Tonight, I watched an excellent late 60s cult classic called Danger: Diabolik. Awesome sets, an excellent anti-hero, lovely women (especially the leading lady (the lovely Marisa Mell, some "wonderful toys" (to quote Burton's Joker) and an anti-social streak a mile wide, and you have a really awesome flick if you're into that sort of thing (I ( Read more... )

Another movie I have to see...

Who Killed Nancy?

In one month and one day Nancy Spungen would have been turning 51 years old, had she not died from a stab wound at age 20 inside the Hotel Chelsea. Since then her death has been shrouded in mystery, with a majority of fingers pointed at Sid Vicious...but is that all about to change? A new ( Read more... )

SO, a few days ago before the snow fell I was silently kicking ass in the A/V department of the Jones Library, looking at the documentary flicks. I picked up a couple, one of which is called Free Spirits. It was about a 60s and 70s hippie commune ( Read more... )

and now... FOLXSPLOITATION

courtesy of alagbon, who has tracked down video from a film called Tam Lin. The soundtrack is performed by the great Pentangle, but weirdly, has a far more funky vibe than you'd expect from a band like Pentangle (although I will confess that Lyke-Wake Dirge is definitely the sort of Pentangle tune a DJ would play to get people ( Read more... )

If you don't read the Frankensteinia blog, I recommend you do, especially if you're a fan of all things Frankenstein, Universal Horror, etc. From that blog comes a great link (not that the blog itself isn't wonderful!) to another blog about classic cinema. The blog, The Greenbriar Picture Show, features a two-parter (only the first part has been ( Read more... )

Fans of unhinged killers and shitty drama alike are familiar with the great playwright and mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho. He was the whining cocksucker who went apeshit at Virgina Tech and murdered 32 people and injured even more out at Va Tech before doing what he should have done a few days earlier - turning the gun on himself and ridding the ( Read more... )

Shortly after Sasha Baron Cohen declared the death of Borat and Ali G, news has been released that he's returning, on film, as one of my heroes - Abbie Hoffman!

THE creator of Ali G and Borat has been persuaded by Steven Spielberg to move from comedy to serious politics by playing a hippie opponent of the Vietnam war ( Read more... )

Michael Blodgett, the gentleman who played Lance Rocke in the camp and cult classic (near and dear to my own heart, too) Beyond the Valley of the Dolls has passed away.

Also, in the interests of making sure my readers are aware of all of the new threats on this "Internets" thing, here's another FauxNews report on the evils of Halo3 and Xbox Live ( Read more... )

Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden wrote a screenplay that will be filmed - on the life of Aleister Crowley.

I think my awesomeness meter just blew to smithereens.

It was back in 1904 that colorful Brit Aleister Crowley had what he describes as a mystical experience in Cairo, Egypt. Figuring that his wife's sudden strange behavior on holiday was due ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to Mary Shelley! It's her 210th. She ties perfectly into many of my "fandoms" (as you kids call them) - gothic literature, English Romanticism, Byron, PBS, the Frankenstein monster tale specifically and the films (particularly Universal and Hammer films and their "spin-off" fandoms of Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and the great ( Read more... )