Shade Rupe (August 23 1968) 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… read more
Shade Rupe (August 23 1968) 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. —Wikipedia
