Music to Make Horror Movies By: Jayne County, “Rock ‘N’ Roll Resurrection

Published July 22, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

“It’s about how rock dies and dies and then resurrects itself!…Wash me in the blood of rock ‘n’ roll!” – Jayne County

If true rock and legitimate horror go hand and hand then the amazing Jayne County should have had a song on the soundtrack of every amazing terror flick over the past three decades.

Of course, life is gloriously unfair and that is not the reality of the situation. Still songs such as “F….. by the Devil” and the title track on this transgendered outlaw’s kinetic, crystal clear live recording Rock ‘N’ Roll Resurrection (1980) combine sex, punk energy and the deliciously scary sheen of nonconformity. The perfect combination for any fright freak’s Sunday afternoon soundtrack? You bet!

Non-believers can be convinced, here!:

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan (also available at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan)!

Helping Alix Arsenic!

Published July 19, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Wondering what to do with all those splintered pennies and blood stained coins that you have laying around? Well – here you go!

Kick ass (Chicago based) horror goddess Alix Arsenic has been enduring some incredibly destructive health issues and is fighting for survival. A good friend has put together a benefit campaign for her on Fundly.

You can check it out here:

http://fundly.com/alixneedsus

Any amount is sure to help get Alix’s chainsaw revving again – so you can rest assured that your contribution is truly helping the buzz!

Be sure to check out www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan, as well, and until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!!!

Barmy Battles: Psycho Vs. The Exorcist!

Published July 18, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Usually the toughest thing that Big Gay Horror Fan has to decide on is whether to wear the large Freddy t-shirt or the extra-large (depending on how much he’s consumed the previous week)!

The truly exciting site Barmy Battles has upped the difficulty in the choice factor this week, though, by proposing a count-off between two horror classics: Alfred Hitchcock’s momma loving Psycho (1960) and William Peter Blatty’s devil smeared The Exorcist (1973).

You can make your (almost impossible) choice between the two, until the end of August 2013 at:

http://www.barmybattles.com/2013/06/25/the-exorcist-vs-psycho/

And – tell them Big Gay Horror Fan sent you!

Be sure to check out www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan and until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

The Backside of Horror: Damian Ladd, “Demon Resurrection” (2008)

Published July 15, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

The only thing Big Gay Horror Fan ever witnessed in a nude state growing up in the country was – cows!!!

Luckily, for lovers o’ male sweetness, Damian Ladd, whom actually offers up a quietly effective performance as the concerned John in 2008’s Demon Resurrection, shows us a bit more for our money. Worried over the emotional state of his cult rescued honey, Grace, Ladd-John reflects back on better times.

These times, thankfully, include some tree side, outdoors romancing – an advent that gives us a nice look at Ladd’s round n healthy globes o’ love.

Actually, coming on like a mixture of Night of the Living Dead meets Creepozoids by way of the recently reimagined Evil Dead, Demon Resurrection may be worth looking at for a few other reasons, as well.

Be sure to check back, often, as Big Gay Horror Fan frequently levels the flesh-for-pay exploitation balance by concentrating on male nudity in terror!

Be sure to check out www.facebook.com/bigggayhorrorfan, as well, and until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!

Music to Make Horror Films By: May, “When He Calls Me Kitten” – Kelley Deal 6000

Published July 14, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Okay, okay! Some people do think the sound of my Aunt Magatha moaning in the graveyard is the coolest (non) song to the soundtrack of life.

But those truly in the know recognize that the sweet sounds of The Kelley Deal 6000’s “When He Calls Me Kitten”, bursting forth in the background of Lucky McKee’s awesome psychological horror fest May (2002), is one of the best celluloid meets aural magic moments – EVER!!! Chew on that, horror grumps!!!

You can keep up with all of the legendary Deal’s activities at www.kelleydeal.com.

Meanwhile, you can always find Big Gay Horror Fan polishing his collection of The Breeders’ buttons at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE!!!

Review: Shut Up & Dance!

Published July 13, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Maybe if I had taken the time to really listen to that zombie werewolf when he was growling at me all those years ago, I would have realized that he didn’t want to eat me – all he really wanted was a date!

Unfortunately, Jamie Rose’s excellent Shut Up & Dance! didn’t exist then. Long loved for her authentically powerful performances in such terror draped epics as Just Before Dawn, Playroom and Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, Rose has proven herself to be quite a writer with this memoir style self-help tome.

Inspired by how the techniques used in tango improved her own tempestuous relationship, the book’s obvious targets are those that are looking to improve a relationship (or find one) and lovers of dance. But, Shut Up actually has plenty of good advice and some powerful (daily) attitude changers for the happily single, as well.

“I DID listen. I did NOT like what I heard!”

Most significant are the pages wherein Rose illustrates how little we truly pay attention to our fellow passengers in this crazy ride called life and how just a little active listening can truly change our perspective and radically improve our lives. Compassion and empathy, also, rule the day here as Rose provides many personal examples of how she learned to corral the more destructive aspects of her take charge nature.

Thus, with blistering honesty and positive humor, Rose compels with a friendly, understanding voice – a truly difficult feat for a first time writer. Wisely, she also allows multiple perspectives to shine in this easy-to-read guide by devoting a nice amount of space to the reflections of the fascinating women she has met on her journey to true (yet constantly worked for) happiness.

Keep up-to-date with Rose and Shut Up & Dance! at www.jamierosestudio.com.

Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always stepping over his own toes at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.com!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE!

Mark of Cain: Maneater (2009)

Published July 13, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Every morning, Big Gay Horror Fan must look into his cracked mirror and face the many demons that haunt him. Of course, the sounds that emerge from that confrontation are ear shatteringly monstrous, but face them he must!

Similarly, Dean Cain must look into the treacherous past of his character, Sheriff Harry Bailey, in 2009’s forest monster on the loose epic Maneater.

With a mysteriously disappearing wife and a tendency to over-protect his normally inquisitive teenage daughter, Cain/Bailey is even seemingly a suspect in the horrific deaths that are occurring on his watch. The delusion that his obviously dead wife is due to return any moment also makes everyone doubt his grasp on reality, as well.

Featuring several effective stalk n slash sequences, Maneater is best served by the appearances of such veteran character actors as Conrad Janis (Mork and Mindy, The Cable Guy) and Christopher Darga (Scary or Die, Crazy Stupid Love), who is particularly fine as an emotionally tortured local soul.

Granted, with its grainy, shadow ridden texture, the film does belie its budget – IE: it looks very cheaply made – and while plenty of the nubile wenches whom grace this woodsy (yet bloodied) landscape often doff their tops, there is not a male buttock in sight.

More than anything, much like 2004’s Lost, wherein he received fine notices as a beleaguered businessman, Maneater seems to primarily fit in with Cain’s (who, also, served as a producer here) bid to stretch himself as a performer.

Next up on Mark of Cain: 2006’s Dead and Deader!

Music to Make Horror Films By: “I Ain’t Nothing But a Gore Hound”, The Cramps

Published July 7, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

“I ain’t nothing but a gore hound!” This is not an uncommon phrase in the horror community. Yet, no one has said it as potently (or sexily) as Lux Interior and crew with this seminal fright flecked number! Enjoy!

Horror, She Wrote with the Divine Meg Foster!

Published July 5, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Big Gay Horror Fan well remembers the horror of being kidnapped for his inheritance – — of wrinkled Fantastic Four comic books!

Of course, I could be confusing myself with Tracy Middendorf’s Erin on The Dark Side of the Door episode of Murder, She Wrote (Season 12, Episode 15).

Here Middendorf, best known to terror freaks as the doomed babysitter in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994) and as a stalked runner in Ed McBain’s 87th Precinct: Lightning (1995), plays a budding editor, who recognizes the specifics of her childhood kidnapping in a famous author’s long awaited novel.

This writer played by Twin Peaks’ Richard Beymer (also of fun n bloody sequel Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!) also spends some premium episode time romancing a senior editor played by amazing genre icon Meg Foster (They Live, Stepfather II, Welcome to Arrow Beach). Foster is soft spoken yet firm here especially as Beymer betrays her and she learns what plenty of Big Gay Horror Fans already know – men just can’t be trusted.

Before Angela Lansbury’s flinty heroine JB Fletcher uncovers the truths behind Erin’s past, further fun is found watching veteran actress Marcia Strassman (best known for her comedic roles on Welcome Back Kotter and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) play against type as Erin’s glamorous eventually duplicitous mother.

Meanwhile, 10 years previously, Foster made her first appearance on this seminal series (Joshua Peabody Died Here, Season 2, Episode 2). In one of the premium plots on the show’s best years, Foster is a determined newscaster whose motives might be deeper and darker than they seem. With her seductive eyes and whiskey coated voice, Foster stands out among a genre cast including the late-great Michael Sarrazin (Frankenstein: The True Story, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), The Addams Family’s John Astin, television heartthrob John Ericson (Charles Band’s possessed car epic Crash!, the seminal Honey West) as the focus of Foster’s investigative rage and cowboy legend, B-Movie regular Chuck Connors (Tourist Trap, Werewolf, Maniac Killer).

Be sure to check back here, often, for more Horror, She Wrote.

Big Gay Horror, meanwhile, is always composing sonnets to Angela Lansbury’s vixen past at http://www.facebook.com/#!/BigGayHorrorFan.

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

Big Gay Horror Fan Interviews Erin Gray!

Published July 4, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Big Gay Horror Fan is still shedding pounds of excitement over this truly scintillating interview with the divine Erin Gray (Buck Rogers, Jason Goes to Hell and so much more)!!

Be sure to check out the links to Gray’s amazing philanthropic work, as well:

www.havenhouse.org

www.heroesforhire.info

And as always – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan (www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan)!