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Not a movie magazine but you will always find something to read about underground filmmakers.
For mature readers only and be careful if you are easily offended from innovative ideas because you will not like what you will read.
Every issue has a central theme and most articles have something to do with it.
The editor is David Kerekes author (with David Slater) of the book Killing For Culture
It was a b+w, A4 magazine up to issue #12. Now looks like a small (A5) book (178 pages).

Issue #25 - Summer 2003 Burroughs And The Dreamachine William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville designed the Dreamachine based on the research of brain specialist Grey Walter and his book The Living Brain, published in 1953. Headpress 25 celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of this groundbreaking book. Contents Includes: Interviews with William Burroughs, Paul Bowles and David Woodard, composer and builder of Dreamachines. The Pros and cons of Dreamachine use. A history of Dreamacines. Brain expanding films. Also Includes: The late Luis de Jesus, a ‘star’ of diminutive stature whose film appearances ranged from sadistic sidekick in the cult movie Blood Sucking Freaks, to hardcore porn, of which the most notorious is The Anal Dwarf. An interview with Michael (Bowling For Columbine) Moore. Front seats at Prof Von Hagens live autopsy in London.

Issue #24 - Spring 2003 Powered by Love

Issue #23 - Summer 2002 Funhouse Special Extended Feature: A visit with the reclusive director of seventies seminal obscure horror movie Last House on Dead End Street, featuring exclusive conversations with several of the other folk involved with the film, a look at Watkins' post-Last House career in the porn industry, reviews, and much more. The making of Blow Me, a film about the sexcapades of a rubber doll. Controversy surrounding Italian novelist, Paolo Di Orazio, whose horror stories about homicidal children -- aimed at children -- raised questions in Parliament. An interview with novelist Tom Robbins, whose Another Roadside Attraction is reputed to be the book Elvis was reading when he died.

Issue #22 - Summer 2001 Bad Birds Hanging out with Factory 2000, asphyxiation-fetish filmmakers Superhero novelty records A sightseer is mistaken for the Virgin Mary in Antequera A full-moon night for the girls at the stripclub An interview with James Ellroy Dead Elvis - an impersonation of The King that backfires horribly in Newcastle Hunting Ghostwatch WANTED: Do you have a Ghostwatch story or experience? Contact us NOW...

Issue #21 - January 2001 Unreal is Real "Who ever said life was enjoyable?!" - an interview with Buddy Giovinazzo, director of low-budget 'Nam shocker Combat Shock Charles Manson: The Night They Murdered Love Brian Jonestown Massacre - in search of the ghost of Jones in Tangiers An interview with Frederick Wiseman The Teflon Jesus Syndrome

Issue #20 - Summer 2000 Are You Trevelling Back Through Time? On the rack: Magazines & racks I knew and loved, or, pulp consumer consumed by pulp. By Tom Brinkmann. The sucker punch: A personal discourse on females slugging it out in the ring and the men who like to watch. By Gemma Bryden. Splendor - American Style!: An interview with Harvey Pekar. By John Szpunar. Sock it to everybody! at once!: A brief interlude with Zeta magazine. By David Kerekes. Elvis the concert. By Joe Scott Wilson. Crime calls...: But it doesn't pay. By William Black. There aren't many hippies in Hull: An interview with Andy Darlington. By David Kerekes. Playing devil's advocate: Five reasons why The Exorcist isn't scary anymore. By Adrian Horrocks. I saw Huge spiders: Meddlesome Christians flush your stash down the toilet. By Martin Jones. To grill a Christian. By Matthew Edwards. Darkness light darkness: Meeting Jan Svankmajer, pt 2. By Will Youds. L' Abecedaire Chimerique. By Progeas Didier. Oh, Dr Kinsey!: Swinging sex and pseudo science. By Nikita Brottman. Men in rubber suits: Jorg Buttgereit talks to Japanese monster-film director Shusuke Kaneko. Cak-Watch presents: The Wicker bastard, By Phil Tonge. Inside The Wicker Man: An Interview with Allan Brown. By Sun Paige. Beautiful lettuce pages & rubber dolls. Generation xploitation & an interview with Alan Smith. By Simon Collins. From Indonesia with lust: An interview with Jade Marcella. By Anthony Petkovich. Of celluloid and slime: An inside retrospective of the scandalous 1997 Hamburg Short-Film Festival. By Jack Stevenson. Paul Scott: Artist at large. By Drew Larson. The Quest for the poetry groupie. By Andy Darlington. The Headpress guide to exciting modern kulture.

Issue #19 - Summer's end 1999 World Without End Porno has a brain: A conversation with Laurence O' Toole, author of Pornocopia. Evangelical mind control and the abuse of altered states. God told me to: Regression possesion & cinematic neurosis: The symptomology of The Exorcist. Meeting Jan Svankmajer, Czech filmmaker and surrealist. La Bete: Female masturbation fantasy. The world of El Monje Loco. Joel M Reed talks about Blood Sucking Freaks. Serial killing Down Under. Wreckers of Civilisation: Simon Ford talks about his book. Of cult religions and cars that fly: A look back at the future that never came. Burn, Brando, burn: Anthony Petkovich writes about Marlon Brando. The Exotic Beatles: A series of CD albums featuring unusual versions of Beatles songs. Adam Ant: Sex and perversion for teenyboppers. Bettie Page vs Traci Lords. Plus the Headpress guide to exciting modern culture.

Issue #18 I Loved A Sex Fiend!!! We track down the wild man of the British underground comix scene Antonio Ghura — creator of TRULY AMAZING LOVE STORIES and RAW PURPLE — for his first ever interview! Trials, girls, drugs, the Runaways, and the ‘obscene’ Yorkshire Ripper strip! Including never-before-published art! EXCLUSIVE GHURA COVER PAINTING! THE MONOCHROME SEX!!! Bad movies and the appeal of sexy B&W casting! SCREW!!! Jack Stevenson traces the history of the world’s first sex newspaper! Thirty years of outspoken Al Goldstein, and behind-the-scenes at SCREW’s anniversary bash! Disturbingly Dark, Sweetly Savage!!! An interview with Poppy Z Brite, controversial author of EXQUISITE CORPSE! In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida!!! Led Zeppelin vs the MC5 & Iron Butterfly! Plus!!! Blow-Up Dolls! Attack of the Tokyo Sluts! Fandom! A Death in the Family! Rubber & Urine Clinic! And much more!

Issue #17 THE GROTESQUE BURLESQUE - An evening spent in the company of the Dragon Ladies, and their sexy, surreal revue HARDCORE CRUMB - A revealing, in-depth interview with Maxon Crumb, brother of Underground artist Robert. Art, family and his trouble with women FIVE PERFECT HEADS - An analysis of the ‘five most defining faces of the Twentieth Century’, which includes in its number the Mona Lisa (a woman who has no eyebrows) and the facial structure on the Cydonia region of Mars SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE - The lowdown on Pam & Tommy Lee: Hardcore & Uncensored LOUIS THEROUX AND HIS WEIRD WEEKENDS - An interview with the man who sang George Michael’s Faith for The Children of God DENNIS COOPER DOES DRUGS - Stewart Home interviews Dennis (Frisk) Cooper whilst on a Jack the Ripper murder tour

Issue #16-Spring 1998 The human gargoyles issue The Saga of the Human Gargoyles: A Celebration of Skywald's Simulacrum Family. David Kerekes on the influence of Skywald Publications. John Gallagher: An interview with the painter and comic artist. Grr! Those bloody kids: Rambling and inconsequential thoughts regarding evil kids. Depilation for fun and profit: Hair as a fetish. Sophie Cossette: A conversation with the woman who draws Batman and Robin as bound prisoners of the Catwoman, who offers a steamy display of solo sex. Sick Again: Led Zeppelin's music. No Alcohol. Some Movies. A lot of Rain: The 4th Chicago Underground Film Festival. And the freaks shall inherit the earth: The Jim Rose circus. Di-ing for it: Simon Whitechapel on the Princess death. Animal Farm: A 2nd return to the legendary bestiality film. That's all, folks: Celebrity murders, suicides, accidents. The Public Information Film: The British government's own propaganda pieces to correct foolish behaviour in the populous. Erotica: Uk's first full-blown, erotic event at Olymia 28-30th November 1997. Reviews: Flesh & Blood #10, Malefact #3, #4, Something Weird Video Blue-Book #1, Gauntlet #12, #13, Vex #3, Shock Cinema #11, That's Exploitation, Wes Craven's Last House On The Left: The Making Of A Cult Classic, Funeral Party 2, Intense Device and many more.

Issue #15-Autumn 1997 War in Heaven Guts 'n' Roses: The coming Apocalypse of the Ripper Millennium. What Jack the Ripper was really up to, who was he and why the world must end. Some thoughts about accidents. A cemetery in Peru Sex, violence and models: Gerry Anderson's U.F.O. Annabel Chong: A conversation with a superior porn slut. Animal Farm: A return to the legendary bestiality film. The Jerry Springer Show: The best li'l white trash freakshow in Chicago. Norman Wisdom's: What's Good for the Goose. Reviews: Bomba Movies 4, Trash City #18/19, Fuck #11, Flesh and Blood #9, Diabolik #1, The X Factory and many more.

Issue #14-Spring 1997 The suicide issue The amazing Mr Lifto: Interview with the man who stretches his tits to impossible lengths by the weights attached to his nipple rings. Savannah: She's beautiful ! Even though she is dead. Larry Wessell: Interview with the underground filmmaker. Jasmin St. Claire: World's biggest gang bang 2. Not the usually " How the film was made" Animal Farm: The legendery bestiality film Romain Slocombe: Interview with the painter, comic-strip artist, novelist, photographer and filmmaker. Nina Hartley: Interview with the Goldie Hawn of porn. Nine days in Stiges: Diary of Jorg Buttgereit in the Internanional Festival of Fantasy Cinema, in Stiges, Spain.

Issue #13-Winter '96/97 The plague issue On Plague, Perverts, Prelates and The State of One's Pecker. David Cronenberg's CRASH and Bruce LaBruce's HUSTLER WHITE reviewd. Literary Punishment: Three reviews (Bizarre, Bondage Life, Thy Rod and Stuff). Pus, Boils and Sores: Bubonic plague as divine entertainment. Gregory Dark's Snake Pit Skull-Fucking: Nano-technology, Dwaf Machines and Mind Control. Traces of Death 3: from "Dead Alive" Productions 1994 Bondage Hippies: a 60-page illustrated A5 booklet. Warner Brothers come down on Jelinski and Buttgereit. Sharing the Experience: cruising the bay area. Reviews: Alternative Cinema #8, Mama Snake #2,#4, Angels in distress #1, Shock Cinema #8, ETC #13,#14, Prohibited Matter #5, Delirium #4, Bomba Movies #3,#4, Porco Mondo #1, Dath Scenes, Freak Like Me, The Eyes, Fragments of Fear, Desperate Visions, Torture Garden and many more.

Issue #12-Summer/Autumn '96 Enlightenment thru ennui: 101 things to contemplate while your brain tumour grows. Salo: Pier Paolo Pasolini meets De Sade. Apocalypse Now ?: The coming-end cultist Identity cards and how could they affect our lives. The London Necropolis and the magnificent 7 graveyards. Russ Meyer: An interview with Mr Bosomania. Enthusiasm and the production of out-of-the-body experience and related phenomena The sons of Gilles De Rais: Head-hunters, splanchnophiles and sorceres. Her Sister's Diary: a close look at Bruce Seven's Loose Ends 4 Me Gustas Mucho: a Mexican musical overdose. On the piss: Urolagnia as a fetish. Reviews: Modern Satanism for Girls, Sex-Shock-Sadism, Bypass, Screw comix, Fortean Times, Born Bad, Armageddon 2000, King Pulp, Amok Journal, Chopper, Videos, Music and many more.

Issue #11 Bill and Tim's Excellent adventure - an exploration of the culture of addiction A conversation with the sweetheart of porn - Cumisha Amado Jennifer Blowdryer's Days in Palookaville The films of Matthew S Smith - Sometimes at the Cherokee Sink, Blood Summer, State of Ecstasy, Skullface etc Reaction to the Executions video release

Issue #10 Raising hell with Boiled Angel artist Mike Diana Interview with XXX actress and dancer Lana Sands The campaign for decency in literature Behind the scenes at the UK's first Smut Fest Interview with Marisa Carr - nude model, stripper, performance artist, and organiser of the UK's first Smut Fest The rise and fall of Men's Action Magazines Karen Greenlee - unemployed mortician Dr Adder your time has come - KW Jeter's sci-fi novel of the adventures of a cosmetic surgeon who specialises in customising the genetalia of prostitutes according to their - or their partners' deepest fantasies

Issue #9 A guide to public toilets in Leeds Late night film festivals and The Exploding Cinema Dead sexy - necrophilia in literature and in reality Patrick Collins and Elegant Angel - the porn industry and its' studs and starlets The curious world of Franko B Society X - a quick look at the modern erotic literature of Masquerade books Where TV dreams come true

Issue #8 Hallowed be thy royal jelly - model examples of the porn star doggy style royal jelly effect Self abused but still still standing - a personal recollection of masturbation Interview with artist Steven E Johnson - My Stinking Ass Sex, murder and raw power - Douglas D Clark writes about Hollywood's Hillside Strangler case A guide to public toilets in Manchester 120 days - a conversation with Genitorture Interview with porn auteur Patrick Collins It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world Interview with Klaus Beyer - maker of Super 8 films

Issue #7 Time Infernal Machine - an interview with Joe Coleman, and artist who paints the USA as it is Reverb Storm - the publishing house Savoy, soul and suicide Douglas D Clark - killers who claim "the devil made me do it" Vomitus Maximum - RS Connett's Chamber of Horrors Queery Everything with Homocult Rivers of Blood - Ari Roussimoff (Russian painter/filmmaker/actor) in the shadow of a killer The Devil Himself - in search of the real Yorkshire Ripper A bestial history Touch me not - the spiritual sexual repression

Issue #6 Schramm - on the set of Jorg Buttgereit's movie The final answer...? An interview with Arthur Tomlinson BSc who lectures on UFOs, astronomy, corn circles, simulacra, megaliths etc Sex, crimes and videotape Emetic overload - an interview with Damon Barr, British underground movie maker Savoy recording empire and 60s pop legend PJ Proby Conversation with body modifier and prankster Geo X The death of the guitar Sex and rebellion in the life of the poet Swinburne Positive pornography - a female perspective

Issue #5 - 1992 Sifting through extremes in music It's fun to kill people - Douglas D Clark on the Sunset Strip murders The Transgressions of Cinema - Bleed by Nick Zedd Conversation with filmmaker Andy Bullock Hell aint nothing but Harlow misspelled The Mysteries of Life and Death and other morbid curiousities Savoy's Martin Flitcroft - a tribute

Issue #4 Hookers for Jesus - the strange saga of the Children of God The films of Rick Baylor & Nick Zedd Savoy Wars - the plight of Savoy publishing and the fatwah imposed on them by (then) police chief James Anderton Buttgereit, murder and the Nekromantik 2 trial Forced entry - a film of "despicable bad taste" Pornography church and the Jesus phallusy "And I shall be healed..." a visit to a miracle crusade

Issue #3 Tod Slaughter - the world's greatest bad actor? Designed to cripple your primal-spinal - the weird story of Skywald comic book publishing Dances of Death - the films of Michael Brynntrup David Friedman and splatter movies Valerie Solanas' Scum Manifesto Burning the Flag - Newcastle's festival of American live art performances - Karen Finley, Annie Sprinkle and others Interview with slut/porn star/goddess Annie Sprinkle Fanny Hill - the first classic of English pornography De Sade's Juliette Puppies, sweeties and ice-cream - urban perverts (Scum) life and how to live it Drinking to excess Xerox Ferox - the joys of copy shops

Issue #2 Needles rip my flesh - an interview with Patrick the body piercer and tattooist Nekromantik 2 - the inhuman presentation of violence, Germany's most wanted filmmaker and Monika M The church of the female orgasm Cities in the Park - Manchester's 2 day music festival The Amazing Colossal films of Samuel Z Arkoff A visit to a torture museum Touched by the left hand of God American Psycho forum Gusset groans - the confessions of a call-girl card collector Finnish news... Finnish porn Connoisseur Video - the label of your dreams? The Sex Psychedelic The death of the word: A rant about UK writing

Issue #1 Mr Punch - sex-killer puppet Sacred blood: Alejandro Jodorsky's divine Santa Sangre Pre-industrious Cronenberg - Stereo and Crimes of the Future Coffee Shops are fun! Finnish author Mika Waltari's Inspector Palmu novels Apocalypse Cultures Spoofs, pranks and capers - making working life a pleasure The reign of error: Psychiatry, authority and law Tourfilm R.E.M. Suicide with Der Todesking at the BBFC Tales of Sado-Masochism - an interview with Deborah Ryder Hanuman book publishers Macho sluts - erotic fiction by Pat Califia