AIDS Monster Movie Marathon

Welcome to a ghoulish treat for all times for the whole family ...

It's the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a story told backwards in a car driving forward ...

Brought to you by Randy Boyd's Blocks, the blog of five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist Randy Boyd ...

Featuring the classics of the classics, the best and the worst of the AIDS Monster Movies so famous back in the day.

Plus, a special retrospective treat! Journey through the dark mind of the AIDS Monster who started it all with his now famous monster movies, the fictional collection of dreams Americans created for themselves and their loved ones during a time our special guest refers to as the AIDS Panic (1981-1996).

In this special, multi-part edition of my author blog (posted and presented backwards beginning Halloween Night, 2008), we'll take a look at rare photos from the films and life of our legendary guest. And perhaps even more anticipated, the unveiling of never seen before movie posters from the AIDS Monster Movie series.

But first ...

Tonight's special guest has been scaring people shitless for nearly three decades with his unique brand of mayhem and destruction. Without this man, there would be no AIDS Monster Movie Marathon. Randy Boyd's Blocks is proud, honored, and just a little freaked out to bring to you ...

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," if you dare go there ...

Interview with the AIDS Monster

And now, a special Halloween treat on this very special occasion: my one-on-one, exclusive, tell-all tête-à-tête with the infamous actor who starred in most of the AIDS Monster Movies, the great Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd.

Count Randolpho (no relation?) was a faded B-movie star whose career was resurrected from the dead with the resurgence in popularity of the AIDS Monster Movies, now a big hit with a whole new generation.

I sat down at a table usually reserved for seances and right away, got down to business asking the Count the questions the world has been dying to know the answers for. Quite literally.

Randy Boyd: Count Randolpho, tell us why AIDS and the AIDS Monster is such a big hit in the world once again?

Count Randolpho: For those of you who were alive during the original AIDS Panic, you may or may not remember all the nightmares that made up the horrific dreams Americans had about AIDS, those worst case scenarios, the having-great-sex-one-minute-facing-your-death-the-next nightmares.

Q: I'm getting scared already. Do we have to go there?

A: Of course, those kinds of terrorizing images had been the stuff of grown-ups' dreams to their kids as recent as slasher greats like the original Halloween (1978), a superb film, by the way, and the equally disturbing early versions of Jason and the Friday the 13th franchise. And then there were their copycats, along with their 1950s predecessors, the ones hammered into the minds of the previous generation, you know, those beatniks and hippies that had all that free love on acid.

Q: Ah, the Sexual Revolution.

A: Exactly. From post-WWII baby boomed America, right on through to our Happy Days in the 1950s and our free love, drugs and rock n roll of the 1960s and 70s, America was gettin' its nut. Can I say that on this blog? Not only that, Americans were giving themselves permission to enjoy sex, male or female, and in many different combinations and varieties.

Q: Talk about a dream come true. Speaking of dreams—

A: And America loved it. Many of us reading blogs on the net wouldn't be alive today, reading blogs on the net, if somebody wasn't getting it on a couple of decades back. In the bedroom, in the backseat, in the passing night, in love, in rape and incest, with husbands and wives, strangers, relatives, people in positions of power and people in submission to power. With descendants of slaves, slave owners and immigrants. With men and women of all races with all kinds of backgrounds and blends and so on and so forth.

Q: Does all this have a point, Count, Sir?

A: You bet your impatient mind, it does.

Q: Pardon me?

A: Point is: America got off and shot a lot of wads. But then, all of a sudden, on a hot summer day in July of 1981, life was changed dramatically, especially when it came to sex.

Be sure to read more of "Interview with the AIDS Monster," part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon @ Randy Boyd's Blocks.

An AIDS Monster Is Born

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a Randy Boyd Blocks exclusive, continues as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a blog special celebrating Halloween 2008.

Now, more of the interview:

Randy: Sex changed while America was celebrating its independence?

Count Randolpho: To fuck, yes. On July 4, 1981, Americans were celebrating their independence to fuck. People were having sex, some were making babies. Unbeknown to most, the day before, the New York Times had served the world written-notice: on the radar was a grimmer, more gruesome-told-you-so-worst-case-nightmarish-way-to-die-scenario than all the teen horror flicks combined. A thing we would later come to call AIDS.

Q: Is it true you once compared that article to the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only on the radar in certain circles.

A: A lot of people didn't take the initial AIDS warnings too seriously, for one reason or another. Then four years later, on another July day in America, the so-called Sexual Revolution received its 9/11 wake-up call in 1985.

Q: Is it true you were the one who first called it AIDS Night in America?

A: And so what if I did? It was a sobering day of epic proportions in American and world history.

Q: Enlighten us.

A: In a time when the number of celebrities and access to them was a great deal less than that of today, Rock Hudson's announcement that he was being treated for AIDS shocked the world. The images of the famous actor struggling to and from airports in the US and France, his beloved female co-star Doris Day by his side. The visions of a frail, fading, emaciated Rock, a man who represented masculinity, virility, and acceptable heterosexual behavior (as seen on TV and in movies).

Q: Mind talking about something else? This is starting to be a downer.

A: Why? You can't run from the AIDS Monster, fool. The beast has a lot to bitch about.

AIDS Night in America, 1985

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a Randy Boyd Blocks exclusive, continues as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a blog special celebrating Halloween 2008.

Randy Boyd: Count Randolpho, what were you saying about the night Rock Hudson shocked the world?

Randolpho: It was as shocking as finding out a huge celebrity of today has some mysterious, fatal disease from having sex with the wrong kind of people, as determined by the Bible and Bible-thumping Americans. Told you so. AIDS = Evil. Ooops. I know what you did last summer for the last 20 years, which means you could be the next Rock to crumble to death by AIDS. Very publicly, by the way.

Q: Speaking of “very publicly,” my next novel is coming out in 2009 and—

A: Enough with your shameless plug for a second. How many Americans were scared shitless on AIDS Night in America, 1985? Kids, go ask your parents! Really! Go talk about it with them. Ask them what it was like hearing on the news that there's a chance they could have AIDS like Rock Hudson. Parents, maybe you could share it with your horny teenagers, and the younger siblings who look up to them, maybe you could share with them how it felt hearing scientists on the news telling the world, “not much we can do about this strange new fatal disease right now, but we think it's sexually transmitted.”

Q: What good is bringing up all that again?

A: Ask them how it felt getting a wake-up call that said, “all that sex and experimenting you've been enjoying, you've been having that sex with all the people those people have been having sex with, too.”

Q: My next novel is about—

A: America was shared shitless for a very long time. Can anyone say Ryan White? Remember him? Remember the babies with AIDS who were shunned form the world? Remember the constant news footage of weak, sick, frail skeletons of gay men dying in hospital death beds, aliens on public display, abandoned by their loved ones, their neighbors, their landlords, their jobs, their co-workers, their medical staff, their schools, their daycares, their right to live and die in America?

Q: You're sweating profusely. Wanna take a break?

A: I'm an old black man with a mask on his face, you want I should not sweat?

Q: Why are you talking like a Jewish or Italian New Yorker?

A: Trying to sound different than the crazy black author who created me. Can I finish my story? We'll get to your blessed next book soon enough.

Q: Please continue.

A: Hold on, need a break. I just flew in from doing Letterman last night, and boy are my wings tired. Is that the sound of the jpeg door creaking open?

Q: Sure is, AIDS Monster. It's time for a Halloween treat!

I Have the AIDS Virus, Hear Me Sing!

Photo above: Movie poster from the musical Take My HIV, Please!

More Monster Movie Marathon to Come!

The Halloween Fun Has Just Begun @ Randy Boyd's Blocks!

Photo above: Movie poster for the acclaimed, The AIDS Monster Goes to Washington

Dawn of the Disease-Ridden

... The AIDS Monster Movie Marathon scrolls onward. Or backwards, depending on how you're viewing it. It's kinda like this ...

The AIDS Monster Movie Marathon is a story told backwards in a car driving forward.

Confused? Don't be. You'll figure it out.

We now continue with our exclusive "Interview with the AIDS Monster," part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon at Randy Boyd's Blocks.

Randy Boyd: Is that enough goat blood to drink? Ready to continue now?

Count Randolpho: Thank you, I think I will. The AIDS Panic raged like a fire out of control, with waves of pandemonium and mayhem ebbing and flowing, with fumbles and advances by scientists, with awareness and lack thereof, with attention and ignorance, with funding and less funding, with news coverage and less news coverage, with meaning in the gay community and very little meaning in the gay community.

The focus and attention coincided with things like: priorities in rich communities, in black communities, in Latino communities, in Washington, in local government, in compassionate humans' hearts and minds.

Q: Is there a happy ending to this interview?

A: Stick around and find out. The AIDS Panic ended circa 1996. Scientists and the FDA unleashed the first protease inhibitor, the first class of drugs that had a new, more effective strategy in mind against the virus.

Q: Can you explain, please, Count.

A: Picture the virus as a great athlete on the basketball court. We'll call him Magic Jordan Miller. You can't stop him with what you've got right now; you can only contain him by studying his tendencies and weaknesses and adapting a good defensive strategy to minimize his damage. The team known as the Scientists released their “magical” new defensive opponent around Christmas, 1995. So 1996 is when the strategy started to show Santa had delivered—

Q: And the AIDS Panic went away.

A: Not so fast. It wasn't over. Not by a long shot. As long as Magic Jordan Miller is in the game, you got to defend it and defend it well at each and every opportunity, feel me? Sorry, I'm channeling Coach Renteria, football coach for the Dreamville Zephyrs football team in your next novel, The Bearcat Boyz, was I supposed to keep that a secret?

Q: Moving on. So the AIDS Panic subsided, the fear recessed, and The Powers That Be never released the movie posters created for America's fictional movies representing their dreams?

A: Most of them anyway. Until now.

Q: Why now?

A: You know why, you wrote about the Bareback Party craze in America. We done sexually revolted again. Since the Panic subsided, the heat done risen again. On top of that, a whole new generation of Americans have been born and don't remember the AIDS Panic, only the current financial panic.

And not only that, these new kids on the block are horny like they're supposed to be, hey, it's only natural. But kids of today have also got the Internet, the most magical toaster slash home product since the first gizmo sold to our grandparents on a black and white television.

Q: So we're talking young raging hormones on steroids, so to speak.

A: And then some. Do the math, America. Horny is as horny do. And kids are doing it. Trouble is, most kids are being horny minus real information on safer sex and how to have it. And then there's drugs, speaking of steroids, and the recreation variety, circa today. Add music, and life is one big ongoing sex party 'til you drop. Sometimes literally.

Q: Your homage to disco-era horror films, Toxic DJ Mix Monster, is a big hit today, I think, because of the music soundtrack that accompanied the campy flop.

A: A man's gotta sing sometime, eh?

Q: Have you been to any of these AIDS Monster Movie parties? I hear they're thinking about having AIDS Monster Movie conventions now.

A: Forget about that. I'm tired of talking about the sex lives of young adults. It's not like they'd touch a real-life monster like me. They'd rather put me in a box they feel comfortable with, and call themselves disease-free.

Q: Just one more thing before we move on—

A: Kids are gonna do what kids do, with or without my library of AIDS Monster images running through their minds. They know, even if only peripherally, that sex = danger, especially to your own health. What they don't know is how to navigate the sexual highways and byways, pun intended, while keeping themselves protected and minimizing the risks and the dangers.

Q: You make it sound like driving.

A: Like driving, flying, or operating any heavy machinery, if you get my drift. Which reminds me, I need to re-up my ED script, big night coming up ... but I digress.

Q: And often.

A: Whatever you do in life, other people before you have thought about it and tried it. Sometimes, that person might be your parents. Or your older sibling. Whatever the case, nothing you can think of or do is original. Too many great apes before us to be an OG anything, essentially.

Q: Do you have a point, because I thought we were really here to promote my upcoming Bearcat Boyz book series, especially Bearcat Boyz 1, due out September 2009.

A: Ignore the rude interviewer, kids, whatever you do out there, some human has done it before you. Some have liked it. Some haven't. Some have been hurt by it. Some have been helped by it. Some have figured out how to do it safely and have lived to tell about it. And some, well, some have tried it and it didn't work out so well. We can't learn much from the dead, unless they left a note behind—

Q: Which is exactly why I write my books and two blogs.

A: You have another blog besides this author blog? I did not know that.

Q: Yes, it's my own, NC-17-esque take on my sex and love life, or mostly lack thereof.

A: Fascinating.

Q: Indeed. But caution: my whole other blog, well, how do I put this? My whole other blog is not for the timid and weak when it comes to me expressing myself as a male sexual dawg. So caution to the hetero crowd that just can't bring themselves to imagine a black homo being sexual and falling in love, just like them.

A: That went over my head, among various other places. Can you run that by me once again?

Q: Look at it this way:

Randy Boyd blogs with his brain at RandyBoydsBlocks.com,

and with his body at FunkyBlackPozJock.com.

A: You're nothing, if not clever. If I were a younger man ...

Q: Why assume I'm not into older guys?

A: You didn't let me finish. If I were a younger Count Randolpho, I could rush to the pharmacy and get that Viagra I need to order. But I thought I was here to answer questions, not ask them.

Q: Moving on.

A: I wish you would. This is Halloween weekend. I've got parties to attend. And before you ask, I'm going as the same getup I do every year: I'm going as the AIDS Monster.

AIDS: The Golden Years

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a Randy Boyd Blocks exclusive, continues as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a blog special celebrating Halloween 2008.

Now, more of the interview:

Randy Boyd, author: So in essence, Count, are you saying kids are better off if, on some level, they learn about love and sex in the same way they learn about other activities best experienced as responsible adults, like driving?

Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd, actor: Like driving, like thriving in the workforce, going to a social gathering, like managing your finances responsibly, and on and on to the break of Dawn of the Disease-Ridden. Sorry, had to plug one of my classics. Now available on Craigslist! It's paired as a double feature with Battle of the Neg People. Oh, how I loved it when the AIDS Monster Movie series added a new enemy.

Q: You actually liked the clean and disease-free Neg People? Out to destroy all Poz People? Or at least, keep them away from starring in Neg People's Great Bareback Adventures. Why were they a good thing for the AIDS Monster?

A: Ah, those were the golden years for AIDS. Just when you thought the virus had played out and the AIDS Monster was a thing of the past, the new generation came out to the party with a whole new band of heroes bent on destroying the ugly beast, little ol' me.

Q: The Neg People were a tough adversary, granted, but they were created well after the original AIDS Panic of 1981-1996.

A: Thing is, they don't have to be adversaries. Ain't that crazy? Neg People can live with and make love to Poz People. You betcha! Neg People can have sex with Poz People. Trouble is, the majority of Neg People don't know that. Many Neg People are like zombies, blindly stumbling through the dark and scary night, foolishly unaware of the fact that Neg People can co-exist sexually with Poz People, especially if both Neg People and Poz People arm themselves with knowledge about what is and isn't safer sex. On top of that, they have an even better shot at great sex if they practice that safer sex until they get really, really good at it.

Q: Alas, it doesn't always happen that way, Count Randolpho.

A: Because nobody is teaching kids how to operate their horny equipment responsibly, and thus kids fail to get the message that their horny equipment can get them killed.

Q: So what's safe, Count?

A: Who am I, Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man? The AIDS Monster doesn't have a photographic memory. Besides, don't take my word for it. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Google it. Listen to what reputable medical and scientific sites like the CDC have to say. Don't take Rain Man's or any one man's word for it. By the way, young writer ...

Q: Yes, Count Randolpho?

Don't take anybody's word for it.

A: That's a tip that works well with lovers and strangers when it comes to claims about one's HIV status. If the AIDS Monster had a dead bat to eat for each time a young soul comes up to me on the street and says:

"He said was he clean and negative, Count Randolpho. I believed him and let him inside me, unprotected. Now ... I'm an AIDS Monster just like you."

More Monster Movie Marathon Treats!

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a Randy Boyd Blocks exclusive, continues as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a special blog treat for Halloween 2008. Now, more of the interview:

Randy Boyd: Any other advice?

Randolpho: Don't believe what you hear about safer sex in the AIDS Monster Movies. Those films are just figments of your imagination, an imagination that was fueled by ignorance, shame, guilt and a desire to suppress the truth.

Q: What truth is that, Count?

A: A truth so eloquently put in your wonderful, not-so-little novel.

Q: Walt Loves the Bearcat? (I know, shameless plug, when I read it.)

A: Indeed. How did those boys put it? Let's see, if I remember ...

Q: It was—

A: I can pull it outta my ass myself, thank you very much. Another good rule to live by, by the way. Anyway. The truth goes like this:

"Sex is what makes us humans."

Walt Loves the Bearcat by Randy Boyd.

Q: Well said.

A: If you say so yourself. Now show the bigger memo where that quote appears.

Q: We don't have time.

A: We got time, word guy.

Q: Not if you wanna get to your favorite monster movies, Pops.

A: Don't call me Pops, kid. You got it twisted.

Q: We're here to talk about kids today and the AIDS Monster Movies.

A: What do you think The Bearcat Boyz deals with? Horny boys in love. Duh! Like Oh ... My ... Gawd ... Just show the memo from the book, what's it called again, losing my mind here?

Q: Walt Loves the Bearcat

A: That's it. Play the memo from the chapter in Walt Loves the Bearcat called "The Bearcat Boyz."

Universal Memo: Bearcat Boyz have balls and dicks, whatever names you wanna give them, and all the other body parts male men have, even tails. Call ’em what you want, we’ve got them and we think about them All The Time. We also like using them, one way or another, and nothing you can say is gonna stop us now. Our hunch is ... sex is what makes us humans. We’re just being as human as humanly possible. We’re always open to better ways of dreaming about our hands, our minds, our tongues, our dicks, our balls, our asses, our love, but keep your garbage to yourselves if you plan on trashing the deepest dreams of our souls.

Bearcat Boyz don’t lie about having balls. This much is true.

We love our bodies, our minds, our souls and our sexual impulses.
If we can’t talk about it, we can always act it out for you.

from Walt Loves the Bearcat

Q: Satisfied now?

A: Not yet but getting there.

Q: Hey, that's a line from Walt Loves the Bearcat, a Lambda Literary Award finalist for Best Romance. Available wherever books are sold. Oh, wait, I hear the sound of our jpeg Halloween door creaking open ... must be time for a different kind of AIDS Monster Movie Marathon Treat!

AIDS Monsters Need Love, Too!

Photo above: Movie poster from the horror classic Bride of AIDS Monster

The AIDS Monster Movie Marathon Scrolls Onward!

Photo above: Movie poster from the cult classic, Toxic DJ Mix Monster

Photo above: Movie poster from the controversial thriller, AIDS, Inc.

What's Next for the AIDS Monster?

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a Randy Boyd Blocks exclusive, continues as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, a blog special celebrating Halloween 2008. Now, more of the interview:

Randy Boyd, aka Joe the Interviewer: So what's next for the great Count Randolpho and the role that made him a household name? What's Next for the AIDS Monster?

Count Randolpho, aka Joe the Legendary Old Actor: I understand I'm to appear in your next novel, as a matter of fact, speaking of shameless plugs.

Q: Oh, really? I did not realize the script called for a shameless plug right here ...

A: He says rather coyly. Yes, really, creator o' mine and o' script. Maybe your conscious doesn't know it yet, but you've booked me for your next big project, what's it? Oh, yeah, your upcoming four-book series. I'm doing, oh, yeah, part 2, The Bearcat Boyz Exit to Tulsa. I must say, I play a rather handsome AIDS Monster in a Wild West kinda scene, do we have a still shot from the dailies?


Q: We're not supposed to talk about The Bearcat Boyz, Books 1-4 during this interview.

A: The Bearcat Boyz, Books 1-4 hasn't been official announced on your blog, the Count knows that. But hey, I saw a mention of it already on Outsports.com. That Jim and Cyd, man, those two cats are my heroes with what they've accomplished with that website.

Q: Fine, but let's not talk about my Bearcat Boyz yet.

A: Too, late, the boyz at the best blessed homo jock website done scooped ya and nutted the Bearcat Boyz for you. Now it's up to you to come though with this so-called revolutionary new story about two boys in love in high school.

Q: Yes, but—

A: What's the harm in letting Blockheads know about the first book, what's it called? The Bearcat Boyz do the Road, Hit the Road, On the Road, that's it. Bearcat Boyz, Book 1.

Q: Excuse me, Count, but the official title is The Bearcat Boyz on the Road of Life, Bearcat Boyz, Book 1.

A: Good luck getting the instant text world to jump on that flying football stadium. No offense, but you realize you're an unknown, pissant writer with a following of what, what's it up to now, 2 or 3.

Q: I had five return visitors to my blog this week, thank you very much.

A: You talk a lot like me, you know that?

Q: Anyway, Count, gotta wrap up here.

A: What? Can't I tell 'em about my upcoming appearance in The Bearcat Boyz Exit to Tulsa? I mean it is Bearcat Boyz Book 2, right?


Q: Yes, but—

A: I think it's gonna be great, from what I've read of the script, I mean novel, I mean ... anyway ...

Q: Count Randolpho, could we please ...

A: Settle down, Joe the Unknown Writer, I got a story to tell.

Q: Wrap it up, quick, Joe the Old Buzzard of a Hollywood Has-Been.

A: The AIDS Monster will be back in the stories of our dreams when one of the two boys in love in the Bearcat Boyz will turn out to be .... drum roll ... one of the Poz People! Cue my evil laugh on the audio cart, I'm too old to do that kinda shit anymore.

Q: Are we done, Sir?

A: Wait, you were supposed to ask me about my all-time favorite AIDS Monster Movies.

Q: Oh, right, sorry.

A: Yeah, I bet you are.

Q: Unfortunately, we've run outta time here @ the Blocks.

A: Can it, conscious o' mine. I came here to promote your shit and reminiscence about my glorious and lucrative career.

Q: Okay, but one last question before you start. Is it true you lost out for the role of Derek Mayfield, the black man with a big heart in Bridge Across the Ocean by well, by me?

A: Not done with the plugs, eh? That rumor is as false as the Republican party's claims about Barack Obama being a socialist who pals around with terrorists. I was not available for that role in Bridge Across the Ocean, your heartwarming, feel-good AIDS story from 1988. It happens in an actor's career, you know. I also wasn't able to star in the hugely successful horror thriller Kaposi Killer. Now that was a tragedy, more or less, but I hear they might do a remake.

Q: Now we've really run outta time, Count. Halloween's almost over for another year.

A: Like hell. Shocking twist! I'm here all Halloween Weekend, folks!

Q: Say what?

A: That's right, Blocks fans, it's an AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, after all, eh? Besides, I have it on good authority you're gonna splice up my interview and run it in installments all weekend long, just like the networks do with their most precious and exclusive celebrity interviews.

Stop Fighting AIDS Already!

More of Randy Boyd's "Interview with the AIDS Monster," a special Halloween treat as part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon at Randy Boyd's Blocks.

Randy of Randy Boyd's Blocks: What do you want, you sexy beast?

Count Randolpho: Remember, I'm the AIDS Monster. If you don't show me some love and attention, and treat me right, I won't make nice with you either. You don't have to fight me. That was the main point of all the AIDS Monster Movies, a point the fearful ones miss and as a result, suffer a most hideous fate. You don't have to fight AIDS. In fact, my movie Stop Fighting AIDS Already! is gonna be on my list of favorite classics, as you'll see here in a second.

Q: Could you please make your point, Count Randolpho, star of the great AIDS Monster Movies of our time?

A: You don't live with the AIDS Monster in your body or in your town by fighting it or trying to destroy it. The AIDS Monster is a beast that ain't going away. But it is a beast you may contain, but only if you show it some love and treat it like you yourself want to be treated, with kindness and compassion.

Q: Interesting. Tell me more.

A: The world can relate to working it out with a ferocious beast in an animated Disney film meant for the whole family. Now the AIDS Monster would like to see the world befriend the AIDS beast. Otherwise, like all living things and creatures, if you fight me, I'm gonna fight back. On the other hand, if you accept me and learn how to get along with me, we don't have to fight at all. And life doesn't have to be a horror film or our worst dreams come true. Now can I get on with my list of favorite monster movies?

The Monster's Favorite Monster Movies

"Interview with the AIDS Monster," a special Halloween treat of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon, continues with its frighteningly freaky interview with Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd, famous star of the infamous but classic AIDS Monster Movies...

Randy Boyd's Blocks: Ladies and Gentlemen, here now, the great Count Randolpho's personal list of his top 15 all-time greatest classics from the AIDS Monster Movie Series.

Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd: Finally, Thank you. Thought you'd never ask. Here's my list of favorite movies, followed by my own personal commentary.

15. An AIDS Monster Is Born. Hey, we all gotta start somewhere, right?

14. Lost on AIDS Island. Story of a small American coastal village gripped by fear of a mysterious STD that kills. I'd rank it higher, but it kinda felt weird to me when the AIDS Monster was the only one left standing in the end, after every one killed each over being scared to death of me.

13. General AIDS Hospital of Horrors. Later re-released as 9 daze n Hell. Tightly shot, darkly lit, a psychotic monster is unleashed on an innocent little hospital run by nuns. I'm not sure I ever recovered fully from that emotionally draining shoot.

12. AIDS Monster Vs. the Needler. Ah, yes, the drug-themed thriller. The crash at the end was kinda a bummer.

11. The AIDS Monster Goes to Washington. A patient black man dreams of change and making a difference in the world. He even dreams of meeting a black president who shows him some love and compassion.

10. Bride of AIDS Monster. In spite of the sad ending where the beast is alone again, it's a nice piece of work. So was she. The AIDS Monster wouldn't mind working with her again, if you know what I mean.

9. Son of AIDS Monster. It could happen now, you know, thanks to science.

8. Take My HIV, Please! It didn't do so well at the box office, but hey, I love musical comedy.

7. Clean People vs. the Poz People. As per usual, the first installment was the best and Clean People vs. the Poz People 17, Revenge for the Return of Patient Zero, did not work at all.

6. Teenagers from the Land of Poz. What can I say? It was my breakout role in a runaway hit. So what, if in real life, I was a 23 year-old UCLA cheerleader who had just been infected with the virus by an anonymous donor. The actors on 90210 are way older than their characters, too.

5. Stop Fighting AIDS Already!. My one shot at playing a boxer who could've been a contender. Lucci'ed again at award time.

4. Dawn of the Disease-Ridden. The black and white cinematography rocked.

3. Night of the Poz People. The follow-up to movie no. 4. We did it better the second time around. The white's man conspiracy angle scored well in the urban markets.

2. Attack of the AIDS Monster. Back to the Future wasn't the only hit of 1985.

And the Count's favorite AIDS Monster Movie of all time ...

1. A Mother's Worst Nightmare. What can I say, I love physcho dramas.

Randy Boyd's Blocks: Fascinating and enlightening, if not just a bit entirely creepy. Count Randolpho, is there anything else you'd like to add?

Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd: I see you remembered what the great Cordello taught you in journalism when you were a North Central High School Panther. You're a good Joe the Writer.

Q: Anything else?

A: Coming soon to a bookshelf near you: The Bearcat Boyz on the Road of Life, Bearcat Boyz 1 by Randy Boyd. Life is nothing but a Dreamville. Coming September 2009. Oh, and one more thing,

Q: Go.

A: Have you hugged your AIDS Monster today?

...

Interview with the AIDS Monster, a special part of the AIDS Monster Movie Marathon @ Randy Boyds Blocks, posted backwards in installments throughout Halloween Weekend, 2008.

A Halloween Treat, Rare Photos of Count Randolpho

Photo above: the lost movie poster for the never released, The Unclean

A Halloween Treat, a-comin' & a-goin'

Photo above: Movie poster from the original Attack of the AIDS Monster

A Halloween Treat, Presented Backwards

Photo above: Movie poster from the classic hit Night of the Poz People

“Interview with the AIDS Monster” is a presentation of RandyBoydsBlocks.com

Copyright © 2008 by Randy Boyd. All Rights Reserved.

Randy Boyd is a 46-year-old author who has been living with HIV/AIDS for 23 years. His four novels feature main characters who are black and living with HIV/AIDS.

A 1985 graduate of UCLA, Randy's novels have been nominated for five Lambda Literary Awards. Randy is grateful to the great Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd, the infamous star of the classic AIDS Monster Movie series, for his time, patience and granting of this rare “Interview with the AIDS Monster.”

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Poz People Magazine named him the Scariest Man Alive.

AIDS News Tonight calls him, “One of the biggest actor slash moguls in Hollywood,” and adds, “his nickname should be 'AIDS, Inc.'”

Unfortune Magazine says, “the AIDS Monster Movies are a more popular throwback than the music group Abba among young homos worldwide.”

“The new craze in the gay world,” says Disease-Free Magazine, “has become 'clean-only,' bareback sex parties, complete with drugs, club music and monitors playing the classics from the old AIDS Monster Movie series.”

“With a muted soundtrack,” says Walking Corpse Weekly, “the party rages on, while on the monitors above, the AIDS Monster ravages the unsuspecting citizens of some small town in the middle of the night.”

“Men of all colors intermingle their hot sweaty bodies in a raw ritual of dance, sex and party favors that literally take them out of their minds,” says Spreading Virus Monthly, “while the screams of the victims of the AIDS Monster fall on deaf ears in the newest craze in young gay America: rerunning the classics of the once famous AIDS Monster Movie series from the old days.”

“Who knew a washed-up actor who once played a popular villain—then was left for dead—would revive his career, reinvent himself for the umpteenth time and build a media empire on the profits of a long-forgotten creature in the night?” says Infection Weekly.

“The great Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd has risen yet again,” says AIDS Forever Monthly. “The beady-eyed old black man has survived as his generation's worst nightmare to become the stuff of the next generation's worst nightmares, if only in their minds.”

And now ... author Randy Boyd proudly invites you to his author blog for a special Halloween treat.

Interview with the AIDS Monster

Randy Boyd goes one-on-one with the great Count Randolpho de St. Mark Boyd, the infamous star of the classic AIDS Monster Movie series.

Come to the Blocks for what promises to be a very special and frighteningly freaky Friday.

Interview with the AIDS Monster, this Halloween on RandyBoydsBlocks.com