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From Radar Online comes the perfect gift suggestion for film aficionados (more likely aficionadesses, but you never can tell … ): “Handbags of Horror,” a mock designer collection of oversize purses that purports to channel assorted screen monsters of the past. At the head of this unruly brood is—what best to call it?—the Chucky, a patchwork of sewn leather gewgaws in bright designer colors, with “carroty tufts” that, according to Radar’s description, have a “deceptive ‘playful’ quality” (like the Child’s Play series itself, no doubt). Up next, the Mummy, a confection of ruffles and chains that presumably brings to mind Boris Karloff lurching down mausoleum corridors to harass a hysterically screaming Zita Johann. There’s also the shiny metallic Betsey Johnson Terminator spin-off, a bag that only a certain governor of California would ever be caught dead or alive carrying, as well as the Reanimator, a “brutally poisoned” design of Napa leather described as an “homage to Tarman, the star zombie in 1985’s Return of the Living Dead.” Not to mention a fuzzy brown nuisance straight out of Gremlins, or a scaly piece of swamp salvage I’ll simply dub the Gill Man: what fashionably distressed damsel wouldn’t want that in her black lagoon Christmas stocking?
And holiday best to one and all …
