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Movies From Hell: Dewey Webb, Cinesirens, Birthdays, & Groovy Boys
heathermariedrain
  • May 13
  • 2 min

Movies From Hell: Dewey Webb, Cinesirens, Birthdays, & Groovy Boys

Statements like "...it's a small world..." can seem trite, cliche, and invoking old-timey Disney rides. However, some things are cliche...
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Minor Roles & Major Players:The Top 5 Small Parts in Cult Cinema
heathermariedrain
  • Apr 8
  • 7 min

Minor Roles & Major Players:The Top 5 Small Parts in Cult Cinema

In the world of cinema, theater, and even mere prose, it is always the lead characters who get all the royal attention. After all, they...
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Mad Mavericks & Madder Movies: An Ode to Dewey Webb
heathermariedrain
  • Mar 11
  • 4 min

Mad Mavericks & Madder Movies: An Ode to Dewey Webb

The act of creating is a sacred one. When the mind is sharp, the heart is racing, and the path free from all manner of nasty roadblocks...
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The Last of the Old Champions: Jim Westman’s The Wrestler
heathermariedrain
  • Feb 27
  • 5 min

The Last of the Old Champions: Jim Westman’s The Wrestler

What a drag it is getting old! So sang The Rolling Stones before they morphed into the hardest rocking group of apple dolls this side of...
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The Rocket Files:	It’s Time for Androgyny…Here Comes Pat!
heathermariedrain
  • Jan 16
  • 7 min

The Rocket Files: It’s Time for Androgyny…Here Comes Pat!

Walking outside right as dusk is waning almost completely into darkness, your eyes spot a twinkling light up in the pale-pinky-violet...
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P is for Patreon-Mondo Style!
heathermariedrain
  • Dec 16, 2021
  • 1 min

P is for Patreon-Mondo Style!

2021 has been a strange year. Granted, I think I say that about EVERY year, but still, the statement stands complete with funny little...
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Hell’s Belles Halloween Film Madness!
heathermariedrain
  • Oct 28, 2021
  • 1 min

Hell’s Belles Halloween Film Madness!

The always wonderful Kat Ellinger and myself are back! Celebrate Halloween...Hell's Belles style with some of our favorite films for the...
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Wake Up Heavy Podcast: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
heathermariedrain
  • Oct 12, 2021
  • 1 min

Wake Up Heavy Podcast: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things

There are two things that surpass even the strongest chemical intoxicant high: great conversation & art. This is one of the key reasons...
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Pastoral Hide & Seek:  A Peek into AMERICAN BABYLON
heathermariedrain
  • Aug 29, 2021
  • 15 min

Pastoral Hide & Seek: A Peek into AMERICAN BABYLON

You are a voyeur. But that's okay, because deep down, so is everyone else. The very nature of watching a movie is voyeurism of the safest...
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The Projection Booth...SABATA!
heathermariedrain
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • 1 min

The Projection Booth...SABATA!

Many things divide us a species. Religious, politics, science, status quo expectations, etc etc. But there is one thing that should unite...
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Hothouse of Fear: Gerald Korgl's Angst
heathermariedrain
  • Jul 18, 2021
  • 7 min

Hothouse of Fear: Gerald Korgl's Angst

Terror knows many forms. It could be the ghost in your bed (or head), the leering Uncle, the power-mad authority figure, the religious...
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Summer Wine: Brandon Colvin's A Dim Summer
heathermariedrain
  • Jul 18, 2021
  • 1 min

Summer Wine: Brandon Colvin's A Dim Summer

My first brand new film article in months is up and live over at Diabolique! This time around I delve into Brandon Colvin's 2020 indie...
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Wine Soaked Nights & Reverse Halos:Barbara Payton's I'm Not Ashamed
heathermariedrain
  • Jun 15, 2021
  • 5 min

Wine Soaked Nights & Reverse Halos:Barbara Payton's I'm Not Ashamed

Romanticism is one of the deadliest nightshades and nowhere does it bleed brightest than the arts. The doomed writer. The drug addled...
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VIVA is Coming to Blu-Ray
heathermariedrain
  • May 17, 2021
  • 1 min

VIVA is Coming to Blu-Ray

Very few films post-sexual revolution have captured even a mere prism of the such heady cultural reverb in suburban America like Anna...
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World Built of Blood, Heart & Magick: The First Three Features of Alejandro Jodorowsky
heathermariedrain
  • Feb 17, 2021
  • 27 min

World Built of Blood, Heart & Magick: The First Three Features of Alejandro Jodorowsky

This is a chapter excerpt from the 2019 book, The Bizarro Encyclopedia of Film Volume 1, penned by myself & John Skipp. Enjoy! Good art...
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My Dream Date With Radu Vadislav
heathermariedrain
  • Feb 10, 2021
  • 8 min

My Dream Date With Radu Vadislav

Back in 2015, I was blessed enough to be a part of the second volume of the Dream Date With a Villain series. Published by the...
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Descent into the Inferno: Roger Watkins Corruption
heathermariedrain
  • Jan 20, 2021
  • 7 min

Descent into the Inferno: Roger Watkins Corruption

The art of the power play and what levels one is willing to sink to sell their soul, or at the very least, their sense of moral self, is...
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Keep on Driving: Marc Lawrence's PIGS
heathermariedrain
  • Dec 9, 2020
  • 6 min

Keep on Driving: Marc Lawrence's PIGS

In the backwoods of America, many a secret is held. Nestled in the woods, desert landscapes, the brick and wood of farms, homes and...
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The Blood in the Jazz: Emilio Vierya's Placer Sangriento
heathermariedrain
  • Dec 8, 2020
  • 8 min

The Blood in the Jazz: Emilio Vierya's Placer Sangriento

“When you're all alone, what do you want to do? Do you want to die or is it the strangeness in me?” -The Cramps The melancholia of a...
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Candide on Speed: Alex de Renzy's Pretty Peaches Trilogy
heathermariedrain
  • Dec 8, 2020
  • 7 min

Candide on Speed: Alex de Renzy's Pretty Peaches Trilogy

Even in the wild wild west days of adult filmmaking, few directors were as bold and frankly, at times, batshit, as Alex de Renzy. Outre...
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