Growing up as a dreamy little theater fag in farm country, my idols of survival were the vibrant ladies who made it to the end of my favorite horror flicks. Therefore to this day, women like Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Terror Train), Adrienne King (Friday the 13th), Dana Kimmell (Friday the 13th, Part 3) and Kimberly Beck (Friday the 13th, Part 4) still make my nerve endings tingle with delight!
Thankfully, talented Chicago filmmaker Matt Storc loves these kick-ass femmes, as well. His next production Final Girls pays homage to all those vicious vixens that kill maniacs in their spare time.
You can check out the teaser trailer for this exciting exercise at:
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):
My old friend Matthew Doyle used to embarrass me at movie theaters by claiming he was an executive from Pepsi and then proceed to harass the counter people for selling Coke products. He’d also force me to, begrudgingly, role play scenarios from Star Trek episodes with him as we ran down the streets of Boys Town in Chicago. Obviously, before I became Big Gay Horror Fan I was a total stick-in-the-mud! I would find all of that gloriously awesome, now.
Back then Mr. Doyle always claimed he was going to make films of his own, as well – and that he has! His second feature, Phantom Images, is currently streaming on the here! Network and he has just launched the campaign to finance his third feature, Hook-Up, featuring controversial porn actor Antonio Biaggi.
Hook-Up promises to expose the dark side of online dating and while not out and out horror, it is sure to feature the energetic capabilities of such Doyle influences as Rainier Werner Fassbinder and Peter Weir, auteurs beloved by film buffs and fright fiends, alike.
Every once in awhile, Big Gay Horror Fan gets into a little trouble in the locker room by taking an extra peek at the hunky monsters undressing next to him. Thankfully, though, those embarrassing incidents have nothing on the sexual misadventures of the immortal Louise in the creative Lindsay Denniberg’s fun and acclaimed Video Diary of a Lost Girl.
You see, in order to survive, this long living lass must kill her sexual partners. Granted, not a way to get a firm commitment out of a guy, but Denniberg makes it all reliably quirky.
You can check out the colorful trailer for Video Diary of a Lost Girl here:
Denniberg’s love of fairy tales, childhood cartoons and old school horror, also, find their place in her mystical shorts like Wet Skin and Chances. Meanwhile, in the highly personal, often brilliant Playing Dead, Denniberg outlines the extreme emotional connection that fans have to their horror films. These quick, meaningful productions are available to view on her website: http://lindsaydenniberg.wix.com/lindsay-denniberg.
Big Gay Horror Fan has a talent for digging up old insecurities – and that damned tan sweater vest keeps showing up a lot, as well! Thankfully, filmmaker Michael Lee Stever has a better idea about things worthy of reviving.
His engaging looking new documentary short Resurrecting Carrie chronicles the history of Stephen King’s favored heroine from book to screen to stage to stage, again!
Featuring interview footage with the likes of Piper Laurie, Resurrecting Carrie will show on June 1st at the Macabre Faire Film Fest in Rockville Centre, New York.
But, for those of us that can’t make that awesome sounding event, the below teaser trailer gives a good look into the bloody joys of Stever’s take on the amazing journey of everyone’s beloved revenge fueled underdog:
Every time that Big Gay Horror Fan has tried to enact the whole suicide girl = revenge motif thing, he winds up looking worse than Fulci’s tubing strewn, ass seeking anti-heroine from (latter day effort) Aenigma.
Thankfully, writer-director Henrique Couto knows what he is doing in this situation. His recent, emotionally complex effort Bleeding Through offers up a painfully awkward, sympathetic heroine whom finally cracks under life’s injustices and evil torments.
After the unexpected death of her parents, college age Lindsey loses herself in mute shyness and distant, seemingly mindless preoccupation. Her concerned brother, unable to offer further financial support, informs her that she must move out of their childhood home within two weeks. Ignoring him, Lindsay concentrates on a new friendship with the outgoing Katie. But with her growing affections for Katie unreciprocated and tense encounters with her boss and a seemingly kindly college professor growing in extremity, Lindsay soon heads toward a violent end and blood-filled retaliation.
As a filmmaker, Couto works with a European-esque slow boil here, endlessly mining layers of tension as Lindsay works her way to a fluid filled denouement. Fans of films like Carrie and Ms. 45 will find much to like here but, only if they appreciate the work of creative figures like Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman and Lars von Trier, as well.
Bloodhounds will also enjoy the levels of greedy poeticism that Couto uses to film Lindsay’s final revenge on her enemies. Yet, savvy viewers who have enjoyed the mild percolation that has come before may find themselves wishing for a more prolonged look at their heroine’s final, devastating acts. Still, this is a powerful, well thought film whose resonance defies its limited budget.
As the tormented Lindsay, Sandy Behre offers up a nicely layered performance. She glows like a firecracker in a storm whenever someone breaks through Lindsay’s self-imposed manner and is rewarded with a luminous grin. Cuoto, himself, brings an honest raggedness to his role as Lindsay’s brother while indie horror queen Ruby LaRocca (Shadow: Dead Riot, Skin Crawl, Dr. Horror’s House of Erotic Idiots) brings an easy naturalness to Katie, the main proponent of Lindsay’s downfall.
Wisconsin based horror movie maverick Derrick Carey (and all around cool guy) talks cures for bad boyfriends (Swamphead, folks!) and the immaculate heat of scream legends Judith O’Dea (Night of the Living Dead) and Brinke Stevens (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball-Bowl-A-Rama among 1000 others) in this exclusive Big Gay Horror Fan interview! Now, that’s a head punter!:
Big Gay Horror Fan COULD live by scream queens alone – especially as evidenced by brand new trailers for She Wolf Rising starring Tiffany Shepis, Debbie Rochon and Tina Krause…
Through the fog drenched parking lot of the noir style gym where Big Gay Horror Fan works out, a pack of the ravenously handsome men (that he had been cruising within) descended upon him. Well, actually it was a group of wilding dogs that smelled the barbeque on his sweatpants – but when you’re desperate, who’s complaining?!?
The delightful Rose in evocative director Kevin Hanna’s forthcoming musical short Rose’s Colored Glasses actually envisions fantasies of a brighter hue, however, whenever she dons her magical spectacles. The dramatic twists in this piece actually allow her to eventually confront her life, head on, as well. H-m-m… Imagination and truth in equal basis – sounds like a remedy for a successful life, Rose!
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