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Evolution

Are we not men? Coca-Cola saved the Independence Day. In Twister, Pepsi was the one to solve a problem. The James Bond series has become a catalogue of cool new toys. And didn’t a Dr. Pepper machine (in the Roman … Continue reading

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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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The Mummy Returns

Pyramid scheme Guest review by Michael Flores The last year has been an economic bloodbath for Hollywood. Serious dramas and adult topic movies have been critically applauded, and have died at the box office. The year before, psychotronic films brought … Continue reading

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The Forsaken

Plagiarism after Dark In 1987, Katherine Bigelow’s Near Dark brought big changes to the languishing vampire genre, presenting a gun-toting outlaw gang that roved around terrorizing the modern American West. The shadow of Near Dark is still cast over horrordom, … 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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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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Dungeons & Dragons

A game try Guest Review by Steve Sullivan In the interest of full disclosure, let me say I’ve been working on Dungeons & Dragons related products for over 20 years. I was hired onto TSR’s staff in 1980 and worked … 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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