ian hodgkinson

Grade school was one of the more momentous times during boyhood for wrestling, growing up. I wasn’t immediately into it right away until after a few years, but if you’ve ever watched wrestling and engaged in the scripted on-screen drama that went with a lot of the skits on both sides of the ring, you can imagine how passionate one has to be to the point of inescapability when it comes to the sport and spectacle. Understandably, however, that level of commitment comes at a dire price for some, a fact deeply explored in director Michael Pazst’s latest documentary, Nail In The Coffin: The Fall And Rise Of Vampiro, which sets out to gauge the twenty-year saga of Ian “Vampiro” Hodgkinson, whose own love for the wrestling industry often comes to a head when minding how often his job has pulled him away from the quieter, simple life from his […]

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