Porn Valley- Bill Margold pays a return Halloween visit to Anita Cannibal's KSEX lair tonight, and the question is will he and Cannibal eat their young as they did the last time he was on? www.adultfyi.com/read.php?ID=24617
With Margold's appearance and the fact that it's spooky night we chatted about one of the most notable porn films of all time which Margold appears in. Depending which version you've seen of it, it's been titled Dracula Sucks, Love at First Bite or Dracula's Bride among others.
It's real claim to fame, though, is it's Hall of Fame cast which includes: Jamie Gillis, Annette Haven, John Leslie, Serena, Kay Parker, John Holmes, Mike Ranger, Paul Thomas, Richard Bulik, Patricia Manning, Seka and veteran spookster, Reggie Nalder. And then there's Margold as an apple tossing asylum attendant.
When he comes to KSEX, Margold said he'll be wearing the same doctors coat
he had on in the movie.
"If you look at the cast there's been no other cast like that in the history of the business," he points out. "A Hall of Fame cast, still with people who haven't been recognized, like Mike Ranger and Pat Manning. They, one day, somewhere might make Halls of Fame. But without a doubt the biggest group of manes in history."
"It was a wonderful experience," Margold continues. "I wrote it - re-wrote it after Mitch Morrell wrote it. And I was so fortunate to direct all the second unit because [Philip] Marshak [the director] was too busy taking his time setting up monster shots.
"It took a week to make that movie," Margold recalls. "We made it up in Lancaster at some type of ranch, and we were all sequestered away from the public. It was a tremendous experience with Holmes, Seka, Paul Thomas, Jamie and Serena and Annette Haven, Kay Parker and John Leslie. I was only four years in the business at that point and was sort of the semi-new kid on the block. But I did shoot the second unit and all the violent death scenes are mine.
"I remember Jamie was going to do a pissing scene on Serena he and said you want to come watch? I said I don't think you need me watching you piss on Serena. I discretely stayed out of that and Holmes was Seka's first hardcore scene in a film. He said you want to hang around? I played Henry the attendant, in fact, we come into the barn and Holmes said you want to stay. No, I said and wandered out."
This was September, 1978 and Margold was on a supreme high from a Yankees comeback against the Red Sox that year.
"But when Holmes came out of the barn that Saturday night where he did Seka, he was glowing," recalls Margold.
"He said to me I'll make all the calls I can. This woman is just incredible. And the next day Paul Thomas did her in that old car and said he'd make all kinds of calls. Seka's star was raised that weekend. I purposely kept her out of any kind of sexual scene until I could get the king to her which, of course, brings up the famous incest scene between Kay Parker and John Leslie as brother and sister- The Sewards- who run the sanitarium.
"Leslie had been stomping his foot and making all kinds of 'I want to fuck Seka!' I want to fuck Seka! comments' I said it's not in the script. So I said I'll get you laid somehow. I was supposed to work with Kay Parker and I sort of had to sacrifice my possibility by setting up the scene where he's pouting and Kay has to administer to him. After it's over- with a line that's not written in the script- she says, 'now that I've made you feel good and you do feel good, don't you John, you can go back to work.'"
"He's whimpering and goes back to work. It's very cute. But I had real fun. I was given a chance to direct The Baby Jane scene, The Singing Cowboy scene, the white rabbit being gobbled up by a vampire- all the stuff that was the more violent, horrific stuff was all mine. And the movie came together perfectly. In it's own way it's a cult classic. Maybe not as hot a film as certain other films but for the intensity of the time it certainly holds its own even now- 30 years- and you still look at this. How did all those people come together?"
"It was a mutual series of people bringing people to the set. Jamie and Serena were together at the time. Each one of them had to be treated with a certain amount of reverence because each one of them was a mainstream adult star at that point. And then of course there was Ranger who Holmes told me was going to be his protege. And Pat Manning was just adorable, a magnificent woman; she was really a lady. It was just a tremendous opportunity to create magic for a week. And everything was first class. We ate and ate and ate."
"Unfortunately there was a lot of cocaine on the set that I didn't approve of," says Margold. "But I guess that was the time and no one knew anything except going to make a movie and we made ourselves a movie. I remember Mitch Morrell and I wrote it and re-wrote it and set it up. He plays the pudgy attendant who gets sacrificed."
"If you study the film, I'm the only one who's not bitten by the end of the movie," Margold continues. "They hate me so much they throw me over the castle. And what I did was blood-pack myself up then let that apple roll down the stairs- sort of a salute to The Battleship Potemkin. I had the apple throughout the whole movie and after I fucked Pat Manning I break the apple on her back and she says are you coming back? Nah. I'm coing to get another apple."
"It was a time when everything came together to make a movie that has lasted," observes Margold.
Margold is quick to point out that Cannibal's won't be a serious show tonight.
"I don't know what she's coming as."
Margold is also bringing along Fred Salaff, www.fredsalaff.com, but notes that Salaff won't be talking about the horrors of his stay in a third world prison shit hole for shooting a porn movie.
"His lawyer has forbidden him," says Margold. "But I did tell Cannibal to serve bread and water on a tin plate with bugs floating in it."
Margold's been having dinner on Friday nights with Salaff and says, "You don't want to hear what he went through. This is the real Midnight Express. But he has weathered it. And I've asked Cannibal to bring in a black lady for his amusement. We should always have a black cat around on Halloween."
