In my world double ANYTHING is good!
Therefore, the exciting new Investigation Discovery series, Double Cross, is right up my alley. (The fact that I appear on the third episode of the series has nothing to do with it – I swear!)
Check out the preview for the first episode, airing on September 5th, 2013, below:
http://investigation.discovery.com/double-cross-videos/sneak-peek.htm
And, as always, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan – AKA – www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!
Now, here is something to scream about.
Extremely driven director Ford Windstar proves that Barbara Crampton isn’t the only one who can shriek and laugh with finale ridden abandon! In fact, in the second trailer for his film The Horror, his lead actress does all that – while swigging from a can of beer.
You can check that out here (in a preview that will either really intrigue you or really scare you off):
You can keep up with all the hysterical madness of The Horror at
https://www.facebook.com/thehorrorshortfilm.
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always howling like a sissy at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
Welcome! Grab a spider flecked blood cookie and a glass of cranial fluid and take a seat!
Today, we are visiting with vibrant artist Rochelle Heagh Phister and her glorious creation, Dark’s Art Parlour!
Phister is the artistic force behind the gorgeous Brain That Wouldn’t Die painting (above) and the evocative Blood (left). You can check out all her work at www.darksartparlour.com, too!
Rochelle even rocks the right kind of street wear, as well!:
After that – what more needs to be said?
So, until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan – AKA – www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!
(Let’s face it, half the fun of horror and exploitation is seeing some hot bodies frolicking around in the buff. And while I worship the female form, I believe exploitation definitely veers into the exploitive when only gorgeous women are on display while their male counterparts remain chastely buttoned up. Therefore, The Backside of Horror salutes the filmmakers and actors whom even up the score a bit by showing us instances of hot and juicy male flesh in their bloody celluloid fantasies.)
In his 1981 emotionally charged horror flick Fear No Evil, director Frank LaLoggia (Lady in White) was reportedly working through his feelings of alienation as a gay youth by depicting the story of a young outsider (Stefan Arngrim from Land of the Giants and Class of 1984) whom is wracked to discover that he is destined to become the personification of Satan on earth.
In direct opposition to usual terror fare, the shower scene here takes place in the guy’s locker room and even includes a very wet, very naked kiss between Arngrim’s Andrew and his prime tormentor, Tony (Daniel Eden). 
Arngrim, also, shows his stuff upon emerging from the bed of beautiful of Katherine Rowe McAllen (Julie) in a nightmare sequence.
Be sure to check back, here, often for more of The Backside of Horror.
Big Gay Horror, meanwhile, is always dropping the soap at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.
Being a Big Gay Horror Fan of long standing, I always thought I knew exactly what those holes in the walls were for.
But as all life is a bloody journey, 6 terror filled Wisconsin directors have shown me how wrong I was with the trailer for their promising, upcoming horror anthology, Hole in the Wall.
You can check it, here:
Then keep updated on the project at:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rabid-Child-Films
As always, Big Gay Horror Fan is begging for a poke in the eye at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan, as well.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
Long considered the forefather of the punk movement (with Malcolm McLaren copping his style for the Sex Pistols), former musician-current author Richard Hell created music fit for the questioning, rebellious child in us all.
Thus, his (relatively few) songs connected with many generations of outsiders and have found themselves (in a mini-career of sorts) as perfect soundtrack underscoring. In 1981 horror treat Fear No Evil, in which director Frank LaLoggia mirrored his alienation as a gay teen with a story of a boy destined to satanic activity, Hell’s classic Blank Generation is used beneath a scene where the main antagonist delivers a little unrepentant comeuppance to his long suffering girlfriend. Ouch.
Meanwhile, Hell, himself, appeared in DIY director Nick Zedd’s 1983 Geek Maggot Bingo or The Freak from Suckweasel Mountain – an extremely experimental horror comedy featuring a Frankenstein variation and Hell as the Rawhide Kid.
Below, is a clip of Hell performing Blank Generation in low budget horror ‘maestro’ Ulli Lommel’s film of the same name:
Hell, who recently released a beautiful memoir about his ripped ‘n’ spiking heyday, can be sought out at www.richardhell.com –
Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, welcomes anything (and everything) that spurts at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
Sometimes things just take a turn for the worse. Like the baby zombie I saw on the street corner the other day. He was trying so hard to stay in control (it almost made me cry) – but finally, he just broke down, hopped out of his strangely silent mother’s arms and attacked the crossing guard. (Well, she was blowing that whistle pretty loudly.)
Similarly (yet not), in the fine thriller Drinking Games, released on DVD by Believe Limited on August 20th, a night of partying in a (fairly) deserted dorm leads to violence and emotional tragedy.
All Richard wants to do is finish up a term paper and deal with some emotional fallout. But his former best friend and dorm mate, Shawn, has fallen under the sway of a manipulative, party hungry upperclassman named Noopie. What starts out as a few drinks and some minor annoyances, though, soon turns into savagery, both of the emotional and physical variety, as the drug addled Noopie descends into criminal behavior.
Screenwriter Blake Merriman and director Ryan Gielen work with a slow build here, believably laying out how various tensions and odd encounters can boil over into dangerous territory. This is helped, implicitly, by some fine performances.
As Richard, Merriman brings believable frustration and angst to the situation. He and Nick Vergara, nicely, capture the lost spaces that occur between two people that are growing apart at a rapid pace. Most importantly, though, Rob Bradford as Noopie seals the deal, here. Sexy and charismatic as he is twisted, Bradford truly makes you understand how someone could fall under Noopie’s sway. It is a fun, on target performance that never goes over-the-top.
As sugar on the cake, Adriana DeGirolami provides a saucy, completely enjoyable turn as a drunken college girl who winds up on the wrong side of Noopie’s seduction techniques.
You can find more about Drinking Games at www.drinkinggamesmovie.com and www.believelimited.com.
Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always willing to spread it for manipulative assholes at www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
(Love it or hate it, the Carrie remake will be upon us in October – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)
Roarke: “How many women do you suppose make your kind of money?”
Angela: “Tell me something, Roarke. How many men do you suppose make my kind of money?”
Thought of as a purring sex kitten to some, due to her roles in such 60’s fare as Where the Boys Are and The Time Machine, gorgeous Yvette Mimieux decided to take control of her career in the mid-70’s and crafted a fun and powerful vehicle for herself with the television film, Hit Lady (1974).
As sharp shooting Angela deVries, Mimieux combines frivolity and feminism to grand effect here, all while dashing about in personalized Nolan Miller designs. Of course, by the time we meet Angela love has started to melt her cold heart and she finds herself unable to commit to her last kill-for-hire. Thus double crosses and frantic car chases decorate the last act of this quick moving vehicle. Add in a downbeat ending, more fitting for a European indie than a jaunty ABC production, and you have a fizzy cocktail decorated with a ferocious female at the lead.
Mimieux, no stranger to television terrors such as (beloved entries) Snowbeast and Devil Dog: Hound of Hell, is joined here by frequent genre personality Clu Gulager (Return of the Living Dead, Feast, Nightmare on Elm Street 2) who practically radiates slime as her duplicitous boss.
Keenan Wynn (Van Johnson’s gruffer half.)
Even a queer fear angle is provided for via the participation of veteran actor Keenan Wynn (Piranha, The Dark, Hysterical) and the exquisitely handsome Dack Rambo (Nightmare Honeymoon, Good Against Evil) as the artist whom entrances de Vries. Many old school Hollywood biographies make note of Wynn’s bisexuality. In fact, it was rumored that Wynn divorced his wife, Evie, so that she could (happily, it is noted) marry his lover, screen idol Van Johnson.
Meanwhile, shortly before his tragic death in 1994 due to HIV complications, Rambo acknowledged his bisexuality in detailed, heartfelt interview with Soap Opera Weekly.
Rambo – Half naked, fully threatened!
Thankfully, there are always (bittersweet) celluloid memories….
Until the next time SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan – aka – www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!
For all those who can’t say they saw this at Flashback Weekend 2013 in Rosemont, IL – Big Gay Horror Fan provides a couple brief video clips featuring genre icon Betsy Russell (Cheerleader Camp, Angel II, Camp Fear).
Below, this scream goddess talks the Saw legacy and even gets surprisingly vulnerable for fans.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan – AKA –www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!
“My favorite weapon is the look in your eyes.” – Ministry, “Stigmata”
I always love finding new heroes!!
From the classic Every Day is Halloween to the more recent Ghouldiggers, musician Al Jourgensen (often with his iconic band Ministry) has reveled in horror imagery within his songs. He has also relished subversively queer imagery by creating musical projects with monikers such as 1000 Homo DJs and Revolting Cocks.
Further gaiety was provided this week when it was revealed that Jourgensen has written about giving a male associate a blowjob in his upcoming memoir.
What is most significant about this revelation is Jourgensen’s bemused acknowledgement that this is still considered jaw droppingly surprising and controversial in this day and age, a social stigmata – if you will. H-m-m…Are you listening, Russia???!!!!
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror will be forever paying homage to the carefree Jourgensen at http://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE!!!
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