{"id":2851,"date":"2009-06-02T13:53:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T02:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2009-06-02T13:53:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T02:53:57","slug":"a-history-of-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/a-history-of-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Von Sholly &#8212; who is responsible for storyboards and design work on over 100 feature films including <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em>, <em>James and the Giant Peach<\/em>, <em>Darkman<\/em>, <em>The Mask<\/em>, <em>The Shawshank Redemption<\/em>, <em>The Blob<\/em>, <em>Nightmare on Elm Street III<\/em> and <em>IV<\/em>, <em>The Green Mile<\/em>, <em>The Mist<\/em> and much else besides &#8212; has produced a detailed and beautiful (at least to monsterphiles everywhere) online mural illustrating the evolution of our favourite unnatural beasts. His 18 panels cover a wide range of periods (not necessarily chronological) and monstrous significances, reflecting as often as not the particular styles and terrors of the time in which they dominated. They go from these primeval Lovecraftian lurkers in darkness:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2852\" title=\"section-01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-01.jpg\" alt=\"section-01\" width=\"460\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-01.jpg 849w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-01-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>to the radioactive giants and aliens of the 1950s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2853\" title=\"section-12\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-12.jpg\" alt=\"section-12\" width=\"460\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-12.jpg 864w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-12-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>to some of today&#8217;s more recognisable campfire freaks:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2854\" title=\"section-18\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-18.jpg\" alt=\"section-18\" width=\"460\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-18.jpg 1092w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-18-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/section-18-1024x468.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on the above images to see every superb detail!<\/p>\n<p>Then go the <a href=\"http:\/\/vonshollywood.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/scroll-blow-it-up-and-scrooooollllll.html\" target=\"_blank\">Scolly&#8217;s website<\/a> to view all 18 &#8220;eras&#8221; (but again, make sure you &#8220;blow &#8217;em up&#8221;!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Von Sholly &#8212; who is responsible for storyboards and design work on over 100 feature films including Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/02\/a-history-of-monsters\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,44,104,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}