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Alice Cooper's Rocky Horror
(Sound and Vision, 1988-09-00)
"I've always said that there's a perfect marriage between horror and rock music," says singer Alice Cooper who, after four years of laying low, is back again scaring audiences. The project that bought Cooper back is Monster Dog, a film made for video in which he plays an adventuresome rock star transformed into a killer canine/man. "I was at a period where I wasn't really doing anything," says Cooper. "I'd been watching all of those [Dario] Argento splatter movies when they offered me the part. It had an Italian director, so I figured we'd be able to get away with more. It sounded like fun - three months in Madrid, I'd get to turn into a dog, and we'd get to kill eight people," he laughs. Cooper agreed to do Monster Dog as long as it was cast with unknowns. "I love C-movies," he says, "but there's nothing worse than a big budget splatter film."...
Life and Crimes of Alice Cooper Album Review
(Sound and Vision, 1999-06-00)
"Now that Rhino has acquired the rights to most of the Warner Bros. back catalog, get ready for a windfall of reissues. Among the first to drop are these four-CD boxed sets of two of the hardest rockers from the 70s. Serious metallurgists may wonder how the lowdown Alice Cooper can beat out the relatively highbrow Deep Purple by a full star. ...
