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Hannibal

Tasty Thomas Harris wrote his first two novels featuring incarcerated psycho Dr. Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter for fun. The third was written under pressure. Though Harris claims to care little for public acclaim, preferring to live as a semi-recluse, the … 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 Gift

D’oh! Raimi! A lot of folks hadn’t heard of Sam Raimi before he directed A Simple Plan, but of course he already had quite a following. There’s a huge cult of Raimi fans, which has grown in number since his … Continue reading

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Dracula 2000

From Calvary to Carfax Dimension Pictures has been getting ribbed in the press for releasing Dracula 2000 so late in the year (just in time for Christmas), but this ink no doubt comes from folks that haven’t actually seen 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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Kill Baby Kill! DVD

Follow the bouncing ball The march of Eurothrillers onto American DVD continues with this Mario Bava classic, originally known as Operazione Paura. The opening of the film echoes Dracula, with a handsome young foreigner (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart) arriving by coach to … Continue reading

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Lost Souls

Lost script Some spooky cinematography and a good cast are much wasted in this “new” New Line horror — which is reportedly not so new, having sat on the shelf awaiting release for more than a year. It finally came out … Continue reading

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The Beyond on DVD

Injury to Eibon This 1981 Lucio Fulci gorefest followed his success with Zombie, and can be seen as a companion feature to his City of the Living Dead (aka Gates of Hell), and perhaps even Dario Argento’s incomplete Three Mothers … Continue reading

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