Interviews

Conjure this: a witchy burlesque show and psychic reading performed monthly at a haunted venue in Los Angeles. Not just a scene from a Jess Franco film, this evening of entertainment—called “Belle, Book, and Candle”—is the work of iconic artist, ...

Writer and filmmaker Sean Hogan is a prolific one-man hyper-creative, in the past, he has produced the excellent comic book documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014), and contributed as a scriptwriter on grisly 21st-century shocker The Borderlands ...

There’s a wave of new writing being published within the genres of Horror and the Fantastique that in many ways is redefining the genre. Provocative, imagination, deeply felt… it refuses easy categorisation, blurs boundaries. Often unsettling, frequently awesome (in the ...

Jimmy The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan by Jimmy McDonough is now available to pre-order from FAB Press. It’s a revised, updated, and massively expanded new version of McDonough’s original masterpiece, so, please, click that link now ...

The term grindhouse conjures up all sorts of images of glorious sleaze, harrowing vice, and lurid films beautifully reeking of sex and violence that permeated New York City’s pre-gentrified 42nd Street. But grindhouse cinema wasn’t just a dirty gem nestled ...

“I cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering. Or, perhaps, I cannot now bring these ...

Great performative art is one that is often built like the most nourishing and simultaneously decadent layer cake. This is exactly the image and sentiment I felt when I first heard about Jeffrey Combs, an actor near and dear to ...

Hudlin has enjoyed a long and prosperous career and now, thankfully, Hollywood is taking notice.

If I am being completely honest I can’t say whether it was the star name of Coral Browne or the fact that the play’s title had the word fucking, albeit with three asterisks replacing the u, c and k, in ...

Today auteur Quentin Tarantino unleashes his latest film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, on American audiences. To coincide with this release, I would like to take a look back at the filmmaker’s earliest effort, a $5,000 unfinished Howard Hawks-esque ...