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A persistent and prolific writing career spanning from small-time xeroxed zines to heavy-hitting porno publications along with some sudden inspiration from punk-rock cinema scholars Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly has led metal-thrashing-mad Mike “McBeardo” McPadden to pen his new fringe flick book Heavy Metal Movies, subsequently published through the Bazillion Points imprint. This seeming mishmash of movies is lovingly linked together by McBeardo’s set of heavy metal ideals, inclinations and adimirations, twisting together to create a cohesive skull-crushing smorgasbord of head-banging, ripsnorting total party time excellent cinema that every fan of rock n’ roll reels is gonna wanna guzzle down....

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Just a little over 8 years ago, film fanatic david j. moore started tappin’ up material with the clickity-click of an old-school typewriter with what would be the first manifestations of his book WORLD GONE WILD: A SURVIVOR’S GUIDE TO POST-APOCALYPTIC MOVIES. Fast-forward to the present (sans typewriter), shooting through several years of widespread genre writings and relentless research, djm has finally brought to fruition his reader-friendly, incredibly informative and utterly ultimate book on end-of-the-world flicks. A multitude of interviews with post-apocalyptic film standouts from the heavy-hitters to the hardly heard-ofs, combined with a dead complete cast of genre movie...

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There’s been a decidedly unique and intriguing analog-inclined story rumbling about the internet as of late, with a wave of ricocheted reports detailing the mysterious presence of a VHS copy of the seminal British horror flick Hellraiser perched atop an Old Kent bus stop, curiously captivating those who catch a glimpse of it. The bulk of the reports were culled from one man’s account of the cenobite-driven curiosity, bolstered by numerous individual sightings communicated via social media which serve to detail the timeline of Pinhead perched atop the Old Kent Road (Elephant & Castle) stop, looming above the puny public...

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On another one of my daily rambles through the winding virtual roads of world weird web, I was met with what might be the ultimate homage to 80s home entertainment nostalgia. We all know that the almighty VHS was king in the analog-inclined 80s, and its home gaming counterpart was the practically unrivaled and much revered Nintendo Entertainment System. And now, the two powerhouses of 80s (and 90s) I-don’t-need-to-go-outside nostalgia have been combined into one heady home entertainment haymaker. Tapeheads, may I present to you: The VideoTendo 2000! This is what I'm talkin' about right here, Tapeheads. It looks like...

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Bleeding Skull is a name that should be bouncing around everyone's rewind-inclined brain, not only for their indispensable website, but also for their recently published behemoth of a book entitled BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s TRASH-HORROR ODYSSEY which indeed lives true to its name hurling you into a mind-melting journey through the unbelievable, unwatchable and now unforgettable dregs of trashterpiece cinema. And now, with their brand new fresh VHS imprint BLEEDING SKULL! VIDEO, they've teamed up with heavy-hitting brand Mondo, digging deep beyond the delete bin and cracking into the the concrete floor of some misbegotten video store to bring you...

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