Oh, the things that Big Gay Horror Fan regrets from his youth: Giving my sister that half naked, personally autographed poster of soap stud Christian LeBlanc; never having owned a bunch of those sexy 80’s hair bands…

Of course, I never could have worked them like eclectic genre goddess Tane McClure does on the cover of her only solo LP (recorded under the last name moniker of her then husband, Journey’s Jonathan Cain). Fashioned after the vocal styling of her idol, Grace Slick, this power pop offering features such thriller cuts as “Vertigo”, “Danger Zone” and “Crazy Eyes”.

That latter title surely applies to the wild visual posturing of McClure’s co-star in 1986’s bizarre, frequently misogynistic offering Crawlspace, Klaus Kinski. This is one of those sleazy 80’s offerings you love because it gives you that dirty, unsettled feeling afterwards and McClure excels, here, as the frightened mute cage captive of Kinski.

McClure switched gears as the industriously plucky girlfriend of Dennis Cole in the addictively silly Zombie Death House, directed by none other than John Saxon, in 1987 and found herself in another strange horror offering in 1990, Death Spa. A vaguely hard-to-find cult classic, Death Spa involves a male antagonist being possessed by his revenge filled dead sister in a goofy transgendered horror take on the mega-flop Perfect.

Spending the majority of the 1990’s portraying hot libeled ladies and duplicitous strippers in T and A thrillers, McClure skirted into the new century with a bang by playing an exasperated dancer in 1999’s Go and Reese Witherspoon’s Playboy hot momma in 2001’s Legally Blonde and it’s 2003 sequel.

Currently hitting the internet in hostess mode, McClure (the daughter of actor, Doug McClure – The House Where Evil Dwells ) continues to reinvent herself, proving that as in her 1982 song, she keeps ‘holdin’ on, holdin’ on’ while others have long since faded.

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And Until the next time – Sweet love and pink Grue!