PSYCH-O-LANTERN is a silly, spooky, over-the-top recreation of the shower scene from Hitchock's Psycho - made completely out of pumpkins in October of 2014. The project was featured on CNN, MSN, and news stations all over the world (including my home borough).
It was covered by Slate, Vocativ, Gizmodo, the Mail Online, The A.V. Club, MSN News, The Awesomer, Heavy, geektyrant, io9, MoviePilot, Design Taxi, Feel Desain, Digg, guff, Delish, College Humor, and First We Feast.
PSYCH-O-LANTERN
Below you'll find the full video, a gallery of stills, and photos from the process.
The process!
The pumpkins were carved over a two-week period in October of 2014. I squeezed three 16x9cm frames onto each pumpkin, which I documented immediately after completion with my Canon something-or-other. For better or worse, no fancy photo editing or equipment was used to make the film.
My carving process began by tracing the basic lines of each image with a knife, then freehanding the gradients of light and dark and fine-tuning the image with the light source inside. I used a combination of linoleum cutting tools, woodcutting tools, and hobby knives with replaceable blades. Since each frame took anywhere from two to six hours to complete, I had plenty of time to catch up on B horror movies. (Witchboard, people!)
Note the pumpkinshrapnel-covered candy wrappers in the images below.
And here's the video!
Psycho: Pumpkin Stop Motion of the Shower Scene
Check out a side-by-side photo comparison with the original, or play the two films together. You can even compare it to Gus Van Sant's Psycho!
Psych-o-Lantern Gallery
The Hall of Pumpkins! That's me offering Mr. Hitchcock a pumpkin in the end titles.
