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Ghastly McNasty
The internet is full of wonderful websites and nuggets of happiness that will lift your spirits and sooth your worries. There’s also a darker side to the net filled with freakish art and gruesome tales. It’s here that you’ll find most of the sites recommended by The Theatre of Terror. One such site contain the artwork of Mia Mäkilä, a Swedish artist who describes her work as horror pop surrealism or dark lowbrow.
Mia’s influences include:
…film directors such as David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Roy Andersson, Terry Gilliam and Tim Burton and artists like Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel, Francisco Goya, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the masters of Disney Studio’s in the 1930’s-40’s.
Check out this disturbing gallery below.
If you want to lose a few more crumbs of sanity then take a trip over to www.miamakila.com/.
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