Awesome North Of The Border

North of the Border’s sculptures keep getting weirder and weirder. His latest creation imagines what Earth’s creatures might have looked like had dinosaurs not been wiped out by an asteroid. And yes, the Man-a-Saurus Rex is as demented as it sounds. There’s something about that wrinkly human flesh that’s so off-putting.

North of the Border imagines what would happen if Garfield the Cat was infected with the shape-shifting organism that took over in John Carpenter’s The Thing. The mutated feline has loads of pointy teeth, dozens of tiny tentacles, and four gangly arms ready to grab lasagna and toss it into its horrifying mouth-stomach.

Pac-Man has always been one of the most enigmatic video game characters. Somehow, this yellow puck moves around a maze without any feet and manages to gobble down ghosts, cherries, and pretzels without any teeth. Adam from North of the Border fixed both of these shortcomings, and all we ended up with was nightmare fuel.

LEGO has made a few zombie minifigures in recent years, which inspired Adam from North of the Border to sculpt his own from clay. Like most of his creations, his trio of LEGO zombies are much creepier than the official ones. We love that they’re undead versions of classic LEGO characters: the medieval knight, construction worker, and spaceman.

North of the Border and Studson Studios both like to make weird, creepy, and nerdy sculptures. For fun, they recorded voiceovers for each other, with Adam reporting on Studson’s literal Mario Kart build and Studson voicing Adam’s wonderfully demented McDonaldland official Mayor McCheese. Those thin layers of clay really do look like Velveeta.

North of the Border just won’t stop making things creepier than they should be. Adam’s latest nightmare fuel is an oversized clay and wire scorpion with human features like nipples, chest hair, fingernails, feet, and flesh-colored skin. Goopy black eyeballs, Tighty-whities, and mouth-arms bring it all together.

Adam from North of the Border likes to make tiny, nerdy things. He forgot to mention the word “creepy.” His take on tough, but adorable Powerpuff Girls is just plain wrong. Instead of sugar, spice, and everything nice, his cursed versions of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup are made from clay and wire and clearly didn’t get enough Chemical X.

Adam from North of the Border made realistic versions of some Super Mario Bros. monsters, so it was only a matter of time before he got to Mario himself. His less-cartoony Mario imagines Nintendo’s plumber as a gritty, stubble-faced human with proportions based on the Norse god Thor. Instead of a hammer, Mario carries a pipe to take down his enemies.

How do you stop a bear from attacking? Take away his right to bear arms. Adam from North of the Border imagines a way to make a grizzly bear more deadly: by arming it with a high-capacity, rapid-fire weapon. After sculpting the bear’s body, head, feet, and hands, he imparted a fur texture before building a mini minigun and ammo pack.

You know what would have made the Jurassic Park movies better? If the dinosaurs wielded weapons. Imagine if the velociraptors had Gatling guns or if the T-Rexes had flamethrowers. North of the Border gives us one of those things by sculpting a the king of the dinosaurs cosplaying as a fire-breathing dragon.

Because Adam at North of the Border can’t get enough Mario, he decided to work up sculptures of some of the franchise’s many monsters. Though his “realistic” versions of Boo, Blooper, Piranha Plant, and a group of Goombas are the stuff of nightmares. Adding pointy teeth to stuff is always guaranteed to up the creepy factor.

After giving us his “realistic” versions of a LEGO Minifig, Winnie the Pooh, and The Simpsons, Adam from North of the Border has created nightmarish interpretations of two beloved characters from Sesame Street, Bert and Ernie. The famous friends look especially creepy, with Bert wearing a unibrow and both with wrinkled skin and bulbous humanoid noses.

We thought the Teletubbies were pretty weird to begin with. Thanks to Adam from North of the Border, these kids’ show characters are now downright creepy. His nightmare-fuel “Terrortubby” versions of Dipsy, Laa-Laa, Po, and Tinky-Winky look like they just stepped from the gates of hell to steal your children.

Adam from North of the Border apparently got confused and got the names of two of Marvel’s superheroes backward. His Man-Ant and Man-Spider sculptures are two of his most disturbing creations to date, making the insects the hosts with human genetics taking over their bodies. It’s the human skin that really creeps us out.

Back in 1976, they took red M&Ms off the market because red food dye was thought to cause cancer. While those M&Ms couldn’t really kill you, this one might. Adam from North of the Border imagined what it might be like if M&Ms ate people like people eat candy. It’s amazing how creepy you can make stuff by adding teeth.

North of the Border imagines what it might be like if the zombie apocalypse hit the night before Christmas. Santa is still coming down your chimney, but he’s looking for brains instead of milk and cookies. This handbuilt sculpture of the undead St. Nick includes a sack full of toys for all the good little zombies.