Welcome to Eric Mache's gallery showing in Fear Zone.

I killed Eric in 1995. Or, more accurately, I had him capped by a crackhead outside my apartment door. He took a slug in the heart--and for good measure, his wife Melanie took one in the head. Now that's togetherness. You don't believe me? Watch the opening scene of my micro-budget film NAKED FEAR (Please, somebody watch it!), which is available as a the second feature on the SLIME CITY DVD.

I met Eric around 1984, when I worked in a Times Square video store. My partner on SLIME CITY, Peter Clark, asked him to design a promotional flyer for SLIME CITY, a low budget horror film we wanted to make. I can't say whether or not his flyer helped us in our cause, but it gave us something to look at besides the title page of my screenplay. Later, we convinced him to paint the poster for the finished movie. We used the poster during SLIME's midnight run, and Pop Cinema used an altered--and in my opinion, inferior--version for their 2005 DVD release.

In 1986, I hired Eric to do a concept painting for JOHNNY GRUESOME, a screenplay I wrote which never became a movie but has been published as a novel (The Bad Moon Books Limited Edition includes Eric's painting as the frontispiece). Eric presented me with the painting on the set of Frank Henenlotter's BRAIN DAMAGE. A few years later, he showed me some cover designs for EVIL ERNIE, a comic book he was working on for some friends of his. Evil Ernie: long hair, leather jacket, heavy metal motif--just like JOHNNY GRUESOME. No, that isn't why I killed him in NAKED FEAR. (And I never realized until preparing this gallery that Eric's interpretation of Ernie's Lady Death, pictured above, was based on his wife Melanie!)

Eric later worked as the still photographer on Henenlotter's FRANKENHOOKER and did posters for my films UNDYING LOVE and NAKED FEAR. And that's where I exit the story (although he's always the first person I contact when I need design work done).

As an illustrator, Eric has designed movie posters, DVD and CD covers, and concept designs. Spend some time in his gallery and you'll see European exploitation films, American horror films, and spaghetti westerns. Is it any wonder that he's one of the founders of Wild East Productions, which releases Limited Edition DVDs of Euro flicks? Look closely and you'll see the DVD art for Douglas Buck's FAMILY PORTRAITS, concept art for Stuart Gordon's unproduced GRIS GRIS, and even design work for the mainstream CUTTER AND BONE (aka CUTTER'S WAY), starring Jeff Bridges.

I may have had Eric killed but he isn't dead. He's funny that way. In fact, as a videographer, he created some of Fear Zone's earliest Video Author Readings, located in Fear Zone Exclusives, by such NYC based writers as Sarah Langan, Linda Addison, Nicholas Kaufmann, and Gordon Linzner. And he can be reached at eemache@nyc.rr.com. If you dare.