"Yes! Welcome to Friswell's Freaky Features, an ongoing spot on the CFZ blog page where you will encounter the fun, the freaky, the frightening and on occasion, the downright horrifying. Many of these items are from almost forgotten archives and no doubt should, in many cases, have stayed forgotten....
In my book, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) is a serious contender for the best horror movie ever made. It's documentary emphasis, awesome soundtrack and surprising subtlety invest it with a sensibility and a verite-style verisimilitude unlike any other film. Those who have seen it will be familiar with the dead armadillo on the road at the st
art of the film. Art director Bob Burns originally found the armadillo dead at the side of the highway, and took it home with him, lovingly restoring it to it's former glory with taxidermy techniques.
But I bet even Burns would have been taken aback by this armadillo farm, which utilised the animals in ways that would have even given old Leatherface himself a few ideas....
I want one as a pet.
ReplyDeleteI want one of them - as a pet of course, not a lampshade.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find interesting about the nine-banded armadillo is how far north it can live, even in the really cold parts of the Midwestern US.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, it is continuing to expand its range north and east of where it currently lives.
This map shows its current range in red and its potential range in pink:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Armadillo_range_expansion.png