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It is with a heavy heart we inform you that genre icon Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80. The news came via a heartbreaking Instagram post from his wife, Suzie. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2v4TXxgYzW/ Earlier this month Haig was checked into the ICU following a bad fall. His wife Suzie gave an update last week that his recovery was improving, but he apparently he took a turn for the worst. Haig, while having many roles of the years is best recognized as Captain Spaulding from House of a 1,000 Corpses, Devil Rejects, and the most recent film from Rob Zombie’s trilogy 3 From Hell, being released this October. Haig will be deeply missed. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, and fans in this time of sorrow. He was a good man and a great actor.
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In Rob Zombie’s 2003 film House of 1,000 Corpses, we were introduced to the Firefly family, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis (Bill Moseley), Tiny (Matthew McGrory), Mother (Karen Black), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig). In 2005 the family was back to continue its reign of terror. Captain Spaulding became an iconic representation of bad clowns. Now, Zombie’s new film Three From Hell will arrive next year. A new image from the film has surfaced revealing Spaulding won’t be the only clown this time around. Zombie shared the image via social media with the question, “Who is this fucking clown?” We may not know a lot of the details about the character Mr. Baggy Britches, which is a twist on the classic sad clown, but we do know who is playing the role; it’s acting veteran Clint Howard. Howard has starred in over 250 films, many of them being horror films such as Night Shift, Silent Night, Deadly Night 5, Ticks,
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It is with a heavy heart we inform you that genre icon Sid Haig has passed away at the age of 80. The news came via a heartbreaking Instagram post from his wife, Suzie. https://www.instagram.com/p/B2v4TXxgYzW/ Earlier this month Haig was checked into the ICU following a bad fall. His wife Suzie gave an update last week that his recovery was improving, but he apparently he took a turn for the worst. Haig, while having many roles of the years is best recognized as Captain Spaulding from House of a 1,000 Corpses, Devil Rejects, and the most recent film from Rob Zombie’s trilogy 3 From Hell, being released this October. Haig will be deeply missed. Our thoughts go out to his family, friends, and fans in this time of sorrow. He was a good man and a great actor.
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In Rob Zombie’s 2003 film House of 1,000 Corpses, we were introduced to the Firefly family, Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), Otis (Bill Moseley), Tiny (Matthew McGrory), Mother (Karen Black), and Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig). In 2005 the family was back to continue its reign of terror. Captain Spaulding became an iconic representation of bad clowns. Now, Zombie’s new film Three From Hell will arrive next year. A new image from the film has surfaced revealing Spaulding won’t be the only clown this time around. Zombie shared the image via social media with the question, “Who is this fucking clown?” We may not know a lot of the details about the character Mr. Baggy Britches, which is a twist on the classic sad clown, but we do know who is playing the role; it’s acting veteran Clint Howard. Howard has starred in over 250 films, many of them being horror films such as Night Shift, Silent Night, Deadly Night 5, Ticks,
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