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Matthew Page Interview
I did an interview with Matthew Page of Bible Films Blog about his upcoming book, 100 Bible Films from BFI.
The interview can be read here.
D. J. Kirkbride Interview
I conducted an interview with comic book writer D. J. Kirkbridge about the upcoming trade paperback release of Errand Boys.
The interview is scheduled to be published Wednesday the 16th. It will be able to be read here.
Fan2Fan Podcast Appearances
In late February I was invited on to the Fan2Fan Podcast to talk about peplum and 80s’ sword and sorcery films. This weekend I was invited back on to continue the dialogue, focusing on specific films. These episodes will be published later on, but in the meantime check out the Fan2Fan Podcast library for some excellent episodes (or better yet, subscribe via your podcast app of preference).
AnnRadCon 2022 In Person Programming
The StokerCon 2022 website has been updating with the conference’s in-person programming, which includes the in-person portion of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference. Programming can be viewed here. Of, if curious about AnnRadCon programming only to save you a click:
Thursday, May 12th
Track 1 – Film an Television – 9:00 am
- Karley Pardue: “Bathing Bad: Feminine Vengeance and Masculine Vulnerability in the Showers of HorrorSmith”
- Jonathan Brooks Sanford: “Between the Known and the Unknown: Stranger Things, the Signifying Body, and the Permeable Border Between the Symbolic and the Real”
- Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr: “Killing It on the Field: Athletics and Sport in Horror Cinema”
- Sean Woodard: “Narcissistic Love and Object A: Obsession and Desire in Fade to Black“
Track 2 – Vampires – 10:45 am
- Rocky Colavito: “Kolchak at Fifty: The Night Stalker Redux, “It’s hard to believe; isn’t it?””
- Margaret Yankovich: ““It’s Like I Can Feel God Move Inside Me”: The Religious Ecstasy of Sensual Vampirism in Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass“
- Cassandra Yatron: “Rats and the Queer Vampire: Dracula as a Commensal Creature”
Track 3 – Literature and Nature – 12:15 pm
- Gavin Hurley: “The Diabolical Dialectics of Clive Barker’s The Damnation Game“
- Brenda Tolian: “Gaia Screaming”
- Talmage Joseph Wise: “Anatomical Theatre: Freak Show Horrors in Jekyll and Hyde“
- Charles Yost: “Crazy Cat Women: The Contemporary Rebrand of Literary Witchcraft”
Highlander Call for Papers
Michele has an active CFP on the Highlander franchise. She is looking for essays on the Highlander movies, the television show, comics, everything.
If you’re interested, check out the CFP at her website and please share with others. With a possible reboot on the horizon, this is definitely a book you want to be a part of.
Unofficial Emmanuelle / Black Emanuelle CFP
Sometime in the latter half of 2022 (after I am finished with AnnRadCon 2022) I plan on publishing an official CFP calling for essays on Emmanuelle and its sequels and spinoffs, Black Emanuelle and its sequels, and all other Emmanuelle knockoffs. I already have an interested publisher, but I want to present to them a fully laid out TOC for an ambitious collection as this.
Though my CFP will not go live until later 2022, if you have any interest in being a part of this collection, let me know! Send me an email or social media message (see my about me page for contact info) to let me know your interest. If you have an abstract already, even better.
General Neo-Peplum News
Recent Acquisitions
My Severin order for their Caligula boxset arrived.
This boxset contains two films: Caligula the Untold Story and Caligula and Messalina. I’ve seen my share of Joe D’Amato and Bruno Mattei films, but not these prono-pepla.
The original Italian cycle had long since been dead since the mid-60s. With Tinto Brass doing Caligula in the 70s, the door creaked open for imitators, which resulted in these films. Was these 80s peplum films, with wanton depravity and sexploitation that was only hinted at in the original 60s cycle be enough to resurrect the genre? No, of course not. It would have to wait almost two more decades when Ridley Scott’s Gladiator was released.
John Carter Video Game Q/A Sessions
The folks developing the John Carter video game have appeared in a few Q/As to help promote the game and answer fan questions. Episode one can be viewed here and episode two here. The Kickstarter can be found here, so consider chipping in a few dollars.