Who Was Red Hot Ten Years Ago This Month - Rachel Grubb

I decided to dive into the vault this morning and dug up this interview with actress Rachel Grub from way back in 2009. In those days I spent most of my time working the independent film beat and I had a good working relationship with a lot of talent both in front of and behind the camera. I think you will enjoy reading about one of the top talents in that industry at the time.

Ken Hulsey - Anyone who knows you understands that you have love affair with everything Batman related, especially The Joker, did you grow up being a comic book fan and why the fascination with the Cape Crusader's arch enemy?

Rachel Grubb - I grew up as a comic book fan for sure! As a child, I admired Batman and looked up to him as a father figure. I loved to read superhero comics as a kid, but Batman was my favorite. I was interested in just about anything Batman related, no matter how silly. I loved the cartoon and the 1960's live action TV show as a child. And when I was a little older, I loved the Tim Burton film with Michael Keaton. And of course, since then, I've also loved the Animated Series, and the Dark Knight. I was into all of it, but there is something special about the Dark Knight. Nolan brought Gotham to the screen in a way I never thought possible. Batman Begins wasn't bad, but it didn't really click with me because I dislike origin stories. When I was little, I never wondered, "Why does Batman fight crime?" (Although, I do remember being about 6 years old and wondering why he didn't just kill the Joker.) Dark Knight is kind of the ultimate Batman adaptation, and the Joker was the most important part of that. And let's face it: Heath Ledger's Joker is to Batman fangirls what Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman was to Batman fanboys back in the day.

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Here is a very outdated bio for Rachel from a decade ago:

Rachael earned her English degree from the College of St. Catherine. Shortly after graduation, she won the Best Breakthrough Screenplay award at the New York International Independent Film And Video Festival for her first feature-length script. Her interest in film led her to take acting classes and audition for films in the Twin Cities area. In the past few years, Rachel has acted in numerous independent shorts, features, music videos and television shows and recently moved to Los Angeles to expand her career. She wrote, directed, and starred in Why Am I in a Box? which has already won seven Creative Spirit Awards and has distribution. Together with Brooke Lemke, Rachel runs Silent-But-Deadly Productions, an all-female production company.

As an actress, she first appeared as Amy in St Euphoria Pictures' The Monster of Phantom Lake. She has since become a well-known Scream Queen and acted in numerous, independent feature films, such as Terror Overload, Strip Club Slasher and Cave Women on Mars. She played a creepy ghost in Dav Kaufman's 13 Hours in a Warehouse and she played the lead role in JP Wenner's Retina, featured on The Horror Vault DVD. Rachel portrays Jolly in the web comic A Life Behind the Mask from Comic Book Divas.

Rachel has been an in-studio guest on Maxim Radio's "Hotties Of Horror" week and writes a regular Scream Queen column for The Chainsaw Mafia. Rachel was featured as Scream Queen Of The Month at ScreamQueen.com and was crowned PollyStaffle.com's Pinup Of The Year. She has been a panel speaker at the Xanadu convention in Las Vegas and been featured in several magazines, including Gorezone and Girls and Corpses. Rachel has her own trading cards, available from TerrorCards.com.

 Here are some publicity photos of Rachel Grubb from my archives: