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above: detail from "Grosse", Matt's zombie take on Grease, starring Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta
Zombies keep popping up in popular culture; books, movies, tv series.. and now, in movie posters from classic and cult films by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Rob Reiner and more. If you're not familiar with Matt Busch and his re-imagined movie poster collection, Hollywood Is Dead, you're about to see such lovable characters as Holly GoLightly and E.T. rendered as cataract-wearing, flesh-eating, blood thirsty monsters.

above: details from Breakfast At Tiffany's and E.T. with the Busch treatment.

Busch has faithfully recreated the painting style of each original movie poster, as opposed to altering them digitally in Photoshop.

above: artist Matt Busch

He painstakingly hand-painted every detail using traditional mixed media to match the originals, before slaughtering them with a zombified treatment. Below are 30 of his zombie movie posters.

Collection Title Poster: Hollywood is Dead

Breakfast At Tiffany's:

Avatar:

Fight Club:

The Little Mermaid:

The Princess Bride:

Grease:

Back to the Future:

Indiana Jones:

E.T.:

Star Wars:

Harry Potter:

Goonies:

James Bond, From Russia With Love:

Star Trek:

Romancing The Stone:

The Color Purple:

Hook:

Jaws:

King Kong:

Toy Story:

Apocalypse Now:

Ghostbusters:

The above posters (and t-shirts too) are available for purchase here.

Designed by Martijn van Tilburg for Toideloi, the Stackhouse is a series of modular building sets that can provide children with hours of play. Castles, Chalet, Villages and Skyscrapers can be easily built and rearranged from the various pieces which are all made from clear lacquered Eastern European Birch plywood. The rooms are large and spacious, measuring 14" x 14" (width and depth) and are 9.5" high. The house works great with 1:12 scale furniture.

Chalet:

Castle:

Village and Skyscraper:

Kids or parents can change the house by arranging and stacking the rooms, balconies and roofs into many unique structures. The Stackhouse is expandable; kids can bring along their rooms on play dates and build a mansion or build up a collection of rooms and roofs over time.

The stackhouses require no screws and have easy assembly. The walls of the rooms simply slide together. No tools required. Once put together the components are very stable. For longer term storage, the rooms can be disassembled in the same way.

Dutch Design. Made in the USA.

Toideloi is a small company specialized in well-crafted original toys. The Toideloi Stackhouse is designed by Dutch designer Martijn van Tilburg. Toideloi follows a philosophy of local manufacturing. The Stackhouse is manufactured in Kirkland, WA.

Build and buy your stackhouse here.