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)!

Music to Make Horror Movies By (Pride Edition): Lezlie Deane – Scary Cherry, Fem 2 Fem

Published June 30, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

There is only one way to get your bloody glitter on this Pride Day Sunday! Listen to some frickin’ awesome Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs – headed by Freddy’s Dead’s always rocking, total swoon monster Lezlie Deane! Their Limited Edition EP is The Muffs meets Alice Cooper by way of T Rex.

Opening song “Let’s Go” provides all the caffeine adrenaline that you need to get going in the morning while the tender (yet propulsive) “I Want You” proves that even kick-ass mommas can get their hearts broken. “Little Blue Bug” is one of the weirdest, most original love songs ever manufactured. Meanwhile, “Down” and “Original Sin” round out this 5 song recording with pure rockin’ fervor.

You can purchase Limited Edition EP and plenty of other sweaty, high kicking Scary Cherry merchandise at www.scarycherry.com.

And if that ain’t queer enough for you – Deane was also a member of the Sapphic, all girl electronic dance group Fem 2 Fem in the 90’s. So, here’s a little uncensored “Obsession” to wet your lip bitten, rainbow red whistle:

Until the next time – Keep that Deane love going strong!!!

SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!!!

The Conjuring

Published June 28, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Sure, Big Gay Horror Fan’s apartment is haunted! Well, if noisy neighbors and a variety of roaches (the size of last summer’s non-blockbuster Battleship, mind you) count. Still, the random creak and half awake realization that someone could be lurking in the hallway are a part of everyone’s existence – lending credence to such recent haunted house epics as the Paranormal Activity series, Insidious and Sinister.

Thus, with baited breath we await the July 19th unveiling of the latest spooky dwelling flick, The Conjuring , featuring the luminous Vera Farmiga (Bates Hotel, Orphan), Broadway stalwart Patrick Wilson (Insidious, Hard Candy) and the always interesting Lili Taylor (The Haunting, Hemlock Grove, The Addiction).

Meanwhile, for queer horror piglets everywhere, the news that One Life to Live‘s hunky John Brotherton (the first victim in Season 6 of Dexter, as well) is a member of The Conjuring cast offers just another reason to get to the theaters in mid-July!

Be sure to keep up all the trembling plywood inherent in The Conjuring at www.facebook.com/theconjuringmovie!

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

Mad Zombie?!? All You Need is a Bike!

Published June 28, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Well, okay! So, he does eventually wipe out!

I bike everywhere in the city. Although, I must admit as I tool down the wacky paths of Western Avenue at 2 in the morning in Chicago, lately, I have begun to feel my mortality quite a bit. Like – Hello, swinging car door -I could die!

But after catching an afternoon showing of Brad Pitt in World War Z today, my faith in my 10 speed is renewed!

In one key scene, Pitt and associates escape a rainy, late night undead attack — courtesy of some fancy Schwinn like action! Right on! (and…I don’t think we’ve ever seen that one before, right? Hey ho, originality – and one cool reason why I’ve got to give this much revised movie some greasy handed props!)

So, all you wayward tin heaps and flesh eating monsters – just you try it! I’ve got the (Pitt) pedal on you, any day!!!

Be sure to keep up with all the globe hopping zombie terror at https://www.facebook.com/WorldWarZMovie.

Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always celebrating the slobbering masses of undead at www.facebook.com/bigggayhorrorfan!

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