I was introduced to Greek mythology as the result of a Frankenstein Complex. As a kid, I would swap the heads and bodies of my paper dolls. These attempts to create the perfect cardboard woman resulted in beauty pageants, in ...

I’ve had the temptation to write a true crime column for a long time now. In law school, I was always most interested in criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and the various other subjects related to criminal investigations. My last ...

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 ...

Over the last few months, I’ve been steadily working my way through some of director Ken Russell’s early work, particularly the episodes he made for the BBC series Monitor, a British arts program that ran from 1958 to 1965 and ...

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 ...

So far in my Ken Russell column, I’ve covered a number of his early films for the BBC program Monitor — particularly his artist biographies like Elgar and The Debussy Film — and this later documentary, Always on Sunday (1965), ...

Let’s face it, fangflick fans, when it comes to vampire films you’ve seen it all and more or less, haven’t you? Films about bloodsucking freaks come in all shapes and sizes, from signed for the deaf (Deafula) to psychosexually confused ...

The Bloody Chamber is a regular column focusing on aspects of fantasy, folklore and fairy tale in Gothic cinema. Little girls, this seems to say Never stop upon your way Never trust a stranger friend No-one knows how it will end As ...