Skye Sherwin's A Good Look

The cover art for Animal Collective’s Centipede HZ album is the digitally reanimated corpse of the Rocky Horror mouth. While the grid of fuzzy neon lines harks back to the graphics for 1982’s virtual-reality sci-fi movie Tron, the collaged imagery has a DIY feel, true to our current age of bedroom animators. Photograph: PR

Tim Curry’s lipsticked mouth on the original poster for the re-released Rocky Horror Picture Show has two equally iconic forebears: Dalí’s Mae West lips sofa and John Pasche’s Rolling Stones logo. Photograph: Allstar

The pricey bag-maker’s Where The Wild Things Are campaign is a sweetly ironic spin on Beauty And The Beast, aligning it with feminist re-thinks such as Michel Gondry’s video for Björk’s Human Behaviour or Kiki Smith’s drawings reconciling girls with wolves. Photograph: PR

The Sims 3: Supernatural is a southern gothic incarnation of the game that simulates suburban life. Though the immediate reference here is True Blood, its fusion of homely Americana and sinister chills can trace a direct lineage to Grant Wood’s classic portrait of the grim-faced, pitchfork-bearing farmer couple, American Gothic. Photograph: PR

Sparky, one of the undead stars of Tim Burton’s new spin on 1950s B-movies, is a stitched-up sack of yucky stuff, working the confusion of inner/outer and tender/repulsive that makes Louise Bourgeois’s bodily sculpture so unsettling. Photograph: Allstar