By Heather Drain “Rules are made to be broken. Can’t kill what you don’t understand.” – Wendy O. Williams “Love is the Law, Love Under Will.” – Aleister Crowley Art can motivate us to change the world (and clean the ...
Read More »Legacies of Sade: Man Ray’s Imaginary Portraits
“Sade is surrealist in sadism.” —André Breton The legacy of the Marquis de Sade can be felt strongly in the 20th century, largely because of the efforts of the French Surrealists in the ‘20s and ‘30s: writers and artists like ...
Read More »Ecstatic Frenzy: Depictions of Dionysian Violence in Ancient Art
“Fire does not burn them. No weapon of iron can wound them, and the snakes harmlessly lick up the sweat from their heated cheeks. Fierce bulls fall to the ground, victims to numberless, tearing female hands, and sturdy trees are ...
Read More »Blood on Paper: Interview with Illustrator Graham Humphreys
If you’ve been paying attention, even moderately, to horror and genre advertising over the past few decades, the subject of today’s interview will be familiar. Even if you don’t know him by name, although many of you will, Graham Humphreys ...
Read More »The Slave (US Blu-ray release)
As a lover of Euro-cult film, for me, the late sixties/early seventies are wildly exciting. This was a time of peak creativity in many areas of European film, and features were being delivered with a heavy dose of sexy style ...
Read More »Unusual Deaths #6: Death on the Stage
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin was born into wealth and intellect. Eventually adapting the stage name Molière, he became a playwright famous for his comedies. One-shot productions, they were intended as diversions to cleanse the palate and were staged directly following the conclusion ...
Read More »Review: Stitches
Conor McMahon’s Stitches (2012) is British comedian Ross Noble’s film debut. Though similar in ways to the anarchic Funny Man (1994)—where the puerile humor is likely to repulse—Stitches’ grossness will have you doubled up with laughter. Stiches (Noble) is a ...
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