Ginger Mortis defiantly surprised me with her taste in horror flicks. She likes a certain niche that you don’t hear to many speak of. Honestly, I was rather impressed. Ginger Mortis has participated in our Gore Girl shoots once before doing an awesome job on the make up for Andrea The Midnite Movie Mamacita’s shoot back in May of 2008.
When I asked her to tell me a bit about herself she said, "I wish it would rain every day. I'm moving to England. I want to live in a castle so I can haunt it later. I'd like to be a soaking wet ghost with seaweed in my hair on my head that I carry in my hand while I leave a mysterious trail of blood. Muaaah haahaaaaa"
Ginger's been doing fashion and horror makeup in and around Phoenix for the past ten years. She got some of her cohorts from Urban Hair - Brea Burns, Bryan Brobst, and Megan Balthazar, and friend Heather Slaughter, together for this Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill! inspired shoot.
Catch Ginger Mortis this weekend, April 4th, skating for the Arizona Derby Dames' horror-themed team, the Coffin Draggers, at Veteran's Memorial Coliseum!
Hair and Makeup by Urban Hair (4015 N. 16th St Suite B Phoenix). Photography by Andy Hartmark at http://www.myspace.com/takeyourpill
ICSYB - Alright so tell me, what are your top 5 horror/sci-fi movies of all time?
Ginger Mortis - The Hunger- Vampire movie with David Bowie, lesbianism, and Bauhaus. What's not to love? The aging effects they did on Bowie are amazing too. Very moving.
The Man Who Fell to Earth- Again, Bowie. Genius. If you haven't seen this sci-fi classic you really must.
Hellraiser II- Isn't this the one where what’s-her-name resurrects from the bloody mattress with no skin? And makes it look sexy. She takes that cigarette in her hand and leaves- not lipstick- blood, on the cigarette. Thank you Clive Barker.
Bucket of Blood- Hilarious! I love this movie with its Beatniks and horror art. I could watch it again and again.
The House on Haunted Hill- I ADORE Vincent Price. He's his sarcastic best in this movie which has murder, ghosts, a big vat of acid which will eat the flesh off your bones, and a walking skeleton. Precious!
ICSYB - Yea I am a huge Vincent Price fan. I just got some old radio show ghost stories he did back in the day that rule. What's your favorite death scene in a movie?
Ginger Mortis - There's a really disturbing one in Hitchcock's Frenzy that's always stuck with me - a rape scene where a woman is strangled with a necktie. He once said he filmed his death scenes like love scenes and his love scenes like death scenes. Which really makes his murders so tantalizing...remember when Marilyn Monroe gets it in Niagra?
OH!! Paris Hilton getting a pole through the head in House of Wax! I actually stood and applauded. And so did the rest of the world.
ICSYB - Yea I saw that in the movies, that was the best part of the film. What horror movie are you into right now?
Ginger Mortis - Repo! The Genetic Opera. What a weird little gem! The songs are infectious, the makeup, especially Blind Mag's - and I am usually against using feathers in makeup- but it's brilliant. And the blood! Lots of blood. I love that. And it really takes you through a range of emotions. Once you let go of the fact that it's a little weird and enjoy the ride it's amazing.
ICSYB - You like blood huh?
Ginger Mortis - Oh yeah I definitely have a blood fetish. Blood, more blood! I used to think the more the better- and then I saw Tokyo Gore Police. Actual blood FOUNTAINS in almost every scene! The chick even has to use a parasol to shield herself from the raining blood. It was very distracting. I'm not sure what this movie was about. Copious amounts of blood meets Japanese stripper. I think.
ICSYB - That movie wa too bloody even for me! What was the scariest movie you've seen and how did it effect you?
Ginger Mortis - The Exorcist scared me pretty bad when I was little. I was raised to believe that the devil was real, and really could possess you, and there was precious little you could do about it. That baseball bat under your pillow? Not gonna stop the devil. Your only hope is to learn to play the fiddle really well. But recently, The Blair Witch project basically scared the shit out of me. Before I went to see it, I saw the "documentary", not realizing that, hello, it's on the Sci-Fi channel...and I thought was real. Lots of people did. I left the theater physically trembling. It was a great hoax! I didn't think I'd ever camp again.
ICSYB - What's your favorite monster/villain?
Ginger Mortis - VAMPIRES! All the way, from Max Schreck to Bela Lugosi and even George Hamilton! Probably the blood fetish working here. I've really enjoyed the series True Blood and can't wait for the next season. Although I have to say, since the new Battlestar Galactica, Cylons run a close second on my villains/monsters list.
ICSYB - What movie would you like to see remade?
Ginger Mortis - First can we NOT have Will Smith in it? He kind of ruined The Last Man on Earth. Also cross Keanu Reeves off the list, who annoys the HELL out of me in Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Tom Cruise...really? Lestat? What the hell? Anyway...Bucket of Blood! There is some good material there. But it might not be able to carry a whole movie on its own. Maybe in a triptych with a couple of other oldies. I'd also like to see the old German classic M remade. Wait- has it been remade?
ICSYB - That old school Peter Lorre movie? I am impressed you know that! Best horror song?
Ginger Mortis - Thirteenth Floor Vendetta by the Damned
ICSYB - What about a best horror album?
Ginger Mortis - Murder Ballads by Nick Cave
ICSYB - And last but not least, your favorite horror book?
Ginger Mortis - Well I can tell you the last one I read- Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. Wow! her excruciatingly detailed descriptions of homosexual necrophiliac cannibalism were mesmerizing! The whole time I was reading it, I kept thinking, this book should probably be burned. If any book should. But I couldn't put it down! It was passed on to me, and I passed it on in turn. It's out there now, spreading its perversion.
