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Countdown to Carrie: Meg Foster – “Immortal Combat”, “Hidden Fears”!

Published August 6, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

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(The Carrie remake will be upon us on October – thus we celebrate the strong women in horror, science fiction and exploitation with Countdown to Carrie!)

Quinn: (Quietly shuddering) God, he was ugly!
Stan: How can you stand it?
Quinn: (Coldly) When I close my eyes…all men are the same. – Immortal Combat

The generously eclectic Meg Foster may be best known to genre fans for her diverse roles in such projects as They Live, Masters of the Universe and Stepfather II – but multiple (often more obscure) projects have benefited from her quiet authority, as well.

ImmortalIn 1993, Foster reunited with (her They Live co-star) Roddy Piper in the karate-action–science fiction-horror-buddy film (are you dizzy yet???!!!) hybrid Immortal Combat (released in 1994). Using soft undercurrents, Foster imbues her evil Quinn will nerve chilling monstrousness. Proving that underplaying is the skilled performer’s greatest asset, she emerges as the prime force, here, despite plenty of gloriously sock-em displays of back flipping, masculine martial arts mayhem.

HiddenFearsThe same year, Foster proved her amazing versatility by playing a grieving wife and mother in the domestic thriller Hidden Fears. Years after the murder of her husband in a parking lot by two redneck hoods, Foster’s Maureen Dietz learns the identities of his killers. Publically exposing them brings her family and friends into jeopardy’s way, though. As the bodies begin to pile up, Foster-Dietz begins to realize the true source of danger may reside closer to home than she ever could have imagined. Once again, it is the quieter tones that Foster applies here that sparkle with ingenuity (in an often standard script). Her natural connections with skilled co-stars such as Frederic Forrest and Bever-Leigh Banfield are what help make this project rise above the ordinary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgyurXlBv0

Midwest dwellers can revel in the presence of the delicious Foster on August 9, 10, 11, 2013 at Flashback Weekend, Illinois’ homegrown horror convention!: http://www.flashbackweekend.com.

Big Gay Horror Fan, meanwhile, is always evading the dangerous pursuers of his past at http://www.facebook.com/biggayhorrorfan!

Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE!!!!

Horror, She Wrote with the Divine Meg Foster!

Published July 5, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

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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).

024Here 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.025

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.

028Meanwhile, 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 Meg Foster!

Published December 15, 2012 by biggayhorrorfan

Big Gay Horror Fan has finally found something better than a punch in the face from Peter Weller – interviewing the divine Meg Foster (They Live, The Osterman Weekend, Leviathon, Masters of the Universe)! Here we discuss early cannibal epic Welcome to Arrow Beach, bloody sequel Stepfather 2, cult favorite Shrunken Heads and gay themed A Different Story!

My world has not been the same since this eye haunting encounter – neither will yours.

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