{"id":929,"date":"2017-06-06T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=929"},"modified":"2017-06-06T23:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T23:19:53","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-virus-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Virus&#8221; (1999)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An electricity-shaped alien life-form invades a radar ship &amp; takes control of its machine-shop &amp; computers so it can build itself into an army of robots that include human zombie body parts! &#8220;The more the technology becomes familiar to people the more they&#8217;re going to be able to put names to what these artifacts are; like with stop-motion &amp; its jerky quality. That was not visible to the lion&#8217;s share of the public, say, when The Lost World was released (in 1925)&#8221; -Virus special effects artist Phil Tippet on CGI (which was used in this film) versus his former field of expertise stop-motion animation, from an interview with Stephen Bissette in Animato Magazine, #35, summer 1996. Indeed, a clever press preview of the original Lost World&#8217;s creature footage had the New York Times actually contemplate the possibility that its dinosaurs might have been brought to life via some secret spiritist methods of &#8220;ectoplasm &amp; other things unknown to most minds&#8221;! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 1999 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cTechnocratic Terror Traumatizes Rootin&#8217; Tootin&#8217; Troubleshooters!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s 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 &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-930 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom-632x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"1016\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom-632x1024.jpg 632w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom-185x300.jpg 185w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom-768x1244.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Rick_Trembles_Virus_1999_Snubdom.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FAB Press<\/a>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An electricity-shaped alien life-form invades a radar ship &amp; takes control of its machine-shop &amp; computers so it can build itself into an army of robots that include human zombie body parts! &#8220;The more the technology becomes familiar to people the more they&#8217;re going to be able to put names to what these artifacts are; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}