Interviews

In February 2019 I received an invitation to a film screening and director Q and A session at Islington’s Everyman Screen on the Green cinema. There’s nothing particularly unusual in that for horror film blogger you might think, however the ...

In 1972, the legendary Italian progressive rock band Goblin was established under the short-lived name Oliver. The band then changed their moniker to Cherry Five, releasing a self-titled album. Eventually they settled upon their more famous name, Goblin, and collaborated ...

  I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,  dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix’ – Allen Ginsberg, Howl. MEMO FROM THE BLOODSPORTS DESK. Well readers, you ...

Friedrich Wilheim Murnau’s Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror) is widely acknowledged not just as a classic of German Expressionist cinema but also as the silver screen’s first interpretation of Bram Stoker’s genre-defining vampire classic Dracula ...

This may be the Year of the Dog according to the Lunar calendar, but make no mistake — when it comes to brash, brazen rock and roll, 2018 is set to be the year of Thunderpussy. This quartet of four ...

Listening to a Ghost Box release is like stepping into a forgotten world, alien yet familiar to our own.  It’s a place where the future has intruded on the past and both have learned to co-exist in harmony, yet a ...

“I understand there are lifestyles which this court does not understand” – Judge William F. Ager Jr., on sentencing GG Allin in an assault case in 1989. Kevin Michael Allin. GG Allin. One and the same person. Except…not really. Not ...

The Damned are 40 this year and still punk as fuck. Or goth as fuck. Or something in between that was never quiet the Ramones or Bauhaus, but Dave Vanian dressed like a vampire and Captain Sensible wore gonzo plaid. ...

Resembling the lovechild of H.H. Holmes and a silent era siren, when it comes to dark music there is only one Jill Tracy. As a singer, pianist, and performer, she conjures a timeless netherworld that opens up the portals to ...

Decadence is a hothouse flower that bears the richest blooms at night. Shadows mask the lurid and yet, heighten and enhance the atmosphere of the lush and the languid. Faces and dark acts that few whisper and even less shout. ...