Tag Archives: David Kerekes
18
Mar
Death on Film International Conference
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Scenes from the 2019 Offscreen Film Festival, Brussels. Nova Cinema. Photos of the Nova foyer by David Kerekes Death on Film International Conference Nova Cinema Belgium – 23 March 2019 – 13h30 Cinema Nova From cinema’s earliest days, depictions of sexual acts on film were for restricted viewing only, …
20
May
How I First Encountered H. H. Holmes
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I first encountered the name H. H. Holmes courtesy of a book entitled The Torture Doctor: The Only True Account Of The Greatest Criminal The Police Have Ever Handled by David Franke (published in 1975 by Hawthorne, New York). The book was on sale at a book collector’s fair, which …
10
May
The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You To Read!
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When the Comics Magazine Association of America established the Comics Code in 1954, not only was salacious, suggestive, violent and horrific content banished from comic books but an entire industry was decimated. This self regulating body, which operated under political and commercial interests, came into effect following the widespread panic …
30
Apr
Grand Guignol: Musings on the Parisian Theatre of High Drama and Comedy, and Its Contemporaries
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I stumbled across this image on one of my recent jogs around the internet. It is one of the most savage and arresting creations I have seen in a long time, and a beautiful representation of the Grand Guignol aesthetic (horror beyond horror, as I now call it). It’s a …
29
Apr
The Grand Guignol Is Dead and Living in London
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Anyone with an interest in Grand Guignol, the theatre in Paris whose name is a byword for horror beyond horror, may care to know that its vicarious thrills are alive on the boards again thanks to some small dedicated theatre companies in London and indeed around the world. Unlike the …
20
Apr
The Vampire Teeth of Vampire Circus
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Count Mitterhaus, vampire, is staked in the heart and in his dying breath puts a curse on the villagers responsible. Sometime later (possibly fifteen years), the plague arrives and the village is cordoned off to the outside world by armed guards. Mysteriously, a circus appears and suddenly the children of …
07
Apr
American Comics Go to Hell
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When I was a kid I was given a pile of American comics. I kept them for some time and read them avidly but in growing up, I got rid of all but a small handful something I learned to regret rather quickly. Included in those few copies that I …
22
Mar
Fan Film and Fan Edit
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Some months ago I chanced upon a DVD called Superhero Fan Film Collection 2005 [pictured left]. Everything about it smacked of copyright genocide, from the ripped-off Alex Ross art on the front of the poorly printed sleeve, to the thumbnail images of iconic Marvel and DC characters spattered about the …
19
Mar
Killing for Culture: All New Book and Documentary
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We get a pretty regular email here at Headpress Towers. It unfailingly reads something like this: Hi—Is the new edition of Killing for Culture ever going to come out? Presumably not, just thought I’d find out for sure. This is, we’d be the first to concede, a very reasonable question. The …
12
Mar
HEADzine 2.6
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This is a Holiday Special bumper edition of Headpress or HEADzine as the online counterpart is called. See bottom of page. Part one is devoted to the contemporary Grand Guignol, and the second part the landscape of the counterculture by way of some of its books and publishers. In part …