PAURA: LUCIO FULCI REMEMBERED Volume 1
TWO FRONT TEETH
Take a slay ride to Hell!
“My character, as I see him, is a funny combo of Bruce Campbell (in Evil Dead), Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve’s version) and a little Jimmy Stewart (from It’s a Wonderful Life). He’s a Christmas tabloid reporter who uncovers a conspiracy that may forever change the balance of power for good s. evil… at least with regard to Christmas. And just maybe my wife and I are trying to fix that,” explains Johnny Francis Wolf on his central role in the new Yuletide horror flick Two Front Teeth, which finally saw the light of day recently on DVD. The bizarre tale of a blood-sucking Santa Claus and his army of evil elves adds a wicked spin to the traditional Christmas movie, which pits a naïve journalist against the dark forces of the festive season. “The evil, represented by the vampires and evil elves you mention, want to take over the warm and fuzzy, hot cocoa and eggnog Christmases we loved as kids. And Rudolph, the beloved reindeer of legend, is at the centre of this struggle.”
The Christmas season has been a ghostly one for many a decade, and the tradition of reading ghost stories by candlelight or around a fire at Christmas is one that the Victorians absolutely revelled in. No British household is complete without a ghostly reading at Yuletide, so Gorezone has taken the liberty of selecting 12 especially ghoulish offerings from ye olde times. All of these are available online as e-texts, so won’t cost you a penny to read. Suffice to say, you may want to think twice before reading some of these alone at night in a shadowy room…
“Did you know a young boy drowned the year before those two others were killed? The counselors weren't paying any attention... They were making love while that young boy drowned. His name was Jason...”
So began the legend of Jason Voorhees, the vengeful mommy's boy of Camp Crystal Lake. It has been almost three decades since his first appearance and his legacy is growing stronger by the year, with a new generation of horror fans discovering the infamous franchise. And with the series about to start over again this February with the much-anticipated remake, this is the perfect time to look back at the life and crimes of pop culture's most recognised serial killer.
REVIEW: Christian Sellers
Jessicka Rabid seems like the kind of obscure '70's exploitation movie that you could only find on bootleg on eBay. The whole look and feel of this flick, which marks the feature debut of indie filmmaker Matthew Reel (who had previously cut his teeth on short films), is pure 'grindhouse,' the kind of movie you could imagine being shown in a sleazy New York theatre on a double bill with The Last House on Dead End Street. There is no denying that Jessicka Rabid is at times uncomfortable viewing, this hardly for everyone's taste and any film that is full of depraved and unsympathetic characters will lose some of its audience, yet for a film so sleazy there is something intriguing about it. Why do they keep a young woman locked in a cage and treat her like a dog? Why is she abused by everyone she knows? What kind of monster will she become?
REVIEW: Christian Sellers
Plagiarist, misogynist, to some he was a pioneer in exploitation cinema, to others he was a talentless hack. Whatever your thoughts on Lucio Fulci, there is no denying the legacy the man has left behind. Having already received the retrospective treatment with the extensive and entertaining book Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci, many fans may already be familiar with the life and work of one of Italy's most infamous directors, yet Lucio Fulci Remembered Volume 1, a limited edition documentary that features extensive interviews with various collaborators and admirers, explores the filmmaker in even more detail. Fulci was perhaps best known for his controversial zombie movies in the late '70's and early '80's (including Zombi 2, aka Zombie Flesh Eaters) and his notorious slasher The New York Ripper, a movie that became controversial when all copies were ordered to be seized and exported by the British government during the 'video nasty' witch-hunt of the mid-'80's.