Shade Rupe
Encyclopedia
Shade Rupe is an American writer
, editor
, and filmmaker.
Rupe was born in Fullerton, California
and his publishing efforts have been associated with that loose confederation of extreme writers and artists clustered around such publishing houses as Feral House
, Amok, Headpress, FAB Press, Blast Books, among others, and including figures ranging from H.R. Giger, Peter Sotos
, Jim Goad
, Adam Parfrey
, Trevor Brown
and Jack Stevenson.
Rupe created the two volumes of Funeral Party
in 1995 and 1997. The first volume is edited and designed by Rupe, along with Michael Rorro and Marlene Leach and Volume Two is almost wholly edited by Rupe and defines itself as a "journal of sublime decadence and darkness," and features the work of Trevor Brown
, Ulli Lommel
, Miguel Ángel Martín, Jack Ketchum
, George Kuchar
and Mike Kuchar
, Milo Sacchi, and Jack Stevenson, among others. In reviewing Volume Two, the cult film magazine Shock Cinema called Funeral Party "a beautiful work, loaded with artwork ... much of which is sure to offend ... and always pushing the envelope in an effort to shed light on the darker niches of human ecstasy."
As a publisher, Rupe issued the two volumes of Funeral Party, and one of the earliest Peter Sotos novels, Special, issued in an edition of 500. A German publisher acquired the rights and published the novel in 2004 in a hardbound German-language edition. As a writer, Rupe contributed over 40 reviews to the Scarecrow Video Guide, wrote articles for various underground
and horror publications including Rue Morgue
, Screem, Panik and Timeless
, and contributed to the French publication Tenebres for its special Stephen King
edition.
Rupe was an interview subject for four of five nights of Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments speaking on the films Cat People
, Black Christmas
, Jacob's Ladder
, The Beyond
, and The Wicker Man
, and also appeared in the sequels Bravo's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments and "Bravo's 13 Scarier Movie Moments" and made a Zelig-like appearance as an enthusiastic City Hall Cheerer in Sam Raimi
's 2007 release, Spider-Man 3
.
Rupe's other ventures include handling publicity for genre
DVD
labels such as Media Blasters
, Dark Sky Films, and Synapse Films
, and serving as Chairman of the International Jury for the 15th Lund International Festival of Fantastic Film in southern Sweden, attending the FanTasia Film Festival
in Montreal
and the Sitges Film Festival in Spain
as well as the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals. He produced the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Portland and Seattle in April and May 2009, and was the programmer for the 26th Olympia Film Festival in Olympia, WA.
In 2011 Rupe released an anthology of 24 years of his interviews with such subjects as Udo Kier
, Divine, Richard Kern
, Tura Satana
, Alejandro Jodorowsky
, Hermann Nitsch
, Teller
of Penn & Teller
, Dennis Cooper
, Dame Darcy
, Gaspar Noe
, Johanna Went
, and Brother Theodore
, published by Headpress as Dark Stars Rising: Conversation from the Outer Realms. Roger Ebert offered a tweet in advance of the book's release, while Vince Musetto of the New York Post gave mention in his Sunday Cine Files column. The book was very well received, with Serbia's Dejan Ognjanovic remarking "These images almost literally burst from the paper in a subliminal, psychedelic manner, spilling from the edges of the pages into your surroundings and into your brain – altering them so that after reading this book you can’t be the same person as before."
Shade Rupe lives in Manhattan
, New York City
.
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
, and filmmaker.
Rupe was born in Fullerton, California
Fullerton, California
Fullerton is a city located in northern Orange County, California. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 135,161.It was founded in 1887 by George and Edward Amerige and named for George H. Fullerton, who secured the land on behalf of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway...
and his publishing efforts have been associated with that loose confederation of extreme writers and artists clustered around such publishing houses as Feral House
Feral House
Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. The publisher itself describes the books it sells as "pure information", and says the topics of the books are "forbidden"....
, Amok, Headpress, FAB Press, Blast Books, among others, and including figures ranging from H.R. Giger, Peter Sotos
Peter Sotos
Peter Sotos is a Chicago-born writer and musician. In his books, Sotos examines sadistic sexual criminals and sexually violent pornography, particularly involving children. His writings are interpreted by some as commenting on media hypocrisy around these issues...
, Jim Goad
Jim Goad
Jim Goad is an American author and publisher. Goad co-authored and published the cult zine ANSWER Me! and The Redneck Manifesto. Known for his controversial political and socially charged viewpoints, Goad's work has been described as "compelling", "brutally honest" and "original" by author Chuck...
, Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey is an American journalist, editor, and the publisher of Feral House books, whose work in all three capacities frequently centers on unusual, extreme, or "forbidden" areas of knowledge.-Life:...
, Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence and Japanese popular culture all collide in Brown's art....
and Jack Stevenson.
Rupe created the two volumes of Funeral Party
Funeral Party
Funeral Party is a four piece American band made up of Chad Elliot, James Torres, Kimo Kauhola and Tim Madrid. They formed the band one night in a park in their hometown of Whittier, California, a suburb just outside Los Angeles, California, choosing to name themselves after The Cure song of the...
in 1995 and 1997. The first volume is edited and designed by Rupe, along with Michael Rorro and Marlene Leach and Volume Two is almost wholly edited by Rupe and defines itself as a "journal of sublime decadence and darkness," and features the work of Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown
Trevor Brown is an English artist from London presently living in Japan whose work explores paraphilias, such as pedophilia, BDSM, and other fetish themes. Innocence, violence and Japanese popular culture all collide in Brown's art....
, Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel
Ulli Lommel , is a German actor and director, noted for his many horror films, and for his career as an actor on Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films.-Career:...
, Miguel Ángel Martín, Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum
Jack Ketchum is the pseudonym for American author Dallas Mayr . He is the recipient of four Bram Stoker Awards and three further nominations. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including The Girl Next Door and Red...
, George Kuchar
George Kuchar
George Kuchar was an American underground film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic.-Early life and career:...
and Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar
Mike Kuchar is an American underground filmmaker and actor. Kuchar is notable for his low-budget and camp films such as Sins of the Fleshapoids and The Craven Sluck.-Biography:...
, Milo Sacchi, and Jack Stevenson, among others. In reviewing Volume Two, the cult film magazine Shock Cinema called Funeral Party "a beautiful work, loaded with artwork ... much of which is sure to offend ... and always pushing the envelope in an effort to shed light on the darker niches of human ecstasy."
As a publisher, Rupe issued the two volumes of Funeral Party, and one of the earliest Peter Sotos novels, Special, issued in an edition of 500. A German publisher acquired the rights and published the novel in 2004 in a hardbound German-language edition. As a writer, Rupe contributed over 40 reviews to the Scarecrow Video Guide, wrote articles for various underground
Underground culture
An underground culture is a subculture or counterculture that exists outside the scope of mainstream mass media and popular culture. It may also refer to:*Underground comix, small press or self-published alternative comic books...
and horror publications including Rue Morgue
Rue Morgue
Rue Morgue may refer to:*"The Murders in the Rue Morgue", short story by Edgar Allan Poe*Murders in the Rue Morgue , 1932 movie based on the story*Murders in the Rue Morgue , a 1971 film...
, Screem, Panik and Timeless
Timeless
Timeless means the quality of being eternal, ageless, immortal, or not affected by time. Anachronisms can be regarded as timeless or out of time.It can also refer to:-Music:* Timeless Records, a jazz record label...
, and contributed to the French publication Tenebres for its special Stephen King
Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King is an American author of contemporary horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy fiction. His books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been adapted into a number of feature films, television movies and comic books...
edition.
Rupe was an interview subject for four of five nights of Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments speaking on the films Cat People
Cat People
Cat People is a 1942 horror film produced by Val Lewton and directed by Jacques Tourneur. DeWitt Bodeen wrote the original screenplay which was based on Val Lewton's short story The Bagheeta published in 1930. The film stars Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph and Tom Conway.Cat People was...
, Black Christmas
Black Christmas
Black Christmas is a 1974 Canadian slasher film directed by Bob Clark and written by A. Roy Moore, and largely based on a series of murders that took place in Quebec, Canada around Christmas time. The film's score is by Carl Zittrer. It was distributed by Ambassador Film Distributors in Canada and...
, Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder is a "ladder to heaven", described by biblical Jacob in the Book of GenesisJacob's Ladder may also refer to:* Ladder of Jacob, a pseudepigraphic text of the Old Testament...
, The Beyond
The Beyond
The Beyond is a 1981 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is considered by some horror film fans to be one of the best movies made by the Italian director...
, and The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a 1973 British film, combining thriller, horror and musical genres, directed by Robin Hardy and written by Anthony Shaffer. The film stars Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Ingrid Pitt, and Britt Ekland. Paul Giovanni composed the soundtrack...
, and also appeared in the sequels Bravo's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments and "Bravo's 13 Scarier Movie Moments" and made a Zelig-like appearance as an enthusiastic City Hall Cheerer in Sam Raimi
Sam Raimi
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi is an American film director, producer, actor and writer. He is best known for directing cult horror films like the Evil Dead series, Darkman and Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The...
's 2007 release, Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3
Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film written and directed by Sam Raimi, with a screenplay by Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent. It is the third film in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man trilogy based on the fictional Marvel Comics character Spider-Man...
.
Rupe's other ventures include handling publicity for genre
Genre
Genre , Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or culture, e.g. music, and in general, any type of discourse, whether written or spoken, audial or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria. Genres are formed by conventions that change over time...
DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
labels such as Media Blasters
Media Blasters
Media Blasters is an entertainment corporation founded by John Sirabella and Sam Liebowitz, based in New York City. They are in the business of licensing, translating, and releasing to the North American market manga compilations and anime and live-action movies and television series to home-video...
, Dark Sky Films, and Synapse Films
Synapse Films
Synapse Films is a DVD/Blu-ray label owned and operated by Don May, Jr. and his business partners Jerry Chandler and Charles Fiedler. The company specializes in cult horror, science fiction, and exploitation films....
, and serving as Chairman of the International Jury for the 15th Lund International Festival of Fantastic Film in southern Sweden, attending the FanTasia Film Festival
Fantasia Festival
Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996...
in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
and the Sitges Film Festival in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
as well as the Cannes, New York, and Toronto Film Festivals. He produced the Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film in Portland and Seattle in April and May 2009, and was the programmer for the 26th Olympia Film Festival in Olympia, WA.
In 2011 Rupe released an anthology of 24 years of his interviews with such subjects as Udo Kier
Udo Kier
Udo Kier is a German actor, known primarily for his work in horror and exploitation movies.-Early life:...
, Divine, Richard Kern
Richard Kern
Richard Kern is a New York underground filmmaker, writer and photographer. He first came to underground prominence as part of the underground cultural explosion in the East Village of New York City in the 1980s, with erotic and experimental films featuring underground personalities of the time...
, Tura Satana
Tura Satana
Tura Satana was an American actress and former exotic dancer. She was best known for her role as "Varla" in Russ Meyer's 1965 cult film, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.-Early life:...
, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky, is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, actor, author, comic book writer and spiritual guru...
, Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch is an Austrian artist who works in experimental and multimedia modes.Born in Vienna, Nitsch received training in painting during the time he studied at the Wiener Graphische Lehr-und Versuchanstalt. He is called an "actionist" or a performance artist...
, Teller
Teller
Teller may refer to:* Teller * Teller , of Penn & Teller* Bank teller** Automated teller machine* Teller * Teller, Alaska* Teller County, Colorado* Teller Amendment* Teller mine...
of Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller
Penn & Teller are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. Penn Jillette is a raconteur; Teller generally uses mime while performing, although his voice can occasionally be heard during their performance...
, Dennis Cooper
Dennis Cooper
Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, critic, editor and performance artist.-Career:Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. His first forays into literature came early, focusing on imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire...
, Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy
Dame Darcy is an alternative cartoonist. Her comic book, Meatcake, has been published by Fantagraphics since 1993. Darcy has also released several graphic novels, Frightful Fairytales, Dame Darcy's Meatcake Compilation, The Illustrated Jane Eyre, Dollerium , Comic Book Tattoo, and Gasoline .-...
, Gaspar Noe
Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé is an Argentine filmmaker and the son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé. He graduated from Louis Lumière College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland...
, Johanna Went
Johanna Went
Johanna Went is an American performance artist who primarily works in the Los Angeles area.She started her career in the late 1970s as musician in the punk scene. Music is still an important element of her shows. She has often worked with musician Mark Wheaton, whose fast, rhythmic music beats...
, and Brother Theodore
Brother Theodore
Brother Theodore , born Theodore Gottlieb, was a German-American monologuist and comedian known for rambling, stream-of-consciousness dialogues which he called "stand-up tragedy".-Early years:...
, published by Headpress as Dark Stars Rising: Conversation from the Outer Realms. Roger Ebert offered a tweet in advance of the book's release, while Vince Musetto of the New York Post gave mention in his Sunday Cine Files column. The book was very well received, with Serbia's Dejan Ognjanovic remarking "These images almost literally burst from the paper in a subliminal, psychedelic manner, spilling from the edges of the pages into your surroundings and into your brain – altering them so that after reading this book you can’t be the same person as before."
Shade Rupe lives in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.