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TRIBUTE – Georges Méliès

Published on: 10th March, 2010

Almost seventy years before Apollo 11 made history and Neil Armstrong became the first man to step foot on the moon, French filmmaker Georges Méliès took his audience on a fantastic journey with his twelve minute classic Le Voyage dans la lune, more commonly known as A Trip to the Moon. Shot in 1902, the [...]

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COMICS – Transformers: City of Fear

Published on: 3rd February, 2010

In 1988, Transformers were at the peak of their popularity. With the success of their big screen spin-off (which marked the swan song of screen legend Orson Welles) less than two years earlier, the sales of comics were at an all-time high and the cartoon was soon set to make a comeback with the highly [...]

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Freaks: A Retrospective

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Before the terms “exploitation” “hardcore” or “video nasties” were even thought of…..there was “Freaks” which can qualify in all three categories. A film so offensive and repulsive to the censors and audience of its time that it was banned in many countries – including the U.K. – for thirty years ! A film that is [...]

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BIOGRAPHY – John Carpenter

Published on: 25th January, 2010

There was once a time when ‘A Film by John Carpenter’ was a guaranteed seal of quality. Having first made a name for himself in the late 1970’s with the low budget classic Halloween, Carpenter spent the following decade producing one cult success after another: from his alien horrors The Thing and They Live to [...]

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SLEAZE QUEEN – Pam Grier

Published on: 21st January, 2010

Being the first African-American actress to win a starring role in a Hollywood movie and becoming the pin-up of blaxploitation is no mean feat, yet cult siren Pam Grier succeeded in becoming one of the most popular icons of the 1970s. Starring in such underground classics as Coffy and Foxy Brown, Grier defied all [...]

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SLEAZE QUEEN – Ursula Andress

Published on: 20th January, 2010

From Bond girl to Hammer beauty, Swiss icon Ursula Andress was the queen of fantasy during the 1960s and a sex symbol to millions. To further fuel this reputation, she even stripped and posed for Playboy, bearing all to her devoted fan base. Having worked in almost every conceivable genre in a variety [...]

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Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

Published on: 17th January, 2010

“Nosferatu – doesn’t this name sound like the very midnight call of death ? Speak it not aloud, or life’s pictures will turn to pale shadows, and nightmares will rise up to feed on your blood”. Pretty strong words, and that’s just a quote from one of the opening cards on this silent classic from [...]

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SLASHERS – He Knows You’re Alone

Published on: 10th January, 2010

Whilst most slashers that were released in the years following Friday the 13th would try to emulate its graphic violence and summer setting, those that were produced before its success would be closer in tone to Halloween: urban locations, autumn weather and minimal bloodshed. The endless list of low budget thrillers that were released [...]

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CULT – Dressed to Kill: A Retrospective

Published on: 6th January, 2010

Dressed to Kill is a film that can be interpreted in a number of ways. Is it an art house horror film, a straightforward commercial slasher movie with pretensions, is it exploitation, is it a soft porn exercise in erotic voyeurism, a product of its time or is this just another of Brian De Palma’s [...]

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SLEAZE QUEEN – Edwige Fenech

Published on: 3rd January, 2010

The Italian film industry was arguably at its peak during the 1970s and early 1980s. This era of excessive sex and violence produced countless iconic actors and filmmakers, from directors like Dario Argento and Aldo Lado to stars such as Giovanni Lombardo Radice. It was not uncommon for producers to cast foreign actors [...]

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