Debra Hill Documentary!

Published January 14, 2015 by biggayhorrorfan

Clap those (tiny) Michael Myers’ hands together. Dynamic filmmaking duo Marcy Boyle and Rachel Holzman (aka DPYX) are putting together a documentary about beloved, influential producer Debra Hill (Halloween, The Fog, Escape from LA, Clue, Big Top Peewee)!

A passionate voice for equality in film during her lifetime, Hill (1950 – 2005) has long deserved such an impressive showcase.

You can keep track of this sure to be scintillating project at https://www.facebook.com/DebraHillDoc.

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Kaye Ballard’s Fine Sense of Pandemonium!

Published November 6, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

Move over, Nana! Best known for her comic cabaret acts, appearances on Broadway (The Golden Apple, Pirates of Penzance) and television comedies (The Mothers-In-Law, The Doris Day Show), the stellar Kaye Ballard, also, added some silly flair to the 1982 horror parody Pandemonium.

Featuring ridiculous references to everything from Carrie (enacted by Carol Kane and Eileen Brennan) to the traditional slasher epics like Friday the 13th and Halloween, Pandemonium was built around that era’s sudden horror craze. Preceded by 1981’s Student Bodies (featuring a bevy of unknowns), this production upped the ante by adding such name performers as Ballard, (her The Mothers-In-Law co-star) Eve Arden, Donald O’Conner, Pat Ast, Tommy Smothers, Tab Hunter , Sydney Lassick, Laverne & Shirley’s David L. Landers, Mary Hartman’s Debralee Scott and Superman’s Marc McClure. (It, also, had the good fortune to have the talents of soon-to-be-big names like Paul Reubens, Judge Reinhold, Edie McClurg and Phil Hartman involved, as well.)

As expected, this tale of a killer stalking a cheerleading camp is full of (small moments of) smart satire and (plenty of) bone stupid stunts. Ballard, playing the mother of one of the potential victims (a very blonde Reinhold), gamely manages to survive both, here.

Her warning to Reinhold not to touch himself, while away for the summer, prompts the arrival of O’Connor as the family’s very blind patriarch. (Get it?!?) This fairly juvenile, yet strangely fun incident is followed by a much more obvious bit of humor (which the film contains a lot of). The family’s black sheep…turns out to be a black sheep.

Pretty obviously just a job done for a paycheck, Ballard’s energy and professionalism is still in full force here and her focus reminds one of every over-passionate Italian mama. Besides, it is truly a joy for fans of theater offerings and horror to see her here.

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

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Derek Joseph Quint’s Danse Macabre

Published October 29, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

The Catholic Church is always screwing something up! Why, do you remember that time that the Vatican tried to steal Dracula away from his three precious brides – on Halloween, nonetheless? Well, if you don’t, talented, out filmmaker Derek Joesph Quint does and he recounts this incident with humor and screwball energy with his divine short, Danse Macabre.

As, always, Quint proves he is a visual master, here, with inventive costuming and a brilliant use of late night Chicago streets as a backdrop for this cinematic adventure. Its, also, incredibly amusing to watch the reactions of unsuspecting passersby as the action unfolds.

Featuring a bevy of industrious females, you may need to watch this beauteous wonder a few times – just to determine your favorite bride. Mine is the Blue Bride. Because, just like her, I can’t fly, but I keep on ticking, baby!

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Music to Make Horror Movies By: Dead or Alive

Published October 26, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

If creepy (and I mean that in the best possible sense of the word) is as creepy does, then Pete Burns is definitely the voice of Halloween for me.

Even as a teen, when Dead or Alive’s You Spin Me Round was rampaging through the paper thin walls of MTV, I found something very macabre about Burns. This sinister essence compels, especially, in Burns haunting take on There’s Something in My House. Using horror imagery to detail the remaining emotions at the end of a love affair, Burns and the band definitely hit their spooky high mark!

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Hidden Horror at Harold Washington Library!

Published October 26, 2014 by biggayhorrorfan

Who says horror isn’t distinguished? Not the contributors of Rondo Award winning book Hidden Horror!

We will be bringing the love of very sophisticated (and obscure) frights to the very high falutin’ Harold Washington Library in Chicago on Monday, October 27th at 6 pm.

All the details are here – https://www.facebook.com/events/358615197640725/ – And, yes, you can leave your Brooks Brothers finest at home – but if you want to start your Halloween week off right, please be sure to join us!

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Interview: Danielle Harris!

Published September 26, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

Big Gay Horror Fan has seen the Daylight while swimming in The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond, Among Friends, near Stakeland. It was around Halloween and that is no Urban Legend or Hatchet (2 or 3) job!!!

Yes, I got to chat a bit with amazing genre icon Danielle Harris – and she even reveals a favorite (non-horror) project that she worked on, here. So — view away!

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