Headpress is the journal of Sex Religion Death… and has enjoyed considerable cult status at the forefront of ‘transgressive’ writing. Incisive and cutting-edge essays on films and filmmakers, religious manias, fanaticism, weird crime cases, sex queens, curious music, fetishism, art, pornography, trash and sleaze.
CONTENTS INCLUDE
On the rack! — Several decades of seedy magazines as sold in seedier parts of town... a personal odyssey!
Harvey Pekar! — an interview with the comics legend from Cleveland!
There are no hippies in Hull! — sex, drugs, rock’n’roll & subversive literature in the north of England in the sixties!
Females slugging it out in the ring! — a former British kickboxing champion talks of her experiences, and the men who get off on fighting chicks!
I saw huge spiders! — literature for Christians in the wake of "the cross and the switchblade"!
The Wicker Bastard! — or, films that exist in several versions of differing lengths that drive you mad as you search for the most complete print…!
Exploited video
Swinging sex and pseudo science
and much, much more!!
"Particularly bizarre ... disturbing and sometimes delightful" - Time Out
"Absolutely essential" - Fortean Times
"An extended tour of the more bizarre aspects of popular, and not so popular, culture, with plenty of moral and aesthetic conundrums along the way" - Penthouse
"Intense, cool and enthusiastic, this is essential reading" - Bizarre
"An entirely healthy interest in violent death & deviant sex" - i-D
"Remarkable ... I'm running out of superlatives with which to praise Headpress" - The Dark Side
"The merely curious are advised to steer well clear" - Rock Power
"This is the top-dog, the main man and is unbeatable... Interesting, disturbing, fascinating and entertaining." - The British Fantasy Society
"Excellent" - Film Threat
"Delivers on all counts" - Fatal Visions
"Unmissable and then some" - The Empty Quarter
"Pushing the right buttons on the wrong people" - Flux
"Outri, outlandish, funny, unnerving and odd" - Lightspeed
"The dark wonderland of the psyche... Genuinely thought provoking, intelligent analysis makes Headpress a read worth catching up with." - Samhain
"The ultimate expression of the transgressive ethic" - Speak Magazine
"Older hippie types encountering this for the first time might fall into reveries of underground press nostalgia: its libertarian, anarchic brand of irreverence is very seventies and quite refreshing in the post-post-feminist nineties." - Acid Angel -- Reviews
"A phenomenal output... roundly endorsed" -- City Life (UK)
"Headpress rules" -- Spectator
"If Headpress was a movie it would be billed as compulsive and essential viewing... Get real, start living... Get Headpress!" -- Prism
"Particularly bizarre ... disturbing and sometimes delightful" -- Time Out (UK)
