Big Gay Horror Fan turned 25. Once. A long time ago.
Awesome horror comic Hack/Slash just hit 25 as well, spelling the end (at least for the time being) of Cassie Hack and crew. Yes, blood will be spilled, lives will be forfeited and fervent fans will mourn.
Thankfully, below, Hack/Slash creator Tim Seeley talks about his decision to end the comic and how we can stay clued into his further adventures.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
When it comes to fashion Big Gay Horror Fan can’t tell a jean jacket from a leather thong.
Thankfully, talented director Tommy Faircloth truly knows that a sense of style has other ways of being murderous. His acclaimed 1995 film Crinoline Head features a lead killer whom wears his mother’s skirt on his scalp while going about acts of bloody mayhem.
A fan favorite from far back, due to various theatrical runs and a VHS distribution, Faircloth is currently raising money to offer his zany slasher homage on DVD.
To get a glance at vintage production photos, past press and to learn how to support Faircloth’s current efforts, be sure to visit https://www.facebook.com/crinolinehead!
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always sporting a bloody tube top and jagged nails at http://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
High school reunion? Forget it! But a reunion of the casts of 1981’s Just Before Dawn and 1982’s Slumber Party Massacre (which has high queer appeal for lesbian author Rita Mae Brown’s script participation , its female director and strong female characters)?!? Big Gay Horror Fan is all for that!
Thankfully, the wicked and wizened powers-that-be at Cinema Wasteland (www.cinemawasteland.com) are holding just such get-togethers over the weekend of April 5th, 2013 in Strongsville, OH. JBD’s Jamie Rose, Chris Lemmon and director Jeff Lieberman will be on hand for signings and screenings while Brinke Stevens, Debra DeLiso, Joseph Johnson and Michael Villella (the original Driller Killer, himself!)will be on hand for SPM.
Of course, Stevens is a horror powerhouse with endless credits in the genre. 1998’s Victoria’s Shadow, one of her little known efforts, is certainly for Brinke fanatics only, but the Stevens on display here is delicious. Stevens has always been incisive in her portrayals involving the dualities of certain characters (see Haunted Fear and Teenage Exorcist) and her Victoria in Victoria’s Shadow is no exception. Bitten by a vampire as a young maiden in the 19th Century, Victoria is reawakened to the modern world with a fervent hunger. Stevens radiates with unrestrained evil as she tears into old men and her old beau’s girlfriend with eye flashing vengeance. A particularly groundbreaking scene features Stevens’ Victoria feeding on a child whom she has strung up, upside down, from a tree. A set piece constructed of skulls in the film’s final moments gives the eternally beautiful Stevens a haunted resting place, as well.
While not as well versed in the antics of terror, Stevens’ Slumber Party co-star Debra DeLiso was the heroine of the ski slope slasher Iced (1988, written by and co-starring fellow SPM guest Johnson) and made a deliciously aggressive appearance on cult television show Sledge Hammer as an extremely athletic, revenge minded member of a satanic cult.
Portraying Angel on the 1987 “State of Sledge” episode (Season 1, Episode 14), DeLiso is an unrepentant, comic delight. Whether slinging around weights, jumping from air vents on top of the series’ regulars or maniacally leading the charge to rescue the cult’s leader played comedian Mark Blankfield (Jekyll and Hyde…Together Again, Dracula: Dead and Loving It), DeLiso is always an eye catching delight.
Be sure to catch up with Stevens, DeLiso (and Big Gay Horror Fan) at this weekend’s Cinema Wasteland!
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always exclaiming the delights of his beloved femmes of terror at https://www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE!
Big Gay Horror Fan has NEVER dated a zombie. Don’t get me wrong. I’d hang with a zombie. It’s just that I’ve haven’t ever been asked on a date!
Miles and Todd, on the other hand, feel an immediate attraction in Michael Simon’s very fun 2007 short Gay Zombie. They might even be able to get past the fact that Miles is a zombie if it weren’t for the shocked patrons at Todd’s local watering hole and yoga classes. Of course, fate and a seemingly helpful psychiatrist (never trust authority, yo!) may have other plans for the two.
The talented Simon embraces the silliness of the situation at hand. But beneath the zombie makeovers and dick gags, he gets at something more serious. With a light touch, he ably addresses the extreme prejudices that the queer bar crowd have for all those outside of their Lady Gaga loving norm. He, also, nicely deals with the bittersweet fact that some relationships, no matter how desired, simply aren’t meant to be.
Fine performances from Brad Bilanin as Miles, Ryan Carlberg as Todd and Robin McDonald as the therapist make Gay Zombie a very pleasant, surprisingly thoughtful way to spend 20 minutes.
You can find more about Gay Zombie (including details on how to purchase it) at www.gayzombie.net.
Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always trying to entice the undead at https://www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan.
Until the next time, SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
Big Gay Horror Fan will never forget the humiliation of not hitting one tennis ball in-bounds when he played against that seven armed green monster in high school.
Maroney with Johnson, Hamilton and Russell.
A bit more intricately plotted than Jessica Fletcher’s adventures as the series wore on, this prime episode has a very Italian feel (a twisted subplot involving insanity, forced suicide, mixed identity and a missing sister whom may or may not exist) and some moments of Hitchcock inspired suspense (a trespassing detective’s murder features some almost Psycho-like camera work).
This episode is also a cinema lovers delight with television stalwart Dennis Cole (Zombie Death House, Irwin Allen’s Cave-In), golden age idol Van Johnson (Sergio Martino’s Scorpion With Two Tails, Killer Crocodile), 80’s teen sensation Doug McKeon (On Golden Pond, Mischief) and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) all making appearances, as well. Even Kerrie Sherman (who played the vicious Patti in Greydon Clark’s Satan’s Cheerleaders) shows up as a secretary whom believes she is from Mars! Delicious!
Perhaps, most fun here, though, is watching Maroney enjoying devilishly interacting with Johnson in her opening scene. The two worked together previously on Ryan’s Hope and are obviously have a ball in their comical strategizing.
Maroney who will be appearing April 5- 7th, 2013 at the amazing Cinema Wasteland in Ohio (www.cinemawasteland.com) can always be reached at www.kellimaroney.com.
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always worshipping the treasured vixens of terror at https://www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan!
Be sure to check back often as BGHF, frequently, explores the fright stars that populated Murder, She Wrote with “Horror, She Wrote”!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
When your life is a continual Fright Night, it is best to have a soundtrack to soothe you a bit.
Thankfully, ultra talented singer/songwriter Deborah Holland’s haunting version of “Come to Me” gave moody depth to the end credits of 1988’s long loved Fright Night Part II.
Seductive and haunting, this song has inspired talented fans to create a bevy of tribute videos:
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All are a true testament to Holland’s evocative serenading and the powerful, erotic sensations emanating from cinematic vampire lore.
Be sure to check back often for more high blooded salutes to the majesty of “Music to Make Horror Films By”!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
“You’re just a kid, you know that? But, you’re a naughty little boy!” – Kristi to Kevin, “Out of the Dark“
The last time Big Gay Horror Fan played sports in the nude, he was 6 months old and playing kick ball in his momma’s tummy.
Thankfully, for appreciators of fine male flesh, handsome Cameron Dye (The Last Starfighter) shows just what he is made of while playing a game of one on one in 1988 slasher/police procedural Out of the Dark.
Dye with Mayo-Chandler
Here, Dye plays Kevin Silver, a photographer with access to all the victims, as his girlfriend, Kristi (perky Lynn Danielson), works with them. As police investigators examine the consistently half-naked Silver’s muddied past, he and Kristi decide to unwind with a game of basketball. Kristi has other ideas, though. As Kevin/Dye goes to take the first shot, she pulls down his shorts giving the audience a nice view of his svelte globes o’ loving! Later as things continue to escalate, the two seek further solace in a passionate romp in a sleazy hotel, offering us a nice side view of Dye’s healthy assets, as well.
Dye and Danielson.
Proving that male beauty translates well in any language, here is a French trailer for Out of the Dark featuring many of this film’s highlights:
Be sure to check back, often, as Big Gay Horror Fan (https://www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan) frequently exposes (the all too infrequent) male nudity in horror films!
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
There are plenty of things Big Gay Horror Fan can put up with in his apartment – that monster in the closet (worse than 1000 Catholic priests) and the corpses of long dead lovers? Those provide a mere piffle of annoyance. But, rats in my room?!? Never!!!!
Thankfully, the glorious Leona Anderson, best known to horror geeks as Mrs. Slydes – the truly creepy blind caretaker in the original House on Haunted Hill, agrees with me! Just pay aural witness to the impressive track “Rats in My Room” from her gloriously awful album Music to Suffer By, below, and you’ll know why.
It seems the eclectic Ms. Anderson actually did study opera courtesy of her famous older brother (filmdom’s original Bronco Billy), so her depth filled caterwauling on such premium MTSB tracks as “Limburger Lover” and “Hep Cat” is obviously just a put-on. Or — was it???
Ponder that until the next time!! – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan
As Big Gay Horror Fan and his pink posse (Apocalyptic Kitten, Deadly Johnson) troll the cobweb strewn, cobblestone streets of our remote Transylvanian village, there is only one thing that we’ve discovered – we’re getting older!
Unfortunately, Vassili, the aging hustler at the center of Gael Morel’s recent French language thriller Our Paradise, is experiencing the same thing. While still virile and handsome, Vassili is finding that his kinky Parisian clients are gradually looking for thrills among the younger set. After one such encounter, filled with unconscionable violence, Vassili happens upon a beaten youth, an assumed victim of cruising warfare. When the mysterious young man will not reveal his past or true age, Vassili christens him Angelo. Soon, the two find themselves drawn into a torrid affair and they become partners in crime. Vassili can’t control his rage, though, and soon the duo, now desperately in love, are on the run. While dreaming of a perfect haven, the two visit Anna, an old friend of Vassili’s. Drawn to Anna’s young son, the couple’s dream of a fairytale life is threatened, once again, by Vassili’s anger (toward his older upper crust clients) and Angelo’s ultimate compliance.
Morel works with distinct beauty, here, creating a nightmare landscape of often haunting sexuality. Much like Badlands (in which Sissy Spacek falls in with Martin Sheen’s charismatic murderer), Stephane Rideau brings much sensitivity to his brutish Vassili. The tenderness he shows toward Dimitri Durdaine’s Angelo, draws you into his world despite his repellant qualities. Durdaine, meanwhile, is a brilliantly smooth cipher, causing Rideau both joy and sorrow. Morel seems to reason that youthful energy is a golden factor, yet a severe case of the Peter Pan Syndrome can have tragic overtones, as well.
You can watch the trailer for Our Paradise, which also features an elusive appearance from frequent European horror vixen Beatrice Dalle (Inside, Trouble Every Day, Betty Blue), here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkTfoXW5vH0
Breaking Glass Pictures, which released Our Paradise on February 19th, 2013, can be found at www.breakingglasspictures.com or www.facebook.com/breakingglasspictures, as well.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan – who is always cruising around at <www.facebook.com/BigGayHorrorFan>, too!
Part II: Garage
Thankfully, St. Louis, Missouri’s most creative team, Randy Hall and Jason Klefisch, have a better idea. They are Chasing Monsters instead.
As Chasing Monsters Productions, this dynamic duo is currently in the midst of developing a five part series.
Part 1: Teddy
Teddy features a moody, almost wordless discourse on how the end of the world can affect a child’s favorite toy. Garage, meanwhile, proves that summer camps are not the only place where the sex = death motif can rule.
Be sure to keep up with the inventive Hall and Klefisch and their further cinematic journeys at:
http://vimeo.com/chasingmonsters and
https://www.facebook.com/ChasingMonstersProductions
Meanwhile, Big Gay Horror Fan is always spinning wildly at https://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan as well.
Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!
