In-between the macabre menagerie of entertainment, “dance your life away” to sounds curated by The Peppermint Zebra and “DJ bluegirl”

SPOOKY Film Projections courtesy of world-renowned director and photographer Dean Karr, and Ramzi Abed/Bloodshot Pictures who will be projecting a very special silent sneak peak at his much anticipated and currently unreleased film “Who Killed the Black Dahlia?”, which features some of the night’s artists and performers as well as other Los Angeles legends, including Miss Satanica, Gidget Gein, Director Ramzi Abed and more!

What is a horror party without screaming bloody murder? Well, demonstrate your best, or worst, shrill scream for our Screaming Contest and win fabulous prizes!

“Scream Queen” shall take place on:
Saturday, September 9, 2006
9PM-2AM
at
Dapper Cadaver (formerly bluespace)
5519 Hollywood Blvd.
Hollywood, CA
www.dappercadaver.com
www.bluegirlproductions.com

Admission: $7, or $5 if in costume

Remember Ed Wood is a night of horror and b-movie rock’n'roll with a free midnight screening of “Plan 9 from Outer Space” to kick off a campaign to get Ed Wood a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. After all, it’s the Hollywood Walk of Fame, not the Hollywood Walk of Talent, right? Bands include Creature Feature, the resurrected Penis Flytrap featuring The Aberration and Dr. Satan, Demonia and Glen or Glenda. Burlesque by Renee du Jour and Miss La Diva. Puppet show by Baboon Torture Division. Proceeds will go towards the Ed Wood Star Fund. For more information about the Ed Wood campaign, click here.

Time: 9pm - 2am

Prices:
$10 before midnight
Free movie screening at midnight

Venue:
Dapper Cadaver
5519 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Contact:
BJ or Eileen Winslow
323-962-1924
info@dappercadaver.com

Whoman is calling this one Intimate Complexity. 9:30-3. 100 people only. BYO. Free before 10:30 and $5 afterwards. Get up close and personal with our headliner, the amazing Exillon whose fractured beats are to-die-for and watch an incredible 3-D Street Fighter II tournament projected into mid-air via a Helio Display. The rest of the lineup also rocks: N8, Emis, Derek Michael, DreamElectric, Dr. Rek (who will be leaving for Japan at the end of the month!) and Qrixs. Feel the broken techno-future rise among the corpses. At
Dapper Cadaver: 5519 Hollywood Blvd.