F IL M G EEK CAUSE LIFE'S TOO SHORT FOR MAINSTREAM MOVIES

Articles and reviews of plenty of strange flix with enough mindless drivel to drive you insane ISSUE 5 SPRING 2001 1 LOUSY BUCK The W hizzbanger Guide To Z ine Distributors The W orld’s M ost Ex tensiv e List Self-descriptions of 123 distributors from 26 countries. Also Includes zine stores, zine libraries, zine archives, dozens of zine-friendly web sites, a list of dependable reviewers, and many other valuable zine resources. $4.00 US Cash. Postage Paid for USA, M exico, and Canada only. Foreign orders, please add two dollars for postage. No Foreign Currency. No Trades. Prisoners Pay In Stamps. Shannon Colebank The Whizzbanger Guide POB 5591 Portland 0R 97228 USA

2 Publisher I know who you are and I know what you did... or didn't do. You didn't contact us after Alan Fare reading this fanzine! Fare-To-Say Publishing W e are alw ays looking for correspondence with you! Tell us w hat you think, or better Editor In Chief yet send us an article. If you w ant to Alan Fare advertise you'd be amazed at our cheap ra tes!

Layout/dcsign W e put this rag out not to make money, but Alan Fare to share the word of bizarre cinema. In a Jason Christopher world of cold and sterile unoriginal movies we strive to explore the vast regions of cinematic creativity. W e are a group who long to for Art Dept. Jason Christopher the days of renegade film making and still Jason Franklin find solace in the efforts of the few who step out of line and do it their own way. W e hope Writers you will find something interesting within Alan Fare these pages, or better yet will find a piece of Robert Freese your past you had forgotten. David Raisman Everyone has a favorite movie from their past, and the staff at FILM GEEK is no Advertising exception. W e w ant to hear YOUR ideas! Alan Fare Tell us w hat you would like to see in this rag! William Worrell It's your input that keeps this thing going. To all you old timers, thank you for your Mascot support. To all you new comers, welcome Dorian T. Cat aboard! Now grab yourself some popcorn and a soda 'cause the show's about to begin! All contents © 2001 Fare- To-Say publishing The Editor The views expressed in this fanzine are those of their respective writer and not necessarily those of this publication... unless you agree, then yes they are. No part of this publication may be reproduced in whole or part without prior written consent (or you can keep us from finding out). Unsolicited submissions will be considered for publication, but you must supply return postage if you want your stuff back. Otherwise it will probably end up in my closet. This publication is not responsible for any monies lost to shady advertisements, but we try to deal only with advertisers we personally trade with or have not heard any complaints about. If you have any complaints about a company or individual advertising in FILM GEEK, tell us. We will do what we can to resolve the problem. 3 M indless Editorial D rivel Welcome to another late(!) great(?) its. I’ve begun the first stages of issue of FILM GEEK. I'll bid my writing my first book. If you couldn't apologies now to all I haven't already guess what it will be about, it's going for this issue being so late. I've set up to document... low budget movies! shop in my own house to do all the I'm not going public with the exact layout for this and future issues, so it genre just yet, but it's not that hard to should be more on schedule from figure out. If you need a hint, THE here on out. WHO summed it up in their song I really haven't had too much time "MY GENERATION". I've just got­ to seek out all the movies you all ten such an incredible influx of have suggested, but l'm still trying to people in my age range talking (or get caught up! Be patient and maybe asking) about these movies we all some day I'll get back to you and tell hold so dear. Hey, why not write a you what I thought. book about it! As you may notice, I now have I've always told myself "when I writers and artists on my staff! If you grow up I want to be like those would like to become a writer or an writers in all those books I read". artist for FILM GEEK, get ahold of Now, after years of writing nonsen- me! I'm really easy to deal with sical dreck for go-nowhere publica- unless you want to get paid, that tions, my dreams are finally being won't happen until I recoup all the realized! And the best part is I still money I've lost from this rag! So just haven't grown up! Many of the like the old joke- What do writers, people that were my mentors are now artists, and dead skin all have in my friends, and we are all just kids at common? They all come off as heart. We understand the importance flakes- the check is in the mail! At of simple pleasures and unbridled least you get to see your work pub- laughter because what a dreary life lished, isn't that enough? we would have without it. I must say I'm glad I started FILM I remember as a small child how the GEEK when I did because if I'd world and all of it's problems seemed waited until now I never would have to melt away as I would wrap myself gotten started. I've finally become in the stories I saw on the screen. I something I thought I never would- a could be anything, do anything, but productive member of society! Yes best of all I was there to witness the it's true, I seem to have become spectacle of cinematic achievement! "indispensable" at my job. At least I No matter how bad the critics said feel that way lately. I've only been at these films were, I saw hearts and my current job for five years, h alf as souls poured onto the silver screen! long as my last job. but now I have Sure, there were the money grubbers, more responsability at work than I but there were also fresh new ideas ever have before. Now don't think that we just don't see today! It's been that just 'cause I'm a slave to THE a long hard road, but it was my MAN I'm gonna give up this rag, it's chosen path. And yes, Mr. Clements, the only thing that keeps me sane(?). the old bastard learned a lot in those Just to let you know that my habit formative years!!! Now on with the of over-extending myself has no lim- show this is it! Alan Fare

4 WHO IS THIS FILM GEEK ANYWAY?

This is an interview with Alan there who still make decent flicks, Fare, the editor of FILM GEEK. but they rarely ever reach a wide The interview was conducted by audience because the market is satu- the F.G. mascot, Dorian. rated with new "big budget" dreck. F.G. So what's the concept behind F.G. So you're saying that money has FILM GEEK, what are you trying to destroyed the movie industry? accomplish? A.F. Well not exactly, what I'm say- A.F. What do you think, I'm like ing is that all the money in the world Larry Flynt or something? I put out a can't save an unimaginative or over- crappy little fanzine about weird played story and all the lack of funds movies! There's no "concept", it's just and/or opportunity can't stop a truly my way of sharing my views with gifted "artist" from creating some­ others. thing great. F.G. O.K., what are your goals for I think the public-at-large is more FILM GEEK? responsible than anyone else because only they have the power to choose A.F. Man. Barbara Walters could do what they want to watch. Hell, I've a better job than you... My goals are shown die-hard "BIG BUDGET- to make people realize that there's ERS" super low budget flicks that more to life than what today's media have blown their minds! So many would have you believe. People are young people now have led such always waiting for the "next big spoon-fed insular lives that they have thing" in movies when there are tons no idea what lies beyond the scope of of flicks out there FAR better than main stream media. It's really kind of what they are making today that sad. most people haven't ever seen! F.G. So you're kind o f a disciple o f F.G. So you're saying that old mov­ B-movies? ies are better than new movies? A.F. I certainly hope not! I'm a fan A.F. Let me just say that writers and of original movies. Everything now directors have run out of fresh ideas is so predictable, when I watch new and have so many ways to to get releases I know what is going to around decent story lines with state- happen. When I watch old movies I of-the-art special effects that, to me, have to put myself in the time frame most new releases come off as being of when the movie came out and set made by "spoiled brats". my standards to that time frame. Now there are still some people out Now more than ever people think in

5 the present, they think anything you F.G. So what can society do to can do now you could do years ago. correct the problem? That type of thinking goes against all A.F. There's really nothing anyone that I believe in. can do now, the death of great cin­ F.G. So people now can't appreciate ema is like any other death... final. low budget films? All we can do is remember and respect what we once had and never A.F. Well, yes and no. People now forget that, at least once we had it as are flooded with so much information our own. and imagery that they often get lost in the whole hoopla of what a movie is F.G. Well great cinema is not dead. all about. A perfect example is A.F. No, but it does need C.P.R., or a within the "GORE" scene. When the kick in the ass, or something! If it TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE weren't so sad it would probably be came out it scared the hell out of funny how the evolution of technol­ people, upon viewing the same movie ogy that is supposed to bring us years later the same people saw together has isolated us even further. things very differently. The movie People rely more and more on what had lost it's edge and people found they are told by the media and they the movie almost laughable, but be­ lose are losing the ability to choose fore they had seen things that never for themselves. appeared in the actual movie! Of course in 1974 people still had imagi­ F.G. What in the hell are you talking nation and could see things in their about? own mind, now people are so over­ A.F. What I'm saying is that most whelmed by graphic violence that people don’t take things at face value you really have to go over the top to anymore, they go along with what­ shock the public. Sure, you could ever the movie ads tell them. Major blame this on flicks like FACES OF movies now are little more than eye DEATH or MONDO CANE and a candy, but they still keep coming in million rip-offs, but I think the news droves. media played a bigger part of it than anyone else. I remember as a kid F.G. Okay, let's move on. Is there back in the 70's during the Iran anything about you that would sur­ hostage crisis wondering when they prise your readers? were going to drop the bomb! Of A.F. Well, for all the time and energy course movies like THE DAY AF­ I put into corresponding with people TER didn't help, we were waiting to I’m really a loner. I'd say I enjoy die! It was a really scary time. Once spending time alone at home with my the movies showed us fake gore the movies as much as I do going out media showed us the real thing. It with my friends. I hardly go out was a turning point in history. anymore.

6 F.G. S o you're a recluse? much time and energy to communi- A.F. Hell no, I just like to be alone cating with them. sometimes. I've spent years of my life F.G. Do you think you will keep living in damn near communal situa- doing FILM GEEK forever? tions. Back when I was really into the A.F. No, I think after I die it will be music scene I would live in places hard for me to spend enough time to that had touring bands staying with us get much done. all the time as well as tons of house mates. At times I would be living Tune in next time as the saga with twenty or more people living continues. We will delve deep into under one roof! I guess now I just Alan Fare's past to find out what relish my privacy. makes him tick. Learn his deepest secrets as he takes you on a joy ride F.G. S o you're not a recluse. through his sordid past... Okay so it's A.F. No, but some of my friends think not that sordid, but it is entertaining, I am. Just because I don't get out like as told by the master o f delusion I used to doesn't mean I don't like himself! people, if it did I wouldn't devote so

The editor gets a "talking to" after a live performance by one of his noise bands. "We really tore that place up that night, I can't believe no one was hurt!" A.F. (photo circa 1993) 7 SILLY MOVIE OR CHILDREN'S NIGHTMARE? By David Raisman One of the most scary movies ever made for small children was "ROBOT MONSTER". Yes, I know it's a silly movie: a guy in a gorilla suit with a deep-sea diving helmet over his head working a bubble machine. Kind of silly. That's because few people realize that what makes this movie so scary for small children is that it contains all the elements a child would find in a nightmare: the gorilla in the diving helmet blowing bubbles on a bubble machine is just the thing a child would see in a nightmare. In short, it's very silliness is what makes it so scary to a child. Indeed, the movie has a dreamlike state to it. A child watching it feels he is watching a real nightmare while he is awake and not asleep. A truly eerie experience. Note how out of nowhere fights between lizards, and how earthquakes take place that have nothing to do with the movie's story. This is just the type of misplaced order of events that would take place in a child's nightmare.

Tune in next issue to read David's dissection of THE LONE RANGER series! Absolutely hilarious!

Tell him what you think at: David Raisman P.O. Box 190007 8 Brooklyn NY. 11219 J U S T K E E P R E P E A T I N G ______I T ' S O N L Y A Punk Rock Movie

By punk rock expert Alan Fare (chuckle chuckle) Yes that's right, punk is dead... but a lesson from. Well the tour went to it still lives on in those crazy punk hell as the bus broke down constantly rock movies! I was (mis)fortunate and was even abandoned in D.C. enough to grow up in the punk rock with YOUTH BRIGADE and Monk scene and see, first hand, not only all the roadie catching a ride back to the great bands and people in the L.A. in the back of the film crews scene, but also the movies that truck! Most of the others left before "normal" people deemed "freak the tour made it that far. shows". So sit back and enjoy the I talked to Shaun Stern, singer for punk rock explosion from the YOUTH BRIGADE, about ten years comfort of your own (toilet) seat. after this flick was made and he still held the same punk ethics he did A N O T Adam H E R ST Small, A T E PeterO F M StuartIN D1983 back in 83. It’s good to see someone Youth Brigade who doesn't get big-headed just be- cause they're famous. I just can't say A video documentation of the the same for Mike Ness (oh I'll have YOUTH BRIGADE / SOCIAL hell to pay for THAT statement). DISTORTION U.S. Canada tour via an old school bus turned tour charter. Eleven punks, five weeks, twenty DECLINE OF THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART 1 thousand miles, what do YOU think 1980 Penelope Spheeris happens? Not only a great documentation of a punk rock tour, but also a voyeurs' view into the This is a no holds barred look at the underground world of punk rock L.A. punk scene circa 1980 as seen theology. A stark view of eleven by the bands, club owners, and punks people on tour across North America themselves. I think more mid- and all their pitfalls without the western suburban kids were turned exploitative nature so common in on to punk by this movie than main stream documentaries. This is anything else. I don't know why, you their story, told by them and not get to see bands like BLACK FLAG manipulated (that much) by the who lived in an abandoned church editing. basement, for $16 a month! You There are interviews with all the also get to listen to Darby Crash from members of the bands as well as THE GERMS constantly wasted out assorted punks in the different cities of his mind, on stage and off. He they play in. There's even an died of a drug overdose not long interview with Ian MacKay (MINOR after this film was made. You also THREAT) That I think all these get to see live performances by bands militant "straight-edgers" could take like THE CIRCLE JERKS, THE ALICE BAG BAND, CATHOLIC 9 DISCIPLINE, X,F EAR. Lee Ving, kids. Of course the folks who battle front man for FEAR, works the the punks are portrayed as perverted, crowd into a frenzy before they play beer swilling rednecks wi th chips on by insulting the audience and when their shoulders big enough to knock one woman tries to get up on stage he down King Kong. Oddly enough, the punches and kicks her repeatedly! "black cop" stepfather acts as a hero When the band finally plays, the in this story, something you never see crowd goes crazy. in most punk rock movies. This is a great documentary on The acting is atrocious, the urban decay that really sends a clear dialogue is stereotypical and message about what comes out of the laughable at times, and the story line "big city". is quite muddy. Still it comes off as a mildly disturbing and pretty SUBURBIA depressing b-flick that, at least, has Dir: Penelope Spheeris Cast: an audience in the punk rock scene. Andrew Pece, Chris Pederson, Bill God, do I sound like a critic? Coyne, Jennif er Clay, Tim O'Brien, Wade Watson, Mike B. (The Flea) SIP AND NANCY Dir: Ale.x Cox Cast: Gary Oldman, Warning! warning! This movie was Chloe Webb, Debbie Bishop, David executive produced by Roger Hayman Corman! That said, you know there's going to be lots o' exploitation in this I learned a long time ago that flick. "based on a true story" often means This is a fictional story about urban they may keep the names the same. decay. Ethen (Pece) runs away from Later came a more appropriate home because he can't stand his statement of a "dramatization". This drunkard mother who compares him flick is more accurate than most "true to his deadbeat dad. Wandering the story" movies, but get out your salt streets of L.A. he finds himself at a shaker anyway. punk rock show where one of the Alex Cox paints a colorful though, punks spikes his drink. He passes at times, embellished picture of the out in the grass outside the show and lives (and deaths) of Sid Vicious and gets picked up by one of the punks Nancy Spungen. From the early days who takes him to TR house. F.Y.I., when the SEX PISTOLS were TR stands for "the rejected". This is starting out and Nancy was a strung an abandoned house in an abandoned out junkie to the end when the SEX neighborhood that once was PISTOLS disbanded and Sid and Suburbia. So here you've got a Nancy were both strung out junkies. bunch of punk kids squatting in a For those of you who don't know house because, for one reason or John Simon Ritchie A.K.A. Sid another, they can't go home. One kid Vicious, former bassists for the SEX can't stand his gay father, another PISTOLS, was charged with the can't stand his "black cop" stepfather, murder of his girlfriend Nancy and one girl can't stand being Spungen back in 1979. While out molested by her own father (just on bail Sid Vicious died of a heroin blame it on the parents). overdose, making him a punk rock The main beef of the movie legend. revolves around a battle between the This is one of those flicks that goes "upright citizens" of L.A. and the TR beyond the "punk rock" story to

10 examine the characters as people. me tell you about the flick. This is Oldman and Webb give great one powerful piece of work, though performances that make this flick hit not for everyone. Unlike just about that much harder. This is just a damn everything else about G.G. Allin, this good movie. flick actually focuses on his entire life. Todd Phillips spends a great HATED deal of time interviewing G.G.'s 1993 Todd Phillips brother, band members, school teachers, school buddies, and so on. Of all underground performers He dares to look behind the hype to G.G. Allin must be the most extreme, find out what makes G.G. tick. I was and the most videotaped. I don't surprised to find out that G.G. never think any of his thousands of even drank or did drugs until his performances was not filmed once he brother, Merle, slipped a hit of acid became popular. If you are easily to him in a donut. It was the offended or have a weak stomach, beginning of the end. Of course please stop reading this now. The G.G. didn't have the most stable first time I saw G.G. was around the home life growing up, his father was mid-eighties. I'd heard he put on one a psychotic loner who even helluva show so I decided to check threatened to kill the entire family. I him out. What I saw that night will would have to say that G.G. was stay with me for the rest of my life. I doomed from the start. lt's not a watched G.G. (I warn you, this is not pretty story, but it is an intense one. pretty) break bottles over his head, If you have the stomach for the piss and shit in his hands and throw it visuals, this is one of the most at the audience, roll around in broken amazing documentaries you could glass, and beat up anyone who came ever see. If you don't, don't even try near him. It was not a pretty sight. to watch it! This is for iron stomachs Since that show I've seen hundreds only! Don't sayMOVIE THE-MickDuffield/CRASSCHRIST I didn't warn you. of videos of assorted G.G. Allin shows in bands like THE TEXAS NAZIS, THE SCUMFUCS, THE NYC SUPER SCUM, and THE MURDER JUNKIES. I always wondered why G.G. was like he was, Apparently a lot more people have and HATEE) gave me insight. Kevin heard of this flick than have seen it. Michael (G.G.) Allin was the That's what I gather from talking to embodiment of everything society people. This is actually three short stood against. Singing songs about films made by Mick Duffield (film murder, rape, child molestation, drug maker of CRASS) and shown at and alcohol abuse, racism, self CRASS gigs from 1978 to 1984. mutilation, and more. He not only The films are AUTOPSY, talked the talk, he walked the walk, CHOOSING DEATH, and YES SIR, doing time in prison for things like I WILL. The last being the film kidnapping, assault, attempted rape, version of the album of the same and even attempted murder. No, he name. was not a guy you’d want to bring The first film, a short 11.5 minutes home to mother. long, is a chaotic and somewhat Now that you know what kind of amateurish mix of stock footage and person this documentary is about, let "home movie" shots that seem a bit

11 too incoherent to easily follow. I've look for anyone who calls themselves seen worse, but I’ve seen better. The a punk. message here is basically "war is bad". Though not groundbreaking, D.O.A. Mick showed promise in his effective 1981Unknown use of visuals and sound. The next film has a 25 minute My box art for this flick is all in running time and much better Japanese and so are all the other production value. The base appears copies I can recall seeing so I don't to be a British propaganda film know if it was ever released state- similar to the old American youth side. It's not the best punk rock scare films. A blatant but effective documentary, but it does have videos attack on the government and the of THE SEX PISTOLS, SHAM 69, military. Though this is pretty tame THE DEAD BOYS, GEN. X, IGGY by today's standards (scary because it POP, THE CLASH, THE X-RAY was made in 1981) it was quite SPEX, etc. The production value is traumatic for it's day with it's pretty low and does tend to drag a bit conveyance of nuclear war. at times but if you like the really old The last film is by far the best. This school punk music you would prob- is the visual version of the CRASS ably get into this. album YES SIR, I WILL. The album is basically one long song that sums So there you have it, sume punk rock up the ideologies of CRASS. They flicks for your entertainment. And as were, in my humble opinion, the the punks would say "if you don't most infiuential peace punk band of like punk then piss off!" (I would all times. This is definitely worth a never say that though). FLASHPOINT ZINE Issue # Three Documenting The Fact AIDS Does Not Exist A hair-raising collection of material about the AIDS scam. Corrupt drug companies, military contracts, United Nations' population control schemes, etc. $3.00 US Cash. Postage paid for USA, M exico, and Canada only. Foreign orders, please add two dollars for postage. No Foreign Currency. No Trades. Prisoners Pay In Stamps. Shannon Colebank Flashpoint Zine POB 5591 Portland OR 97228 USA 1 2 "Creatures Walk Among Us" Lock your doors, bolt your win­ Corman! dows and turn out the lights. There’s More hormonally enslaved crea- something outside. In the dark. tures seek out female companionship Something...not human. Don't move. in Tim Kincaid's gutter-trash alien Don’t make a sound. Don't even invasion opus BREEDERS (1986). breath. If it hears you, it will find Intergalactic rapists are abducting you. And if it finds you... virginal women and forcing them to Watch your toes and don't go too bathe in a tunnel underneath the far out if you happen to take a Empire State Building. midnight dip off the Northern coast Lowbrow concept is ultra sleazy of California, especially near the and quite a chore to sit through, the quiet little fishing burg of Noyo. only redeemable quality being the Seems the local cannery has been make-up man Ed French's outrageous feeding the salmon population "latex apocalypse" gross-out climax. growth hormones. Their object was (Say what you will about the film, fatter, meatier salmon but what they but Ed's exploding alien head effect got was a bad case of HUMANOIDS at the end has never been beat!) FROM THE DEEP (1980). Andrew Stevens took time out from Super charged salmon critters grow doing the horizontal mambo with to human size and storm the beaches Shannon Tweed in this made-for- like drunken, horny frat bros on cable porn flick to bare his chest and spring break, searching out women in save beautiful women from desert which to play "Johnny Apple-seed," creepaziods in the post-apocalyptic if you catch my meaning. monster mash THE TERROR Hyperactive flick is short on brains WITHIN 2 (1990). but long on great creatures and mon- Fast paced monster attacks, loads of sters-amuck attack scenes. Vic Mar- monster grue and gore and R. Lee rowand Doug McClure join forces to Ermey doing his drill instructor beat abd burn the horn doggin' fish- schtick makes this one worth a men during the flick's awesome "car- watch. (Stevens also wrote and nival siege" finale. A low budget directed.) creature feature classic from Roger For some southern fried creature

1 3 scares, take a trip into the swamp- for war, destruction and death, The lands of Texarkana with director/ Outsider decimates the mercs into actor Charles B. Pierce as he little piles of chum until it's just searches for Bigfoot in BOGGY Hauser and a genius dog named CREEK II (1983). Einstein left to figure out a way in Anthropologist Pierce leads three which to destroy the beastie. A college chuckleheads into the non-stop barrage of low budget ac- swamps where they meet yokels who tion, horror and cheese. tell tales of a "big ol' hairy thing," PROTEUS (1996), based on British kill a rabid dog, chance glimpses of a horror author Harry Adam Knight's mysterious creature, and shack up nasty novel SLIMER, is one wild, with a fat Cajun swamprat who wears rampaging monster ride. overalls without a shirt underneath Science again puts the screws to and keeps a j unior Bigfoot monster Mother Nature and again the sweet shackled in his back room. old gal responds with another raging Lots of cheap drive-in monster DNA experiment gone nutzoid. kicks are had by any brave sole who Amateur drug smugglers wreck visits Boggy Creek. their yacht during a storm and chance Before renovating the HOUSE ON upon a seemingly abandoned oil rig HAUNTED HILL (1999), director in the middle of the ocean. Once William Malone cut his directing aboard, they catch glimpses of chops on the low budget ALIEN people walking down hallways and lovechild SCARED TO DEATH on the T.V. monitors, then discover a (1980). doctor who explains the rig is really a Genetic engineering creates a front for scientists who partake in humanoid creature dubbed Syngenor, dangerous DNA testing. He reveals who is stalking L.A. and sucking the that he and his crazy comrades have spinal fluid from hapless victims. created a morphing shark monster You'll probably want to make sure capable of absorbing living things your VCR remote has got a couple of and taking on any of the absorbees fresh batteries so you'll be able to get forms at any time. This adds to the past the many slow spots to the cool "who's the monster now?" suspense monster stomping and carnage. until Sharky absorbs a heroin addict Supposedly, a second film was and instantly becomes hooked on made that put three of the spinal smack. slurpers on a military aircraft and Outstanding giant monster mor­ staged the terror at 35,000 feet. To phing finale has the last survivor the best of my knowledge it has saving the day with a lethal hit of rarely been seen. An "unofficial" junk. sequel, SYNGENOR, appeared in Yes, sir, creatures walk among us. 1990 without Malone's involvement. Try to stay out of their way! Of the four film adaptations of the Dean Koontz novel WATCHERS, WATCHERS 3 (1994) rates as my favorite. (Editor's note) Also check out the A brigade of trigger happy mercenar- books INVASION OF THE DRIVE- ies led by the great Wings Hauser are IN SCI-FI FLICKS and INVASION dropped into a South American OF THE DRIVE-IN HORROR jungle where they encounter the fear- FLICKS by Rob Freese. Look fo r some predator The Outsider. Bred the ad elsewhere in this rag.

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This is a new column I've come up it crossed MY path? Keep in with for readers to share their "B" flick mind that I have always suffered memories with the rest of us. Tell us from an over-active imagination about your favorite, your scariest, or and could easily conceive even your most life changing memory something like this happening in of the old silver screen. I will print all my neighborhood. that room will allow in future issues. Near the end of the movie there Just to get the ball rolling, here's one of is a scene that sticks with me to mine. this day. The scene where the cop car is driving through the sewer God help us all because IT'S ALIVE! and in the red flashing lights you To clarify from the start, I'm talking see a strobe effect of the mutant about Larry Cohen's 1975 killer baby baby! That scene still creeps me epic not Larry Buchanan killer out to this day, but the first time I masasaurus epic, I used the saw it I thought I would die of exclamation point as artistic license. fright! They don't make flicks like The year was I976 and I was under this one anymore, and if they did I the supervision of my eldest brother as wouldn't let a nine year old watch our parents went out for the evening. it. Well... I probably would just to What's a sibling to do to keep a nine see if they would be as scared as I year old monster buff with an over was. active imagination entertained? If you know anything about siblings you know Now it's your turn! Send in your the answer, show him something that memories for all to share. Tell us will give him nightmares for weeks! what scared or inspired you! If As I sat down on the couch, popcorn you now work in the field of and tea in hand (my family didn't drink independent film, tell us about the soda) to watch the "forbidden" HBO movie that put you on your way. station on T.V. I felt my pulse race as If you are just a fan, tell us about the movie started! After about minutes your favorite flick. You can even of domestic dialogue I began to get write about several movies, but bored. Having a short attention spa... keep it clear. oh, sorry, my mind wandered. I knew I Now for the "iron fist” rules. couldn't leave because my brother Send it to the P.O. Box listed in would kill me, so I sat there, then it the front of this zine, and tell us happened! The baby was born! I was it's a submission to MEMOR"B" already afraid of small things after LANE so we will know. Don't seeing the zuni fetish doll in TRILOGY e-mail your submissions, but you OF TERROR just weeks before, this can e-mail us with questions you made me think I would be the first nine have about it at year old to die of a heart attack! [email protected]. What I was afraid, I was very afraid. Here I you get in return i s a free issue was, fearing for my life, watching a with your submission included! mutant strain of the human race killing So what are you waiting for off anyone that got in it's way. What if ...SEND IT IN!!!

1 5 MOVIE REVIEWS FIEND know it adds comic relief, but there Dir: Don DohlerCast: Don Leifert, is a limit! Richard Nelson, Elaine White, Even with the minor infractions on George Stover, Greg Dohler the story, this is a great movie! Just This flick is an oddity. Not so another example that all the "big much the film itself but the story name" stars with their multi-million behind it. FIEND was Dohler's dollar budget films can only make second film, shot as a "quicky" to what the script offers- usually crap. keep the ball rolling until he could A good movie starts with a good get a decent budget to make a "good" story, not money or stars. Maybe film. The odd thing is that this was one day Hollywood will see the error Dohler's lowest budget film with the of their way, but I won't hold my smallest cast and crew but was still breath. his best picture. FIEND is a story about an evil life THE LEGEND OF BOGGY force that takes possession of a CREEK corpse and sets out on a murderous Dir: Charles B. Pierce Cast: A rampage in order to stay alive in bunch o f people from Arkansas. human form. Mr. Longfellow, the In a world of high tech computers solemn new resident in the neighbor- and government conspiracies, what hood, seems a bit eccentric to most better subject to pick for a movie of the neighbors, but Gary Kender review than the good old Bigfoot suspects something more. Gary's legend, I mean the Fouke Monster wife thinks he's just picking on Mr. legend. Oh, what's the difference, Longfellow, but when strange kill- they're both big hairy creatures that ings start to develop in a path from a no one has ever explained. cemetery two counties over to their Mr. Pierce takes us into the muddy own neighborhood, Gary becomes lowlands of Fouke Arkansas in obsessed with finding out the truth. search of the answer to his own Don Leifert goes all out in his childhood fears, the Fouke Monster. portrayal of a cold, unfeeling fiend. We all have monsters form our child­ You can't help but not like this guy, hood but most of them aren't real, yet you are compelled to watch. The maybe this one is! creepy sets and non-formula script Made in documentary style, THE make for one hell of a good story. LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK It’s like watching an old classic with gives interviews and re-enactments a twist. The people who die aren’t of events surrounding sitings of the who you'd expect and soon you don't Fouke Monster, often by the actual know what is going to happen next! people themselves. Though seem- As with any low budget flick, there ingly peaceful and elusive, the more are detractors, but not many in this violence it encountered when con- one. The worst is when Mr Frye fronted by humans, the more violent picks through the boxes looking for a it became. I've never found any box of sheet music. I mean, the reports of the Fouke Monster killing boxes are obviously empty! It really a human, but it did attack one man in takes away from a great scene. I this movie, sending him to the hospi-

1 6 MOVIE REVIEWS tal. There was even a recent report what a sequel it is! Mr. Pierce embel- of a similar creature attacking a lishes the first flick and comes up woman in Georgia just last year! with a great new story. You can believe what you want, but A professor of anthropology I've read enough about and talked to (played by Pierce himself) takes enough people from the Fouke area three college students down to Texar- to come to the conclusion that there kana to try and find the legendary is, or was, something out there. This beast. When they get to town they movie scared me then and it scares stop at a general store to but some me now! ammo for protection. When the P.S. FYI this flick was a big inspira- bumkins in the store find out what tion for the movie THE BLAIR they are looking for they start joking WITCH PROJECT. about scaring them when they're out in the woods. Charles' response to RETURN TO BOGGY CREEK their jokes is classic! Dir: Tom MooreCast: Dawn Wells, Armed with some pretty sophis- Dana Plato tomicated do-dads, they set up camp For those of us who got the near the swamp where the creature heebie-jeebies watching the first was last seen. When their tracking BOGGY CREEK flick, we were device starts picking up something in ready to take a plunge into the the woods things start to get tense, swamps for some more! Unfortu- especially when the two girl students nately this picture didn't quite live up are somewhere out there in the to it's expectations. This is more like woods! Makes for some pretty sus- a DISNEY (I hope I don't get sued penseful moments when you see the for saying their name) flick than a girls on the monitor with the creature true horror movie. moving in fast. This is the stuff that I wouldn't even review this movie if Drive-In dreams are made of. it weren't for the fact that it has to do Things take an unexpected turn with the big picture (and the fact that when the group find a bottom feeder Rob Freese made me watch it again). swamp-rat who has captured a baby This may be a rip off of the original creature and wants to exploit it for movie with little to do with the first personal gain. Of course they will movie, but it is a pretty good flick. have none of this and when the The premise is three kids go out mother shows up to take back her fishing and get lost during a hurri- own... well, just watch it. It just cane. The monster ends up saving might restore your faith in humanity. them, yadda yadda yadda. Watch it for yourself. THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN BOGGY CREEK II AND THE Dir: Charles B. Pierce Cast: Ben LEGEND CONTINUES Johnson, Andrew Prine, Dawn Wells Dir: Charles B Pierce Cast: Cindy Since I'm on the subject of C. B. Butler, Chuck Pierce, Jimmy Clem, Pierce here's another one of his flicks Charles B. Pierce, Seren Hedin in the same vein. This is another Now here’s the real sequel. And story set in Texarkana based on a 17 M OVIE REVIEW true story. Now the only legend here John Wooley for making him sit is a brutal killer that got away with through this horrible piece of dreck. murder. My own research has He turned me on to the prequel proven this story to be chillingly "CRIMINALLY INSANE" years ago close to the truth. and so I had to show him the sequel. After the second World War the For those of you who have seen the American economy was in an up- first film (or at least read about it in swing. People were getting on with various publications) this is one flick their lives and the little town of that takes the cake when it comes to Texarkana Arkansas was in a boom. sequels. This gives new meaning to People were going to college, buying the old saying "for completests houses and cars, and building the only"! American dream. What these towns- This is only my opinion and I've people didn't count on was the reign seen reviews that find charm (?!?) in of terror that befell their town on this CRAZY FAT ETHEL II, but to March third, 1946. A young couple me it's an incredible waste of time. on lover's lane found themselves at First off, they use the same credits in the hands of a psychopath that night this one as they did in the first. Sure and, tho' they survived, in the ensu- Priscilla Alden is in it, but no one ing months many victims were not so else from the first flick is! Why lucky. didn’t they just make new credits? When the police try to crack the Secondly they use all the good foot- case of unsolved murders, they find age from the first flick in the sequel. themselves dealing with a sly and The problem here is CRIMINALLY intelligent killer. Even Texas Ranger INSANE was shot on film and C.F.E. J.D. Morales joins in on the case, but II was shot on video tape! They just with little effect. Even if you don't don't mix. And finally it is so pain- care for crime drama this is a really fully boring even I had a hard time good flick. I really got caught up in sitting through it (this coming from a the story the first time I saw it and man who watches THE CREEPING even went on to research the case! TERROR for fun)! As an added bonus you get to see I know I rarely even slam a Charles B. Pierce in one of the B-movie, but even I have standards. goofiest roles ever. He plays the I'm just waiting for the nightmare I over-the-top "Barney Fife" type cop have about being stranded on an who takes his job way too seriously. island and this is the only video I He adds some wonderful comic relief have to watch. NNNOOOOOO!!! to an all-to-serious story, and it fits perfectly! For an AIP flick, this is pretty damned impressive. Definitely TDir: H ETed B L V.A C Mikels K K L ACast: N S MRichard A N worth checking out. Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien, Jimmy Mack Now here's something you don't see C R A Z Y F A T E T H E L I I Dir:C R ASteve Z Y MillardF A T E(under T H E the L I name I every day. And this movie was made Nick Phillips) Cast: Priscilla Alden, in 1966! Ted Mikels had some pretty ??? (read on) big balls to stick his name on this, but Let me first publicly apologize to hey, he stuck his name on THE

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ASTRO-ZOMBIES too! But this is me to another friends' house to watch a GOOD movie. a "really fucked up" movie. Boy, she When a light skinned black jazz wasn't kidding! This flick was musician in L.A. finds out his daugh- strange! ter is burned to death by the klan in Okay, bare with me. The opening Alabama he decides to take action. scene sets the stage for the entire Fixing himself up to look like a white movie, totally bizarre. A woman is man, he sets out on a mission to sitting in front o f a T.V. watching her infi ltrate the group responsible for husband being dominated by another his daughter's death. woman who has a hideous, festering Upon arriving in Alabama, he finds scab on her ankle. The woman himself in the middle of the biggest watching this looks down to see she class war in American history. One too has the scab. When she feels it, it man plagued with one loss is caught disappears. She goes into the bath- in a whirlwind of immense propor- room, takes some pills, and takes off tion. Just imagine the risk of being a her towel to take a bath. As she sits black man posing as a white man on the edge of the tub caressing the trying to infíltrate the klan in Ala­ bubbles, a life size doll sits up out of bama just after the civil rights bill the water with a straight razor in was passed. Not a very safe place to hand. She tries to escape but the be. bathroom door is locked and the doll After convincing the klan leaders slashes her wrist, making her fall to he wants to start a klan in California, the floor. When the doll steps over he sets out to destroy them. Not an her she lifts it's pant leg, finding the easy task considering all the other same hideous scab. Then she finds groups involved on both sides. herself crawling through a wasteland There are so many stories going on at of people chained to bed rails trying once it really wraps you up into the to reach her. Past the people, the whole concept of the film. This is a doll is having it's way with a woman tense and serious drama that truly laying on a gurney. When she makes you feel the hatred and sorrow reaches the gurney she finds that the of the people involved. You never woman is actually her! Then it starts know what is going to happen right getting weird. up until the end. This is definitely There really is a story here, as scary worth checking out! as it is weird. Who is really crazy? Is it the sexually repressed housewife who battles with her libido? Is it the D R . C A L I G A R I Dir:D R Stephen . C A L I Sayadian G A R C I ast: concerned husband who only wants Madeleine Raynal, Fox Harris, Jen- his wife to be "normal"? Or is it the nifer Balgobim, David Parry, John doctor who believes that everything Durbin can be cured with sex. Maybe it's the Not to be confused with the silent serial killer, or the director of the classic THE CABINET OF DR. asylum or maybe it's the director's CALIGARI, this is an "unoffi cial" daughter and her husband hell bent sequel made some 69 years later. I on exposing the whole psychosexual first saw this flick several years ago escapade. Truth be told they're all when an old friend of mine took crazy.

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This flick can be summed up with BLOOD CULT?". I then listen to a one line of dialogue contained rant as to how bad the movie was. within, "life imitates bad art". This Sure some of the acting is atrocious, whole film is "bad art" with it's but the story behind it is good! over-the-top artsy-fartsy sets filled Strange mutilation murders are with bigger than life color and it's committed on a mid-western campus dialogue that ranges from hilarious to that have the sheriff baffled. The ludicrous, not to mention the story killer leaves an amulet with each line. But this is a slice of life. We body but takes a body part with all to often forget that doctors are (him). When the sheriff starts poking people too, and maybe they can be around trying to find the killer he just as crazy as the rest of us. finds out more than he wants to know Though pale in comparison to Fritz (imagine that!). Lang and Carl Meyer's original, this When it comes to bad acting, this flick does, on occasion, strike a cord flick wins an Oscar. One of my in your brain that gives you the favorite scenes is when the cafetería willies. Sure it's smut, but it's enter- worker finds the mutilated body in taining smut to those of us who can the dumpster, what a convincing find humor in the truly off beat. scream! Also the sorority sister's pleas for her life before being BLOOD CULT bludgeoned with her room mate's Dir: Christopher LewisCast: Julie severed head, you want her to be Andelman, Charlse Ellis, Josef killed just to move on! Hardt, Bennie Lee McGowan, James Even with it's campy acting and it's Vance often hard to follow script BLOOD This flick was pushed as the first CULT does manage to deliver a movie made for the home video potent massage. Behind all the market, it was also banned from two sensationalistic ad campaigns and mid-west college campuses due to stereotypical character portrayals gruesome realism. And if you there lies a simple story. A story of believe that I've got some prime the frag il human psyche. Oh what lake-front property in Louisiana for sale. I give this flick credit just for lengths we will go to just to fit in and one helI of an ad campaign! Director feel loved, and what a price we pay if Chris Lewis was no stranger to the we make the wrong decisions. screen, being the son of actress Loretta Young and working for years in T.V. news. His last television credit was host of the local syndicate show P.M. MAGAZINE which yours truly appeared on many many years ago. Living in Tulsa, and being a film geek, this flick pops up quite often in conversation with locals. Usually it goes something like "have you seen

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RAZORCAKE #1 $ 15 f or6 issues to RAZORCAKES- P.O. Box 42129, Los Angeles, CA. 22 90042 airport. I can't remember how much This zine reminds me of it is there, but it's cheaper than FLIPSIDE. Maybe that's because it's getting it in the mail. put out by former FLIPSIDE staff. If What this rag has got is comix, and what I read in this issue is true I lots of them. Mainly of the leftist would be sad because it's mentioned slant, but funny as hell if you can that FLIPSIDE may have gone the handle the content. This issue has way of the hoola hoop. They didn't some pretty biting religious and say for sure but at least I can get this political commentary that would to take it's place. probably offend most people, but I Tons of familiar names fill the just see it as funny. If this sounds pages and the writing style is solid like your cup of tea then check it out. and entertaining throughout. It's got interviews with THE SELBY THE SECOND GRADER #27 TIGERS, SMOGTOWN, THE #? to THE SECOND GRADER- 5 CAUSEY WAY, THE GOSSIP, Haele Pl., Makawao, HI. 96768 YOUTH BRIGADE (yeah!) and Fat Mike & Erin of FAT WRECK CHORDS. Plus it’s got a thick stack of columns that are both informative and entertaining. Top it off with a healthy dose of record, zine, and book reviews and you've got a damned good punk rock fanzine! You can also get single copies for $3 if you're that cheap (or poor like everyone I know).

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CREATURE FEATURES the sci- ties! fi, fantasy and horror guide Sure this book isn't perfect, that John Stanley/Berkley Boulevard won’t happen 'til I finish mine, but the good FAR outweighs the bad. It The cover of this book boasts lists a lot of newer releases, but they FANGORIA calling Mr. Stanley are the cream of the crop, and there "The Leonard Maltin of horror." are tons of the little-known classics Sorry, but if I were Leonard I'd be too! Mr. Kane shows the reader you insulted. I'll give this book credit for can write intelligent reviews about listing tons of obscure movies, but... fringe movies without being a Who the hell was proof-reading, "critic". This book puts the "art" Miss Information!?! Example: look back into smart! up COMBAT SHOCK, it says "video version of AMERICAN DARK WITHIN NIGHTMARE". True enough, but John Wooley/Hawk Publishing look up AMERICAN NIGHTMARE and it lists the wrong movie! And it This is a little off the beaten path even says this is the one released on for me but what the hell, this book is video as COMBAT SHOCK. as good as any scary movie... maybe There's plenty more mistakes where even more so! I've never done a that came from. review of a novel before, so here For all the mangled plots and goes- This book scared the hell out "newspaper critic" type ratings I'll of me! Not the "jump at the unex- have to give this book two thumbs pected turn" scared, but the "where is down and almost a middle finger up the human race going" kind of if I hadn't gotten SOME reliable info scared. Mr. Wooley creates charac- from it's pages. I'm just glad I knew ters you can relate to in such a way what to look for, and what to look that when you are thrown into the OUT for. Let the buyer beware. situation at hand you can feel your own chest tighten as YOU are sucked Th e Phantom of the MoviesVIDEOSCOPE into the DARK WITHIN! This book dwells on one of my greatest fears. When does man's progress outgrow the common man? And when it does will we even know? A hundred years ago we got by on the sweat of our brow, today the entire world depends on comput- ers. With the escalating advance in technology there is an equally esca­ lating danger. Wasn't it once said that absolute power destroys abso- lutely?

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With such a great fanzine out there it was only a matter of time before the book came out! Many more like this one and I'll have to reinforce the legs on my coffee table. I love it when I see books like this one. Esthetically pleasing, well writ- ten, and down right fun to read! Not only do you get HONEST reviews of movies you'd have a hard time find- ing info about, you also get snippets from interviews with the guilty par- Robert Freese/Atomic Drive-In feel of fandom. The hardest part of getting through these books, for me, God this sucks! I can't bare to read was coming up with an l.o.c.! After any more. Hey, now this is better several days and several pages of than that crummy old sports page! writing my letter of comment I real- l.o.t.D.I.H.F. is where zinedome ized just how lucky I am to have Rob meets book form. Nothing but video as a writer for FILM GEEK. Long reviews of horror flicks, hence the live the Atomic Drive-In! title. I’d like to see this book hanging in every horror section of every ED GEIN PSYCHO video store in America! Of the few Paul Anthony Woods/St. Martin's flicks I haven't seen in this book I've Griffin been on a quest for. Hell, Rob could make an infomercial sound interest- Now I don't condone the actions of ing! What are you waiting for? Get any serial killer, but they are respon- it today! sible for inspiring many of the films I grew up on. This book not only INVASION OF THE DRIVE-IN exposes the reader to the tru e story SCI-FI FLICKS that inspired movies like THE Rob Freese/Atomic Drive-In TEXAS CH AINSAW MASSACRE, DERANGED and even SILENCE More of the same from Mr. Freese. OF THE LAMBS it shows you the This time he delves into sci-fi. Kind dark reality of America's most fa- of heavy on the more recent genre, mous serial killer. It's a story I just but still well worth it for the all as soon want to forget.

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Well that wraps up another issue, goes with the B-flick theme. If you hope you enjoyed it! I wi11 try to get think you're up to the challenge get a back on schedule and start putting hold of me. I'll give you the size this thing out on a steady basis again. requirements and all that. If you would like to be informed of If you would like to advertise in future issues send me your e-mail F IL M G E E K , send for the address and I will put it on a list so I astonishingly low ad rates! Ad space can tell you when they come out. is limited so I can't run more than That way you wont miss a single half page ads, but they are cheap. issue. Lifers need not bother since I That's it for me. Be sure and tell send them to you for free. me what you think... and if you're Here's my want list of things I'm looking for a video I've found some currently looking for: pretty obscure stuff for folks in the Back issues of BLATCH fanzine past so don't hesitate to drop me a Any videos containing THE line. I'll see what I can do! Until BOREDOMS from Japan next time- KEEP THEM BAD Any TARGET music videos MOVIES ALIVE!!! Any NEW WAVE THEATER videos Any early FLIPSIDE videos (especially #1 & 4) The books THE GROTESQUE IN PHOTOGRAPHY and ALTERNATIVE THREE Any 70's made for TV horror or exploitation movie I don't already have (tell me what you've got) I

I meant to plug this earlier in this issue, but I forgot. I got a CD from DRIVE THRU RECORDS called THE SWISS ARMY ROMANCE by DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL. It's just one guy with a guitar singing sappy lovesick songs. Normally the coffee house whine bag type music I hear makes me want lo hurl but I gave the CD a token "one song" listen. I actually liked the song so I listened to another... and another and another! This is a really good record! The press pack is buried un d er a mounta in of mail somewhere, but I'm sure you can get it throug your local record store. I'm always looking for writers for this rag, but what I really would like to find are some descent, dependable artists! I would like to f ind someone to do a comic strip for this rag that 27 C A N N I B A L GIRLS T h e y d o e x a c t l y w h a t you think they do!