Various Artists – ‘Codex of Pleasure and Pain – A Sonic Tribute to Clive Barker’s Hellraiser’ – Eighth Tower Records Given the somewhat torturous history of the actual Hellraiser score, offering another perspective seems entirely reasonable. As much as Cenobites remix flesh, these 11 artists from across Europe dig their hooks into their chosen chunk […]
Jonathan Sothcott: The English Charles Band; Albion’s Dino de Laurentiis; The Big Smoke’s William Castle; The Nation’s Jason Blum. Whichever your choice, the UK’s Gangster Flick Don has now shifted firmly across to where he began – horror – and that can only be a good thing. I started jotting down the different films that […]
VA – The Eraserhead – Music Inspired by the Film of David Lynch – Unexplained Sounds Group In the cult cosmos of David Lynch’s ‘Eraserhead’, silence drips like oil, and the industrial groan of existence becomes its own character. The original soundtrack – the brainchild of Lynch and Alan Splet – wasn’t just music. It […]
For the ITV network, situation comedy was always something of a challenge. While not the comedy wasteland that is has sometimes been made out to be (the network did, after all, have the likes of ‘Rising Damp’), the various regional broadcasters that made up the network would often struggle to come up with anything that […]
One-time sideman of musical nuisance Trevor Horn’s The Buggles, Hans Zimmer is now a byword for Hollywood movie scores and is credited with revolutionising the art form, a feat achieved by using modern technology and synthesizers alongside more traditional instrumentation and arrangements. I can scarcely think of anything less necessary. There used to be two […]
What a joy this is – a concept album based on an episode of The Twilight Zone, constructed entirely by one guy using loops, samples and eerie bloops. The chap in question is Dominic Francisco, a prolific producer of eulogies to places and times past, with the kind of skill and reverence seen in collectives like […]
Acromegaly: noun (Derived from the Greek words “akros“, extremities, and “megas“, big) A medical disease in which the bones of the head, hands, and feet grow larger than normal, caused by the pituitary gland producing too much growth hormone Rondo Hatton was born with the genetic condition acromegaly which affects the pituitary gland. Like all sufferers, there were few, if any signs, when he was young, the effects only becoming more obvious […]
Like most bands, The Electric Mayhem has experienced more than a few ups and downs nearly 50 years since its inception. That they are all still alive to tell the tale says much. But what skeletons lurk in the closet one of the tightest bands in showbiz? Dr. Gerald Teeth Jr, D.D.S. Coming from an […]
*Contains spoilers* Of course, it’s not just this review that contains spoilers – ultimately, that’s exactly what the film is. The much-heralded ‘In a Violent Nature’ looks to turn the slasher film on its head by telling the story from the killer’s perspective, giving us an insight into not just his motivation but the methods, […]
“It is the 31st Century. Ulysses killed the giant Cyclops when he rescued the children and his son Telemachus. But the ancient gods of Olympus are angry and threaten a terrible revenge…” Japanese pop culture had been seeping into European minds with increasing stealth in the late 70s and early 80s. Feigning to be children’s […]
