Cinematic surprises are the best kind of surprises. When I found out that the late Joseph W. Sarno, the erotic film pioneer behind 1964’s Sin in the Suburbs among many, many other titles, had also helmed a vampire film, I ...

Mood music is a phrase that evokes either sounds for some downtown lovin’ or something more in the vein of Jackie Gleason’s’ For Lovers Only. (Believe me, despite the title, there is a HUGE divide between the two categories, unless ...

Looking at the entirety of both the sports and creative worlds, few are more misunderstood and maligned than the world of professional wrestling. (Note that we’re saying “professional wrestling” and not “sports entertainment.” I’m sure Vince McMahon’s heart will go ...

When a work of art cuts and I mean, truly cuts deep, it is via that combination of human truth, a vivid aural and visual landscape that sweeps like no other, and figures that even the murkiest parts of your ...

The Halloween season is magical for its multitudes of possibilities. It’s hard to come up with a major holiday that gives such free reign to explore fear, surprise, and celebrate the thinning of the veil between the living and the ...

“An’ little Orphant Annie says when the blaze is blue, An’ the lamp-wick sputters, an’ the wind goes woo-oo! An’ you hear the crickets quit, an’ the moon is gray, An’ the lightnin’-bugs in dew is all squenched away,– You ...

The pantheon of rock vocalists that emerged in the 1970s is a mighty enough one to stage a production of Clash of the Titans solely built from these sonic deities. (Seriously, who wouldn’t want to hear and see Ian Gillan ...

Music and imagery are two worlds that can be sheer blazing kismet or the art equivalent of a dumpster man giving you the middle finger. In short? It can range fiercely but when it works, it is absolute dynamite. A ...

The Halloween edition of Sonic Attack continues with the chaser to last week’s shot, Music to Get Your Spook On!: The Album Edition, presenting you with the perfect spooky music video playlist to accompany all things going bump in the night. The ...

90% of everything I love about life, nature and the arts (and please make sure to pronounce that last one really posh, as in the aaartsss) is encapsulated all within the greatest holiday ever. Halloween. Pumpkins, ghouls, masks, the smell ...