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Cinematic Synths: One Way Static’s Sebastiaan Putseys

Cinematic Synths: One Way Static’s Sebastiaan Putseys

Cinematic Synths: One Way Static’s Sebastiaan Putseys

A great number of micro labels have popped up parallel to the soundtrack resurgence. While Death Waltz, One Way Static, and Giallo Disco do a lot of soundtrack reissues and releases, they’ve also been at work to present new artists working in the the ‘genre.’ Acts like  Videogram, Antoni Maiovvi, Me

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Bookshelf: Two Tiny Tomes of Terror — MONSTER CINEMA & I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

Bookshelf: Two Tiny Tomes of Terror — MONSTER CINEMA & I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

Bookshelf: Two Tiny Tomes of Terror — MONSTER CINEMA & I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

It seems appropriate that the two latest books added to my bookshelf are pocket paperbacks. Sometimes, massive books devoted to film studies have a tendency to ramble on, taking far more pages than necessary to communicate their points. This made the arrival of the latest installments of Wallflower

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Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again

Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again

Comet’s Over-the-Air Sci-Fi Goodness, Or: How I Cut the Cord and Learned to Love Watching TV Again

At the beginning of this year, my wife and I took a look a our viewing habits and decided the $50+ we were paying a month to the cable company could be better distributed elsewhere in our budget. So, we dropped cable, and went out to buy a digital converter box and HD antenna. We lost a few local ch

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Films From the Void: TWILIGHT PEOPLE’s Mad Monsters

Films From the Void: TWILIGHT PEOPLE’s Mad Monsters

Films From the Void: TWILIGHT PEOPLE’s Mad Monsters

I think I’ve seen every screen adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1896 novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and while the 1932 version with Charles Laughton and Bela Lugosi, Island of Lost Souls, still stands as the pinnacle, 1972’s Twilight People has a lot to recommend it. First and foremost, the Philippines-s

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Bookshelf: Teenage Bottlerocket’s Miguel Chen Explains Yoga and Punk Rock in I WANNA BE WELL

Bookshelf: Teenage Bottlerocket’s Miguel Chen Explains Yoga and Punk Rock in I WANNA BE WELL

Bookshelf: Teenage Bottlerocket’s Miguel Chen Explains Yoga and Punk Rock in I WANNA BE WELL

Bassist Miguel Chen of Teenage Bottlerocket is now an author with the publication of his new book, I Wanna Be Well: How a Punk Found Peace and You Can Too, from Wisdom Publications. Part meditation and yoga instructional, part self-help book, part autobiography, Chen’s book was co-written with Rod M

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Films From the Void: SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS

Films From the Void: SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS

Films From the Void: SATAN’S CHEERLEADERS

FILMS FROM THE VOID is a journey through junk bins, late night revivals, under seen recesses and reject piles as we try to find forgotten gems and lesser known classics. Join us as we lose our minds sorting through the strange, the sleazy, the sincere and the slop from the past and try to make sense

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Weird, Mediocre, Best: A Roberta Findlay Triple Feature

Weird, Mediocre, Best: A Roberta Findlay Triple Feature

Weird, Mediocre, Best: A Roberta Findlay Triple Feature

In their last batch of releases, the fine folks at restoration and reissue label Vinegar Syndrome dropped three films from director Roberta Findlay: a double-feature disc with the Satanic shocker, Prime Evil, and strange haunting flick, Lurkers, along with her “tribute to Repulsion,” A Woman’s Torme

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‘King Cohen’ himself, Larry Cohen, on the new documentary about his career

‘King Cohen’ himself, Larry Cohen, on the new documentary about his career

‘King Cohen’ himself, Larry Cohen, on the new documentary about his career

Listing all of the films made by director Larry Cohen would be pages long, and if you added in the number of TV show episodes, it’d be pages and pages past that. Even if you were to distill it down to the number of Blu-Ray reissues over the last few years, it would be absurdly lengthy. Suffice it to

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Friday Double Feature: Home Is Where the Haunt Is

Friday Double Feature: Home Is Where the Haunt Is

Friday Double Feature: Home Is Where the Haunt Is

Peter Jackson’s 1996 ghost story, The Frighteners, was the director’s first big Hollywood production. It didn’t do so hot, making just a little bit above its $26 million budget. Given the fact that the film’s star, Michael J. Fox, would make his triumphant return to the small screen just two months

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Friday Double Feature: Madness By the Water

Friday Double Feature: Madness By the Water

Friday Double Feature: Madness By the Water

I have a weird relationship with the 1962 film Carnival of Souls. Part of the film was shot in Lawrence, Kansas, where I live. It was the director Herk Harvey’s only feature film, although he made many films for the industrial movie company Centron Corporation. The movie is a certifiable classic,

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