One of the strangest films I’ve ever seen! THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY (1980) meets E.T. (1982)! Twin extraterrestrials crash-land at opposite ends of the earth, one in Central Africa, & the other in America where it’s retrieved & put under a series of painful scientific tests! You gotta wonder whether the continual flow of snots dripping outta Nukie’s schnozzle into his own mouth was an aesthetic choice or flawed A.C. inside that abysmally built FX bodysuit! With GLYNIS JOHNS, who played the mom in MARY POPPINS (1964) & STEVE RAILSBACK AKA CHARLES MANSON in HELTER SKELTER (1976)! Thanks to CORPUSSE ASHTON for this great VHS find from his old Montreal antiques/thrift shop! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2011 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “Brainwaves without a brain!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

MPP ORIGINAL ART MAKES JUICY GIFTIES! Martian children stop eating their hamburger & asparagus “food pills” after watching Santa interviewed on earth-TV, building dolls that look just like them! Mars’ prez sez it’s confusing his kids & consults an 800-year-old “ancient” for advice! “They’re born with electronic teaching machines attached to their brains & by the time they can walk they’re adults,” he laments, & “now they’re rebelling & wanna have fun”! So: Mars needs Santa! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2011 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “Santa Claus Colonializes the Martians!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

MPP ORIGINAL ART MAKES JUICY GIFTIES! And this one has cows being ground up! Yeah, yeah, so true story; me, I gave up on those MacDognald’s 99-cent Special Cheeseburgers turn-of-the-millennium when, 5 min. after inhaling one I got explosive diarrhoea, yadda, yadda, yadda! Reading the same-titled 2001 stomach-turning book that this movie’s based on by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser sealed the deal for me (tagline: “There’s Shit in the Meat”)! As for this movie version; “whoever played the cows did a really good job!” The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2006 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah… I’m lovin’ shit!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

“CAMPAIGN OF SCHLOCK & PSHAW!” I drew this cartoon days after George W’s invasion. “After comparing coverage discrepancies per network for hours on end on live TV watching the beginning of the U.S. versus Iraq state-of-the-art “Shock & Awe Campaign” I thought I’d top the day off with the uber-fictitiousness of a state-of-the-art American war movie hot off the cookie-cutter,” I told myself on the way to the theatre. It takes a lot to offend me, but this turd of a film sure did the trick that day. Cue the beginning of the end of the world! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2003 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “Campaign of Schlock & Pshaw!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

SOLD Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Banned in Canada for decades! Long considered the world’s first & only feature-length underground horror/porn flick, Thundercrack! (originally double-billing alongside early screenings of Pink Flamingos) is the epic B&W 150-plus-minutes-long debauched culmination of a counterculture lineage dating back to the 50’s, written & costarring George of Kuchar Bros renown! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2004 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “‘Realism only comes to the screen when the film jams in the projector & the image begins to bubble’ –George Kuchar.” Available in December on Blu-ray & DVD from Synapse Films! As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! “Ding dong, you’re dead” –original tagline. Here’s a rare Motion Picture Purgatory that dates all the way back to 1986 during my first stint at The Montreal Mirror. It never saw print for some reason. I blather on about how frustrated I was seeing a great creature design get wasted by insufficient screen time. My drawing style was way different then. As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back). Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Busload fulla travelers has to make a detour to an uncharted dilapidated rural village after driver collapses dead at the wheel! They find the place abandoned ‘til the wee hours when villagers roam around like zombies! Hero’s a Peeping Tom who terrorizes object of desire with phony things-that-go-bump-in-the-night! Unfortunately orgyless, but maggots abound! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2008 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “Orgiastically Incoherent!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.

HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Could this be where artist Andres Serrano (lambasted by members of the US Senate) got the idea for “Piss Christ,” his notorious 1989 sculpture of a crucifix submerged in urine & cow’s blood? When a pregnant nun fesses up who the daddy is she’s beaten & force-fed a bucket of salt water so that if she urinates over an image of Christ it means she’s a witch! Not only does a torrential flood of pee coat the icon but drooling droplets of slo-mo crimson from internal bleeding poetically splash & mingle in what has to be one of the most sacrilegious images in cinematic history! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2005 issue of The Montreal Mirror was “‘Piss Christ’ Precursor!” As always; the original art’s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window & use the magnify function).

Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&W inks (signed & dated by author/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), & a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage & framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One & Two available at FAB Press. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.