Hollywood Horror Museum Gains Traction
Steve Barton
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If ever there was a genre that should have its own museum, it’s the horror genre. Over the years it has bailed out big studios, built some of the new majors on its shoulders, and remains one of the biggest money-makers in the industry. The people behind the Hollywood Horror Museum are amassing quite a board of directors. Read on for the details.
From the Press Release:
The Hollywood Horror Museum is proud to announce today that legendary directors JOHN CARPENTER and GREG NICOTERO are its two newest board members. The museum, which has been showing up at various conventions, will be touring later in the year before it finds its permanent home in 2017.
John Carpenter is the writer, producer, and director of many genre classics including Halloween, Escape from New York, Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, and They Live. Greg Nicotero is director and producer of “The Walking Dead,” co-founder of KNB special effects, and special effects artist on Evil Dead 2, “Breaking Bad,” Transformers, and numerous Quentin Tarantino films.
The Hollywood Horror Museum will be an educational, non-profit museum touring the US and Europe in 2017, and then it will open permanently in Los Angeles in 2019. It will include walk-through environmental scenes from films and TV shows as well as props, life-size replicas, costumes, posters, and art spanning over 100 years of horror. It will teach the history of horror in films, TV, literature, and art and give visitors a chance to learn from the masters of horror. It will also be the largest horror collection in the world.
Other horror legends founding the museum include: Clive Barker (Hellraiser), Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th), Joe Dante (Gremlins), Tom Holland (Child’s Play), Mick Garris (“Masters of Horror”), Sara Karloff (Boris Karloff estate), Tim Lucas (Video Watchdog), Jennifer Lynch (“The Walking Dead”), Victoria Price (Vincent Price estate), Huston Huddleston (Hollywood Sci-Fi Museum), Steve Haberman, (Dracula: Dead and Loving It), Mike Hill (Pet Sematery), Rebekah McKendry (BlumHouse, Fangoria), Steve Johnson (Ghostbusters), Jovanka Vuckovic (Zombiemania), Amy Humphries (Terror Time), and Brian Yuzna (Re-Animator).
For more info visit the official Hollywood Horror Museum website, “like” Hollywood Horror Museum on Facebook, and follow Hollywood Horror Museum on Twitter.
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