As if Draven’s white face paint, top-to-toe black leather and thwarted romantic melancholy didn’t already make him goth’s ultimate super-antihero, the soundtrack sealed the deal: Nine Inch Nails covered Joy Division, Rollins Band covered Suicide, and The Cure provided the character’s bespoke motivational theme tune. But when star Brandon Lee was killed in a studio accident, the aura of tragic gloom became forever horrendously palpable. The 1994 adaptation of James O'Barr’s beloved comic The Crow was already an oppressively dark movie, filmed almost entirely at night in the rain, telling the tale of a skinny rock guitarist risen from the grave to avenge his girlfriend’s rape and murder. The Misfits wrote her titular song, The Cramps got her to introduce local live shows, and she even fronted garage punks Satan’s Cheerleaders on two mid-80s singles. Although the job barely lasted a year, and was confined to the LA region, Vampira’s striking appearance and morbid humour made her an instant, immortal phenomenon, America’s first and best ‘glamour ghoul’. She was spotted by a local TV producer looking for someone to introduce late-night horror movies - then a brand-new concept. In 1953 Maila Nurmi attended a Hollywood costume party dressed as the as-yet-unnamed macabre matriarch from Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons. The first song ever written by the first goth band, Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus, was a full-blooded love song to the Hungarian actor who became so associated with the role he was buried in his Dracula cloak. Whitby became the goth capital of the world after the evil Count shored up there in the 1897 novel, and just about every film interpretation has made its mark on goth culture, from the rodentlike ghoul of 1922’s Nosferatu to the top-hatted horndog of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1994 version. ET/PT with the same-day release on discovery+.Just about every aspect of Bram Stoker’s titular vampire has come to inform goth lore. The all-new Travel Channel series, “Ghosts of Devil’s Perch,” premieres on Sunday, August 21 at 9 p.m. Stafford and psychic medium Cindy Kaza arrive in Butte, they find paranormal activity that startles even them. When investigator Dave Schrader, tech expert K.D. Gallagher and Sheriff Ed Lester have called in an elite team of paranormal investigators to help. This led some to brand the mountain town “The Devil’s Perch.” With the town now intent on rebuilding its image, it seems every renovation project is digging up a paranormal nightmare with residents and businesses reporting terrifying ghostly encounters. But the hills that glittered in the sun could also cast sinister shadows of greed and vice at night. The discovery of copper in the 1880s turned Butte’s Copper Barons into some of the wealthiest men in America. A mystery is buried beneath the streets of Butte, Montana, and the spirits tethered to the historic mining town’s past are rising to the surface with clues.
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