Astro Radio Z Takes (Off) Vice Academy 3 and 4

Published September 26, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

Have you been…feeling mightier than the Joker? Ready to pop your anvil to the max? Humming Blondie’s Atomic nonstop, for days?!?

Well, then you are definitely ready to take on the latest episode of Astro Radio Z, where the wonders of early 90s T and A crime comedies Vice Academy 3 and Vice Academy 4 are, lovingly and pitifully, examined.

Featuring a bevy of VHS goddesses, such as Ginger Lynn Allen, Darcy DeMoss, Julia Parton and Deborah Dutch, these films should be scintillating time-wasters. But are they?

Join host Derrick Carey and the boys (including myself) and find out!

33: Vice Academy 3 & 4

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

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Hooker Assassin

Published August 11, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

Its nighttime in the city and your survival instincts kick in. But, now they better have a decidedly murderous edge…because Hooker Assassin is in town!

Conceived and set to be directed by the enthusiastic and talented Misty Dawn, Hooker Assassin, scheduled for a 2016 release, promises to be indie exploitation at its finest!

Be sure to keep up with all the delightfully seediness at http://www.facebook.com/hookerassassinfilm.

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

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Join the Miss Retroville Pageant!

Published June 10, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

Feeling trashy, splashy and like an all around champion in your found and borrowed clothes? Well, good!

On Sunday, June 14th, I’ll be co-hosting the Miss Retroville Pageant as part of the premiere of the indie exploitation anthology Hobo With a Trash Can. Wondering what the best part of this is? You don’t even have to travel to Retroville, the salacious burg where Hobo is based, to attend! The event is taking place at the historic Portage Theater in Chicago – and we would love to have you as a contestant!

Even if you discover that competition isn’t in your blood, please plan to stop on by. Bloody Brit Productions has planned the whole event as a benefit for a number of charities that help the needy. So, you can have a good time and help a worthy cause.

Admission is only $10 and you can find out further details at https://www.facebook.com/events/974440952568158/.

You can, also, check out the official page for the film at https://www.facebook.com/HoboWithATrashCan.

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

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Astro Radio Z Presents “Why Exploitation?”

Published February 20, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

You’ve been warned! This is where it gets real!

Ever since Sister Theresa, the principal at the Catholic high school I attended, tried to cover up the fact that one of the visiting faculty tried to force me into becoming his personal mattress slave, I’ve taken a voracious liking to films in which nuns do incorrigible things! While vicarious revenge is thrilling, I, also, feel that those sleazy celluloid morsels known as nunsploitation films serve as a very potent look at the disfranchisement of women in society and how their sexuality is used to bind and entrap them.

Thus, I was pleased as punch to join host Derrick Carey and crew (Kate Owens, Seth Poulin, Andrew Shearer and Scott Davis) on a recent episode of superlative podcast Astro Radio Z to talk about Flavia, The Heretic. This film is full of all sorts of Euro-madness, but at its heart, beats a true message about the treatment of women in society.

Amidst the chat about such titles as Fight for Your Life, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookersand Massacre in a Women’s Prison, we also talk about what exploitation means to us and why we love these films so much. The revelations may just surprise you. So, what are you waiting for? Get downloading now!

28: Why Exploitation?

And when you’re through, be sure to check out some of the other work that these glorious participants do:

HOLE IN THE WALL – https://www.facebook.com/GORYHOLE

It’s Only a Movie Blog – http://www.itsonlyamovieblog.com

Celluloid Terror – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Celluloid-Terror

Movieocrity – http://www.movieocrity.com

Gonzoriffic – https://www.facebook.com/gonzorifficfilms

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

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Astro Radio Z: Vice Academy 1 and 2!

Published February 5, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

Feeling the undercover blues? Well, get over ‘em! Astro Radio Z, that screwily divine podcast featuring host Derrick Carrey and such zany journalist-filmmaker types as Scott Davis, Kate Owens, Mark the Movie Man, Glenn Buettner, Andrew Shearer, Paul Salzer and myself, has taken on the (historic, skin-laden) Vice Academy series…and the first installment, focusing on the first two films in this soft core delight, is more comfortable than any pair of pink, mink lined handcuffs!

https://astroradiozpodcast.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/episode-27-vice-academy-1-2/

Be sure to keep up with future episodes at

https://www.facebook.com/AstroRadioZ.

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

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Music to Make Horror Movies By: Got A Girl

Published January 11, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

She’s a little bit Nancy Sinatra (or, perhaps, more accurately Francoise Hardy)…and a little bit sequel queen. Indeed, with roles in The Ring 2, Final Destination 3 and re-imaginings of Black Christmas and The Thing, the lovely Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been one of the most visible actresses in the terror genre since the millennium struck red.

Always engaging, Winstead, whose other genre credits include Wolf Lake and Death Proof, has recently formed Got A Girl with Dan the Automator. Focused on their love of 60s beats and French pop, their collaboration is a swirling delight.

Filled with odd strokes of tension and a John Barry-like flair, did we live too fast, the first track off their full length offering i love you but i must drive off this cliff now is, truly, one of their best moments.

Now, be sure to slink over to http://www.got-a-girl.com, as well.

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

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Hell of a Gal: Have A Good Funeral, My Friend…Sartana Will Pay

Published December 31, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

Hell of a Gal explores the many genre credits of divine Euro princess Helga Liné.

“Why can’t you behave?” – Kiss Me Kate

I guess the excuse that “she’s drawn that way” could apply to the film career of Helga Liné, as well. With her bright red hair and womanly figure, this versatile goddess, who began her career as an acrobat, was often cast as characters that grew in a conflicted light.

Even in goofy 1970 Italian western Have a Good Funeral, My Friend…Sartana Will Pay (now say that 10x, quickly) Line’s Saloon Girl Mary aligns herself with the bad guys. Not required to do much more than spy on Daniela Giordano’s sweet Abigail Benson, Liné is still one of this goofy shoot ‘em up’s brightest presences. She applies a light, almost comic touch to her dealings with both Sartana (an easygoing Gianni Garko) and Benson. Meanwhile, a more sinister bent comes out when Mary deals with her partners, a crooked banker and a cow towed sheriff. More than anything, though, Liné simply looks like she is having a good time, here.

Audiences should, as well. As the hero, Sartana manipulates the wrongdoers with joking finesse. He, also, as the title suggests, pays for the burials of those who wind up on the wrong end of his gun. Throw in a bit of kung-fu action, a few bumbling sidekicks, some amusing (almost motivation-less) twists and a decent, oats-ridden timewaster is to be had.

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

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Review: Plain Devil

Published October 15, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

“We’re not She Devils! We’re just Plain Devils!” – Bomber, Plain Devil

Despite threats and offers of (lots of) candy from other (perhaps more influential) groups, the only sassy sorority that I truly want to join is The Mighty Followers of Tonjia Atomic! For this Seattle based multi-hyphenate has done it, once again, with her delightfully matter-of-fact look at urban gangs called Plain Devil.

Utilizing a swinging 50s ascetic in a modern setting, Atomic tells the story of Little Gypsy, an old school immigrant girl with a contemporary attitude. Setting off to find her destined romantic interests, Montgomery Clift and Mickey Rourke, Little Gypsy is soon verbally accosted by the sassy Bomber and her friends. Little Gypsy is heartbroken until their mutual love of Rourke, unexpectedly, brings her and Bomber together as companions. Soon, Bomber decides that she, Gypsy and co-conspirators, Einstein and Trashy, should form a gang.

Working evocatively against gender stereotypes, Atomic creates a surprisingly easy going vibe here. Things unfold patiently, with even the anticipated rumble arriving with honest charm. Atomic, also, smartly works societal nuances into the piece. The humorous analysis of why gangs are formed packs a true-to-life punch while a continual examination of sexist labels throughout the running time, also, hits home.

Filled with a groovy score and charming performances (particularly from Atomic as the forceful Bomber and Ada Karamanyan as the sweet Little Gypsy), this sunny John Waters-like homage is definitely Atomic’s best work thus far.

Therefore, when you’re done wielding that broken beer bottle in an alley fight; be sure to keep up with Plain Devil at https://www.facebook.com/PlainDevil.

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

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Music to Make Horror Movies By: Vikki Carr

Published October 5, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

While the glorious (and extremely classy) Vikki Carr’s exploitation credits are limited – she provided the singing voice for Cyd Charisse in the 60s spy caper Matt Helm and makes an appearance on the soundtrack for Point of No Return, the American remake of La Femme Nikita – she definitely nails the gritty essence of such anti-heroes as The Evil Dead’s Ash, Hardware’s Moses and Demon Knight’s Brayker with her take on Kris Kristofferson’s cigarette stained Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down.

Captured on her sophisticated Nashville By Carr, her version even earned the respect of the legendary Johnny Cash:

The perfect coda for a survivor’s despair, Carr’s subtly dramatic take would fit perfectly playing over the end titles of many a weary splatter fest.

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

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Review: Snake With A Human Tail

Published October 1, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

I can list off my favorite monsters for you, quickly: The Wolf Man, Godzilla and the Catholic Church.
Amendment: I kind of loathe the last one, actually.

Thankfully, doing what only the best of exploitation film can do, director-writer Spencer Gray explores the true insidious nature (and the hideous aftereffects) of perverted Catholicism with his attention grabbing short film Snake with a Human Tail. Mixing sharp social observation with gritty atmosphere, Gray shows that there is often no true escape from a corrupted childhood.

Opening on a therapy session with Father Fulci, the main character, the audience soon discovers the deep wells of this calm and collected clergyman’s sexual transgressions. A pedophile and erotic deviant, Fulci soon shows that his redemption is not soon at hand. But his love for a transgendered prostitute named Karma may ultimately be Fulci’s downfall. The nervy, confrontational Karma has a secret connection to Fulci’s past and things are about to be blown wide open!

Gray fills the screen, visually, with a 70s noir style while encouraging his cast to downplay the story’s outrageous factors with subtlety and restraint. Of course, there is bloodshed here, but the true violence centers around Fulci’s past crimes, an unforgiveable stain.

As Fulci, genre veteran Marv Blauvelt connects with a surprising languidness. While it would have been nice to see an actual transgendered actress in the role of Karma, Shari Davis ultimately earns respect (and sympathy) with her hard nailed vulnerability.

Snake with a Human Tail is, currently, playing the festival circuit. You can keep shedding along with it at:
https://www.facebook.com/snakewithahumantail

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

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