Ayacon - Horror Cosplays

Well I suck at updates... like mad crazy.. but ol' Jigsaw over here did go to an Anime convention a weekend or so ago and there was a lot of horror cosplays.... not just horror cosplays but a lot of western influenced.

 

Here are pictures of the weekend. If you would like me to send the big copies to you then email fucingzombiesblog@hotmail.co.uk

 

Rick - The Walking Dead

 

Student - Battle Royal

 

 Supernatural

 

Fluttershy's from SHED.MOV

 

Sexy genderbend Juliet from Lollipop Chainsaw

 

SILENY HILL

 

 

 

 

Little Sister and Big Sister from BIO SHOCK

 

 

 

 

Killingfloor

 

Hellboy

 

Katherine and Catherine - Catherine [confused yet?]

 

 

All awesome cosplays and we great meeting you all.

 

XJigsawX

House Of The Dead, Left 4 Dead, DEAD SPACE and good ol' John

Well I would like to say I have been hella busy with cool things but really I've been sat in a dark room watching horror movies and feeling rather sorry for myself. True story. But today I will bring you a lovely selection of goodies from the last week or so.

-- House Of The Dead--
 

First off I went to a new arcade in London called 'The Heart Of Gaming' which charges to get into the venue but every game is free and you can play anything as much as you like. Has some dance machines, loads of fighting games annnnnd House Of The Dead! light guns and all.

Now a few years back you could find a House Of The Dead 3 in pretty much any arcade and very rare cases a 4 or a 2... but never have I seen an arcade that has House 1. The arcade box isn't an official or original one but it's still a chance to play an awesome arcade game in well.. an arcade setting.

Guns work really well in this arcade you can tell they care for their things where as big arcades tend to think duck taping the fuck out of the house 3 shot guns will magically keep them alive for another thousand years.

House arcade machines seem to get harder and harder to find, I used to work as machine maintenance in a local arcade for some time and the House 3 machine was my baby, every lunch break I'd grab food and stuff it into my mouth between cut scenes playing this mother but since my time at that place the House 3 and 4 has gone.

Maybe due to being a family arcade and there is no place with all the slot machines.. grabber toys and silly 3D reality simulators for such a fine beast like the best known horror arcade game...

Anyway my point IS this arcade still has a House and with working guns that you don't have to shake the ever loving crap out of to reload... I talked to the owner and he seems to have big plans on getting the other ones into his place. So he's aiming to get the other houses and as far as I know on my travels and being a massive whore for House that would be the only place to have them!

Very excited and will more then likely spend my life there playing all of them... maybe at once if I grow tentacles from all the energy drinks and misery I'm fuelled with these days ha.

If you wanna check the place out you can find them on facebook HEART OF GAMING ARCADE

--Left 4 Dead 3?--

I'm sure everyone and their dog has seen this by now but holy fucking crap man! L4D3? I mean I love L4D everyone who reads this blog should know how gay I am for it [very gay] but out of all the games that they could have done a third for [How long have all you half life fans been waiting? haha suck it] I mean I think PORTAL 2 was the newest one? bit rusty on my valve kids.

And before P2 there was l4d2.. does this imply that L4D was their most popular franchise? cus shit, have you not seen how crazy... dedicated to hats the TF2 fandom are? long as you chuck new maps and silly head clothing their way they are happy for life I spose..

But how can you build more on L4D? I mean in the second one you get new chars.. they even cross over worlds with the first lot which is awesome and I have spent so much time and money on the bloody dlc's and whatever else that comes my way.

Weapons was a fun add in number two where you could coat your screen in zombie blood and not be able o see while your mate yells at you from the place on the sofa next to you or across a headset...

All the added special infected made the game abit.... eh... like move two steps.. JOCKEY BALLS IN YOUR FACE... walk down this road COVERED IN SPITTER PUKE... well now that's over.. FUCKING HELL WITCHES CAN WALK NOW?..... oh well that's kinda ne- KARMA CHARGED INTO DEATH.

That's an average five minute scenario when playing the second game... they could have just taken some of the old ones out for the new ones? too many special infected.. I hope int he third they will make all new ones or limit them. Also the charters in two.. Black girl, Uncle Phill, Redneck asshat and my future husband Nick [aka that douchebag Steve from the remake of Dawn Of The Dead] are.. lacking compared to the ones from L4D.

I'm thinking maybe since kids love their zombies and zombies are fucking huge money makers this is why the third l4d is coming out before the third... ANYTHING from valve. I look forward to it greatly but also fully prepared for heartbreak and disappointment.

---Dead Space--

I'm a massive fag and got a DS tat

Hurt like a mother fucker and those lines up my neck? caused my left arm to go funny. The words under it are marker symbols for 'REBIRTH' they also look like UNKNOWN's from pokemon, Double cool points.

--John--

So I got bored few weeks ago and made a facebook page for John Kramer the guy who is Jigsaw in SAW. It's going... well.. I have three friends.. feel free to add and enjoy.

ADD TO FACEBOOK

 

Much love

XJigsawX

Cosplay for the Recently Deceased

Well I am now back on track with this little blog so back to my cosplays of the month and this month is defo a personal favourite of mine. Any UK convention goer is bound to have seen these two around alot as they are some of the best cosplayers from this fandom I have ever seen.

So enough of me rambling and falling over myself to get to the point... Here we go!

Photo by Paul Elder

 

 

 

Photo by John Shek

 

Name: Hannah

Age: 23

Where are you from?: Swindon, Wiltshire

How long have you been cosplaying?: I've been cosplaying since 2007, but I'd only really started to take it seriously since 2012!

 

Why did you decide to cosplay this character?: As soon as I got pretty deep into the Beetlejuice fandom, I knew I had to cosplay Lydia in some form. Her character just spoke to me and I just felt really connected to her. I could sympathise with how she felt like the outcast and a freak in her own family; loving the bizarre and the supernatural only for it to turn around and bite her on the behind, in a sense. Initially I'd wanted to perfect a cartoon!Lydia cosplay, until I found a black straw hat whilst out shopping one day. Then after the first make-up test run I realised my face wasn't so badly suited for Winona and decided to give it a spin.

 

 

Photo By Food and Cosplay

 

 

It certainly helped that at that point me and Amy had met through Tumblr and had roleplaying accounts for Betelgeuse and Lydia and just-- decided to cosplay our 'muses'. We knew we just had to pursue it!

Photo by John Shek

Tell us about your costume: For Lydia I currently have the 'moving day' outfit which she wears as the Deetzs' furniture arrives/when she first spots the Maitlands, and I also have the wedding dress (which Amy did an AMAZING job creating). I love both of the outfits to death and can't honestly pick which one is my favourite, though of course the 'hat' outfit is much easier to travel with (and IN!) as the dress restricts movement quite a bit. But… nothing quite beats getting to be a reluctant bride for a day!

 

Photo by John Shek

 

The only trouble I find with both outfits is the lack of pockets, my lack of free hands due to props (the camera and the Handbook vs the bouquet) and worrying constantly about whether the spikes in my fringe will hold. Other than that… they're terribly fun outfits to wear.

I've added just one personal touch: I wear a wedding ring as part of my cosplay constantly; we try to be as in-character as possible at events so it's just as a sort of in-joke/explanation as to why Lydia and Betelgeuse would be 'travelling around' together in the first place- a post-movie marriage!

 

Best thing about cosplaying this character: Getting to be Lydia. I say it constantly after I take it off and de-make-up- it crushes me not to be her for another day, not to re-enact moments from my favourite movie like that and not get to experience the adrenaline rush I get from cosplaying. I would literally do it every day if I could. Not to mention the feedback, which is incredible! I can't believe the amount of people who have told me how much I look like Winona Ryder, it just leaves me speechless!

 

 

Photo By Aminah Meena

Name: Amy

Age: 29

Where are you from?: Brighton

How long have you been cosplaying?: I’m relatively new to cosplay ( I first started October last year) but I’ve been dressing up and running around in strange clothing since I could toddle.

 

Photo by John Shek

 

 

What did you decide to cosplay this character?: Up until the point of thinking ‘how the heck am I going to do this?’ I was running a Tumblr blog as Beetlejuice – answering questions in character and drawing stupid pictures to accompany them. Me and Hannah got chatting about how much fun it would be to have a get-together at MCM- and then it shifted to who we could cosplay as. I saw other people were having a great time dressing as him- and that sealed it.

 

Photo By Tascha Dearing

 

 

Tell us about your costume: The striped suit took the most work, and was my first project. Actually it was my first big sewing project too- always good to jump in at the deep end (several costume meltdowns later- it’s really not. Don’t listen to me) It’s more of a take on his outfit than a straight movie copy-although I’m hoping to make a faithful replica one day soon.

 

Photo by John Shek

 

I couldn’t find suitable fabric anywhere in the UK- and I’m still searching for that illusive perfect one. In the end I imported some lovely stuff from America with plush black stripes. It was tricky to stitch but looked great when aged with tea and coffee. The buttons are all different- a mixture little skulls and an antique beetle decorated one for the front.

The makeup was the hardest part- lots of trial and error. I have very long hair- and hiding it all to give him his distinctive receding hair-line was going to be the biggest challenge. Luckily I found an amazing tutorial on Youtube by a makeup artist who not only developed great technique using dyed crepe wool- but also made high quality bald caps to build the look onto. From there I found out from others sites about using train landscaping hobby grass to create his mossy stubble and what paints and powders worked. The teeth are another important aspect- they really transform the whole look into something really nasty. It’s evolving every time and I love figuring out new elements to add.

 

Photo By ShinigamiPhotography

 

Best thing about cosplaying this character: Hard to pick just one! I love being unrecognisable as me- and at the same time a character lots of people know and respond to. It’s also feels great to be really gross looking- and not have to worry when makeup gets all over your clothes. It just becomes part of the look.

 

 

Photo by Paul Elder

 

To see more of these two here is there facebook page  Cosplay for the Recently Deceased

LFCC - The people, the guests, my return

Well I have been dead for sometime.. but this post will mark my return.. god so sorry for those of you who give a crap that I have been gone so long. So I rocked up to London Film and Comic Con last weekend with some buddies and I got to meet Norman mother fucking Reedus of Walking Dead fame and Sarah Wayne C who plays Lori from The Walking Dead.

 

Also cosplayers!

 

Slenderman

 

I turn away from this guy to take a picture of a Rick cosplayer and he scares the crap out of me, you can see him grinning smugly through his mask.

 

 

Rick and zombie Daryl

 

Rick

 

Ghostbusters

 

Rick

 

Witch

 

Alien

 

Dale

 

Lori! she was a nice lady, pretty too.

 

HE WAS SO AMAZING, you can tell the man loves his fans, he's a great guy. I got a hug, I must never wash again... ever.

 

 

 

 

Norman wanted ALLLLLLL the book space. All his.

 

Ah it's amazing..

 

Anyway.. there will be more from me from now on.

 

XJigsawX

 

Not dead

Just busy, don't worry loads more crap coming.

The Walking Dead POP figures

Sorry for lack of updates but I have been moving house so yeah.. keep those judgemental eyes off of me and enjoy the fucking review... damn.

 

So ages ago I found these in my friends local Forbidden Planet going for £9.99 which I thought was pretty good and being the massive fag I am I've gotten into the habit of just buying anything that has The Walking Dead on it [yes one of those mindless fans] but these are hella fucking cute.

 

 

 

Box art is pretty nice and shows what other ones in the Walking Dead franchise you can buy.. I'd have much preferred other charters to random zombies but maybe I'm just picky..

 

 

 

Cue the gasps of a thousand nerds screaming 'BUT MINT IN BOX!' I'm sorry I like to play with my toys. I might even make them fight to the death with my huge Jigsaw from SAW model.. or make them kiss for all the nutjob fangirls out there.

 

 

Here's a DVD to show how big these suckers are.

 

NOW for the whole 'are they worth the money?' bit in which I fondle them lovingly and pick out every bad flaw they have...  just like a douchebag boyfriend.

 

The join for head and body is pretty big.

 

Random stains on his ass and head.... Rick? what you been doing buddy?

 

Massive scuff on the top of his hat and from the feel of it wasn't intentional and there was no colour on the plastic crap that held him in the box.

 

Nothing wrong with him from a far.

 

Still perfect... just like Norman Reedus [All dem fangurls son]

 

Oh and found this on Rick's ear..

 

 So they are cute and look nice in their boxes but also I feel there was far too much damage on Rick for my liking, a lot of clumsy errors and maybe they shouldn't have packed/sold it that way. Not getting a refund as it's just staying in the box till I think of horrid webcomics to make.

 

I'd say very much worth £9.99 but not any more then that.

 

Cuteness: 5/5

Quality: 3/10

Price: 4/5

 

XJigsawx