Director Darren Bousman described Repo! The Genetic Opera to the sold-out crowd at Chandler Cinemas on Thursday night, with all the passion of a director who's made an instant cult classic.
Music and conceptual artist Kevin Ogilvie's been known by a couple names since forming industrial band Skinny Puppy in 1982. As a member of Skinny Puppy, he took the stage name "Nivek Ogre," but these days he's known just as "Ogre," and he's making solo music that deviates from Skinny Puppy's machinistic throb while maintaining the group's dark art aesthetic.
In this week's cover story, "Desert Chills," we reported on local comic book writer and horror enthusiast Brian Pulido's first full-length feature film, The Graves, which was shot on location in Vulture Mine near Wickenburg. Pulido's story of two goth geek sisters and their fateful trip to a freaky Arizona roadside attraction has been garnering praise everywhere as an intense screamer filled with suspense and action. The movie stars Clare Grant (Masters of Horror), Jillian Murray (An American Ca
X-Men. Archie. Sailor Moon. If you thought comic books were limited to namby-pamby superhero tales, Manga and All-American "good guy" serials like Richie Rich and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, take a peek at local artist J. Scooter Harris' graphic novel/comic book series, True Crime Theater, and you'll be shell-shocked.
Courtesy of J. Scooter Harris, www.studiohadra.com
​Drawing inspiration from hard-boiled detective fiction and live burlesque models,
