American Gothic

The charming side of evil

Lucas Buck (Gary Cole) is not just the sheriff of the small town Trinity, he's also pure evil. He is on the hunt for 10 year old Caleb (Lucas Black), a boy who's parents were killed by himself, to raise him in his own "spirit". So sheriff Buck goes round the town to cash in all the little favours the citizens owe him and everyone who doesn't follow his orders dies under mysterious circumstances.

"American Gothic" was TV series released in 1995, featuring the everlasting battle between light and evil. Unfortunately it ran only one season although that was enough to introduce Gary Cole as the perfect actor for those kinda seriously badass characters. Unlike many series that tried to fit into the mystery and horror genre this one really did a good job on it.

This was once and is still one of the best TV series ever, feels like Stephen King but is none of his work. Worth watching again and again.


American Gothic - On TV from 1995 to 1996

Sina's favorites : Udo Kier

He is the master of horror, the actor that gives every character that "creepy" flair. And he also is one of the only few actors who made it in Hollywood. Even Warhol was fascinated by him and dedicated him main roles in his movies. He is Udo Kier.

You all have seen him in one or another movie. You all know his face and you can name a few movies you liked him in. But he is one of the "It's that guy again"-faces. But Udo Kier surely doesn't worry about it. Around 180 movie parts made him an honoured and well known actor in Hollywood, even though young Udo had not really planned on getting famous. In the late 60s when Udo started up he caught roles because he was a nice looking young guy and it wasn't Hollywood he was heading to. In the early 70s that changed when Warhol dedicated his movies "Blood for Dracula" and "Flesh for Frankenstein" to the German actor. And it was unwritten law that everyone who was in touch with Warhol had to be good. In the 80s Madonna showed interest for him doing her "Sexbook". Schlingensief did most of his movies with him and Uwe Boll discovered him for his video games adaptations. 180 movies and 40 years later Udo Kier confesses that he also did a few bad roles but why would he bother when all those movies made him a star.

Unfortunately Udo Kier is also famous for negative news such as being drunk already when he comes to a party, leaving interviews because he doesn't like the questions ect. but actually that shouldn't keep anyone from showing respect to 40 years of acting and working with the big ones.

(from the movie "My own private Idaho" we reviewed earlier)

My personal Top 5 roles:

• Masters of horror - Carpenter's 'cigarette burns'
  
• Blade
  
• One point 0
  
• Gate to heaven
  
• Flesh for Frankenstein
  

Editor's note:

Dear Udo,

stop the drinking. Concentrate on your work and if you are tired of that on your art collections. I know it's harsh to say but I'm tired of hearing of your antics on various parties. Is a life as a movie star really that hard to take? You got your dogs, you got your houses, your lamps, your art, your furniture. And you got hella lot talent. Don't ya waste it and better provide us with some new blockbusters!

I'm still plannin on dedicating one of my exhibitions to you, maybe in 09, so keep up the great work, Udo!

Greetz from one of ya biggest fans and from Leipzig

Sina's favorites : Billy Drago

I founded billy-drago.de.vu in 2005 when I realized that this great but totally underrated actor didn't have a bigger mentioning anywhere on the internet. As one of my favorites he totally deserved it!

You may know Billy as the creepy guy. He gives every movie he appears in the dose of creepy-ness it needed. But mostly known he is through the TV series "Charmed" who everyone might remember well. He did the demon of fear, Barbas. But little may remember him in action movies back in the 80's with Chuck Norris like "Hero and the terror" or "Delta force 2". Basically Billy was in so many movies that he should be one of the big ones! He was in the "Masters of Horror" movies, too - to be exact he was in "Imprint" - and some may have seen him in "The hills have eyes" the remake, that was released in 2006.

Billy Drago is the ultimate bad guy when you need one and and fits into nearly every creepy character! That guy really made his way through Hollywood without getting the appreciation he should get. Make a difference: Know him ;)

My personal Top 5 roles:

• Delta force 2
  
• Guncrazy
  
• Tremors 4
• The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.
• Breaking the silence
  

Editor's note:

Dear Mr. Drago,

we did it, we created your fanclub. It's not as if that would have made you world famous but we did the best to push your career - even if it wasn't that much. You are a great creepy actor and everyone should know so so do me a favour and produce some really mainstream teeny horror movies like "Blood relic" again and get famous! Finally! Pls!

Featured shortfilm: Crooked Rot

Now we had some "cute" and "funny" shortfilms but nothing shocking yet. That's going to change because this month you really need some nerves to watch our shortfilm to the end. Actually "Crooked rot" is a stopmotion graphicsproject but for real: You better dont watch it if nightmares comes to you easylie!

Feardotcom - Do you like to watch?

People are dying with bleeding eyes and in horrorfying fear. A young detective follows their story and comes to the only point they have in common - feardotcom.com a website where you can watch some psycho torturing women in his basement. Everyone who visited the site died within 48 hours and also Mike hands himself over to fear and the search for the lady who gives every visitor 48 hours to find her. "What do I get if I win?" he asks "Me." she answers "What happens if I lose?" "You die.".

Feardotcom is, against what the DVD looks like (actually it looks like very cheap trash horror), a great psycho-net-thriller. It doesn't surprise with an unexpected ending but it's keeping the story interesting and horrorfying till the very last minute. It comes with this quite fresh idea that a website can log into your neuronal system and kill you with your personal greatest fear.

And it also comes with a nice cast. Detective Mike is played by former "Blade"-actor (at least I think he was) Stephen Dorff and also the rest of the cast are well known faces (the names wont tell you much, these are actors you recognize when you see them but never can recall their names).

And there is one nice feature in it, adding up to the quality of this great movie - the movie website! Visit it (Flashplugin needed) to find out what am talking about!