*contains spoilers The movie Angst (2000) isn’t a horror movie, it’s a movie about horror fans – and a tribute to those often isolated souls. Those fans who just want to connect in that crazy, horrible, violent, terrible, bloody… life and death genre! It is about the foetus in every hard-core horror fans mind –…
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*contains spoilers While he was filming Longstreet, Jimmy set up the James Franciscus Celebrity Tennis Classic to raise money for the now politically incorrect titled charitable organisation Foundation for Retarded Children of the Desert. Held in the Palm Desert area, the classic appears to have run a few years and should have helped Jimmy get…
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*contains spoilers The James Franciscus Facial Tan Club came about in second year high school. My friends Scott and Paul were the members of clubs inscribed in my pencil case… along with The George Negus ‘I’m top shit’ Club and the Denise Marcos Orgy Club who were media figures of the day. We were fans…
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*contains spoilers Prince of Darkness (1987) is the second film in what John Carpenter terms his Apocalypse Trilogy. The first of these films is The Thing (1982) while the third is In the Mouth of Madness (1995). This one is by far the most underrated. It’s a Universal Picture! An MCA company, that is. And…
*contains spoilers The first time I saw Hearts of Fire (1987) was, surprisingly, on a big screen. For a film which tanked in London and was deemed not worthy of theatrical release in the United States this is definitely surprising. But there was a guy at the Gold Coast Theatre when I lived and worked…
*contains spoilers The music in Wrong World is minimalist, almost experimental, with harmonica, strings and drums which are almost incoherent like the mind of Moir. Certainly the music doesn’t seem to belong, much like Moir. He runs across Kennedy again and says “a rich friend” is funding him, shouting her Chinese, when she’d prefer a…
Read more The Poetic Film Triptych of Director Ian Pringle (Part Two)
*contains spoilers When I say Ian Pringle’s films are poetic I don’t mean in terms of verse but rather their – of not imagination – but their sensitive emotions and their style of expression. There are unknown rhythms to his movies, reflections on nature both human and animal, there is a contrast of man and…
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*contains spoilers Margaux appeared on an April 1996 instalment of tabloid host Geraldo’s show talking about her bulimia and alcoholism at length and the time in the mid-70s when she slit her wrists after a long night drinking at Studio 54. She showed off the scars on her arms. She was talking suicide, something which…
Read more Actresses Margaux and Mariel and The Hemingway Curse (Part Two)
*contains spoilers The Hemingway sisters Margaux (1954-96 suicide by drug overdose) and Mariel (1961-) are actress sisters and granddaughters of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961 suicide by gunshot). Their family is said to have been affected by mental illness, alcoholism and suicide – something termed The Hemingway Curse. I will use a couple of books in…
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*contains spoilers Ashley is an interesting actress, big in the theatre, with a distinctive voice. She was nominated for a Golden Globe way back in 1965 for her role in The Carpetbaggers. It is there she met her future husband George Peppard (1928-94 lung cancer). She took time out to have a child and reportedly…
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