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BSB: Nicolas Cage runs lines from VAMPIRE'S KISS

Order the movieJust for fun...
I'm sure that more than a handful of you Fangorian's are fond of a little semi-lost late 80's horror satire called VAMPIRE'S KISS.

Robert Bierman's film -which incidentally makes a fantastic double feature with Mary Harron's AMERICAN PSYCHO - features a young, method acting Nicolas Cage as a soul dead corporate slug named Peter Leow who believes his one night stand (Jennifer Beals from FLASHDANCE) was a vampire and that he himself is slowly sharing her bloodsucking fate.
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Exclusive Interview with Composer Claudio Gizzi

warhols_dracula100In Paul Morrissey’s eccentric and utterly unhinged 1974 Eurotrash classic BLOOD FOR DRACULA (often erroneously credited as the brainchild NYC art guru Andy Warhol), the opening imagery of Dracula (played by iconic German weirdo Udo Kier) painting his face kabuki white has always haunted me.  The sequence is the spine and soul of the picture, showing the good Count as a tired, lonely showman who has long been forgotten by time and by the audience he once terrified.

And as eerily gorgeous as that bit of credit crawling business is, it’s the delicate piano waltz playing in the background that truly sells it.
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British Horror Filmmaker Ashley Thorpe Talks About THE HAIRY HANDS

ashley-thorpe-ravenIf you click here you’ll be able to read the first feature I wrote about visionary UK based filmmaker Ashley Thorpe, an artist whose carefully controlled, creepy and rapturously gothic short films SCAYRECROW and THE SCREAMING SKULL (which screened at this years NYC Fango Con) really left an impression on me.

The man is a stylist supreme, his weird rotoscope approach matched by his respect for myth and I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Both pictures have gone on to win a multitude of awards and earn a plethora of accolades (you can see them for yourself at Thorpe’s site) and I thought it was high time to play catch up with the man.
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BSB: TIFF 2009 ends with a bang and a screech, a crash, a crush, screams, sirens etc.

ASYLUMSo...get this. I'm driving home  West on the Lakeshore (Gardiner was a parking lot) from a week of Film Festival frenzy (balanced with teaching) on Friday...sooo tired...just wanna decompress at home with the kids and maybe watch my newly reacquired copy of the Amicus omnibus ASYLUM.
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SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD: Romero Walks "The Dead Carpet"

George A. RomeroScroll down (or click here) to read about my livid and lovely experiences on Saturday, September 12th in Toronto, my home. Colin Geddes at the Toronto International FIlm Festival and Thea Munster from the Toronto Zombie Walk combined forces to honour George A. Romero as a newly minted Canadian and celebrate the premiere of his latest shocker, SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD (read my review here).

Below is a little teaser video with some of the top notch local yokel ghouls and some footage of the very same zombies meeting Romero on "The Dead Carpet" that night....enjoy.
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About Chris Alexander:

Chris AlexanderChris Alexander is a lifelong cineaste, obsessed with eccentric horror movies, weird romance, black leather and spacey, strange music. Based in Toronto, he was a former critic and columnist for Canadian horror entertainment periodical RUE MORGUE before joining the ranks of the legendary FANGORIA magazine, a publication he was completely obsessed with as a child. He still gets a buzz when he sees his name in the masthead.

Alexander is also a Toronto radio personality (he's the "Friday Film Guy" on AM 640), a film history teacher at the Toronto Film College, appears regularily on MTV Canada and composes experimental music for film, television and  his own pleasure. His latest album is MUSIC FOR PARASITES, featuring cues he composed for the feature film AM I EVIL, the short picture COTTONMOUTH, the zombie western THE STINK OF FLESH and many others.

Alexander was the only Canadian film critic chosen to box noted "bad filmmaker" Uwe Boll in the "Raging Boll" event in Vancouver, September 2006. He lost brilliantly but not before spitting great gobs of fake blood at the gleefully insane auteur snarling face.

To learn more about the celluloid soaked world of Chris Alexander visit

www.chris-alexander.ca.