Henry

A little something from my sketchbooks. Well, we all have seen the film.

Jörg Buttgereit

Here's the second entry in my series of portraits of the world's greatest filmmakers: Jörg Buttgereit, director of the infamous Necromantik. Like the previous John Waters-piece I did this for the dutch magazine Zone 5300 (edited by Marcel Ruijters) which will feature an interview with J.B. in the upcoming issue.

Film Stills: Cat People (1982)

Global Thermopixular War

Coupla digital images of NUCLEAR WAR here -- been fucking around with Photoshop for a few years now, though in nothing but the most primitive way (still don't have a tablet, etc.) and have a folder full of this junk that I drag out once in a while and have a look at.


Anyhow, I've been paranoid as hell lately for some unknown reason, and these seemed to suit my mood.

"Street Trash"!

In honor of Halloween, I thought I'd post a bunch of screen captures from J. Michael Muro's amazing 1987 film Street Trash, a grotesque masterpiece of independent horror... more here.

YouTube Halloween

Thought I'd post one of my favorite short films: Outer Space by Peter Tscherkassky. I first saw the film on the excellent anthology Experiments in Terror, and I suggest finding a copy of that DVD if at all possible -- not only because Tscherkassky's work suffers quite a bit as seen compressed here for the web, but also because the rest of the shorts on the disc are pretty amazing as well. Incidentally, Outer Space is taken entirely from the film The Entity, itself a remarkable movie with an amazing performance by Barbara Hershey.

From Beyond!!

Have you guys checked out the recently released Directors' Cut of Stuart Gordons' From Beyond yet?


I'd seen the film before. I think Aeron sent it to me a while ago.I can't say I can break down the exact differences between the regular release and the Directors' cut, but I assume it had to do with the overt sexual material and the close-up eyeball sucking type stuff.
It's an amazing movie. I might be sort of biased because I pretty much love everything Stuart Gordon has done , though I tend to focus on his Lovecraft material, which From Beyond is among; I haven't seen Robot Jox or King of the Ants and a couple of others.
I'm not sure that tension is adequately built enough to provide any genuine scares, but I'm not sure that was the major concern. I think the gore/monsterism was seen as providing that effect, but I'm pretty much immune to that at this point. Witness:





The effects, the ultra-lurid color scheme, all of it is a thrill to me.

I'm not going to break down the story cause I'm lazy, but my favorite buts are the hospital sequences where the Jeffrey Combs character goes through a bizarre and genuinely freaky transformation.
He gets hungry.


The visual of the bandaged, completely hairless Combs, with an oddly bulged-out skull, wandering through the hospital in a kind of trance is just fucking awesome. How's that for valuable criticism?

Go see it and tell me what you think.