I’m a child of the 1980s. I grew up on a steady diet of Count Chocula cereal, bad hair metal and VHS tapes, most of which were procured from a mom-and-pop video store in my hometown of Winchester, Virginia. It was among these dusty shelves that I (to quote The Damned) caught “the tide at the flood” and “fell in love with the video nasty.”
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KING KONG
Welcome to hell. It’s as good a place as any to start talking horror and spirituality. I’m sure our ongoing conversation will take us to other places as well, but hell…hell is a place that burns up BS. That seems like a good starting point to me.
I was fortunate enough to screen a copy of New York filmmaker/FANGORIA scribe Jeremiah Kipp’s most recent short film, CONTACT. While it has a running time of only 11 minutes, the movie feels much more substantial due to its message and depth. Maybe it’s the dark mood, or the powerful message, or its simple horror. Whatever it is that makes CONTACT special, the fact remains: it is a must-see.
Welcome to Paper Cuts: Wild Posters from the Private Collection of Tal Zimerman. There are Band-Aids in case you need one. I’m Tal and I work as a professional actor, but my passion is collecting horror-movie posters from all over the globe. On this blog, you will see how film companies used paper to promote their products before the Internet, and in many cases before home video.
Note: All names are omitted to protect the ridiculous!
In this second half of my interview with ALL ABOUT EVIL’s Joshua Grannell (see the first part 
I first became aware of Joshua Grannell and his alter ego, Peaches Christ, on a trip to San Francisco in 2000? 2001? I was dating a guy who had moved down from SF to Los Angeles, and on one of our many trips up north, we took in a screening of SHOWGIRLS at the Midnight Mass summer film series. Peaches was the host of the evening, and the show opened with a re-enactment of both the “Goddess” number and the “Nomi F**ks Zack in the pool” scene with drag queens (and one drag king playing “Zack”). I was hooked.