Pulp Features

Spain has produced many actresses who were hot beyond hot over the years, such as Emma Cohen, Esperanza Roy, Pilar Ordonez, Klara Badiola, Maria Paz Pondal, Julia Saly, Diana Conca, Helga Line, Eve Cobo, Ana Belen… The list goes on and on.

Now there’s Christie Levin, one of the most blazing of the hot, an actress who has an aura of sensuality about her like few others.

Born in Madrid on March 26, 1976, Christie was a model before entering the world of film. Thus far she has had just three pictures, but more are to come, while she awaits these and fills in time either by doing voice over or a handful of short movies.

She has been pushed heavily by Jesus Franco, the cult direct who gave us Lina Romy, as well as a flood of horror movies in the 1970s and 1980s. He is still active now in the 2000s.

Though some have been quick to downplay this director and his works, others love him. Levin has always been quick to praise him as a man of under rated talent and a person from whom, along with Lina Romy, she has learned a great deal.

Most recently, Levin may be seen in Snakewoman, a film about vampirism, with a strong lesbian subtext. The lesbian angle has been insinuated in past films, but seldom portrayed in full blast, until this go around. In this, Levin practically melts the TV screen when you watch the DVD.

Before this, Levin also played a major part and a purely slutty role/character in Franco’s Broken Dolls.

And before that, she was seen in Red Silk.

And people thought that the eroticism Spain was once known for in the heyday of Paul Naschy, was dying out.

Levin is a product of the times and by all accounts, a modern woman. Face it, when photos on her gallery depict various fetishes that would have given the late Francisco Franco a heart attack (the dictator and not the director), it is obvious Spain and its younger generation have changed. The taboos of old are gone and Levin is a prime example of this.

Repeatedly open about sexuality, nude poses and fetishes, Levin is somewhat like the lusty figures she portrays in the films. She has stated among other things, that the study of the history of sex fascinates her. One day she hopes to visit the Sex Museum in New York City. She also has love for Spanish food and wine, but not to the excesses that become destructive and is emphatic about keeping a good figure.

As time goes on, there will be a great deal more to say about this young actress. In the meantime, check out the DVDs and keep an eye on this actress, who is clearly on the move.

​​​​Kimberly Lynn Cole wears many hats. Dancer, singer, writer, model and actress, she entered the realm of horror in the early 1990s, posing as a model for various monster magazines. Due to her extremely good looks, her height, and her figure, she caught on with the fans and editors. As she entered and expanded within the film realm, her reputation within indy horror grew considerably. It continues to grow, even now, with several new projects in the works. From her Alabama home she and her husband have reportedly started their own productions and are looking at several short horror films for the next two years.

Kimberly has been seen in numerous indy horror projects, one of the most notable being Odd Noggins, an Ed Woodish
type plot involving pudding which drive people crazy, aliens possessing housewives and turning them into killers, an original musical score, and ample gore.

The truly odd thing about Odd Noggins, to make a pun, is the way it was filmed. Rather than bringing everyone to their
Oregon home base, production company, F&C Productions had different actors and actresses in different parts of the country film their sections of the script in their home states. Afterward, everyone sent in what they had filmed and the project was edited together. Such a concept had all the earmarkings of disaster, but amazingly, worked out well.

For Kimberly’s segment, based in Alabama, she worked with two of the areas pro wrestlers, Tough Tony and Chains, who returned the favour by finding some additional work for her in their own industry. Shortly after the shooting of the movie, they got her into the indy wrestling scene, as a valet, using her vampire routine, from right out of the film.

Other indy horror projects to Kimberly’s credit are Cremains (she plays a vampire in this one as well), Monster in the Garage (in which she plays varied aliens), Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers (her first role, in 1993), Search For The Beast (the lead character), and Redneck Revenge (girlfriend to the lead villain). Mark of the Astro-Zombies, Horror Tales 666 (a jilted lover), Deadfall (a victim) and Psycho-Santa (victim to a crazed Santa killer) are also among the films that she has appeared in.

There is tentative planning for yet another vampire film, Kill All The Vampires, for late 2004 or early 2005 if certain negotiations can be worked out. The proposed plot would involve a drunken man who is picked up by a lady vampire in a bar and plunged into a world of sexual perversion as well as terror.

The fictional vampire is a very sensual character and Kimberly pulls this off better than anyone. If the deal goes through, she will be a magnificent leading lady.

Kimberly has had other roles outside the horror genre. She played a lesbian lover to Tallulah Bankhead in The Tallulah Bankhead Story and has been seen on stage in such unlikely roles as an Easter time passion play.

Kimberly makes as many appearances at horror conventions as time allows, making both herself and her films accessible to fans. She has been seen at conventions as far away from her home base as the Chiller Theatre Festival in New Jersey and the FanEX Conventions in Baltimore. And, as she gets more involved in the production of her films, she plans to attend even more conventions and fanfests, as well as enter her project in independent cinema festivities or contests. Even European conventions may not be too far out of reach within the next year or so.

As well as this, she has her own web site, as well as a page on F&C’s Dr. Squid’s Smorgasboard of Terror, updating people on her works and providing a means for fans to buy materials or videos.

With a load of credits to her name in a number of different areas, Kimberly Lynn Cole is sure to hit it big in one way or another.

With a great face, great figure and flaming red hair, Zoe Hunter Lee carries a striking resemblance to 1980s Spanish scream queen, Diana Conca. With an independent career that is steadily growing, she is
starting to gain an impressive fan following of her own.

Operating from her home base in New York City, she is involved with film, television, voice over and other activities within the
entertainment industry. If she keeps on, she will certainly hit it big sooner or later.

Born Zoe Elyse Huntzinger in Poughkeepsie, New York, she proved to be an exceptionally intelligent child. Placed in advanced
classes, she also studied the arts in high school and had hopes for making it in the entertainment industry early on. Having already studied ballet and drama, she later attended Vassar College, for a theatre/film program, then SUNY in Fredonia, New York. There she studied for a career in the music theatre, although acting remained her goal. One year after graduation, she moved to Hoboken and started her acting career.

It was during one of these early acting roles, at the New York Renaissance Faire in Sterling Forest, where she would meet her future husband, Duncan, hence the name change from Zoe Hunter, a condensed version of her real name, to Zoe Hunter-Lee.

Hunter’s roles in television and independent film have been numerous. She played Sleeping Beauty in A Walk in the Woods, a super heroine in Avenging Angel, a bartender in Picture This, various roles in Pop Up Video, including that of a Madonna-look-alike, and a witch in Afloat. She has also made numerous uncredited appearances as an extra on television and the big screen. But now she is focussing on finding larger roles in independent films.

One of her most recent appearances has been a lead role in an ultra-uncanny indy production directed, written and produced by Tony Urban out of New York. The film, Klowns, has already received a lot of feedback on the net. Too bizarre for words? Maybe.

On the other hand, the project may be the film that finally pushes Zoe into the independent limelight. Part horror and part comedy (with a title like Klownz, how could it be anything but that?), the film also features a cast of indy regulars, including Samantha Diane, Nathan Faudree, Dana Leuth, Nicole McFarlane, and Amanda Rising.

While horror is just one of the immediate vehicles Zoe has launched herself into, with negotiations in the works for future roles
in the genre – and two more films, Kottentail and A Pound of Flesh, due to be released in 2004 - she has also done other things in recent months. She has found extra work doing both modelling and voiceovers. You can see or hear her in commercials for Mercedes-Benz Industrial, The Park central Hotel and Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Crackers.

Her resume carries a list of impressive skills. As a dancer she can cite skills in tap, jazz, ballet, yoga and even some hip-hop.
Other skills and interests include yoga, swimming (she was a former lifeguard), nightclub singing, dialect impressions (notably British, Irish, California Valley girl and Yiddish), and jet skiing.

Along with the husband she lives with, she has two Chihuahua dogs.

With the Klowns under her belt, she might well have found her best bet, as a mainstay in horror, if not as an outright
scream queen. This genre of film has a massive fan following and the more attention she makes here, the better off she might find herself.

While it is still too early to make too many predictions, Zoe Hunter Lee is going to be someone to keep an eye on.