Scream Queens Special Issue Introduction
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Brooke Lewis Interview By Trevor Wright Page 3 Photos: 1. Ms. Vampy: Brooke Lewis, 2. Ms. Vampy: Ford Austin & Brooke Lewis, 3. Kinky Killers: Michael Pare & Brooke Lewis, 4. The Drum Beats Twice: Brooke Lewis & Louis Mandylor, 5. Imurders: Tony Todd & Brooke Lewis No Masks Beyond This Point: A Queen Of Scream In The City Of Sin By Joshua Lesuer Photos By Joshua Lesuer
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Raine Brown Interview By Trevor Wright Page 15 Photos: 1. Movie Still From The Film Sculpture: Raine As Ashley Steele, 2. Movie Still From The Film Aunt Rose: Zombie Raine, 3, 4, 5. Please Give Photo Credit To Jason Beam At Jasonbeam.Com Bianca Barnett Interview By Trevor Wright Page 21 Photos: 1. The Rocketz-Killing Stills By Xandy Smith, 2. Gash By Yoko, 3. Photo By Fetish Necropolis, 4. The Hook: Photos By J. Barnett Here Comes The Bride: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) by Emma Westwood
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Tracy Coogan Interview By Trevor Wright Page 28 Photos: 1. Tracy Coogan, 2. Screen shot from Dark Woods, 3. Tracey on Bed, 4. Tracey Coogan. Elske McCain Interview By Trevor Wright Page 32 Photo 1. Elske McCain By Jackie Lee James, 2. Elske McCain By Jason Beam, 3. Elske McCain By Jackie Lee James The Day I Kissed Ingrid Pitt By Edward X. Young Page 36 The first is a screenshot of Ingrid Pitt and Edward X. Young from the movie Sea Of Dust. The second shot is Ingrid and Edward X. Young behind-the-scenes at the Sea Of Dust wrap party on July 31, 2005. The shot is of Edward X. Young ‘s death scene (what Ingrid Pitt does to me) from Sea Of Dust. Featured Writer/Interviewer – Trevor Wright Proof-read By Tina Williams - http://www.myspace.com/writersservices All material contained within the pages of this magazine and associated websites is copyright of Morpheus Tales. All. Rights Reserved. No material contained herein can be copied or otherwise used without the express permission of the copyright holders.
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Welcome to the Morpheus Tales Scream Queens Special Issue! For those of you who don’t know, Morpheus Tales is one of the hottest new genre fiction magazines, featuring fiction by Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Laimo, Ray Garton, Joseph D’Lacey, Joseph McGee, and many many more! The magazine features the most amazing artwork, and interviews and reviews. The reviews section of the magazine is small, but soon we’ll be remedying that by producing a reviews supplement. This love of non-fiction has driven us to produce the magazine you now hold in your hands. This isn’t the first “Special Issue” that the Morpheus Tales team have worked on, oh no! We’ve completed the Undead Special, which is zombie and vampire heaven! We’re just completed work on the Flash Fiction Special Issue, and we’re putting the finishing touches to the Fantasy Femmes issue (which is a kind of fiction version of the Scream Queens Special!), lots of beautiful pictures and stories instead of interviews. What better way to launch our first ever non-fiction special than with something we all love: Scream Queens. The goddesses of the horror film. Contained in this magazine are some of the hottest and best actresses in the genre. If we’ve missed your favourite then we apologise and hope to feature them in a future issue, send us your suggestions. Special thanks must go to Trevor Wright, our featured interviewer, without whom this special issue would not be here! For FREE previews of all the issues of Morpheus Tales Magazine, including the special issues, just visit our website:
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Brooke Lewis Interview Growing up, were you a fan of horror movies? And if so, which ones were your favourites? HUGE!!!...I fantasized about being bitten by Dracula at 5 years old â˜ş Some of my faves were Friday the 13th (the original), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original) and Prom Night (the original).
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No Masks Beyond This Point: A Queen of Scream In the City of Sin By Joshua LeSuer Minneapolis scream queen Rachel Grubb dons her real face as she hits the Xanadu Film Festival in Las Vegas. Desert and decadence: That's all to be seen as we bullet through Las Vegas airspace. Everyone mobs the portholes and gapes. Everyone except Rachel Grubb. She's fast asleep. The 21st century is the age of hybrids and Rachel is a poster girl for the 21st century: Actor, model, writer, director. Where most artsy types aspire to the pantheon, Rachel desires the depths of human dignity, depravity. You'd think a visit to Vegas would be a holy pilgrimage for her. But Rachel hasn't come to gamble. She doesn’t give a damn about sensation or sex. She wants only to mingle with likeminded ghouls and spook the crap out of them. As we load into the airport tram, I point out a poster: There's a vampire-themed, sex show going on. Rachel barely glances at the dainties of the damned on display, with their leather and lace and fake fangs. Amateurs.
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Raine Brown Interview When did you know you wanted to be an actress in film? How did it all come about? It was one of those decisions that I don’t remember making; I just always had all this creative energy and loved to pretend. Acting completely fits my personality in terms of being very emotional and loving psychology. With a ton of hard work and some luck, I now have a career. I think when there is an artistic drive in you, you don’t always make a choice; the art just kind of finds you.
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Bianca Barnett Interview What’s your favourite film (already filmed) that you’ve been in? Why? My favourite film is probably Albino Farm because it was my first major role in a movie with a budget. I also love how “Bunny Time Cupcakes” and the music video for “The Rocketz” turned out. Visually, they both just look amazing!
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HERE COMES THE BRIDE Bride of Frankenstein (1935) By Emma Westwood She pursed together plump, bee-stung, Angelina Jolie lips before Ms Jolie was even a sparkle in Jon Voight’s eye. Her own lovely large eyes – rounded with permanent surprise – came framed with ramrod straight eyebrows that point up into her hairline like arrows; her figure – taut and perfectly proportioned – swathed in bandages before being elegantly draped in ceremonial white folds. She wore flawless studio makeup, only sullied by some stitches around her jaw line and down her neck. And then there’s that little matter of her world famous hair – frizzed and theatrically teased from her head, styled by lightening bolt, with white swirls curling up from either temple. She is the Bride of Frankenstein.
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Tracy Coogan Interview Tell us about ZOMBIE HONEYMOON. Zombie Honeymoon was such a great project. Dave Gebroe was a dream to work with. The whole team was great. It was one of those situations where everyone involved was so committed to what they were doing. I don’t think anyone expected it to do so well. The first day we shot was such an intense day and it really set the bar for the rest of the shoot. Situations came up alright but it all worked for the movie so well.
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Interview with Elske McCain Saw, loved and bought a copy of YOU’RE NEXT 3: PYJAMA PARTY MASSACRE. What attracted you to the project? Do you prefer doing short films or feature length? The project was written by cult author Joe Knetter, and was essentially a throw-back to the types of films I grew up watching. Simple, straight up slashers that are silly and fun with a lot of blood. Anyone who watches Pyjama Party Massacre pretty much knows what they are getting just from the title alone. I had met the director Jason Stephenson at a past Fangoria convention and he was supercool, so when he offered me a part in one of his films, I jumped at the chance. Both short films and feature films have their pros and cons, though shorts in particular are slightly less stressful with more laid back atmospheres. The two-day shoot was one of my most enjoyable filming experiences to date. It was also the first time I met Scarlet Salem who has remained one of my close friends over the years.
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The Day I Kissed Ingrid Pitt By Edward X. Young Ingrid Pitt – It was love at first sight when I first saw her on the big screen at a drive-in theatre in Dallas, Texas, in The Vampire Lovers. It was 1970; I was 11-years-old; and the effect was profound. Her indelible image from that Hammer Films/A.I.P. co-production that launched the subgenre of the Sapphic erotic vampire film altered the course of my life. As I entered my adolescence, while my peers posted on their walls pictures of Farrah, Playboy centrefolds, or NFL cheerleaders, I pined over full-page pictures of Ingrid in treasured issues of Forrest J. Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters of Filmland.”
Like the pin-up legend Bettie Page, Ingrid was a mystery, who suddenly disappeared (at least from the American movie screens) for reasons never justifiably explained. The original Scream Queen’s litany of work in the genre that made her famous ceased after only a handful of iconic horrors released between 1970 and 1973, including the aforementioned films and the anthology The House That Dripped Blood in which Ingrid does a comic take on her sexy vampire vixen image.
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