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Book Review: Real World – Author Natsuo Kirino

REAL WORLD Written by Natsuo Kirino , Philip Gabriel (Translator) Published by Knopf Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 224 pages Price: $23.95 You may never have heard of thriller writer Natsuo Kirino – she’s written about twenty novels in her native language and has won just about every Japanese literary award going. Any new English translation from the author …

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Film Review: Blood Wars (2007)

SYNOPSIS: When he’s bitten by a beautiful vampire seductress (Allison Lange), unassuming college student Will (A.J. Draven) finds himself thrust into an epic war between a league of warlocks and a bloodthirsty group of vampires. Directed by Tom Shell, this B-movie thriller also stars Tony Todd (the Candyman trilogy, TV’s “Chuck”), C. Thomas Howell, Jason Connery, Mark Burman, Rini Bell …

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Book Review: Fiming the Fantastic – A Guide to Visual Effects – Author Mark Sawicki

FILMING THE FANTASTIC: A GUIDE TO VISUAL EFFECTS CINEMATOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK) Written by Mark Sawicki Published by Focal Press Publication Date: 2007 Format: Black / White / color images – 312 pages Price: $47.95 I’ve had my share of work in the FX and movie industry, so I’m always on the lookout for great books that offer alot. I had heard …

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Film Review: Horno (2009)

SYNOPSIS: Life imitates art when several sex crazed, flesh eating zombies, crash a film shoot about a zombie outbreak spread by sodomy. REVIEW: Written & Directed by: Terrance Williams Starring: Carlos Javier Castillo, Oceana Christopher, Jesselyn Desmond QUICK FIX: Ron is a director of p*rn movies (hey, got my attention already) who has grown tired of the same old story, …

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Book Review: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – Author Jane Austen, Ben H. Winters

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY AND SEA MONSTERS Author Jane Austen and Ben H. Winters Published by Quirk Classics Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White – 344 pages Price: $12.95 Remember the Jane Austen monster mash-up phenomenon known as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Well, the monsters have returned to wreak havoc in yet another Jane Austen mash-up. No, it’s not a …

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Book Review: Serial Killer Cinema – Author Robert Cettll

SERIAL KILLER CINEMA: AN ANALYTICAL FILMOGRAPHY WITH AN INTRODUCTION (Paperback) Author Robert Cettl Published by McFarland & Company Publication Date: 2007 Format: Black /White – 566 pages Price: $50 It only takes but a passing glance through this packed volume to know there is a wealth of worth to this book. With 566 pages, this 7×10″ with a 1.25″ inch …

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Book Review: The Bald Avengers – Author Eric Schock

THE BALD AVENGERS (COMIC) Writer: Eric Schock Artist: Eric Schock Release Date: April 2010 Publisher: Evil Robo Productions Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 70 pages Price: $20.00 “What price would you pay to reclaim your soul? Bob was like everybody else, until he lost something… his soul. He’s murdered or destroyed anything or anyone who stands in the …

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Book Review: Robin Hood and the Friar Tuck – Zombie Killers – Author Paul A. Freeman

ROBIN HOOD AND FRIAR TUCK: ZOMBIE KILLERS – A CANTERBURY TALE (PAPERBACK) Written by Paul A. Freeman Published by Coscom Entertainment Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 97 pages Price: $12.99 “The spell upon the guards was broken when The first of them was slaughtered like a hen Whose neck upon the chopping block gets thwacked. On either …

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Magazine Review: Tales From the Crypt – Issue 8 – Author Stefan Petrucha

TALES FROM THE CRYPT #8: DIARY OF A STINKY DEAD KID (TALES FROM THE CRYPT GRAPHIC NOVELS) By Stefan Petrucha – (Author), Maia Kinney-Petrucha (Author), John L. Lansdale (Author), Rick Parker (Illustrator), Miran Kim (Illustrator), James Romberger (Illustrator), Marguerite Van Cook (Illustrator) Published by Papercutz Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 96 pages Retail $12.95 each Diary of a Stinky …

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