 Native
New Yorker
model-actress-entrepreneur
Rachael Robbins majored in film
production at Hunter College
before launching a modeling
career that took her to South
Beach and eventually Australia
before returning back to New
York. Now she is putting that
film knowledge to work first
hand. The petite blonde has been
acting in films for the past five
years appearing in such movies as
Troma’s ‘Terror
Firmer’, ‘Little Shop
of Erotica’ with Marilyn
Chambers, ‘Four Deadly
Reasons’, ‘Deadly
Memories’ (as Amy) with
Robert Z’dar and Tina
Krause, ‘Sexual
Intrigue’, and ‘Body
Shop’. She had multiple
roles in the Brinke Stevens’
penned homage to horror ‘Dr.
Horror’s Erotic House of
Idiots’ alongside such genre
names as Debbie Rochon, Tina
Krause, and Conrad Brooks.
She’s been seen as heroine
Maura Holloway in
Shock-o-Rama’s
‘Screaming Dead’ with
Misty Mundae, and also has a
starring role as Raven Lavine in
‘Vampire Lesbian
Kickboxers’. Rachael is also
a favorite with the folks at
Playboy -- appearing in several
of their videos –
‘Playboy’s Sexy Girls
Next Door’, ‘Playboy:
Girlfriends 2’, and
‘Girls In Uniform’.
She’s done photo spreads in
Femme Fatale, Heavy Metal,
Draculina, and other national
magazines. However, horror
convention favorite
Rachael’s biggest claim to
fame to date may be as her own
creation Blondezilla – a 600
ft. half glamour girl half lizard
– the result of a hair
growth tonic gone terrible awry.
Rachael is working to develop the
character in both print and film
work. Recently the lovely Rachael
was kind enough to give the
racksandrazors folks a few
minutes of her time. Owen: I
want to hear about your new
creation BLONDEZILLA!
And I want a poster of her.
It's very fun.
Rachael:
Blondezilla is very fun.
That was my intentions with that
project from the beginning.
It’s a real tongue in cheek
character and story line.
Unfortunately we don’t have
posters! But we do have trading
cards that have become a
collector’s item!!
Owen:
What does BLONDEZILLA
attack? What axe does she
have to grind?
Rachael:
Blondezilla
basically attacks the bad guys,
but usually by accident or
because they pissed her off by
breaking her nail or stepping on
her tail. She’s definitely a
super hero by default. She has
the same axe to grind as any
other hot chick: silly boys, PMS,
weight gain, catty girls, aging,
missing a good sale at the mall.
Owen:
Tell me about your leading role
in the film 'Screaming
Dead' from El Cinema.
Rachael:
Screaming Dead was a
great experience. I worked  with a ton of
wonderful people that I was glad
to see everyday when I went to
work. My character was the
“plain, level headed”
girl in the cast. That’s a
nice departure from the roles I
usually get cast in: the
seductress, slut, cheerleader,
bimbo, airhead (I guess
that’s the same as bimbo). I
had a great time playing that
character, but I didn’t get
to scream at all! That was a
bummer. If you’re in a
horror movie, you want to be able
to belt out a few blood-curdling
whoppers, y’know?
Owen:
I am very excited to see Brinke
Stevens/Paul Scrobo's 'Doctor
Horror's Erotic House of Idiots'.
In addition to your work in it,
the film also features other
R&R favorites like Debbie
Rochon as well as the delightful
Amy Lynn Best. Tell me about
your work in that
project?
Rachael:
I was called in to shoot some
additional scenes and fill some
hole in Dr. Horror’s. It was
totally cool because I got to
play a handful of funny
characters. Paul is AWESOME to
work with. He really has it all
together and is a real
professional. We laughed a bunch
when I shot my scenes. It was
equally as funny to shoot them as
it was to watch.
Owen:
In 'Deadly
Memories' you worked
with the amazing Robert Z'dar
from the 'Maniac Cop'
movies and many others. I
want to hear about that project
and specifically about working
with such an established cult
star as Mr. Z'dar. Was he
aware of his
underground icon status?
Rachael:
I would love to sit hear and tell
you all my amazing stories about
working with Mr. Z’Dar, and
I would except that I don’t
have any because we didn’t
actually have any scenes
together!! He is one cool dude
though! I wish I had been able to
work with him, but I guess the
next best thing is to be in a
film with him! The project was
cool. We shot it in the back
woods of Tennessee. The food on
set was good ole down south home
cookin’. YUM! I put on a few
pounds on that shoot. It was
really hard work. Super long
hours, in a not very comfortable
location. That was the kind of
shoot where after 15 hours on set
you just lay down on the floor
and go to sleep. You go into
survival mode.
Owen:
Do you think
your association with
Playboy in such videos and TV as
'Playboy's Sexy Girl Next
Door', 'Playboy
Girlfriends II', and 'Sex
Court' have helped or
hindered your career in the
horror world?
Rachael:
Working with Playboy totally
helped my career as it would any
girl who works for them. Playboy
is a great thing to have on your
resume (unless you want to be
president or marry Oral Roberts).
They are a top-notch company and
working with them is the best
on-set experiences I’ve had
to date.
Owen:
So with your Playboy past has all
this immersion into the horror
biz been a fluke or did you
orchestrate this career
direction for yourself?
Rachael:
I wish I could say that
I was that clever and powerful,
but I can’t. I’ve
always been a huge fan of horror.
My dream was to be in horror
films. I didn’t orchestrate
it per se, I just put it out to
the universe and the universe
guided me in the right direction.
Owen:
Rachael, which camp
do you fall into -- Jason
Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, or
Michael Meyers and why?
Rachael:
Can I pick a different camp? I
appreciate Nightmare on
Elm Street, Friday
the 13th,
and Halloween.
But they are not the films that
scare me the most. I love flix
like The Omen, Amityville
Horror, The
Exorcist,
Silence of The Lambs,
28Days Later,
House of 1,000 Corpses.
These films Freak me out!! I
guess I like horror films that
are not so formulaic. But if I
had to choose, I’d say I
fall into the Freddy Kruger Camp.
Because he is pretty campy
himself!
Owen:
What single thing that
you have done gave your career
the biggest boost?
Rachael:
Working with Playboy gave me the
biggest career boost. And after
that working with Troma.
Owen:
If a woman came to you for
advice about getting into the
business what advice would you
give her?
Rachael:
I would tell her to RUN!! RUN
LIKE THE WIND!! Marry rich, have
kids, be a soccer mom!!!!! No
seriously, I would tell her that
persistence is key. Listen to
people advice but don’t plan
your life around it. Do what you
love, do what feels right, and
don’t sell out. But most
importantly ALWAYS be a
professional on set. Never be a
diva. Because there are a ton of
actresses out there that would be
willing to take over for you. You
don’t want to step on
anyone’s toes because most
of the work you get is from
people that you’ve already
worked with. Word of mouth and
recommendation are huge in the
indie horror world. These
filmmakers are not going to the
big agencies to get talent. They
are looking for girls that have
some kind of credit to their
names and that are easy going and
fun to work with! No J-Lo’s
Pah-leeze!
Owen:
What's something that makes you
scream in real life?
Rachael:
Nothing makes me scream more than
LEECHES, eeeeew I can’t even
stand the sight of them. For me,
watching a nature show on leeches
is scarier then Jason, Freddy ,
and Mike M all rolled into one!
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