Rabbit in Red’s Featured Artist for February is the award-winning SteelBook artist, Orlando Arocena aka Mexifunk, based in Bogota, Colombia.
To see more of his work, follow @mexifunk on Instagram and LinkedIn.
Questions and Artworks with Orlando Arocena
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What’s your favorite scary movie?
Here are my Top 5: Jaws (1975), Halloween (1978), The Shining (1980), The Thing (1982), Alien (1979)
Hey, what can I say? I group in the ’80s- hahahahaha
What’s your favorite horror artwork you’ve created?
WOW! Grateful to say I’ve created quite a number for the industry. But it would have to be the Halloween Illustrated book. I recreated the cover and the 100+ illustrations in the reprinting of the 1978 Curtis Richards Halloween novelization, thanks to Printed In Blood and Compass International Pictures. You can order yours here!
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When did you start making horror movie pieces?
Professionally I started way back in 1997 when I got my first job as an art director designing and reformatting posters to fit VHS and DVD packaging while at TROMA Films, in NYC. But my first official poster for a horror movie as an independent artist was the 35th Anniversary for ALIEN, for The Poster Posse/ACME Prints.
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Which was soon followed by another one for 20th Century Fox…
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My first official DVD SteelBooks were a set of 19 I created back in 2017 and I won my first Gold Clio award for them.
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My very first horror movie theater one-sheet was La Llorona (2019).
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And then they invited me back in 2021 to do The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It!
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Favorite horror movie sequel?
Evil Dead 2
Least favorite sequel?
Exorcist II: The Heretic
Favorite horror movie character?
Ooooofff! So many! Michael Myers, Jason, Freddy, The Phantom of the Opera, Chucky.
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If you could bring one horror movie character back to life, who would it be?
Would love to see a really dark, ultra-crazy version of The Phantom of the Opera!
Favorite horror movie scene?
When you think Halloween is over…
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Favorite chase scene?
Running the maze during a snowstorm in The Shining!
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Favorite kill scene?
This will always be my favorite kill scene.
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