Tag Archives: gore

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Remake/Re-animate When I went to see Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, I tried to do so without a chip on my shoulder, and I came away without being disappointed by what is a reasonably entertaining … Continue reading

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Herschell Gordon Lewis – The Godfather of Gore!

PFS’s Mike Flores interviews a horror legend A Chicagoan who changed the way film portrays violence is Herschell Gordon Lewis.  Yes, the Godfather of Gore is back!  His films — 2000 Maniacs, She-Devils on Wheels, The Wizard of Gore and … 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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The Brain That Wouldn’t Die DVD

Jan in the Pan Though Rhino failed to impress with their initial DVD offering (Galaxina), they’ve come to play ball with their Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVDs. No, it doesn’t have any alternate audio options, deleted footage, or even subtitles … Continue reading

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American Psycho

What – was Norman Bates – Japanese?

I read something in a true crime book about how serial killers used to be an upper class phenomenon. Barons and marquis preying on the peasants, on down to Jack the Ripper theories and that sort of thing. And now, supposedly, all our serial killers are from below the poverty line, and they hunt victims almost exclusively from a class above. Continue reading

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Color Me Blood Red DVD

Blood for Art’s sake In the prologue to this film, the owner of the Farnsworth Gallery at first admires, then carries a canvas out behind the building to set fire to it. As it burns, the painting bleeds human blood, … Continue reading

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Blood Feast DVD

Gore pioneer starts choppin’ here As they relate on the commentary track, one night Chicago filmmaking partners Herschell Gordon Lewis and Dave Friedman sat in their Wacker Drive office brainstorming. They’d spent the past few winters down in Florida shooting … Continue reading

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Cannibal! The Musical DVD

Good taste gone bad South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut has been admired and even respected as the first real traditional musical film in years. But it wasn’t Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first musical, their first controversial project, or … Continue reading

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American Movie DVD

American Nightmare One factor of the huge success of The Blair Witch Project is that it’s rendered suspect any entertaining documentary for some people. Leaving the theater after AM, I actually heard people questioning whether it was “real” or not … Continue reading

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Bats

Bat Reputation Years ago, returning home from acts of hedonism at an ungodly hour, I came upon a bat on the sidewalk in front of my building. It looked like a snow white hamster with wings – very cute. It … Continue reading

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