Are there chestnuts roasting on an open fire at your house this Christmas season? Probably not, unless you live in California and your home is ablaze. Is Jack Frost nipping at your nose? Well, call the police. Yuletide carols being…
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I can’t tell you how hard it was to hear about the death of underrated director Paul Morrissey at 86. His films had such a profound effect on my life. Morrissey transformed Andy Warhol’s filmed “art” films into somewhat plotted…
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I’m not what you call a dog person. I don’t own a dog, nor do I feel much warmth in my heart when I see one scampering down the streets at the end of a leash. I’ve always harbored the…
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As I inch closer and closer to an open grave, I find myself compiling lists of movies I’ve always wanted to see, and then trying to track them down. On the other hand, I keep stumbling across titles that make…
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I am slowly going through my bucket list of films I have always wanted to see, for one reason or another. And one high on the list was The Doll (1962), a Swedish film I saw ads in the newspaper…
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Once in a while you stumble on a movie that cries out for re-discovery. Recently I was flabbergasted by a 1933 Paramount B thriller called Terror Aboard. It’s also an early body count movie like Friday the 13th; really quite bizarre and…
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If you’re gay, and love horror movies, there are many times when you find yourself exploring some of the gay subtext in certain fright films. Some are more obvious than others. Some are a bit of a stretch. Some are…
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I used to love hitchhiking. I remember defiantly announcing to my father I wasn’t going to get a driver’s license and he angrily asked, “How the hell are you going to get around?” “I’ll hitchhike,” I sarcastically replied. And that’s…
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Alright I admit it- I have a fondness for psychos. Most of my closest friends have often been referred to as “nuts.” Many of the guys I dated were so disturbed they probably deserved to be permanently outfitted for strait–jackets…
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This winter I have been determined to make a list of movies I have always wanted to see and attempt to track them down. Now, I once picked up a 1972 movie pressbook for a double bill of What Became…
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