Barry Humphries, the Australian actor and comedian best known for his larger-than-life alter ego, Dame Edna Everage, has died at 89. As reported by the BBC, Humphries passed away in a Sydney hospital from complications following hip surgery, having had a fall in February.
Humphries was a beloved fixture of both Australian and British entertainment. He moved to the UK in 1959 and quickly became a core part of the comedy scene, hosting his own talk show, "The Dame Edna Experience," as well as other series and specials including "Dame Edna's Neighborhood Watch," "Dame Edna Kisses It Better," and "The Dame Edna Treatment." The character was known for her purple-tinted bouffant hair, signature diamante-studded glasses, colorful fashion choices, and her signature greeting: "Hello, possums!"
U.S. audiences may be familiar with Dame Edna from an appearance in "Saturday Night Live" in 1977, and for her 1990s celebrity talk show "Dame Edna's Hollywood," as...
Humphries was a beloved fixture of both Australian and British entertainment. He moved to the UK in 1959 and quickly became a core part of the comedy scene, hosting his own talk show, "The Dame Edna Experience," as well as other series and specials including "Dame Edna's Neighborhood Watch," "Dame Edna Kisses It Better," and "The Dame Edna Treatment." The character was known for her purple-tinted bouffant hair, signature diamante-studded glasses, colorful fashion choices, and her signature greeting: "Hello, possums!"
U.S. audiences may be familiar with Dame Edna from an appearance in "Saturday Night Live" in 1977, and for her 1990s celebrity talk show "Dame Edna's Hollywood," as...
- 4/22/2023
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
Hello, dear readers! If you’ve been following along the last few weeks, we here at Daily Dead have been celebrating all the amazing horror and sci-fi films that were released throughout the year 1981. And even though we’ve covered so many fantastic films, I wanted to take an opportunity to turn the spotlight on just a few more standout movies that were released during that year that are deserving of some love before we bid our Class of 1981 celebration a fond farewell.
Cheers!
Deadly Blessing: Me, miss an opportunity to celebrate the work of my beloved Wes Craven? Unlikely. While Deadly Blessing may not be nearly as well known as many of his other projects, nor is it as confidently directed, but it’s certainly a film worth mentioning here simply due to the fact that it was a slasher movie looking to do something a bit more...
Cheers!
Deadly Blessing: Me, miss an opportunity to celebrate the work of my beloved Wes Craven? Unlikely. While Deadly Blessing may not be nearly as well known as many of his other projects, nor is it as confidently directed, but it’s certainly a film worth mentioning here simply due to the fact that it was a slasher movie looking to do something a bit more...
- 8/30/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Eureka Entertainment to release Pulse, the slick, suspenseful techno-horror and VHS favourite from director Paul Golding, on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK as part of the Eureka Classics range from 22 February 2021. The first print run of 2000 copies will feature a Limited-Edition O-card Slipcase and Collector’s Booklet.
In every second of every day, it improves our lives. And in a flash, it can end them. In today’s world of modern conveniences, everything we rely on is run by electricity. But what happens if the power we take for granted turns against us? Old man Holger knows. He claims electricity is a living presence, whose voice can only be silenced by getting rid of anything that can hear it. Bill Rockland however, refuses to believe him. It must have been an accident when an electric spark ruptured the gas pipe that nearly killed Bill’s son (Joey Lawrence...
In every second of every day, it improves our lives. And in a flash, it can end them. In today’s world of modern conveniences, everything we rely on is run by electricity. But what happens if the power we take for granted turns against us? Old man Holger knows. He claims electricity is a living presence, whose voice can only be silenced by getting rid of anything that can hear it. Bill Rockland however, refuses to believe him. It must have been an accident when an electric spark ruptured the gas pipe that nearly killed Bill’s son (Joey Lawrence...
- 12/17/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.***As the great studios declined like mammoths sinking into tar pits, the films they produced started bifurcating: there were the stodgy, prestige pictures, like Cleopatra (1963) (which nearly sank Fox into the bitumen altogether), and there were trashy low-budget affairs farmed out to bottom-feeding indie producers, the sixties equivalent of the B pictures of yore. These were often more enjoyable than the respectable productions, even when they really were trash.Lauren Bacall counted Shock Treatment (1964) as the worst film of her career, and apart from her tendency to underrate Written on the Wind (1956), she had pretty sound judgement. Director Denis Sanders was among the first film school graduates to make films...
- 11/12/2020
- MUBI
With Halloween approaching quickly, we have one final round of home media releases headed our way this week in case you’re looking to pick up some last-minute films to check out this spooky season. Blue Underground is releasing Daughters of Darkness in 4K this Tuesday, and Severin Films is keeping busy with an array of titles, including The Black Cat, Patrick Still Lives, and Shock Treatment.
Vinegar Syndrome also has quite the lineup of films coming home this week, including Grave Robbers, Memorial Valley Massacre, Zombie 5: Killing Birds, and several Amityville sequels. Arrow Video is also showing some love to both Cold Light of Day and The Last Starfighter, and if you’re a big fan of The Monster Squad, you’ll definitely want to check out the Wolfman’s Got Nards documentary.
Other releases for October 27th include Scary Tales, Spine Chiller, Weedjies: Halloweed Night, Attack of the Unknown,...
Vinegar Syndrome also has quite the lineup of films coming home this week, including Grave Robbers, Memorial Valley Massacre, Zombie 5: Killing Birds, and several Amityville sequels. Arrow Video is also showing some love to both Cold Light of Day and The Last Starfighter, and if you’re a big fan of The Monster Squad, you’ll definitely want to check out the Wolfman’s Got Nards documentary.
Other releases for October 27th include Scary Tales, Spine Chiller, Weedjies: Halloweed Night, Attack of the Unknown,...
- 10/26/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Actor Stuart Whitman, an Oscar nominee for his role as a convicted child molester in the 1961 movie “The Mark,” died on Monday of natural causes surrounded by his family at his ranch house in Montecito, Calif., his son Justin told Variety. He was 92.
Whitman had more than 200 film and television credits. His movies include “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines,” “The Longest Day,” “The Comancheros,” “The Sound and the Fury,” “Johnny Trouble,” “Hound-Dog Man,” “The Story of Ruth,” “Murder, Inc.,” “Convicts 4,” “Shock Treatment,” “Rio Conchos” and “The Day and the Hour.” Whitman made his film debut in 1951 in “When Worlds Collide.”
He replaced Richard Burton in the role of Jim Fuller on “The Mark,” which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He lost out to Maximilian Schell, who won for “Judgment at Nuremberg.” Whitman portrayed a child molester who gets out of prison and seeks the aid of a psychiatrist,...
Whitman had more than 200 film and television credits. His movies include “Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines,” “The Longest Day,” “The Comancheros,” “The Sound and the Fury,” “Johnny Trouble,” “Hound-Dog Man,” “The Story of Ruth,” “Murder, Inc.,” “Convicts 4,” “Shock Treatment,” “Rio Conchos” and “The Day and the Hour.” Whitman made his film debut in 1951 in “When Worlds Collide.”
He replaced Richard Burton in the role of Jim Fuller on “The Mark,” which earned him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He lost out to Maximilian Schell, who won for “Judgment at Nuremberg.” Whitman portrayed a child molester who gets out of prison and seeks the aid of a psychiatrist,...
- 3/17/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Two on a Guillotine
Blu ray
Warner Archives
1965/ 2:35:1 / 107 min.
Starring Connie Stevens, Dean Jones
Cinematography by Sam Leavitt
Directed by William Conrad
Imagine shock-meister William Castle directing a Disney movie and the result might be something like Two on a Guillotine. William Conrad, narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle and star of television’s Cannon, is at the wheel of this thrill ride and he’s happy to rehash a few of Castle’s favorite scare tactics for his own purposes – the moans and groans of a carnival spook house and even a wire-drawn skeleton. There’s no denying Conrad’s effort has some of the Saturday matinee charm of creep shows like House on Haunted Hill but the sunny locales and aggressively perky demeanor of co-stars Connie Stevens and Dean Jones make you wish Frederick Loren would drop by with a well-aimed champagne cork.
Stevens is Cassie Duquesne,...
Blu ray
Warner Archives
1965/ 2:35:1 / 107 min.
Starring Connie Stevens, Dean Jones
Cinematography by Sam Leavitt
Directed by William Conrad
Imagine shock-meister William Castle directing a Disney movie and the result might be something like Two on a Guillotine. William Conrad, narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle and star of television’s Cannon, is at the wheel of this thrill ride and he’s happy to rehash a few of Castle’s favorite scare tactics for his own purposes – the moans and groans of a carnival spook house and even a wire-drawn skeleton. There’s no denying Conrad’s effort has some of the Saturday matinee charm of creep shows like House on Haunted Hill but the sunny locales and aggressively perky demeanor of co-stars Connie Stevens and Dean Jones make you wish Frederick Loren would drop by with a well-aimed champagne cork.
Stevens is Cassie Duquesne,...
- 2/8/2020
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
‘Faboriginal’. (Photo: Kelly Gardner)
Art, camp and Indigenous culture collide in the Nitv/Sbs-commissioned quiz show Faboriginal, produced by Noble Savage Pictures.
Hosted and co-created by actor and comedian Steven Oliver, the 8 x 30 serial trivia show features an all Indigenous cast and guest panellists who are challenged by the quizmaster on Indigenous art and culture. Production has recently wrapped, to air early 2020 on Nitv followed by Sbs On Demand.
“We’ve built a show that is wickedly funny, entertaining, smart and political. Faboriginal is unapologetically black, unapologetically camp and unapologetically art focused,” says Noble Savage Pictures producer Majhid Heath.
Heath saw taking on the light entertainment format space as natural new ground to break. It was a way of engaging audiences with Indigenous art and culture with levity and comedy, while celebrating established and emerging Indigenous actors, writers, musicians and artists.
“After all the recent success Indigenous filmmakers have had in documentary,...
Art, camp and Indigenous culture collide in the Nitv/Sbs-commissioned quiz show Faboriginal, produced by Noble Savage Pictures.
Hosted and co-created by actor and comedian Steven Oliver, the 8 x 30 serial trivia show features an all Indigenous cast and guest panellists who are challenged by the quizmaster on Indigenous art and culture. Production has recently wrapped, to air early 2020 on Nitv followed by Sbs On Demand.
“We’ve built a show that is wickedly funny, entertaining, smart and political. Faboriginal is unapologetically black, unapologetically camp and unapologetically art focused,” says Noble Savage Pictures producer Majhid Heath.
Heath saw taking on the light entertainment format space as natural new ground to break. It was a way of engaging audiences with Indigenous art and culture with levity and comedy, while celebrating established and emerging Indigenous actors, writers, musicians and artists.
“After all the recent success Indigenous filmmakers have had in documentary,...
- 9/26/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
(Above: Lynley in the 1972 hit "The Poseidon Adventure")
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actress Carol Lynley has died from a heart attack at age 77. She began her career as a child model before gravitating to the movie industry. With her stunning looks, Lynley showed great potential in an era in which studios groomed starlets to become full-blown stars. Lynley gained fine notices for her starring role in the 1959 drama "Blue Denim" in which she and Brandon DeWilde played middle-class teenagers dealing with the secret of her unintended pregnancy in an era in which such scenarios were met with repression instead of compassion. Prominent roles followed including "Hound Dog Man", "Return to Peyton Place" and "The Last Sunset" in which she co-starred with Hollywood icons Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas. Other major films of the 1960s include "The Stripper", "Under the Yum Yum Tree", "Shock Treatment", "The Pleasure Seekers", "The Maltese Bippy", "Danger...
By Lee Pfeiffer
Actress Carol Lynley has died from a heart attack at age 77. She began her career as a child model before gravitating to the movie industry. With her stunning looks, Lynley showed great potential in an era in which studios groomed starlets to become full-blown stars. Lynley gained fine notices for her starring role in the 1959 drama "Blue Denim" in which she and Brandon DeWilde played middle-class teenagers dealing with the secret of her unintended pregnancy in an era in which such scenarios were met with repression instead of compassion. Prominent roles followed including "Hound Dog Man", "Return to Peyton Place" and "The Last Sunset" in which she co-starred with Hollywood icons Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas. Other major films of the 1960s include "The Stripper", "Under the Yum Yum Tree", "Shock Treatment", "The Pleasure Seekers", "The Maltese Bippy", "Danger...
- 9/6/2019
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Jessica Harper has a key role in the Luca Guadagnino-directed “Suspiria,” which opens Nov. 2. It’s a nod to her work in Dario Argento’s 1977 original, just one of the many cult films she’s starred in. The list also includes “Shock Treatment” (the sequel to “Rocky Horror Picture Show”), Brian De Palma’s rock musical “Phantom of the Paradise,” “My Favorite Year” with Peter O’Toole and “Pennies From Heaven” with Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. Harper’s first professional job came as she joined the Broadway cast of “Hair” in 1969, and her first mention in Variety was Jan. 6, 1971, in a story about NBC’s “Super Plastic Elastic Goggles.” This November, Harper will release “Winnetka,” a 10-episode podcast charting her life from infancy until “Hair.” Harper and her husband, Sony Pictures chairman Tom Rothman, have two daughters.
What do you remember about “Super Plastic Elastic Goggles”?
I think...
What do you remember about “Super Plastic Elastic Goggles”?
I think...
- 11/2/2018
- by Tara Bitran
- Variety Film + TV
Don Kaye Nov 1, 2018
The star of the original cult classic Suspiria reveals how she came to star in the newly released remake.
Sometimes all it takes is one movie to immortalize an actor or actress for all time, and in the case of Jessica Harper, she has two: her 1974 screen debut in Brian De Palma’s cult classic, Phantom of the Paradise, and her lead role as dancer Suzy Bannion in Italian horror auteur Dario Argento’s 1977 genre classic, Suspiria.
Harper has a solid legacy of other work behind her as well, including roles in movies such as Stardust Memories, My Favorite Year and Safe, plus appearances on TV series like It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Tales from the Crypt and Crossing Jordan. She’s also written a dozen children’s books and recorded seven albums of children’s music. But to a certain audience, she’ll always be...
The star of the original cult classic Suspiria reveals how she came to star in the newly released remake.
Sometimes all it takes is one movie to immortalize an actor or actress for all time, and in the case of Jessica Harper, she has two: her 1974 screen debut in Brian De Palma’s cult classic, Phantom of the Paradise, and her lead role as dancer Suzy Bannion in Italian horror auteur Dario Argento’s 1977 genre classic, Suspiria.
Harper has a solid legacy of other work behind her as well, including roles in movies such as Stardust Memories, My Favorite Year and Safe, plus appearances on TV series like It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Tales from the Crypt and Crossing Jordan. She’s also written a dozen children’s books and recorded seven albums of children’s music. But to a certain audience, she’ll always be...
- 11/1/2018
- Den of Geek
Keanu Reeves stars in the gripping thriller Siberia, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and Digital September 18 from Lionsgate.
Keanu Reeves stars in the gripping thriller Siberia, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and Digital September 18 from Lionsgate. This film is currently available On Demand. The film tells the tale of a U.S. diamond merchant who begins an intense love affair with a local woman and finds himself falling deeper into the treacherous world of the diamond trade. The Siberia Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Keanu Reeves delivers the action in this thriller packed with pulse-pounding suspense. In Russia to sell rare jewels to a businessman with underworld connections, U.S. diamond merchant Lucas Hill (Reeves) falls into a torrid affair with Katya (Ana Ularu), a local café owner. When the deal suddenly goes south, Lucas and Katya are caught...
Keanu Reeves stars in the gripping thriller Siberia, arriving on Blu-ray (plus Digital), DVD and Digital September 18 from Lionsgate. This film is currently available On Demand. The film tells the tale of a U.S. diamond merchant who begins an intense love affair with a local woman and finds himself falling deeper into the treacherous world of the diamond trade. The Siberia Blu-ray and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $21.99 and $19.98, respectively.
Keanu Reeves delivers the action in this thriller packed with pulse-pounding suspense. In Russia to sell rare jewels to a businessman with underworld connections, U.S. diamond merchant Lucas Hill (Reeves) falls into a torrid affair with Katya (Ana Ularu), a local café owner. When the deal suddenly goes south, Lucas and Katya are caught...
- 8/24/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Musical sequels are so rare that the most successful ones are currently High School Musical 2 and 3! Grease 2 is great but it took people decades to realize, and Shock Treatment has great music but few people know there even was a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again will probably fare better than the Grease and Rocky sequels, but it doesn’t really forward the story of Mamma Mia, and there isn’t even new music, only Abba songs they didn’t get to the first time. Normally, the hardest part of a musical sequel […]
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- 7/17/2018
- by Fred Topel
- Monsters and Critics
Arrow Video has a treat in store for both slasher and giallo fans this summer, as their August Us Blu-ray / DVD releases will include The Slayer and Don't Torture a Duckling.
From Arrow Video: "New UK/Us Title: The Slayer (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD)
The Slayer finally rises from the ashes of obscurity in a brand new 4K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video.
Pre-order in the UK via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2r9t2Ab
Pre-order in the UK via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2r9sZnZ
Pre-order in the Us: http://bit.ly/2r9yYsP
Release dates: 21/22 August
Is It A Nightmare? Or Is It… The Slayer?
One of the most sought-after titles for slasher fans everywhere, The Slayer finally rises from the ashes of obscurity in a brand new 4K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video.
Two young couples set off to a secluded island for what promises to be a restful retreat.
From Arrow Video: "New UK/Us Title: The Slayer (Dual Format Blu-ray & DVD)
The Slayer finally rises from the ashes of obscurity in a brand new 4K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video.
Pre-order in the UK via Arrow: http://bit.ly/2r9t2Ab
Pre-order in the UK via Amazon: http://amzn.to/2r9sZnZ
Pre-order in the Us: http://bit.ly/2r9yYsP
Release dates: 21/22 August
Is It A Nightmare? Or Is It… The Slayer?
One of the most sought-after titles for slasher fans everywhere, The Slayer finally rises from the ashes of obscurity in a brand new 4K transfer courtesy of Arrow Video.
Two young couples set off to a secluded island for what promises to be a restful retreat.
- 5/12/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Shock editor drags out 5 more of his favorite VHS horror movie tapes. Continuing my previous column, the purpose of this series is to drag fairly useless chunks of electro-magnetic tape and plastic shells, slipped into colorful cardboard, that contain movies culled from my personal VHS collection. I have been collecting and worshiping hard cinematic…
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- 7/22/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Shock editor drags out 5 of his favorite VHS horror movie tapes. I have loved movies, specifically horror movies, the stranger and more esoteric the better, since I was a little boy and began collecting them on VHS the day we bought a Vcr. I’m dating myself. But who cares. I was 11 when that…
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- 6/27/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Our pal, Canadian-based artist Steve McGinnis is one talented dude. Not only did he paint and design the headers for our Shock Treatment and The Disc that Wouldn’t Die columns, he painted the cover of one of the last issues of Fangoria that I created, the magnificent John Carpenter cover for Fango #339, a black…
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- 6/2/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing column, Shock’s managing editor Chris Alexander muses on his favorite movies and music and moments in cult cinema history. Recently, I made the move to catch a solo screening of Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking existential science fiction noir Blade Runner, a picture that needs no class of lengthy introduction but a movie that…
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- 5/20/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing column, Shock editor Chris Alexander tells true tales and muses on classic, contemporary and obscure films that deserve a deeper discussion. In this quickie video version of my Shock Treatment column, allow me to tell the meandering, self-indulgent and sordid tale about how I discovered the inept awesomeness of H.G. Lewis‘ filthy…
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- 4/11/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander tells tales and muses on classic and contemporary cult cinema and music. There was a television show – if you could even call it a show – on Canadian TV when I was a kid called Night Ride. The program (which I believe aired on the Global…
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- 3/25/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander tells tales and muses on classic, contemporary and obscure horror and cult cinema. The 80s were a wonderful time to be a film fan. Because the video and cable market was still new(ish) and its audience was hungry for content. Meaning, every nickel and dime international piece…
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- 3/22/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander tells tales and muses on classic, contemporary and obscure horror cinema. I missed seeing The Witch at Sundance. I missed seeing The Witch at Tiff. I missed the myriad press screenings prior to the film’s theatrical release. Why? Life happens. You know how it is. And in…
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- 2/25/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander tells tales and muses on classic and obscure horror cinema. As I leak into my forties, I am astonished by just how lazy I am. Well, maybe lazy isn’t the right word. In fact, I’m far from that. I’m busier than I’ve ever been, running this website,…
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- 2/16/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and media worthy of a deeper discussion. It occurred to me recently, as I exited the local multiplex after a film screening, that the kids today casually tossing their handsomely designed plastic 3D glasses into the designated recycle bins, have no…
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- 2/4/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Shock talks to French Canadian actress Danielle Ouimet about her role in 1971’s Daughters Of Darkness. Some weeks ago, I used my Shock Treatment column to discuss and appreciate a picture I have long considered a masterpiece of erotic, European fantastique cinema, the sensual 1971 vampire melodrama-cum-dark-satire Daughters Of Darkness (aka Les Levres Rouges). And…
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- 1/27/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. It’s easy for contemporary, unschooled audiences to poke fun of the European thrillers of a certain vintage. The beautiful, broadly painted and unapologetically melodramatic Hitchcock and French New Wave informed murder mysteries made by…
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- 1/27/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. I’ve been writing about and discussing co-writer/director Alfred Sole’s dark, effectively upsetting 1976 psychodrama Alice Sweet Alice for some time now. I first learned of the film when sifting through an early ’80’s edition…
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- 1/22/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. I’m very happy to see that Tobe Hooper’s so called “lesser” dark fantasy classics are getting more respect. Sure, in his admittedly up and down 40- plus years behind the lens, he’s had more…
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- 1/18/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. The dawn of the 1980’s saw more than its share of eco-minded, “human monster” movies, a sub-genre spawned most likely by the one-two-punch of George A. Romero’s ghoul virus 1978 masterpiece Dawn Of…
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- 1/13/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. I have always been and will always be obsessed with European horror films, specifically those made in the 1970’s. I love that unique blend of morally bankrupt, American potboiler pulp-noir sneer combined with a…
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- 1/12/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. I can vividly remember the first time I met Paul Naschy. I was a kid, maybe 12, and, as I was want to do in those days, I opted to stay up all-night, watching…
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- 1/6/2016
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. I’m glad I live in a world that now celebrates the vision of Lucio Fulci. A world that recognizes and appreciates his singular genius, themes, motifs and philosophies. Because I remember when the only…
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- 12/22/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. Before Walt Disney and his squeaky clean, family friendly ilk saw fit to sanitize them, the traditional fairy tale served as far more than a whimsical alternative to kiddie chloroform. As penned by those…
The post ‘Chris Alexander’s Shock Treatment’: In Praise of Neil Jordan’s The Company Of Wolves appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
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- 12/8/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. One of the rarest of lycanthrope-centric films is the unfortunately late, Oscar-winning British cinematographer (David Lynch’s The Elephant Man) and noted horror filmmaker (Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Tales From The Crypt)…
The post ‘Chris Alexander’s Shock Treatment’: In Praise of Legend Of The Werewolf appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
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- 11/26/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. If it’s true what they say, that you are what you eat, then Colonel Ives is every man. Literally. He’s Every man. Because Colonel Ives is a cannibal. Allow me to speak of Colonel…
The post ‘Chris Alexander’s Shock Treatment': In Praise of Ravenous appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
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- 11/16/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films worthy of a deeper discussion.This round…it’s 1978’s The Shout. Whether it be a low, wet, growl coming from deep within in the dark, a disembodied whisper from behind a long locked door, or the skin-tightening timbre of a terrified woman’s pre-knife…
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- 11/6/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. Jess Franco’s Bloody Moon (1981) Beloved, hotly debated and now, sadly, deceased iconoclast Jess Franco first made his major movie mark in France with a series of crisp, sleazy and stylish black and white arthouse…
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- 10/26/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. Dearest freaks, geeks, perverts, pornographers and Shock readers… This week, for my Shock Treatment column, I have once more opted to communicate my thoughts via a personal video…from me, to you. Here then, is the…
The post “Chris Alexander’s Shock Treatment” : The Devil Walks At Midnight on VHS appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
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- 10/22/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. Ever since Gloria Holden first made ghoulish goo-goo eyes at her girl victims in 1936’s Dracula’S Daughter, horror films have been fascinated by the lesbian vampire. Blame J. Sheridan LeFanu, the Irish writer whose…
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- 10/16/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
In this ongoing Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. Dearest freaks, geeks, perverts, pornographers and Shock readers… This week, for my Shock Treatment column, I have opted to communicate my thoughts via a personal video…from me, to you. Presenting the sordid story of my…
The post “Chris Alexander’s Shock Treatment” Video Essay: Hooper’s Lifeforce on VHS appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.
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- 10/14/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
The cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show have reunited 40 years after the movie first hit the big screen.
The get-together for Today marked the first time the key castmembers had joined up in 25 years.
Re-Viewed: The Rocky Horror Picture Show remains a classic 40 years later
Barry Bostwick (Brad) and Susan Sarandon (Janet) were joined by Meat Loaf (Eddie), Patricia Quinn (Magenta) and Tim Curry (Dr Frank-n-Furter).
The Rocky Horror Show opened in London in 1973 with Curry and Quinn in the cast.
It transferred to Broadway two years later, and the movie adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released the same year.
Quinn was one of the few cast members who returned for 1981's less well-known follow-up Shock Treatment.
The Rocky Picture Show celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special screening at the Royal Albert Hall last November and writer Richard O'Brien returned to The Rocky Horror Show as...
The get-together for Today marked the first time the key castmembers had joined up in 25 years.
Re-Viewed: The Rocky Horror Picture Show remains a classic 40 years later
Barry Bostwick (Brad) and Susan Sarandon (Janet) were joined by Meat Loaf (Eddie), Patricia Quinn (Magenta) and Tim Curry (Dr Frank-n-Furter).
The Rocky Horror Show opened in London in 1973 with Curry and Quinn in the cast.
It transferred to Broadway two years later, and the movie adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released the same year.
Quinn was one of the few cast members who returned for 1981's less well-known follow-up Shock Treatment.
The Rocky Picture Show celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special screening at the Royal Albert Hall last November and writer Richard O'Brien returned to The Rocky Horror Show as...
- 10/7/2015
- Digital Spy
In this new Shock column, editor Chris Alexander muses on classic and contemporary films and music worthy of a deeper discussion. There’s a look, a tone and visual texture to science fiction films from the early to mid 1970’s; a sanitized glimpse of a future that, seen today, exists only as a perversion of the…
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- 10/2/2015
- by Chris Alexander
- shocktillyoudrop.com
"Rocky Horror never surprises me," says Lou Adler, who executive-produced The Rocky Horror Picture Show. "I can be sitting in the most conservative meeting about some other subject, and somebody will say, 'I have to admit...,' and then they give me their Rocky Horror story."
Later this month, Adler will be able to say he's heard four decades' worth of Rocky Horror lore, since the cult movie about newlyweds trapped in a mansion with a "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" will be turning 40. To celebrate, the film will be...
Later this month, Adler will be able to say he's heard four decades' worth of Rocky Horror lore, since the cult movie about newlyweds trapped in a mansion with a "sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania" will be turning 40. To celebrate, the film will be...
- 9/4/2015
- Rollingstone.com
"Enter at your own risk!!" screams a sign early on in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It's a fair warning for a film that's as unapologetically bonkers as you'd imagine a Cyndi Lauper sleepover or a John Waters nightmare to be, swimming in batty humour, extravagant costumes and hummable anarchy. With Tim Curry tottering around in high heels and suspenders, and Susan Sarandon harmonising in nothing but her bra, director Jim Sharman's 1975 musical adaptation is a veritable anthem to the odd.
Risky? Yes, but in the intervening 40 years, it's become a cult phenomenon that's stood the test of time remarkably well, partly because it never belonged to a discernible time period anyway. Based on Richard O'Brien's 1973 stage show (then called The Rocky Horror Show), the film sends up and celebrates the schlocky sci-fi/horror tropes of the '30s, '40s and '50s, revelling in a kitschy timelessness.
Risky? Yes, but in the intervening 40 years, it's become a cult phenomenon that's stood the test of time remarkably well, partly because it never belonged to a discernible time period anyway. Based on Richard O'Brien's 1973 stage show (then called The Rocky Horror Show), the film sends up and celebrates the schlocky sci-fi/horror tropes of the '30s, '40s and '50s, revelling in a kitschy timelessness.
- 8/14/2015
- Digital Spy
Peter Webb is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.
The concept of a society enslaved by television has been played out many times. See 1980s horror flick Terrorvision; Rocky Horror follow-up Shock Treatment; and Doctor Who stories like Vengeance on Varos, where audiences control the fates of political prisoners, and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, which, 20 years on, reinvented that idea for...
The post Unmissable Big Finish: The Ratings War appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
The concept of a society enslaved by television has been played out many times. See 1980s horror flick Terrorvision; Rocky Horror follow-up Shock Treatment; and Doctor Who stories like Vengeance on Varos, where audiences control the fates of political prisoners, and Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, which, 20 years on, reinvented that idea for...
The post Unmissable Big Finish: The Ratings War appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.
- 7/22/2015
- by Peter Webb
- Kasterborous.com
Mark Little is to star in the stage adaptation of Rocky Horror Picture Show sequel Shock Treatment.
The actor, known for his performance as Joe Mangel in Neighbours, will play TV executive Farley Flavors in the production.
Creator Richard O'Brien has reworked the film for the stage ahead of the run at London's King's Head Theatre, beginning on April 17 and ending on June 6.
Also announced to star in Shock Treatment are Ben Kerr, Avenue Q star Julie Atherton, horror duo The Twins Macabre, Mateo Oxley and Rosanna Hyland.
Mark Little said: "TV executives are pushing the envelope of talent and audience manipulation to greater limits incessantly. Celebrities are starved and humiliated more and more in the jungle and the residents of Benefits Street made more and more famous.
"How far will TV go to manipulate the hapless general public? Shock Treatment propels the answer to this question to a cruel and sinister end game.
The actor, known for his performance as Joe Mangel in Neighbours, will play TV executive Farley Flavors in the production.
Creator Richard O'Brien has reworked the film for the stage ahead of the run at London's King's Head Theatre, beginning on April 17 and ending on June 6.
Also announced to star in Shock Treatment are Ben Kerr, Avenue Q star Julie Atherton, horror duo The Twins Macabre, Mateo Oxley and Rosanna Hyland.
Mark Little said: "TV executives are pushing the envelope of talent and audience manipulation to greater limits incessantly. Celebrities are starved and humiliated more and more in the jungle and the residents of Benefits Street made more and more famous.
"How far will TV go to manipulate the hapless general public? Shock Treatment propels the answer to this question to a cruel and sinister end game.
- 3/30/2015
- Digital Spy
The Rocky Horror Picture Show sequel Shock Treatment is to be adapted for theatre.
Creator Richard O'Brien has reworked the film for the stage ahead of a debut at London's King's Head Theatre in April, BBC News reports.
Filmed in 1981, Shock Treatment was a commercial flop that never gained a general release.
In focused around a sinister game show that imprisoned Rocky Horror characters Brad and Janet.
O'Brien said: "Shock Treatment has been waiting patiently in the wings for a stage premiere since the film was released in 1981.
"Just as Rocky began life upstairs at the Royal Court, it seems a perfect fit for Shock Treatment to start its stage life in the effervescent atmosphere of the astounding King's Head Theatre."
Watch a trailer for Shock Treatment below:...
Creator Richard O'Brien has reworked the film for the stage ahead of a debut at London's King's Head Theatre in April, BBC News reports.
Filmed in 1981, Shock Treatment was a commercial flop that never gained a general release.
In focused around a sinister game show that imprisoned Rocky Horror characters Brad and Janet.
O'Brien said: "Shock Treatment has been waiting patiently in the wings for a stage premiere since the film was released in 1981.
"Just as Rocky began life upstairs at the Royal Court, it seems a perfect fit for Shock Treatment to start its stage life in the effervescent atmosphere of the astounding King's Head Theatre."
Watch a trailer for Shock Treatment below:...
- 11/28/2014
- Digital Spy
I don’t like musicals. In fact, I’d go as far as to say that I hate musicals. Even that one that you think I should see because it just might change my mind, no, I probably hate it. I couldn’t understand why everybody flipped over Repo. I watched it and wanted to turn it off the entire time. I never watched Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd, I didn’t even bother watching Devil’s Carnival. The extent of my enjoyment of the musical ends in things like South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, Cannibal the Musical, The Wall, and that’s pretty much it. When I saw that Scream Factory were releasing Phantom of the Paradise, I had mixed emotions. I love Scream, so naturally I want to support one of their releases, and I love De Palma, so of course I want to see one...
- 8/6/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
It’s hard to believe that it’s already August, which means fall (and Halloween!) are just right around the corner. To keep all you genre fans busy in the meantime, there are a couple of classic releases coming this week from Scream Factory, as well as Mike Flanagan’s Oculus.
Spotlight Titles:
Oculus (20th Century Fox, Blu-ray & DVD)
Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and only wants to move on with his life; but Kaylie, still haunted by that fateful night, is convinced her parents’ deaths were caused by something else altogether: a malevolent supernatural force unleashed through the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home. Determined to prove Tim’s innocence,...
Spotlight Titles:
Oculus (20th Century Fox, Blu-ray & DVD)
Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and only wants to move on with his life; but Kaylie, still haunted by that fateful night, is convinced her parents’ deaths were caused by something else altogether: a malevolent supernatural force unleashed through the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home. Determined to prove Tim’s innocence,...
- 8/5/2014
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Rik Mayall as a neglected imaginary friend in Drop Dead Fred
Rik Mayall, the much loved star of Bottom and The Young Ones who also starred on the big screen in the likes of Drop Dead Fred, Eat The Rich, Shock Treatment and An American Werewolf In London, has died at the age of 56. The cause of death is not yet known.
Mayall, who spent five days in a coma following a quad bike accident in 1998, had sai that as his friends began to dread getting older he was really happy to be alive. After his accident he continued to work, appearing in the likes of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and Errors Of The Human Body. There had recently been talk of reviving the highly successful Comic Strip team.
He is survived by his wife Barbara and children Rosie, Sidney and Bonnie....
Rik Mayall, the much loved star of Bottom and The Young Ones who also starred on the big screen in the likes of Drop Dead Fred, Eat The Rich, Shock Treatment and An American Werewolf In London, has died at the age of 56. The cause of death is not yet known.
Mayall, who spent five days in a coma following a quad bike accident in 1998, had sai that as his friends began to dread getting older he was really happy to be alive. After his accident he continued to work, appearing in the likes of Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone and Errors Of The Human Body. There had recently been talk of reviving the highly successful Comic Strip team.
He is survived by his wife Barbara and children Rosie, Sidney and Bonnie....
- 6/9/2014
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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