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Shock Cinema Magazine is an essential guide for any fan of bizarre films and videos, and each issue is crammed with movie reviews, in-depth interviews and original poster art. Plus, Shock Cinema covers everything a self-respecting film-junkie could possibly desire -- from Cult Movies and Arthouse Oddities, to old fashioned Grindhouse Swill and Underground Obscurities.
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The latest issue features interviews with:
Actress Nancy Allen (Dressed To Kill, Robocop, Blow Out, I Wanna Hold Your Hand, Carrie).
Actor Michael Beck (The Warriors, Xanadu, Megaforce, Houston Knights).
Actor Burton Gilliam (Blazing Saddles, Paper Moon, Honeymoon in Vegas, Gator).
Actress Judy Pace (Cotton Comes To Harlem, The Slams, Cool Breeze, Frogs).
Writer-Director Larry Yust (Homebodies, Trick Baby).
There are also dozens of informative film, DVD and book reviews, covering such titles as fugitive Wayne Newton teaches blind children about happiness in 80 Steps to Jonah; Stacy Keach and Harris Yulin in Watched!; Ted Danson and Christopher Lee in Once Upon a Spy; Michael Douglas, Joe Don Baker and Lee Purcell in Adam at Six a.m.; Peter MacDougall's Tarry-Dan Tarry-Dan Scarey Old Spooky Man; Harry Dean Stanton and Joe Spinell in The Ransom of Red Chief; Jean-Claude Killy and Danielle Gaubert in Snow Job; Marie-Jose Nat in Jean Pierre Mocky's surreal fantasy-thriller Litan; James Darren, Shelley Winters and Burl Ives in Let No Man Write My Epitaph; Kate Nelligan and Howard Hesseman in Victims; Brendan Fletcher in Little Criminals; Bette Midler, Robin Williams and a slew of obnoxiously smug celebrities in The Earth Day Special; Joseph Brooks' If Ever I See You Again; Raul Ruiz's The Territory; Mimsy Farmer in La Traque; Giancarlo Giannini in Tinto Brass' Snack Bar Budapest; Pedro Olea's The House Without Frontiers [La Casa Sin Fronteras]; Gloria Guida and Lilli Carati in Fernando Di Leo's To Be Twenty [Avere Vent'Anni]; Alakazam the Great; Ray Lovelock in Ruggero Deodato's Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man; Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore...
Terry-Thomas and Barry Humphries star in Bruce Beresford's musical-comedy in Side By Side; Walt Disney's tribute to the past and future of the American highway Magic Highway, U.S.A.; Lee Van Cleef and Tony Musante in Jack Starrett's Nowhere to Hide; Daniel Pilon in Gilles Carle's Canuxsploitation gem Red the Half-Breed; director Erik Blomberg's Finnish folk tale The White Reindeer; James Russo in Buddy Giovinazzo's The Unscarred; Dean Martin and Thalmus Rasulala in Mr. Ricco; Terry Michos and Aldo Ray in The Great Skycopter Rescue; Chris Elliott in Gremloids; Per Oscarsson in Traumstadt [Dream City]; Norman Mailer in D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus' documentary Town Bloody Hall; Robert Ginty in James Glickenhaus' The Exterminator; the 1981 New Zealand children's mini-series Under the Mountain; Shannyn Sossamon in Monte Hellman's The Road To Nowhere; Anjanette Comer in Ted Post's The Baby; Klaus Kinski and Bernard Blier in Golden Night [Nuit D'Or]; George Peppard in Newman's Law; The Dennis Woodruff Collection: Volume 1; Bobby Watson in The Devil With Hitler; Peter Graves and Jack Klugman in The Underground Man; David A. Prior's Deadly Prey; J.L. Vara's South of Heaven; Zane Grey goes shark hunting in White Death; and more...
CHECK OUT REVIEWS FROM OUR PREVIOUS ISSUE, SHOCK CINEMA #40
Michael Knight, Nancy Travis, Greg Germann, and Viggo Mortensen in the 1985 AfterSchool Special High School Narc.
Hilariously half-baked, pseudo-science plant-documentary with music by Stevie Wonder, The Secret Life of Plants.
Hilariously-cheesy 1967 show choir documentary featuring "The New Joy-Generation!": Young Americans.
Robert Reed stars as an obscene phone-caller in the controversial made-for-TV movie The Secret Night Caller
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