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The Backside of Horror: Christoph Bretner in Bruno Mattei’s Rats

Published December 31, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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So many things have embarrassed Big Gay Horror Fan in his various living quarters over the years. Why you must remember the time that my actress friend Griselda sat on the couch in the living room without realizing she was resting upon my roommate’s rubber cock ring. It had blended in perfectly with that piece of furniture’s black leather exterior and she was blissfully unaware – despite my herculean efforts to rescue her! Horrors! Then there was the time that my building manager came into do a quick inspection and discovered mouse poo upon my stovetop. It had been dropped off, during the waning hours of morning, by an unknown (at least to me), yet very charitable visitor!

But, at the very least, I haven’t suffered the fate of Bruno Mattei’s characters in 1984’s deliciously ridiculous Rats: A Night of Terror. I have never ONCE been eaten alive, in my dwelling, by bucket loads of enormously flung rats!

Still, out of the many things to recommend about this enormously fun chunk fest, concerning a group of apocalyptic survivors who find more than they bargained for in the residence they are squatting in, is the copious amount of nudity provided by lean ‘n mean Cristoph Bretner (AKA Jean Christophe Bretrigniere)as irascible punk Lucifer.rats_night_of_terror_glc_06

Looking like a combination of Mick Jagger and an anorexic Goth child, Bretner exposes both lean arse and flopping pee pee as he beds the exotic Lilith. Played by lithe Moune Duvivier (whom apparently also essayed the all important ‘Nun on a Bicycle’ in the 1990 Molly Ringwald flick Strike it Rich), Lilith is dubbed in a dreadful Southern accent, and soon meets her fate via the film’s most memorable kill – a rat burrows its way into her sleeping bag entangled hoo-ha, nibbling its way up through her mouth!

Of course, Bretner soon meets his maker via the shrieking title monsters, as well. Thus proving, once and for all (again!), that nudity on film is very bad for the portrayer – but oh so good for us thrill-seeking viewers!

You can check out the trailer for Rats – which features the amazing Geretta Geretta (Demons) in a prominent Sigourney Weaver style role – here:

Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always hanging with the fang sized rodents at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan, as well.

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

Now, this is Naughty! – Brazilian Ghost Girl Prank

Published December 30, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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Big Gay Horror Fan is loathe to mention the things that he finds in his building’s elevator. But – sh-h-h – they do involve lace panties, toilet paper and empty whiskey bottles.

Those crafty Brazilians, though, have come up with the ultimate elevator prank involving a Ringu style ghost girl and screaming passengers!

Yes, it is kind of cruel. So, prepare to lose karma points while howling with laughter!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan (http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan)!

In Fear Of

Published December 29, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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As you all know, Big Gay Horror Fan’s biggest fear is himself! Thankfully (for viewers), that is NOT one of the fears that is covered in the amazingly fun, absolutely free web series In Fear Of featuring genre legend Debbie Rochon and other amazing horror regulars like Raine Brown, David Marancik and Suzi Lorraine.

Directors Scott W. Perry, Jeremiah Kipp and Mike Polizzi DO cover such fears as Selenophobia (fear of the moon), Podophobia (fear of feet) and Thanatophobia (fear of feet), though.

Kipp’s initial segment Monophobia: Fear of Being Alone is a wacky delight featuring an energetic, humorously layered performance from Rochon (sporting a sleekly gamine hair style). Rochon has a perfect scene partner in Marancik who gives a subtle and committed performance as a man caught in a torturous date that just will not end! For all those concerned, though, this piece’s highlight definitely has to be when Rochon, giddily, reads graphic gay sex personals out loud to a clearly unresponsive Marancik.debbiedavid

Be sure to check the whole series out at: www.youtube.com/infearofwebseries.

Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always exploring the stuff that frightens him at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan, as well!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

(Have a Mary, Bloody X-Mas With) Home for the Holidays!

Published December 25, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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Living solo, Big Gay Horror Fan never has to worry about billing. I ALWAYS top line! But, gothic and gruesome 1972 made for television holiday horror Home for the Holidays had five divas battling for glory – (then television star) Sally Field, (the legendary) Julie Harris, (very popular) Jessica Walter, (Oscar nominee/screen legend) Eleanor Parker and (Broadway Baby-the original Sally Bowles, herself) Jill Haworth (whose British origins reveal themselves, slightly, throughout the telefilm).

Therefore, the opening of this grande dame fest is particularily fun. Field and Haworth are Starring, Harris is a Guest Star while Parker is a Special Guest Star and (rounding it up) Walter makes a Special Appearance (By). Whoa! Who doesn’t want to re-visit those contract negotiations?!?home sisters

And while there is definitely some mayhem here – including death by pitchfork and a deep sea bathtub drowning – the main fun of this John Llewellyn Moxey (Horror Hotel AKA The City of the Dead) helmed event is watching our beautifully filmed dames go at it.

Field, Haworth, Parker and Walter are estranged siblings reunited to support their cranky father whom claims his current wife (Harris) is trying to do away with him. Of course, Harris’ character was accused (and found innocent) of her first husband’s murder, so the five have plenty of heavily twisted encounters. Think The Women with a twist of Days of Our Lives and an early 1970’s slasher hybrid. homefortheholidays9

All are in fine velvet form, here, but Walter is truly heartwrenching as an alcoholic socialite type who still can’t forgive her father’s role in her mother’s death, many years previous. Meanwhile, Harris (never looking prettier) walks a fine line between compassion and menace as the (seemingly) shady stepmother.

You can watch Home for the Holidays, in the whole, here:

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=home+for+the+holidays+1972&mid=019C87ED016B5D941630019C87ED016B5D941630&view=detail&FORM=VIRE2

So, Mary Bloody X-Mas – and until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan (http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan)!

Music to Make Horror Films By: My Gold Mask – “Violet Eyes” Remix

Published December 22, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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When Big Gay Horror Fan is enacting the middle aged, bra baring, death throes antics of Elizabeth Taylor circa 1974’s The Driver’s Seat, there is only one thing that drives him to distraction. What, you ask? Why losing track of my violet eyes, of course!

Thankfully multi-talented producer Alex Zelenka (Crystal Castles) has remixed slinky, ultra fun My Gold Mask’s brilliant track, “Violet Eyes” and it’s now available, permanently, for public consumption.

Oh, Liz! Cruising for a bruising in The Driver's Seat!

Oh, Liz! Cruising for a bruising in The Driver’s Seat!

Highlighting eclectic singer Gretta’s 80’s infused vocals; this version of one of the band’s catchiest numbers makes you feel sinister and cool, at once. In fact with just one listen, some claim they feel like a trench coat sporting Brian DePalma cruising Angie Dickinson through a museum while the Missing Persons’ Dale Bozzio hums in their ears. It’s pure, exciting audio heaven. So, be sure to check it at:

Then keep up with further giallo inspired offerings from My Gold Mask at http://www.facebook.com/#!/mygoldmask and www.mygoldmask.com.

Meanwhile, you can always give Big Gay Horror Fan an extra sultry look at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan, too!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

J. Anthony Kosar on Face Off!

Published December 21, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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Big Gay Horror Fan has had face time with some amazing talent in his entertainment tenure. Now one of the coolest, Midwest based special effects makeup artist J.Anthony Kosar, has landed on the fourth season of popular Syfy reality show and make-up competition Face Off.

Kosar, who apprenticed under Stan Winston and designed masks and other props from indie favorite Satanic Panic, will be sure to show the world the monstrous goods on this weekly adventure, beginning on January 15th, 2013.

Be sure to keep up with all the fun at http://www.facebook.com/#!/KOSARTeffects and at the show’s official site at http://www.syfy.com/faceoff, as well.

Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always showing off his scary mug at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan!

Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

Dive into Snow Shark!

Published December 20, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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The only thing that Big Gay Horror Fan used to find in the snow, growing up, was the local drunk, Ralph.

Thankfully, writer-director Sam Qualiana and Metroshia Productions have come up with something a bit more toothy for their frosty wonderland walks with the delightful sounding Snow Shark: Ancient Snow Beast. Currently touring the festival circuit, you can keep up with this icy, body chopping flick at
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Snow-Shark-Ancient-Snow-Beast/184154051607263

Watch the trailer here:

Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always getting into the gruesome fins at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan!

Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE! – Big Gay Horror Fan!

Carole Lombard is Supernatural!

Published December 18, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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Oh, the things that Big Gay Horror Fan wishes he never knew: Love in a rectory with the bulbous priests of destruction – The wraith of the Dragon Lady as she paraded, shoeless, through the offices of hell – The call of the self hating id as it wakes him early in the morning and hounds his every waking second! All are things that I wish I could forget! But the discovery that Golden Age screen goddess Carole Lombard appeared in a Universal horror film? That’s a fact that I want to treasure forever!

Best known as the snappy comedienne in such treasured flicks as Twentieth Century, My Man Godfrey and Nothing Sacred, 1933’s Supernatural was Lombard’s only attempt at an occult flavored offering. Directed by Victor Halperin, coming off the grand delights provided by 1932’s White Zombie, Supernatural has all the components of being a runaway success – including a powerful feminist stance provided by Vivienne Osborne’s sadistic murderess, Ruth Rogan. Yet, despite it moments of intense enjoyability, this Supernatural is a bit of a structural mess.

Supernatural 1Quite simply, there is too much going on for a solid aura of creepiness to establish itself. 1941’s The Wolf Man had its quaint, gypsy laden countryside with gothic overtones while 1931’s Frankenstein mixed a bit of laboratory madness into that mix. But, Supernatural features a friendly ghost, a mad scientist type, a female serial killer, a murderous charlatan psychic and a possession subplot, and bops from set piece to set piece, ultimately producing a movie that never quite gels.

Still Lombard, whom apparently felt ill-at-ease away from her more comic playing grounds, delights with grisly glee once Roma, her heiress character, is taken over by the recently executed murderess, played in the film’s opening moments, with chilling ease by character actress Osborne.

More enjoyable, though, are the subtle Pre Code touches, including roaches scattering about a cackling landlady’s sink and Lombard’s breast being groped AND one grand, glass enclosed set piece that is introduced in the latter part of the film. carole_lombard-theredlist

Determined to stop Rogan’s ghostly influence after her death, Carl Houston, a concerned doctor played by H.B. Warner, is experimenting on her corpse in a window coated laboratory, located in a penthouse suite in the heart of the city. Halperin brings all the glorious mood that would have made this movie truly memorable to this sequence. As Lombard and the handsome Randolph Scott discover what Houston is up to, Rogan’s influence is truly felt and one wishes that screenwriter Garnett Weston would have found a way to focus more of the story here.

Still, true fans of women in horror are sure to delight in sassy Lombard’s appearance in a dusty horror flick and the movie (available only on VHS) is definitely worth tracking down if only to gander at all of its (too) plentiful elements of spook.

Be sure to check back as Big Gay Horror Fan often uncovers the femmes of fright. Keep a (well arched) eye on http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan, as well.

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

In Memorium: Susan Stursberg, 1967-2012

Published December 16, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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Susan Stursberg was the kind of person who could meet you once and remember all the details of your life when you bumped into her two years later.

An animal lover and a horror fiend, Stursberg made many people feel at home in Chicago, as the co-owner and primary bartender at the Gold Star Bar in Wicker Park.

A huge fan of Anthony Perkins and John Carpenter’s Halloween, Susan recently got to meet Brian Andrews, the original Tommy Doyle at the Horror Hound convention in November 2012. Despite being weak from her efforts battling pancreatic cancer, Stursberg’s powerful energy and joy lit up the convention hall and the charmed Andrews spent a lot of time with her, regaling her with stories about life on Halloween and beyond.

Susan was, also, quite the raconteur, herself, sharing a smartly decorated ghost story or two as the Huffington Post piece honoring her life attests: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/susan-stursberg-gold-star_n_2288413.html.

More significant than the date of her death (December 10th, 2012), though, are the memories of her face, flushed with excitement at Chicago’s annual zombie walk or filled with warmth upon welcoming another stranger into her bar (and into heart).

Here’s hoping Perkins has donned his matron’s dress and is doing his ‘mama’ voice for you, right now, and into eternity, Susan! RIP, our dear Chicago Horror friend.

Be sure to keep up with the memorials for Susan and for news on beloved Gold Star Bar at:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Gold-Star-Bar/51401086607

Overview: Terror in the Aisles – Frankenhooker

Published December 15, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

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On Friday, September 14th, 2012, Chicago’s always exciting Terror in the Aisles welcomed Patty Mullen from Frankenhooker in for an exclusive showing of that iconic piece of cult entertainment.

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Things began with a sense of popping action as Mullen took a handful of lucky winners on a soda date. Here, she discusses the in’s and out’s of the horror of outdoor chores with The Lawn Blower Massacre director Anthony Cooney and others.

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Above, Mullen’s talented manager, James Howard, shows off the bust he created in Mullen’s honor.

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Here, Howard helps Mullen sign a purple bra for the show’s auction.

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Even a certain blonde someone, very sure in his sexualty, will begin to doubt himself standing next to the gorgeous, personable Mullen.

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As an extra bit of show excitement, Mullen taught a handful of devoted fans the Frankenhooker walk.

Be sure to keep up with future Terror in the Aisles events at http://www.facebook.com/terrorintheaisles.

Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always available at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan.

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!