No Wave: The Early Films of José Bénazéraf (1961-1966)
When José Bénazéraf passed away in December of 2012, author Pete Tombs wrote “What can you say...
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Category: Feature Articles
‘Hail Satan!’ 55 Years of the Church of Satan
In April of 1966, San Francisco’s epochal Summer of Love – when tens of thousands of young hippies...
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Dark Hearts Americana: Hubert Selby Jr
Death is our only certainty in life. “That he not busy being born is busy dying,” says Bob Dylan....
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Glamour Ghoul: Maila Nurmi and the Legacy of Vampira
Sandra Niemi’s new book, Glamour Ghoul: The Passions and Pain of the Real Vampira, Maila Nurmi explores the life of television’s first and most enduring horror host, Vampira.
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Crash and Fall: The Perilous Art of Walter Molino
Where the American artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was best known for chocolate box sentiment — his work a huge part in defining popular culture during the first half of the 20th century — the prolific Italian artist, Walter Molino (1915-1997) seemed to revel in chaos and disaster.
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Picasso, Goya, and The Imagery of Suffering.
It’s been said many times that art is subjective. After all, interpretation and opinion are both...
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Stag Films – When Gregory Dark Met the Melvins
Despite the fact that the term “transcending genre” has perhaps itself already become a cliché, at...
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American Madness; Or, How A Country Lost Its Mind
The first time I encountered the writing of Cathy O’Brien was in 2014. I had binged the first...
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CONSPIRACY USA: Cattle Mutilation in Popular Media, Pt. 1
“Is it ‘saucers, Satanists, or CIA?’: All have received accusing glances as the mutilations...
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And a Little Child Shall Lead Them: Childhood Motifs in Stephen King’s It
I was sitting in a golf cart with Frank Darabont one day during the filming of The Green Mile,...
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Ghost Stories on Tour (Theatre Review)
Don’t think for a second that you know what’s coming just because you know the story.
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Perfect Execution: Film and the Electric Chair
The shocking truth (and serendipitous nature) of film and its relationship to the electric chair...
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