My Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 1)
Rock & roll has always been rebel music. From the libido-charged, hip-shakin’ hillbilly sneer of Elvis Presley to the devil-worshiping, serial killer-obsessed, nazi-filled horror tales of Slayer,...
View ArticleMy Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 2)
While Elvis Presley’s gyrating hips and blues-inspired rock & roll sorcery infuriated adults and excited teenagers throughout the 1950′s (modern-day witches might look at the erotic frenzy...
View ArticleMy Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 3)
In 1970, the death knell for the Love Generation was sounded. And it sounded like down-tuned guitars. Low and leaden, rugged and rumbling, the self-titled debut album from those crucifix-festooned...
View ArticleMy Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 4)
In ancient Hebrew, the word “satan” meant “adversary.” Likewise, rock & roll has always been synonymous with opposition, subversion, and transgression. Pushing the envelope, courting controversy,...
View ArticleMy Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 5)
Not all metalheads who found themselves on the wrong side of the law were as seemingly undeserving of such scrutiny as the West Memphis Three. In Norway, for example, occult rock diehards were taking...
View ArticleMy Sweet Satan: Elvis, The Devil, & The History Of Occult Rock (Part 6)
Since the birth of rock & roll, the occult-obsessed offshoot of said musical genre has gone from the harmless cartoon characterture of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to the knife-brandishing fire-starting...
View ArticleThe Devil Is A Redhead: A Loving & Lusting Tribute To Erika Blanc
The first time I saw The Devil’s Nightmare, a co-production between Italy and, curiously enough, Belgium (typically known more for waffles than Satanic schlock) which was released in the early 1970′s,...
View ArticleVideo Nasties: House By The Cemetery (1981)
I’ve often equated watching the best of Lucio Fulci’s horror films with being buried alive in a cemetery after dark. They’re that hopeless, that claustrophobic, that suffocating. They’re fiercely...
View Articlereview: Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968)
Watching Dracula Has Risen From The Grave is a little like getting a really ordinary blowjob from an extraordinarily beautiful woman. You want to enjoy the experience a lot more, just based on how...
View Articlereview: The Mad Doctor Of Blood Island (1968)
There are certain places in this world that you will never find on any map or globe, secret places that exist exclusively in the esoteric geography of horror. Places like Slime City, Hobb’s End,...
View ArticleStalking Through The Shadows: Remembering The Gothic Horrors Of Dan Curtis...
In the late 1960′s and early 70′s, the TV show Dark Shadows was a bona fide pop culture phenomenon. The program’s dazzling success made a minor star out of its creator, a man named Dan Curtis who,...
View ArticleStalking Through The Shadows: Remembering The Gothic Horrors Of Dan Curtis...
Following the runaway hit that his once on-the-ropes supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows enjoyed throughout the end of the 60′s and the beginning of the 70′s, television maverick Dan Curtis turned...
View ArticleStalking Through The Shadows: Remembering The Gothic Horrors Of Dan Curtis...
Hoping to capture lightning in a bottle once again, Dan Curtis took the same mold from which the towering treasure known as Kolchak: The Night Stalker had been cast and used it to create another occult...
View ArticleStalking Through The Shadows: Remembering The Gothic Horrors Of Dan Curtis...
Dan Curtis was famous for his ability to combine unique horror tales and incredibly talented character actors to produce exemplary cinematic results. No project of his displays this better than 1976′s...
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The Politics of Rot: An Interview With WARFEAR
In many ways, horror films are to cinema what punk rock is to music. I’m not the first person to say this. Not by a long shot. They are, after all, both intensely subversive forms of art, reveling in...
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Retro Radioactivity: A Review of “Strange Kid Comix #2″
Not every Monster Kid grew up in the era of the Universal and Hammer horror classics. For some Monster Kids, those things were already old when they themselves were still young. Just the other day, on...
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Let’s Do The Time Warp Again: An Interview With Warlock Home Video Founder...
In the 1980′s, in the heady days of the Video Boom, a new innovation in technology completely changed the way the film industry operated. Independent cinema was suddenly capable of being truly...
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