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Because sometimes a monthly Podcast just isn't enough! Here's where we put all our random musings and cinematic digressions for you to pick over...
IT CAME FROM YOUTUBE! -- SPIDER BABY
If you’re partial to the odd horror film (particularly the older variety), and you’re as miserly as I am, then you’ll be delighted to find there’s an almost inexhaustible supply of grainy shockers waiting for you in the cobwebbed vaults of YouTube. To help you find your ways in this bewildering labyrinth of cute cat videos and screaming goat music mash-ups, I’ve grasped my flickering cinematic torch and steeled my nerves to descend down the slimy, eldritch stairway of the YouTube dungeon to see if I can discover a ghoulish gem for your viewing pleasure. And today I have returned from that terrifying video wasteland to bring you…
EVOLUTION OF THE APE WOMAN: REDISCOVERING HORRORS FIRST FEMALE FRANCHISE MONSTER
In early horror cinema, being a monster was a man’s game. Male scientist’s laboured in wild, sparking laboratories to create brutish, monstrous men, or tragically turned themselves into monsters with invisible rays and mind altering serums. Men transformed into werewolves when the wolfs bane bloomed or stalked the night to prey on unsuspecting victims from behind their vampires cloak. Men returned from beyond the grave to seek their reincarnated loves and watched over them from their lairs in the catacombs beneath the opera houses they once called home...
10 MUSIC VIDEOS BASED ON FILMS
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VERTIGO: Last Cup Of Sorrow - Faith No More
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Leader singer Mike Patton is a cinephile, anyone who has heard his band Fantomas’ unique take on both popular and obscure movie themes in their album ‘The Director’s Cut’ can attest to that.
Here Faith No More lovingly homage Hitchcock’s most revered film with deep focus shots of Jennifer Jason Leigh playing the Kim Novak role while the band insert their usual twisted humour and penchant for cross dressing...