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While his hand cut layered art on VHS cases divided opinion here, Charles Clary’s art continues to use various props as the basis for his handmade hidden hollows. Take a look at some of the items harboring trypophobia inducing segments. You can see more over on his Instagram.

Those with trypophobia turn away now! Depending on where you are from in the world you would have either kept your VHS cassettes in clamshells or paper sleeves, although the latter seems more vulnerable to ravages of time. Artist Charles Clary is taking the cardboard container versions and giving them color and depth with his […]...

Lon Chaney fans can revel in Kino’s Blu-ray transfer of The Penalty, featuring one of the thousand faces that first catapulted the extremely talented performer into one of the most celebrated careers in film history. As a double amputee, Chaney is in top form, the motif of the disenfranchised, the butchered, the mutated, the unloved outstretched in full glory here, once again, to the detriment of his own health.

The film opens with a title card announcing that there’s been “A victim of the city traffic,” and we see a young boy has been seriously wounded. A young Dr. Ferris (Charles Clary), however, has mistakenly amputated the boy’s legs, a fact indiscreetly announced by the physician’s older colleague, Dr. Allen (Kenneth Harlan). The young boy overhears their discussion and Dr. Allen’s plan to lie to the boy’s parents by saying that the amputation saved the boy’s life.