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heathermariedrain
Oct 27, 20211 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Oct 12, 20211 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Aug 29, 202115 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Jul 28, 20211 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Jul 18, 20217 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Jul 18, 20211 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Jun 14, 20215 min read
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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heathermariedrain
May 16, 20211 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Feb 17, 202127 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Feb 9, 20218 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Jan 20, 20217 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Dec 9, 20206 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Dec 7, 20208 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Dec 7, 20207 min read
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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heathermariedrain
Dec 6, 20206 min read
Asleep No More: James B. Harris' Some Call it Loving
The best kind of fairy tales are the ones where the magic is tinged with melancholy, where bits of fantasy are frayed with the...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20207 min read
The Illusionary Web: Zachary Youngblood's Visions of Clair
It takes a special film to successfully bridge the world of seeming reality with one that is a bit more ethereal, a bit darker and ,,,
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20207 min read
Say it Again! Mad Magazine Presents Up the Academy!
There is something so undeniably captivating about a magnificent disaster. It's the same kind of charisma and fear that you see in riots...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20205 min read
Mondo Fever Dream: Doris Wishman's The Prince & The Nature Girl
A movie can often be a magical tool to transport you to a multitude of worlds and alternate realms. Lands with braggadocios knights,...
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heathermariedrain
Nov 14, 20205 min read
A Boomerang Life: Albert Latuada's STAY AS YOU ARE
The ballad of the neglected middle-aged man is one that has often been written in innumerable books and pieces of cinema. Throw in a...
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