003 Letter from the Editor 005 Identikit : John Amplas
MEETING JOHN AMPLAS by Richard Charles Stevens
024 Le Boudoir : Interview by Roy Bheer with famous composer King Burke Covering Ravish & his work with dark synth Star Sloan Vicious
033 Inception : Richard Rowntree’s Feature Film Dogged Story and Interview by Dub Meter 055 Vault of Creation : SLOAN VICIOUS: RAVISHED A Creative fiction based on Starfucker by Richard Charles Stevens 070 Showroom : Fritz Lang, The Laplace’s Demon, The Recursion Theorem Reviews by Laura MacLeod
085 Inspiration Box : The Legacy of Alexander Mc Queen, Ballet Boyz, Sofi Tukker, Meute & David Hockney A Selection by Emilie Flory 094 Stimulus : Ligeia’s Muse by Greg Palko NO. 01 RAVISH
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to develop the project with him. Ravish is produced by them in association with Vestra Pictures and Slaughtered Bird Films. ROY BHEER: And this time, Sloan Vicious has decided to associate her name with the project and to play her own role! What a challenge! The editorial is all very eager to see her on the big screen. KING BURKE: Less than I am! Filming should start as soon as we finish the tour! ROY BHEER: I hope we get the opportunity to hear from you before the release of the film. Do you have any new title in preparation? KING BURKE: Our next EP Prickteaser! Currently, we are finishing the musical arrangements. ROY BHEER: Well it is noted! Good luck with Ravish, King Burke and thanks for all the valuable information! Roy Bheer @ShockingMag For more information about Ravish, visit: www.iconelabelpictures.com
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"Jesus Christ. Is that her?" "The one and only. That's Sloan Vicious and I'd advise approaching with extreme caution if I were you" "She looks pretty harmless to me" "You'd think right? Well don't be fooled. She's anything but"
"What's she gonna do? Fuck me to death?" "That depends if she's feeling generous" "Doesn't sound like such a bad way to go" "You'd think right?" "I'm sorry. Maybe I'm missing something here but she doesn't have that stone cold killer look if you ask me. High maintenance perhaps but far from my worst nightmare�" NO. 01 RAVISH
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The film is visually stunning, done in black and white (with the occasional unsettling touch of red), which allows for the seamless addition of footage from M as well as evoking the era. The historical Lang's work was a huge influence on film noir and those crisp shadows and lines are very visible and starkly beautiful here. As with M, the movie has a certain quiet sympathy for its villain, even when he speaks calmly over tea about how he met and murdered a particular girl. It's much simpler to call him evil and be done with it, but that's only part of the story. I’ll give it four and a half out of five. It seems strange to rave about the editing, but the blending of Fritz Lang with parts of its predecessor was fascinating and wonderfully handled, an excellent lure to draw the viewer in. It can't have been easy to compete with Peter Lorre's memorable cinematic psychopath, but Finzi easily rises to the challenge, creating a terrifyingly normal murderer -- sometimes seeming a good deal more normal than the obsessive, tortured artist Lang. More proof, if any was needed, that there can be a very fine line between genius and insanity. Jupiter Award 2017 Best German Actor Heino Ferch by Laura MacLeod @MovieCriticND
Laura MacLeod is a self-taught critic who's loved movies of all kinds since the Night on Bald Mountain scene from Fantasia scared her half to death at the age of four. She's been sharing that love (along with the occasional healthy dose of sarcasm) online since 2006 as the Movie Critic Next Door. NO. 01 RAVISH
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