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 | Michael MacLaverty is a Genie Award-nominated film editor who worked on a variety of cult favorites including Tanya's Island (1980), Prom Night (1980), The Kidnapping of the President (1980), as well as numerous episodes of the TV anthology series Friday the 13th (1988). But it was MacLaverty's work on the troubled 1983 Canadian slasher Curtains that really interested us. What kinds of footage crossed his desk? What deleted sequences does he remember seeing? How about that alternate ending? All is revealed in our exclusive interview Revisiting Curtains...
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 | Since James Whale’s classic adaptation of Frankenstein (1931), Mary Shelley’s novel of the scientist who creates life -- and pays dearly for it -- has been brought to the big screen countless times, most notably by Universal Studios & Hammer Films. But by the early 1970’s, gothic horror had begun to lose ground to more contemporary settings. Nevertheless, a two part miniseries directed by Jack Smight aired on television in 1973: Frankenstein: The True Story. A handsome period piece, The True Story treats Mary Shelley’s themes and plot developments liberally...
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 | For Tentacles, Demons, and a Psycho Twin, we sat down with prolific producer-director Ovidio Assonitis, the man behind such horror delights as the infamous Beyond the Door (1974) and the all-star underwater terror flick Tentacles (1977). He also gave us the slasher-giallo hybrid Madhouse (1981), the epic sci-fi tinged chiller The Visitor (1979), Aldo Lado's superior Who Saw Her Die? (1972), and the early James Cameron effort Pirahna II: The Spawning (1981). Don't miss our exclusive Q&A with this captivating genre veteran...
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 | She's the girl who lost her head (literally) in Happy Birthday to Me (1981). She lost it again in the 1983 slasher Curtains. She nearly lost it in the parlor thriller Funeral Home (1980). And while Lesleh Donaldson may not have set out to be one of the genre's favorite '80s scream queens, well, here we are. In Losing Her Head, our exclusive interview with Donaldson, we asked her: What was it like filming her death scene in Happy Birthday to Me? Was there deleted footage from Curtains? Featuring rare stills, behind-the-scenes photos, Donaldson's work reel, & more...
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 | We asked a diverse cross-section of genre insiders what horror movie made the biggest impression on them over the years. The result is Reflections on Fear 2!, a collection of personal horror film memories & anecdotes contributed by a group which includes Ronee Blakley, Bert I. Gordon, Lesleh Donaldson, Art Hindle, Lisa Langlois, Robbie Rist, Michael Rowe, Wesley Eure, Pat Cardi, Paul Zaza, Desiree Gould, Jonathan Tiersten, Paul Corupe, Caelum Vatnsdal, Mark Steensland, Joe Zaso, Count Gore De Vol, Michael Lee Stever, Jeffrey Winner...
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 | A semi remake of Freaks, Tod Browning's 1932 creepy classic, She Freak (1967) is a quaint, but unremarkable effort. Working at a greasy spoon, a waitress named Jade (Brennen) tires of her dead-end job -- not to mention her jerk of a boss. Flirtatious, busty, blonde & curvy, Jade isn't one to let dust settle on her 38D cups. When she's not batting her eyelashes at Blackie (Raymond), the hunky muscleman who runs the amusement rides, she's chatting up Steve (McKinney), the rolling-in-dough manager of the midway's booming tourist business..
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 | Although The New Kids (1985) is reminiscent of earlier high school revenge movies such as Massacre at Central High (1976) and Class of 1984 (1982), there's a great deal more brutality this time out. Directed by Sean S. Cunningham of Friday the 13th (1980) and A Stranger Is Watching (1982) fame, there's much to admire about this little thriller that could: the bullies are the kind of thugs you love to hate, the viewer identifies easily with leads Loughlin and Presby, and best of all, the death and fight scenes are particularly graphic...
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 | For Remembering Jessica we sat down with actress Mariclare Costello and asked her to reminisce about working on the early '70s cult classic Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). What was it like acting with the ever-watchable Zohra Lampert? How did director John Hancock react when Costello refused to kill the mole? Is that really the actress herself singing that folk song? How difficult was it to film those scenes in the lake? Her thoughts on the other cast members? All is revealed in our exclusive interview Remembering Jessica...
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