Despite a regrettable dearth of visual material of Maila Nurmi in her signature role as early TV horror icon Vampira, R.H. Greene‘s docu succeeds admirably in transposing his 2010 radio documentary ...

Being the first is not always a good thing. Many ground breaking artists who introduce something new into the cultural mix do not always fare well after they have changed the rules and the game. Take, ...

My introduction to feminine carnality came not from the usual stack of your neighbor's dad's Playboys but from the pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland, Castle of Frankenstein magazine, and family ...

RH Greene turned his Off-Ramp documentary about 1950s TV sensation "Vampira" (Maila Nurmi) into a film that's nominated for best documentary in the LA Film Festival. In 1954, Maila Nurmi shocked the ...

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...

The campy siren who put the vamp in VAMPIRA was actually a Finnish American actress, MAILA NURMI, who graduated from Astoria High School before moving to Los Angeles and assuming her alter ego. She ...

It’s our Halloween Show! And that means Halloween giveaways (yes, plural!). Plus, Wade interviews director Ray Greene about his brilliant scream queen documentary Vampira and Me. From their secluded ...