Interview with American actress Adrienne Barbeau, former ‘scream queen’ in horror films. Appeared in TV’s “Maude” in the 1970s; films include “The Fog” (1980), “The Swamp Thing” (1982).

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URL: https://filmtalk.org/2026/04/18/adrienne-barbeau/

Adrienne Barbeau: “In 1965, I only went to New York to see if I could earn a living as an actor”

Adrienne Barbeau (b. 1945) is an American actress, singer, and author whose career has spanned more than five decades across theater, film, and television. The California-born screen star first ros…

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So I found the 6-volume complete run of Alan Moore's "The Saga of The Swamp Thing" for for a great price so I snagged it.

I sold off my individual issues during The Great 2007 Comics Purge event.

I'll get to revisit the art of Stephen Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, and Alfredo Alcala soon!

It has been a very long time.

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So after reading into the second volume of The Swamp Thing (2021) I'm impressed at how a lot of the spirit remains intact from the Alan Moore comics while still feeling very fresh and contemporary. It adopts the concepts of the anthropocene as the foundation for its horror layden story.

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