Voices of the Damned
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Wilde wrote and presented eight different music and film review TV programs in the UK in the 1980s and 1990s, interviewing such pop personalities as Iggy Pop, The Sisters of Mercy, The B-52s and John Lydon (AKA Johnny Rotten), as well as actors Nicolas Cage and Hugh Grant. In the late 1990s, Wilde was an Assistant Casting Director for the BBC’s The Buddha of Suburbia and the Casting Director for MTV’s The Real World: London.
In 2009-2015, Wilde contributed short stories to the following anthologies and publications:
“Sister Cilice” (for the Hellbound Hearts Anthology, 2009)
“U for Uranophobia” (AKA “Gaia,” Phobophobia, 2011)
“American Mutant: Hands of Dominion” (Mutation Nation, 2011)
“Polyp” (The Mammoth Book of Body Horror, 2012—reprinted in TheUnspoken, 2013)
“A is for Alpdrücke” (The Demonologia Biblica, 2013)
“Zulu Zombies” (The Bestiarum Vocabulum, 2013—reprinted in Fangoria’s Gorezone #29, 2014)
“The Cilicium Pandoric” (the sequel to “Sister Cilice”—Gorezone #30, 2014)
“Botophobia” (Phobophobias, 2014)
“Mr Duggins’ Stigmata” (Noir Nation No. 5 Crime Anthology, 2014)
“Writer’s Block” (The Grimorium Verum, 2015, reprinted in Gorezone #34)
“Beauty and the Skell: a Noir Fable” (Noir Nation No. 6 Crime Anthology, 2015)
In late 2012, Wilde’s debut dark crime novel, The Venus Complex, was published worldwide by Comet Press, New York City. America’s best-selling horror magazine, Fangoria, has called Wilde “one of the finest purveyors of erotically charged horror fiction around.”
Wilde is now co-writing the book for Sailor, a musical drama for stage and screen, with composer-lyricist Georg Kajanus and screenwriter-playwright Roberto Trippini. Wilde is also writing a screenplay based on her short story, “Zulu Zombies.”
CHRIS ALEXANDER
Chris Alexander is a Canadian-based, internationally published writer, composer and filmmaker and has served as editor-in-chief of such notable film magazines as Fangoria, Gorezone and Delirium. Prior to this, he was a critic and columnist for Rue Morgue magazine. As a filmmaker he is the writer, director and composer of the award winning vampire film Blood for Irina, its follow-up/sequel, Queen of Blood and the erotic surrealist drama Female Werewolf. Alexander has also composed original music for films like Joseph O’Brien’s Devil’s Mile, Larry Kent’s She Who Must Burn and Chris Walsh’s stop motion horror film The Shutterbug Man, which features narration by film legend Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, 8½).
He has written thousands of feature articles in various publications and periodicals and has interviewed virtually every horror legend at least twice.
THE SOSKA SISTERS
Canadian identical twin sister writing and directing duo, Jen and Sylvia Soska, known as the “Twisted Twins,” first broke onto the scene with their DIY love letter to Grindhouse filmmaking, Dead Hooker in a Trunk. The film quickly grew into an award winning, critically acclaimed, cult classic sensation, even getting the attention of director Eli Roth (Hostel) who praised it saying, “It’s fucking awesome.” The Twins went on to follow up their break through indie gem with the accomplished and genre defining American Mary that placed horror icon Katharine Isabelle in the title role of Mary Mason, a medical student who gets drawn into the world of body modification and underground surgeries. “Fucking amazing. Extraordinary. A really superb picture. Katharine Isabelle is awesome,” hailed horror legend Clive Barker (Hellraiser).
The Soska Sisters have gone on to be very outspoken about equal rights across the board including but not limited to the LGBTQ community. They’re actively involved in promoting blood donation and create a new PSA for it every February in celebration of Women in Horror Month, on which board they serve. And they are only just getting started.
In 2014 Soska Sisters started their studio directing career, bringing a new life to See No Evil 2 where they resurrect the WWE Studios franchise with WWE Superstar Glenn “Kane” Jacobs reprising his role as Jacob Goodnight and scream queens Danielle Harris and Katharine Isabelle appearing together for the first time. The Twins are also part of the all-star director line up on ABCs of Death 2 with a segment that both shocked audiences and is destined for cult status where they reunite with American Mary break out star Tristan Risk and numerous other familiar faces from the horror scene. Always ones to surprise their audiences and keep everyone guessing with what they’ll do next, the Soska Sisters completed their first film outside of horror, a balls to the wall, no holds barred action film with Lionsgate and WWE Studios called Vendetta starring Dean Cain, Paul “The Big Show” Wight, and Michael Eklund like you’ve never seen them before scheduled for release in 2015.
Fall of 2015, brings the twins to their next venture by directing the crime noir thriller, Plastic which follows the story of a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who gets himself in a heap of trouble with the Hollywood elite. The two are also taking time out of directing to scare the living hell out of contestants in GSN, Blumhouse, & Matador’s Hellevator, a terrifying survival horror gameshow featuring the twins doing what they do best and we shall see who survives to take up to 50K home in this epic new gameshow.
Avid comic book fans, the Soska Sisters have teamed up with Daniel Way (Deadpool, Daken) to create their own very graphic novel entitled Kill-Crazy Nymphos Attack! with artist Rob Dumo & cover artist Dave Johnson which is a pitch black satire on patriarchal society and women’s roles within it. Avid Marvel fans, the sisters’ first collaboration with the company was a story featuring Night Nurse in Secret Wars Journal #5, available September 9th, 2015.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS ...
More information about the artists and their artwork can be found here:
Clive Barker - www.clivebarker.info
Official Clive Barker Store - www.realclivebarker.com
Nick Percival - www.nickpercival.daportfolio.com
Vincent Sammy - http://karbonk.deviantart.com
Ben Baldwin - www.benbaldwin.co.uk
Daniele Serra - www.multigrade.it
Eric Gross - www.thehandsonworkshop.com
Steve McGinnis - www.steveillustration.com
Tara Bush - http://tarabush.co.uk