
Horror and related sleaze.   Posted 1 August, 1992.  All zines reviewed
by Jerod Pore.  Send your horrible zines to Jerod Pore  1800 Market St.
#141  San Francisco  Ca  94102-6227.  email jerod23@well.sf.ca.us

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Horror/Slasher/Trash Review zines.  One of the more prolific topics for
zines.  For some reason, some these zines that deal with the grossest,
trashiest, most lowbrow and lowbudget movies are some of the *best*
written and most entertaining zines around.  Go figure.  And, if you
like this stuff, check out the sport file, with the multitude of
wrestling zines.


%Title:  Midnight Express    Number  3
%Descr:  Interview with "Sunglasses After Dark" author Nancy Collins.
Tips on how to end a story.  Market listings, both mainstream and zine.
%Info:   $1.50 each, $15.00 a year to Shannon Riley  Route 3  Box 272-D
Ripley  MS  38663-9803.  16 pages, standard.

%Title:  Film Threat Video Guide    Issue 3
%Descr:  OK, so they've gone slick and national.  Who cares, they still
review all the great, not-so-great and truly awful underground and low
budget videos I wish I got when I was a movie review hack for Maximum
Rock'n'Roll.  An example:  "'No Subtlety'  Ten more appropriate titles
for this film:  10. No Acting.  9. No Direction.  8. No writing.  7. No
Lighting.  6. No Violence.  5. No Ideas.  4. No Point.  3. No Good
Reason To Exist.  2. No Tits.  1.  No One Should Be Forced to Watch This
Shit."  The three good films from the Dallas film festival.  Interviews
with Nekromantik director Jorg Buttgereit and Nudist Colony of the Dead
producer Mark Headly.
%Info:   $12.00 a year to Film Threat Video  PO Box 3170  Los Angeles
CA  90078-3170  92 pages, standard.

%Title:  Dreadful Pleasures
%Descr:  Concentrating on films released in the 1970's to backwoods
drive-ins and sticky floored downtown rundown theaters with double
features like The Hills Have Eyes and Kung Fu Gold.  Reviews of obscure
exploitation films like Guinea Pig (alledgedly a snuff flick), My
Brother Has Bad Dreams, Filipino cannibalism flicks, Italian
sexplotation flicks.  On Blood Relations, "Any film that intercuts a
hot, sweaty sex scene with messy brain surgery can't be all bad."
%Info:   $2.00 to Michael Accomando  650 Prospect Avenue  Fairview  NJ
07022  20 pages, standard.

%Title:  Autopsy   Number 15
%Descr:  Horror, slasher and porn videos available in Queensland,
Australia's most repressive state.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Chris Doolan  89 Pangeza Street  Stafford Heights
Brisbane  Queensland  4053  8 red pages, digest.

%Title:  Monster   Volume 3 Number 24
%Descr:  Monster movies from around the world.  Brazillian zombie
movies.  Hong Kong possession flicks.  Mexican werewolf movies.  New
Godzilla.  Czech golem movies.  Japanese ghost films.  Trash as the
universal art form.
%Info:  $1.00 each to Tim Paxton  MPO Box 67  Oberlin OH 44074-0067.  16
pages, digest.

%Title:  Vampire Archives   Number 21
%Descr:  Every and any reference to a vampire is listed here.  Books,
movies and even songs are reviewed, with the slightest reference to a
bloodsucker qualifying the product for inclusion.  Plus reprints of
newspaper and magazine articles; shit, even mainstream comic strips that
have the V word are here.
%Info:   $3.00 each  to Jule Ghoul  2926 W. Leland  Chicago IL 60625-
3716  32 pages, standard.

%Title:  Fans of Horror   Number 12
%Descr:  Interview with Augustine Garcia.  Historical perspective of
Conquerer Worm that reads like an eighth grade term paper.  Metal lyrics
Tipper Gore hates.  Reviews of bad horror movies, mainstream flicks and
related zines.  Letters.
%Info:   Sliding scale: $3.00 if you like it, $1.00 if you don't to
Joseph Olszewski Jr.  2802 Shelley Road  Philadelphia  PA  19152  36
pages, standard.

%Title:  Chiggers   Number 3
%Descr:  Still more reviews of well-known trash like Blood Sucking
Freaks and Amazing Colossal Man.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Tim Filipiak PO Box 178  Peru  IL  61354  15
pages, standard.

%Title:  Sticky Carpet Digest   Number 13
%Descr:  Basket Case 2,  Frankenhooker, MST3K, Chopper Chicks in
Zombietown, bad slasher films.  Plus interview with Throwing Muses.
%Info:   $1.00 each to Thomas Deja  55-35 Myrtle Ave.  Top Floor
Ridgeway  NY  11385  20 pages, standard.

%Title:  Psychotronic   Number 10
%Descr:  Detailed reviews of truly bizarre videos.  "Lobster Man From
Mars" and trash from Italy and Australia.  Books and music.  The rise
and fall and rise again of Blaxploitation superstar Fred Williamson,
with filography.  Interview with biker/horror/sleaze/Flipper director
William Grefe'.
%Info:   $3.00 to Psychotronic Video 151 First Avenue Department PV New
York  NY  10003  66 pages, standard.

%Title:  Savage Streets  Number 2
%Descr:  Can Linda Blair's puke predict the future?  How Linda Blair
changed a Marine's life.  Movies Linda Blair should have been in.  Guess
what this zine is about.
%Info:   $1.00 to Jeff Jarvie  750-119 North Indiana  PA  15701  20
heavy stock pages, digest.

%Title:  Psychotic Reaction   Volume 2   Number 1
%Descr:  Enthusiastic reviews of American and Italian sleazoid horror
videos.  Birmingham must be truly dreadful.
%Info:   L1.00/$4.00 to Spence 50 Wingfield Road  Great Barr  Birmingham
B42 2QD  22 pages, A4.

%Title:  Pretty Poison    Number 5
%Descr:  As above, but favoring American sleaze from the seventies.  All
of England must be truly dreadful.
%Info:   L1.00/$3.00 to Gary Gittings 307 Bloxwich Road  Leamore
Walsall  West Midlands  WS2 7BD  20 pages, A4.

%Title:  Take One  Number 2.
%Descr:  How bad US TV plays in the burbs of Sydney.  It's horrifying to
witness antipodean mind rot.
%Info:   US$18.00 for 12 to Brett Garten  PO Box 23  Enmore  New South
Wales  2042.  4 pages, A4.

%Title:  They Won't Stay Dead    Number 17
%Descr:  Compares Mr. Limpet to The Little Mermaid.  Reviews Mondo
movies, Polanski movies and The Little Rascals.  'Art' and how L.S.D.
leads to Satanism, or vice versa.
%Info:   $1.00 to Brian Johnson  11 Werner Road  Greenville  PA 16125
16 pages, digest.

%Title:  Boodtimes  Number 17/18
%Descr:  Historical background of Jack the Ripper, followed by every
bloody Jack the Ripper movie ever made; from Hitchcock's first thriller
"The Lodger" to "Black the Ripper."  A look at El Santo's films:  masked
Mexican wrestler vs. various vile creatures.  Franco's Italian sex
horror works of the seventies.  And six Hong Kong rip-offs of "The
Exorcist."  Appropriately dedicated to Andy Milligan (yay!).
%Info:   $2.00 each to Louis Paul  44 East 5th St  Brooklyn  NY  11218.
20 pages standard.

%Title:  Grindhouse   Number 8
%Descr:  In addition to reviews of the usual trash, this issue
concentrates on Mexican and Texan vampire flicks.  Talk about sub-
genres!
%Info:   $7.00 subscription  to J. Adler  PO Box 1370  New York  NY
10156 10 pages, standard.

%Title:  Coenobium   Number 5
%Descr:  Everything you ever wanted to know about Clive Barker's
"Hellraiser" series.  Interviews with cast (sometimes in character) and
crew, background mythology, value-added fiction, trivia contest, and
convention gossip.
%Info:   $5.25 each to  Diane Keating  980 St. Francis Blvd. #1048  Daly
City  CA  94015   40 pages, standard.

%Title:  Lifestyles of the Bodily Dismembered   Number 9
%Descr:  Chock full of reviews of gore flicks, gore flicks and gore
flicks.
%Info:   $1.00 & a stamp each to  Jason STephenson  1702 Burns Ave.  St.
Paul  MN  55106   12 pages, standard.

%Title:  Dumars' Reviews   Number 13
%Descr:  Movies, books and magazines dealing with murder, mayhem and
other such tasty subjects.
%Info:   $2.00 each to  Denise Dumars  P.O. Box 810  Hawthorne  CA
90251   24 pages, digest.

%Title:  That's Exploitation   Number 5
%Descr:  Detailed biographies and film histories of exploitation film
luminaries Richard Lynch, Claudia Jennings and Ross Hagen.
%Info:   $3.00 each to Gene Freese 6426 Durango Dr.  Ft. Wayne  IN 46815
24 pages, standard.

%Title:  Zoomar   Number 3
%Descr:  Exploitation movies and Betty Page books reviewed by women,
transvestite flicks reviewed by a transvestite.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Barbara Jarvis  PO Box 6920  Alexandria  VA
22306  14 pages, standard.

%Title:  The Orient Express   Number 1
%Descr:  If it's made in Asia, they think it's worth reviewing.
Godzilla, Akira, Armour of God, A Better Tomorrow, and trash like
Vampire Hunter D and Macron 1. Plus comics.  Interesting Brit take on
Asian culture.  "Of all the Oriental fil markets, that of the Phillipine
Islands is generally the most revilled and the least well known.
There's a good reason why this should be - on the whole, they make crap
films."
%Info:   L1.50 each to Kevin Lyons  61 Pyle Street  Newport  Isle of
Wight  PO30 1UL  20 pages, A4.

%Title:  Low Rent Cineaste
%Descr:  Jack Saunders, DIY novelist godhead, reviews some of his
favorite semi-obscure trashy cult movies from the seventies, hoping to
inspire would-be low-budget filmmakers to make some more great, cheap
films.  How many of you remember "Joe?"
%Info:   $1.00 (?) to Jack Saunders  PO Box 10375  Parker FL  32404  8
pages, standard.


At last, some actual fiction.  Remember, if these zines pay at all,
we're talking maximum rates of $0.05 a word.

%Title:  Virgin Meat   Number 13
%Descr:  Vampire stories and poetry, done in tiny Venice typeface and
fuzzy reproduction that makes it impossible to read.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Steven Blum  2325 W. K-15  Lancaster CA  93536
24 pages, digest.

%Title:  Heart Attack   Number 1
%Descr:  Fiction from a buncha people who aspire to be Stephen King.
The usual characters in the usual situations do the usual stuff.  Why
bother?
%Info:   $4.00 each to David Gordon  518 Lowell St  Methuen  MA 01844
72 pages, standard.

%Title:  Dark Tome   Number 9
%Descr:  Some interesting fiction.  "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son" has
this poetic action perspective that keeps an otherwise formula
Lovecraftian story fresh.  "All the Comforts of Home" is a sickly funny
story about an endless line of port-a-potties.  Spotty reproduction.
%Info:   $2.00 each to Michelle Marr  PO Box 705  Salem OR  97308   40
pages, digest.


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