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 | How to summarize director Gunnar Hellström's bizarre cult horror The Name of the Game Is Kill (1968)? Well, for starters, imagine Tennessee Williams' The Fugitive Kind (1959) meets Carlos Aured's House of Psychotic Women (1974). There's a palpable sense of feminine psychological decay which surrounds Name of the Game, in the way that only a late '60s grindhouse horror can generate. Add to that the coarse, dry flint of a grounded performance from Steve McGarrett (er, we mean Jack Lord) and you've got just the right balance of tension needed to ignite an already combustible cult flick...
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 | The perversion of joyful expectations into something frightening was a popular theme in 70’s horror movies, with such diverse examples as Larry Cohen's It’s Alive (1974), Richard Donner's The Omen (1976), Embryo (1976), Demon Seed (1977), Cronenberg's The Brood (1979), and Ridley Scott's Alien (1979). But exploitation director William Girdler's The Manitou (1978) is unlike any of them. Adapted from Graham Masterton’s novel of the same name, The Manitou is a bizarre tapestry of Native American mysticism, European occultism, over the top special effects, and outrageous set pieces...
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 | Canadian director Jim Makichuk has been working in the film business for over four decades. But he's best known to genre fans for helming the snowbound horror Ghostkeeper (1981). In our special interview Nightmare at Deer Lodge, we sat down with Makichuk to discuss the making of Ghostkeeper some 30 years ago, and to explore how its lowkey blend of supernatural and gothic elements came about. Featuring never-before-seen photos and a trailer created by Makichuk exclusively for The Terror Trap, you won't want to miss this one. Reserve a room at Deer Lodge, if you dare...
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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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 | 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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