Here’s Fangoria‘s Scream Greats Poster #43 featuring an image from one of my favorite vampire movies, The Lost Boys. This poster was from Fangoria #68 (1987). Click to see it BIGGER on Flickr.
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Starting today every post is going to be about the movie I’m going to review on Friday. And that movie is to be Stuart Gordon’s second Lovecraft adaptation, From Beyond, from 1986. Fangoria was kind of in love with this movie and featured it on covers and in multiple featured articles during the film’s production. Not surprising since Gordon’s previous movie, The Re-animator, was a huge surprise horror hit. Plus Gordon was bringing along his two Re-animator stars, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, along to star in the new movie.
Here’s Fangoria’s Scream Greats Poster #39 featuring an image from HP Lovecraft’s From Beyond. This poster was from Fangoria #64 (1987).
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Last week we saw the very first Fangoria Scream Greats pull out poster which featured the movie The Incredible Melting Man. Today let’s take a look at our next Fangoria Scream Greats Poster. It’s #23 featuring an image from George Romero’s Day of the Dead, the second sequel to his classic Night of the Living Dead.
This poster was from Fangoria #48 (1985).
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Fangoria was known for it’s pull-out posters. These posters featured screen grabs from popular horror movies. Fangoria labeled the posters Scream Greats. However, these pull-out posters weren’t added to the magazine until around the third year of the magazine’s existence.
Since I showed you the first ever Fangoria cover yesterday, let’s continue that “firsts” theme with the first ever Scream Great pull-out poster. Below is Scream Great #1 from Fangoria #26 way back in 1983. This first poster featured an image from 1977’s The Incredible Melting Man.
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Having recently revisited Return of the Living Dead I wanted to watch something similar in tone and execution. Sort of a hard rock zombie horror movie. Searching hard, REALLY hard, I thought I’d found exactly the movie I was looking for. It’s called Hard Rock Zombies. 
The tag line says it all, “THEY CAME FROM THE GRAVE TO ROCK N’ RAVE AND MISBEHAVE!” I don’t know how familiar all of you are with this movie, but I was only aware of the poster (above). Which is pretty awesome. I’d never seen the movie nor had I really ever given much thought to actually watching the movie. So, thanks to AWESOME-tober-fest 2013, I have finally had a chance to watch it. Let’s start with my expectations.
This came out the same year, 1985, as Return of the Living Dead. The very next month, actually. Which surprises me because I totally thought this movie was a direct reaction to the underground popularity of ROTLD. However, to come out the next month I would assume it would have been mostly filmed by the time that came out. Which is interesting. Anyway, that’s where my expectations were. Something along the lines of a Return of the Living Dead. A funny, hard rock horror movie that may make little sense but has lots of fun with not only the genre but itself. Did I get it? Let’s find out.
Well, the first scene in the movie is sort of bonkers. Two guys on a leisurely drive pick up a hot chick on the side of the road. This chick is Elsa.
The group stop off at a lake and go skinny dipping. Elsa drowns and slashes both of the guys while another weird guy and two dwarves watch and take pictures. Both bodies are carried out of the water and put in clear plastic wrapping and then Elsa cuts off one of the guys’ hands and immediately holds it lovingly up to her cheek while singing, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” by the Beatles.
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