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Lust for Frankenstein DVD

The Return of Franco-stein During the busy year of 1972, filmmaker Jesus Franco made two Frankenstein movies, both of which were distributed under a half dozen titles. They are among the most bizarre films in the Franco filmography – and … Continue reading






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Awakening of the Beast DVD

Banned for more than 30 years! Despite extreme difficulties with the Brazilian censor boards (both nationally and in local municipalities), José Mojica Marins managed to get his horror films into theaters. Once there, they became a sensation across the country, … Continue reading






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At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul DVD

Coffin Joe on DVD! It cannot be stressed enough that before 1963’s At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul there had never been (to the best of my knowledge) a horror film made in Brazil. There had been a version of … Continue reading






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Mantis in Lace DVD

The Swingin’ ’60s – swingin’ a big butcher knife! Producers Harry Novak and Peter Perry (who first got together for the sex/comedy/monster picture Kiss Me Quick) decided to make a feature that they could sell as either a sex show … Continue reading






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Nightmare City DVD

Where the rent is an arm and a leg One of many zombie pictures made in the wake of Dawn of the Dead, this Italian epic by director Umberto Lenzi is known under many titles: City of the Walking Dead, … Continue reading






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The Astro-Zombies DVD

Man or Astro-man? Solar-powered horrors shock the nation! Ted V. Mikels has been enshrined as a trash movie king by generations of admirers, mainly on the strength of his horror comedy The Corpse Grinders and this unrelentingly weird opus. Mikels … Continue reading






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Escape from the Planet of the Apes DVD

Beverly Hills chimps With the world apparently destroyed at the end of Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Oops! Um… spoiler!), no one thought it likely that there would be another sequel. The box office tally, however, disagreed with them. The … Continue reading






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Horrors of Spider Island DVD

Eight babes versus eight armed horror In 1960, sexuality had only begun to become more explicit on U.S. screens in imported art films, or cloaked in the nervous laughter of nudie-cutie pictures shown in downtown grindhouses. Horror films were still … Continue reading






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The Blob (1958) on DVD

Classic slimy monster It was an idea so simple, it was no wonder the major studios hadn’t touched it. When B-movie producer Robert Lippert  challenged local distributor Jack H. Harris to tell him what he thought would be a sure-fire … Continue reading






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Legend of the Chupacabra DVD

That sucking sound you hear… Well, it may not be the renaissance of the genre, but at least it’s something different. Here we have yet another “found footage” horror film, in which a group of intrepid youngsters treks into the … Continue reading






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