H13: Dick Venom – Dick Venom & the Terrortones
Written by Gaz E
Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:33
Day eleven of Uber Rock’s 13 Days of Halloween finds us digging beneath the valley of the ubervixens in search of the pervomatic purveyors of this planet’s most penetrating garage-punk pleasures, Dick Venom & the Terrortones. We managed to drag Dick himself away from his B-movie collection to disgust us with his uncultured thoughts…..
1.) What are your most vivid childhood memories of Halloween?
I remember it clearly, like I see it through the frozen glassy sheened eyes of a frost blasted sasquatch. When I was kneehigh to a spacehopper my mumma took me down to the edge of the crater and made me rinse out her eyeballs in a pitch black lagoon of cuckoo spit soup. It was gloopy and goupy and thick to the touch and her off-white marble peepers slipped outta my hands and sunk into the muck. I was too chicken back them to jump in to get ’em and I guess I just panicked and ran. She chased me blindly wielding whatever beating stick she got her hands on and caned my green hide back out the crater. That was a traumatic event.
2.) Why do you think that the worlds of horror and metal/punk have always been so closely linked?
I guess jazz had debauchery, rock an’ roll had sex, glam had androgyny so metal and punk needs its own shock to click with. Big, fast, noisy, violent…. splish splash hack slash. Horror, gore… perfect! Though some bands can go suck on Twilight.
3.) Has there been a horror remake yet that has bettered the original movie?
Not that I can turn my mind to. Except for the split tongue scene in the new Evil Dead – that had me in awe. The whole theatre turned to face me when I full-blown pig-nosed snort-laughed out loud at “kiss me you dirty c*nt.”
4.) What’s the greatest ever horror movie kill?
When the ass with an arm hand-crawls out of the freezebox and blinks its eye open in Frankenhooker… Does that count as a kill? Or the same film’s explodin’ prostitutes. Or the basketball to the splattering head in Deadly Friend.
5.) Who is the baddest ever horror movie villain…and why?
Krueger. Cus after appearing crawling out of his shoulder on the cover of Punk Globe magazine he’s the one I been closest to.
6.) Who is the greatest ever Scream Queen?
I can’t kiss and tell.
7.) Name your Top 5 favourite horror movies of all time…and tell us why!!
1.) Frankenhooker – supercrack and ‘splodin whores.
2.) The Thing – aliens and the RSPCA’s worst nightmare.
3.) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead – the title alone.
4.) The X Files episode ‘Home’ – deformed incest family brothers/sons repeatedly copulate with their severed limbed lives-on-a-wheelytrey mumma in the boot of a Cadillac all to the soundtrack of Kenny James’ ‘Wonderful Wonderful’. With added bonus of Gillian kiss-me-please Anderson.
5.) Does ‘They Live’ count? – “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum.”
8.) What underrated horror movie would you recommend to our readers just in case they have never seen it?
Night of the Giving Head. It’s my pleasure.
9.) What is your guilty pleasure, the trashy horror flick that you hold dear but everyone else runs away from?
Anything with space and aliens and chest busting bloodbaths or sports bras or both. Stops me from feeling so homesick.
10.) What is the greatest ever horror movie poster?
Huge Bitch, a White Dolemite flick. She’s gettin shot in the ass and she looks mighty pissed.
11.) Have you ever had a ghostly supernatural experience?
That bit in Ghostbusters 2 when the poltergeist unzips his flies and his head tilts right back? They had to question me for that scene. Needless to say they cut out the good bits. Intercourse with a ghost is a snow storm I tell ya.
12.) What ‘star’ of the music world would you like to see slaughtered in gory horror movie style?
Iggy Pop. No. Dolly Parton. Not cus I hate them, how could I? I’d just like to know if those two can actually die. I mean they are both just indefuckinstructible. Then you could splice them together to make somekind of supergod. DOGGY POPTON!!!!
13.) What are your plans for Halloween this year?
Halloween is our Christmas an’ we got all fired up. The Fullford Arms in York on Oct 31 kicks off our Live XXX Tour throughout the UK so it’s gonna be sumthin special to us and to you too! Hope we might see you folks there…. XxX