Slumber Party Massacre‘s dedicated original maniac Michael Villella talks with Big Gay Horror Fan about his true passion – theater (a guy after my own heart — or whatever body part he can slash at the easiest!!!) – and his surprise at the eternal legacy and fandom surrounding Slumber Party Massacre.
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“Bing! You’re a freaking homo!” – She Wolf Rising
Big Gay Horror Fan COULD live by scream queens alone – especially as evidenced by brand new trailers for She Wolf Rising starring Tiffany Shepis, Debbie Rochon and Tina Krause…
…and the truly dramatic and spooky looking The Hanover House featuring Nightbreed‘s singular Anne Bobby
Keep up on the hairy pulse of She Wolf Rising at https://www.facebook.com/Shewolfrising.
More ghostly conjuring can be had for The Hanover House at https://www.facebook.com/TheHanoverHouse, as well.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan (https://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan)!
Brinke Stevens! Big Gay Horror Fan!! Chatting on film!!! At Cinema Wasteland!!!! Need I say more?
World wise sexuality and courageous resolve – No, I am not talking about the hunchbacked warrior goddesses that raised Big Gay Horror Fan, but New Wave rocker, author and actress Christina Amphlett who lost her fierce battle with breast cancer and multiple sclerosis on Sunday, April 21st (2013) at the age of 53.
As the lead singer of Divinyls, Amphlett brought strength and sexuality to the fore in the mid-to-late 80’s with hits such as “I Touch Myself” and (the even more tantalizing) “Pleasure and Pain”. More than anything, perhaps, it was her image as a woman who would take no guff (one Divinyls’ LP was entitled “Temperamental”) that endeared her to the more pin sharp music lovers of the MTV age.
Teens who grew into their terror tights during the reign of Freddy and Jason, also, fondly remember Amphlett as one of the horror soundtrack queens. Divinyls’ songs decorated the background atmosphere of such notable flicks as The Stepfather and (the original) Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. Most iconic was her seductive, smoke drenched warbling on “Back to the Wall”, a track that was featured, prominently, in Nightmare on Elm Street 4.
After the Divinyls’ short reign of hit making was over, Amphlett spent the 90’s as a guest vocalist on recordings by legendary folk artist John Prine and appeared on the stage in her native Australia. (She gets extra pink points for portraying Judy Garland in a production of Boy From Oz.) A (hard-to-find) memoir about her battles with disease was published, as well, proving that not only was she one of rock’s most ferocious beauties, but one of its most eclectic, as well.
R.I.P. to one hell of a “Sleeping Beauty”!
Best known to scare enthusiasts for providing thrills of the evil incarnate variety as The Master on the Buffy, the Vampire Slayer television series, serious character actor Mark Metcalf found himself naked and on the other side of the terror-giving in (1981 lensed, 1983 released) slasher The Final Terror.
As Mike, the kind chaperone of a group of wayward teens (including Grease 2‘s Adrian Zmed and soon-to-be superstars Daryl Hannah and Rachel Ward) on a wilderness outing, Metcalf makes the unfortunate decision to relax with a quick skinny-dip while searching for one of his wards.
Surprised by his girlfriend Melanie (played by the adorable Cindy Harrell), Metcalf is soon bearing his lean booty for crafty cinema-goers as the two prescribe to a little forest loving.
Of course, anyone with their horror stripes knows that even consensual copulation means a horrible death in early 80’s horror flicks. Therefore, Metcalf/Mike’s howling orgasm turns into yodels of pain as the film’s mountainside maniac does him in with a crafty sickle in the back.
Thankfully, Metcalf’s death is one of the film’s more memorable ones and his rump bearing, itself, is notable in a genre that frequently fetishizes the feminine virtues and not the male’s.
Check back here frequently and at http://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan as Big Gay Horror Fan often celebrates the sensual, butt shaking dudes of horror.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan
At a recent dinner celebration at the piping hot Godzilla Café, Big Gay Horror Fan’s beloved Aunt Pamela (a vegan witch, naturally) made a charming and pertinent observation. She noted that the art of the appreciator was often neglected in social and cultural importance – IE that the act of appreciating is just as much of an art form as that of the person doing the creating.
Rodney Ascher’s truly engaging, frequently mindboggling documentary Room 237 takes this notion to grand heights. Highlighting the observations of a handful of devotees to Stanley Kubrick’s highly debated 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining, Room 237 revels in obsessive fan love and features highly detailed theories on Kubrick’s artistic intent.
Creatively, Ascher never shows the faces of his subjects, but uses clips from Kubrick’s oeuvre (including massive segments of The Shining) to illustrate the interviewee’s points. True horror fans are, also, sure to delight in his liberal use of crowd scenes from Italian gore fests Demons and Demons 2 to help augment the situations described, as well.
Some of the theories introduced are fairly ludicrous (making even the most rampaging nerd feel a bit more normal than he or she did before watching the documentary). One interested party is fully invested in the thought that Kubrick used this film to let the world know his part in helping the government fake the moon landing. (That he then goes on question the validity of this claim in the film’s wrap-up makes the concept even more noteworthy.)
Of course, anyone who has seen the subject film (and lusted after Shelley Duvall’s prairie-like yet seemingly eternal costumes) knows that Kubrick obviously ladled on the influences with this one. So the participants in Room 237 that suggest that he may have been working out his feelings on the Holocaust and the treatment of the American Indians may have some valid points. But, was that the entire extent of his focus (or something that he was even conscious of doing in the moment) – well, who the hell knows?!?
Other funny theories about subtle erections, media manipulation and disappearing Disney images – all seem purely accidental, mere mistakes that Kubrick missed with his over-the-top, highly stylistic directing of this glorious piece of cinema.
Ultimately, Room 237 illustrates how much a work takes on the spirit of the viewer once it is released into the world – giving all the detailed summaries an honest validity of sorts. Perhaps most importantly, for anyone whom has ever obsessed over a certain genre, filmmaker or film, Room 237 brings about a sense of kinship and, as my dear Aunt Pamela suggested, the thought that the audience is just as important as those behind the camera.
Further information about Room 237 can be gathered at www.room237movie.com.
Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always throwing on his best wide-eyed Duvall shriek at http://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan, as well!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
The real (?!) Charlie’s Angels: Kelli Maroney, Big Gay Horror Fan and Brinke Stevens being outwitted by a guy in short-shorts – AGAIN!
The weekend of April 5-7, 2013, Cinema Wasteland held their first event of the year in Strongsville, OH. Highlighted by a reunion of The Slumber Party Massacre cast, the presence of genre regular Kelli Maroney, the bold artwork of Chris Kuchta and many well informed, brightly costumed fans – this was a weekend not to be missed!
The Slumber Party Massacre Reunion Panel (with Debra DeLiso, Joseph Alan Johnson, Brinke Stevens and Michael Villella)!
The best bloody loving around? You bet! Hugging on ‘Incest Death Squad’ auteur Cory Udler!
If you’re going to work a chainsaw make sure it’s pink – and that you’re wearing high heels!
Wisconsin film guru (editor/director/producer) Derrick Carey regrets his lunchtime choices. Chick-a-Fil, Carey?!? C’mon!!
End of the day hang-out! Smooching on amazing Debra DeLiso with Slumber Party/Iced co-star Joseph Alan Johnson and the best horror artist ever: Chris Kuchta!
Ending things on a bright note with an adorable shot of Maroney and (best horror artist ever) Chris Kuchta, ‘backgrounded’ by his work.
Check out Cinema Wasteland at www.cinemawasteland.com // Kelli Maroney at www.classickellimaroney.com // Chris Kuchta at www.horrorartist.com // Cory J. Udler at www.incestdeathsquad.com.
Meanwhile, be sure to check back here and at https://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan for video interviews with the entire The Slumber Party Massacre reunion cast and a bevy of independent horror film maestros – all shot at Cinema Wasteland.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
At the undead café the greedy zombie hustlers all swirl around Big Gay Horror Fan – until they realize that he has no money to spend. Then, penniless and alone, I make my exit.
Evelyn in ‘Thriller’
Well rehearsed Joan and toned Jeff!
Of course, Evelyn’s most recognizable role to terror teens came in 1959’s The Tingler. Recommended by Vincent Price, whose admiration of her stemmed from a stage production in which both had appeared, Evelyn brings a proud bearing to her mute Martha Higgins. Higgins, of course, meets her fate at the ‘hands’ of the titular Tingler because she cannot scream in fear.
The 1961 “What Beckoning Ghost” episode of the Boris Karloff hosted Thriller also ended badly for the consistent Ms. Evelyn. Her Mildred Beaumont is a classical pianist with a bad heart. Ringing with devotion for her husband, Evelyn’s eyes soon rim with petrified despair. Beaumont’s husband and seemingly devoted sister soon drive her out of her mind and into her grave. But, as with most Thriller episodes, their wicked victory is short lived.
Evelyn, herself, passed away at 54 from cancer. But avid cine-maniacs can spot her ageless grace and sophisticated delicacy in any home theater from a mile away.
Check back frequently as Big Gay Horror (also available at https://facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan) often explores the worlds of femmes of gothic majesty.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
Through the fog drenched parking lot of the noir style gym where Big Gay Horror Fan works out, a pack of the ravenously handsome men (that he had been cruising within) descended upon him. Well, actually it was a group of wilding dogs that smelled the barbeque on his sweatpants – but when you’re desperate, who’s complaining?!?
The delightful Rose in evocative director Kevin Hanna’s forthcoming musical short Rose’s Colored Glasses actually envisions fantasies of a brighter hue, however, whenever she dons her magical spectacles. The dramatic twists in this piece actually allow her to eventually confront her life, head on, as well. H-m-m… Imagination and truth in equal basis – sounds like a remedy for a successful life, Rose!
For more information on the delightful adventures of Rose and Hanna, feel free to visit
https://www.facebook.com/RosesColoredGlassesFilm
and
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1056506594/roses-colored-glasses-color-our-world
Big Gay Horror Fan is always kicking up his ruby heels at https://www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan, as well.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
For all those who thought the team-up of Danny Trejo and Mariel Hemingway in Rise of the Zombies was the ultimate in undead expression, inventive writer-director Cody Knotts has something even better planned for you: the awesome sounding Pro Wrestlers Vs. Zombies!
Headlined by Roddy (They Live) Piper, this body flipping bit of mayhem, also, features the saucy antics of aggressively sexy Adrienne Fischer (the lead of acclaimed low budget indie It’s My Party and I’ll Die If I Want To) and oft viewed gay male porn star, Matthew Rush.
Check out the official trailer and website, below:
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Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
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