The First Summer Blockbuster Set is Live at Dark Delicacies!

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The first set of Summer Blockbuster scents are live on the Dark Delicacies site!

 

B-HORROR

“B-Movie” initially referred to the second half of a double feature, usually a film that was lower in budget than the feature film, and weakly publicized. The expression has morphed over the years to encompass movies whose runtimes were under 70 minutes, low-budget films in general, an inartistic, cheaply produced genre movies, or high-budget exploitation style films.

 

Examples: I Drink Your Blood, Horror of Party Beach, Attack of the Crab Monsters, It Conquered the World

 

This scent is a celebration of B-grade sci fi and horror from the 50s, 60s, and 70s: a glowing glob of radioactive waste mixed with a mishmash of ingredients from assorted recipes for fake blood -- chocolate syrup, corn syrup, grenadine, and peanut butter.

 

 

CREATURE FEATURE

The struggle of man against metaphor: these movies symbolize man’s conflict with the destruction he wreaks on the environment. The antagonists in Creature Features are usually victims of radiation, pollution, or experiments gone awry – monsters created by the folly of men.

 

Examples: Creature From the Black Lagoon, Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra, Gorgo, Destroy All Monsters, Them!

 

Giant Monster Musk!

 

 

GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST HORROR

Highly stylized, stark, and filled with vivid, dark symbolism, these films employed bizarre, striking geometry and mise en scène to convey mood and tell their tale.

 

Examples: Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, M, Der Golem, Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination

 

Casket dust, black musk and khus, musty velvet, black pine needle, patchouli, myrrh, and black pepper.

 

 

GIALLO

The term Giallo, meaning yellow, was initally coined in reference to the yellow backgrounds used on the covers of Il Giallo Mondadori pulp crime and mystery novels that influenced Italian thriller filmmaking. The film genre that emerged began as translations of these pulps, and transformed with time into a melding of traditional murder mystery storylines with guignol’esque horror, combined with stylized, tense erotica that was liberally flavored with operatic melodrama. The storylines often touched on psychological terror, feelings of isolation and alienation, and claustrophobic paranoia.

 

Examples: Blood and Black Lace, Twitch of the Death Nerve, The House With Laughing Windows, Tenebrae

 

Profoundly passionate and singularly sinister: opoponax, black plum, night-blooming jasmine, benzoin, red musk, violet leaf, orange blossom, mimosa, mandarin, smoky vanilla, tobacco, patchouli, and black amber.

 

 

J-HORROR

Ghosts, rancorous spirits, and shapeshifters abound! Japanese horror films are tense, elliptical, psychologically chilling experiences, most often inspired by Japanese folklore and Kaidan, or supernatural tales, and are woven tightly with themes of retribution and vengeance.

 

Examples: Ringu, Jigoku, Ugetsu, The Ghost Story of Yotsuya

 

This scent is spectral, draped in funeral white, and surges with otherworldly, malevolent rage: stargazer lily, white sandalwood, chrysanthemum, and shincha, with white mint, eucalyptus, licorice bark, and blood orange.

 

 

SPLATTER COMEDY

Campy, over-the-top gore, full of gleeful self-mockery.

 

Examples: the Evil Dead series, Return of the Living Dead, Toxic Avenger

 

A bit of blood and chainsaw grease underneath a banana cream pie.

 

 

They will also be available for sniffing and purchasing at the May Trunk Show / Clearing Out the Cobwebs II:

 

May 23rd at Dark Delicacies, noon to 5pm

 

Dark Delicacies

4213 W. Burbank

Burbank, CA 91505

 

1-888-DARKDEL

1-818-556-6660

 

www.darkdel.com

 

 

Label artwork by the amazing Julie Dillon!