I like this circa-1986 interview with George Romero for a number of reasons:
- The nifty painting of a rather hale-and-hearty-looking Mr. Romero surrounded by a homogenized group of zombies.
- Romero dodges questions regarding the upcoming shooting of "Pet Sematary," a movie produced by Romero's Laurel Productions that scared me in no small measure as a Tiny Tenebrous, along with some discussion of "Creepshow" and its yet-to-emerge sequel. And yes, "Creepshow" freaked me out as a not-so-Tiny Tenebrous. I blame it on the piano soundtrack.
- This interview appeared in the same issue of GALLERY as one of my all-time favorite pieces of erotic writing.
- The awesome ads at the end--if zombies and independent filmmakers aren't your bag, just buy an upskirt video and call it a day.
As an added bonus, here's an extraordinarily terrifying ad presumably targeted at transvestites. The terrors of the disembodied nipples are exceeded by the horrors of the built-in cameltoe panties.
7 comments:
What a great interview! Thanks for posting.
Thanks for posting this - I live for old magazines! It's usually the only thing I'll buy at conventions these days.
Very, very cool. Thanks for putting this up. I won't lie, I wore jams, but the blame lies squarely with Anthrax.
Interesting interview.
That scene in Pet Sematary where like the dude (who was it, the inspector or something) pulls the dead kitty off the lawn with the cool crunchy sound was nothin' but bodacious.
But really the scariest f-n SK flick has got to be ...Sentinel (they pulled it from some stores, and not seen too much). And features some righteous fat lesbians from hell.
Oh.....requests for gore?? PHANTASM-fest at T-kate
I actually remember that ad. That "treasure chest" looked hot and uncomfortable. Anyone who would wear that for enhancement or effect is truly suffering for their craft.
I loved the skin mags back in the day with the articles and interviews like this, so I could explain that I was buying b/c I just had to read the interview with George Romero. Yeah, that's it. It had nothing to do with the dude with the hotdog bun and Talmudic analogies. Nudge, nudge. Wink, wink. Say no more!
Glad everyone's enjoying the fruits of my OCD labor--I will cite your names specifically during the inevitable intervention ;D
J, the Stephen King "Sentinel" is unknown to me! I saw a '77 shocker by that name that included human oddities in the cast some number of years ago, but it looks like it's based on a different novel. Perhaps I just rinsed the hellesbians from my brain...?! As to "Phantasm"--I will take that under consideration! I just re-encountered those films this year and LOVED THEM even more. A great suggestion--lemme wrap my head around it!
Fred, I can't help but think there might be better ways to evoke a girlish figure that don't look so.... Ed Gein-ish! Then again, I've seen what Drag Kings pack with, and those are rather... erm... anatomical, so maybe it was the best possible technology. Also--marvy way of synopsizing that "erotic"-in-air-quotes letter. Hee...!
Ah I f-ed up. Yes, it was the '77 Sentinel (which had a few quick cuts to hell-lez, and other creatures-- the do-gooder movie-moderators of the time criticized the director for using some circus freaks). SK was not involved. Blame it on ... ketamine usage at a young age.
A few of the obscurer Clive Barker flicks have a similar theme, the gateway to inferno. What's the one with the corpse par-tay under the graveyard?? You'd simply love it, Miss T-K.
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