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Does he seem familiar? Remember the 2001 horror film, Thirteen Ghosts? The 5th ghost of the mysterious Black Zodiac was the Torn Prince. In life, he was Royce Clayton, a star baseball player, who'd earned several college scholarships to escape his small town life. He died in the 1950s when a greaser challenged him to a drag race and his car crashed because it had been tampered with. The right side of his face and body was torn and burned. In death, he was buried in a plot with a view of the baseball field where he'd played and he haunted the stretch of road where he died. His ghost was captured and brought to a glass house for a nefarious purpose...

Yet here, he seems very much alive?

Inexplicably I've been drawn back to this film, reminiscing about it, and thinking about its ghosts. So many interesting backstories developed for a movie. Intriguing ghosts that could be the star of their own film...or TV series. I hear one may be in the works. And as I've been cleaning up some files and looking back at some of my forgotten characters, I realized The Rebel bore a striking resemblance to the Torn Prince. Now the question is if I can pull of his ghostly look from the film...

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Does he seem familiar? Remember the 2001 horror film, Thirteen Ghosts? The 5th ghost of the mysterious Black Zodiac was the Torn Prince. In life, he was Royce Clayton, a star baseball player, who'd earned several college scholarships to escape his small town life. He died in the 1950s when a greaser challenged him to a drag race and his car crashed because it had been tampered with. The right side of his face and body was torn and burned. In death, he was buried in a plot with a view of the baseball field where he'd played and he haunted the stretch of road where he died. His ghost was captured and brought to a glass house for a nefarious purpose...

Yet here, he seems very much alive?

Inexplicably I've been drawn back to this film, reminiscing about it, and thinking about its ghosts. So many interesting backstories developed for a movie. Intriguing ghosts that could be the star of their own film...or TV series. I hear one may be in the works. And as I've been cleaning up some files and looking back at some of my forgotten characters, I realized The Rebel bore a striking resemblance to the Torn Prince. Now the question is if I can pull of his ghostly look from the film...