How come I never feel sexy while wandering among the headstones, in the midnight cemetery, dressed in nothing but a bloodied nightgown?!? Probably because I haven’t been hanging with the scintillating The Casket Girls during my fevered traipsing.
The brainchild of Ryan Graveface, The Casket Girls, comprised of the spectacular Elsa and Phaedra Greene, provide the world with darker, Shangri-La’s style pop.
(The Carrie remake will be upon us on October 18th – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)
Even when quoting Shakespeare on the stages of life, I am no more than a common, cult film loving gutter dweller.
The glorious Anita Ekberg must know how I feel. Best known for her magnificent appearance in the art house classic La Dolce Vita (1960), this Swedish goddess spent a lot of her career in B-Movie fodder, television films and low budget horror! So, naturally in cult worlds, she is a QUEEN!
In 1969’s Fangs of the Living Dead (AKA Malenka), Ekberg played a virginal swimsuit model who discovers she is actually a countess. Traveling to her ancestors’ small village, Eckberg finds herself involved in vampirism and diabolic Scooby Doo like conspiracies. A bit long in the tooth to be playing an innocent beauty queen, she is none-the-less enchanting, here.
10 years later, Eckberg embraced the depravity of Killer Nun (1979). In a “I need to keep the villa” move, she portrays a sexually obsessed, drug addicted servant of the Catholic church. (Man, she would have fit right in with dozens of priests I’ve met.) Still beautiful, Eckberg met the possible indignities of this role with grace and passion. Thus, she will always be Horror Royalty in the Bloodied Book of Debauched Cinema! LOVE HER!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
“Don’t go to sleep!” How well I remember the bloodied horny goat who pounced on my chest while chanting that! Or is it just a flashback from all those 3 a.m. viewings of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series? H-m-m…
Whatever the case may be — two of the Nightmare family will be gracing Chicago-land with their bloodily awesome presences this weekend.
Mark Patton from A Nightmare on Elm St 2: Freddy’s Revenge will be appearing at The Movieside Massacre, a 24 horror movie event, for a presentation of the film that shows off his eclectic acting skills, the power of naked screaming and so much more. Speaking of shrieking (in delight, that is), I will be interviewing Patton after the screening! Yahoo!
Meanwhile, Lezlie Deane, that amazingly kick-ass personality from Freddy’s Dead will be rocking the Underground Lounge in Chicago with her glitter punk band Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs. Deane kicks it like a overpowering goddess on stage – so this is one show not to miss! (Doors open at 8.)
Details for this raging musical extravaganza are here:
(The Carrie remake will be upon us on October 18th – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)
Oh, how I long for the day that I will be shooting bad guys over Arnold’s abs (while jaunting around in my skivvies)! Now, this is not a new fantasy, as all sweaty cinema-philes know. My idol, the scintillating Gretchen Palmer, has already taken these actions to extremes in 1988’s hard boiled Red Heat. Viva, la playing take-no-shit prostitute, baby!
Of course, the gorgeous Palmer is known to terror freaks as the unfortunate Ariella in 1997’s Wishmaster. As the shop girl who wishes to remain beautiful forever, her presence is actually everlasting!
Palmer turned to the wickeder side of life, though, as the dangerous femme fatale Kate Lawson in a final season episode of the anthology series Tales From the Crypt. She, beautifully, turns the screws to the story’s duplicitous protagonist proving without a doubt that the title Ear Today…Gone Tomorrow is a fitting one.
Showing her versatility, Palmer, also, flashed grit as biker Rusty in the cult classic Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town (1989) and sass as the colorfully dressed assistant to Jeff Yagher’s shock jock in the 1989 Freddy’s Nightmares episode entitled Silence is Golden.
Now, this is my kind of all around cool genre babe!
Thus with a glorious bow, here’s a peek at Palmer in her moment of frozen glory in Wishmaster.
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New York City just got a bit nastier – and horror fans are all the better for it!
Zombie gourmand George Romero has just announced an association with Marvel Comics to produce the latest chapter in his undead legacy, Empire of the Dead. Proclaiming that he could never get the money he needed to film this chomping epic in the Big Apple, Romero turned to superhero guru Stan Lee and crew. Now, we have a January 2014 announced release for this (sure to be) eye popping page turner.
All reports state that Romero will continue to explore the increased intelligence and humanity of his life lacking creatures – a concept he began with Day of the Dead‘s Bub.
And as for us – well, we would be stupid not to follow wherever this true master of horror may lead!
Strange playgrounds, huh!?! Sounds like my lunchtimes as a kid with the lesbian prostitute nuns who raised me.
Just by chance, Strange Playgrounds is, also, the name of George Daniel Lea’s new book. This generous chap of spookily literary ambitions is also planning to donate all proceeds of the book to a LGBT charity.
To find out more about the book and charity project, be sure to check out the teaser trailer, below:
(The Carrie remake will be upon us on October 18th – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)
A lost opportunity? Plenty of others floating around. A lost love? One gets over that soon enough. But – a lost slasher film?!? Now, there is a reason for heartache!
Thankfully, 1990’s little seen Deadly Manor (AKA Savage Lust) has recently surfaced on DVD. What makes this piece of slice ‘n dice so interesting is the fact that its delusional, knife wielding villain is actually a villainess named Amanda – played with gumption by low budget genre regular Jennifer Delora (Frankenhooker, Deranged, Robot Holocaust).
That this film is directed by Jose Ramon Larraz of Vampyres fame only adds to the film’s allure. Larraz spends just as much time focusing on Amanda’s psychotic angst as his frolicking victims – making one wish that Amanda could have joined Sleepaway Camp‘s Angela as a fellow terror bound sequel queen.
Be sure to check back here often for the haunted women of horror.
(The Carrie remake will be upon us on October 18th – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)
Now, here are the true Twins of Evil! Granted, sisters Audrey and Judy Landers, born two years apart, aren’t twins in real life – but they did wind up rocking both identical costumes and fits of homicidal jealousy in the “Split Decision” episode (1983) of the horror anthology series The Hitcher.
Portraying daughters of a former stage magician, these two sexily mischievous wonders soon have a conniving real estate man (played with sleazy ease by Jackson Davies) on the romantic run-around. But, this poor fellow doesn’t pay attention when informed, early on, that the two never share. Thus, the episode’s title has special import for him during the show’s ending moments.
Performance-wise, Judy portrays her scenes with Davies with a careless nonchalance that can be chilling while Audrey’s eyes burn with magnetic fury throughout most of the episode. The result is two strongly off-kilter performances from women known mostly for comedy and soap opera dramatics.
Tasty!:
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The other day someone zapped me with a homemade ketchup gun at work and as my body, momentarily, turned skeletal, all I could think was “Tom Graeff”!
Thankfully, Graeff, the gay mastermind behind cult 1959 science fiction epic Teenagers from Outer Space is, also, on the minds of the brilliant duo of Jim Tushinski and Elle Schneider. While, Graeff eventually descended into religious fanaticism and suicide, Tushinski (who is writing a book on Graeff) and Schneider (who is prepping a documentary on the man) are interested in his complex creative side, something he indulged in during a time when homosexuality was rarely spoken of.
To find more about Graeff, his shorts films and Teenagers (which many state to be a precursor to The Terminator), be sure to visit Tushinski at http://www.tomgraeff.com and Schneider at http://www.tomgraeff.org.
It’s always been Big Gay Horror Fan’s dream to be trapped in a house with three, hot young women!
No, seriously.
Well…okay, maybe not.
Still, for all those for whom this is a grand fantasy, 4 Dead Girls: The Soul Taker illustrates how terrifying this scenario actually could be.
After discovering something unfortunate has happened to the sexy Bianca (voluptuous Tiffany S. Walker), Lori and her lover, Pam, along with her reserved sister Lily, soon find themselves trapped in the home that they are currently renting – with a demon that is hungry to consume their (nasty) souls.
What is ultimately most striking about this film, co-written and directed by Mike Campbell and Todd Johnson, is how it gets you to, ultimately, define what evil means to you. Nalusa Chito, the villainous soul taker here, entraps the various characters due to their promiscuity and adultery. Personally, I don’t believe those deeds make someone a bad person. Of course, someone still smarting, emotionally and medically, from a betrayal may totally disagree with me!
Those having seen the notorious Class Reunion Massacre (AKA The Redeemer: Son of Satan from 1978), in which lesbianism is portrayed as a deadly sin, may also find it interesting to see how Campbell and Johnson handle Lori (an agreeable Ashley Love) and Pam (vibrant Leah Verrill), the gay couple. Though Pam earns Chito’s consideration for her past actions, Lori is presented as a truly good woman. Pam earns viewer sympathy, though, for a pre-mayhem phone call wherein her father disowns her for being gay.
Aside from social issues, Campbell and Johnson manage a couple of nice moments of suspense involving Chito (a smooth Mike Campbell) and the performances of the main actresses jell nicely as the proceedings get taut and deadly. (Although, the opening moments involving the quartet do come off as awkward and false.) In particular, Katherine Browning, as Lily, makes for a haunted and resourceful final girl. You genuinely care for her by the film’s waning moments.
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