


Sexy! It took me a couple of episodes, but I really warmed to this show last year and am anxiously awaiting its return.
Von Trier Does Horror.
There are very few directors that can get under my skin like Lars Von Trier. Two of his previous films (Dancer In The Dark and Dogville) left my psyche battered and bruised for... well, I still don't think I've fully recovered. When I heard he was doing a horror film, I was intrigued. Check out the new trailer below.
I think I might be okay with this one, but I still have to be wary because that crazy Dane really knows how to twist the knife.
Brought To You By Roland.I found out over at Icons Of Fright that the soundtrack for Steven Mena's 2004 film Malevolence has just been released. This is relevant because the score for this movie ROCKS. It is pure eighties synth in the tradition of John Carpenter, which seems somehow appropriate considering Mena also served as writer, producer and composer on his film, as well. I was lukewarm on Malevolence itself, but the music was SO good, it made the film way better than it actually should have been. If you click here, you can check out some samples from the CD.
An awesome trailer and a few rave reviews were all I had to go on, but that was enough for me to reel it in. I’d give you a synopsis, but this trailer sums it up better than I ever could.
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers was directed by Fred Olen Ray, a man who, over the last few decades, has become a B-movie kingpin. He wasn’t the first to incorporate softcore porn with horror, but he’s certainly one of the most prolific and this is definitely the impetus behind HCH. It is basically the aforementioned kill scenes with some chaff in between. Now, I know there are those who consider the whole slasher genre (and the gialli before it) to essentially be porn of a different colour – they both have ‘money shots’ after all – but I don’t subscribe to that. There is more artistry involved – in the good ones anyway – to just dismiss them like that.
You know, HCH is a movie I wish I’d seen when I was a lot younger. With excessive nudity still being fairly hard to come by at that time, I think this would have kept me more than interested. Despite its many shortcomings, I’m sure it would’ve been one of those titles that I look back on fondly, much like Cannibal Women In The Avacado Jungle Of Death – and that movie was PG-13! I wager that THIS would have been more stimulating to me then, as well.
Now, it just looks… oh, who am I kidding? That was awesome. Regardless of how underwhelming HCH may have been, it had Linnea Quigley in it and I never tire of seeing her – with thirteen or thirty-four-year-old eyes. Like other B-movie vixens Elizabeth Kaitan and Kathleen Kinmont, they represent a wondrous era of… discovery in my life.
Whatever your stance on the subject, I’m thinking there must be a demand for horror-themed porn, otherwise I wouldn’t have walked by new releases with titles like The Texas Dildo Massacre and Night Of The Giving Head the last time I was at Eyesore.
It takes all kinds...