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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Rampaging with Rawhead Rex (1987)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, magazines, movies on October 2, 2014 by Paxton

Yesterday I showed you the cover to Fangoria #61 with the feature on Clive Barker’s Rawhead Rex. I mentioned that I’d been fascinated with this article since 8th grade as well as the movie. I always wondered if it was any good. However, due to never actually finding the movie to rent anywhere, I have never watched it. That changes tomorrow. For Fangoria Movie Friday tomorrow I’m going to review the movie Rawhead Rex and see if it lives up to what I have been fantasizing about for the past 27 years (oh, and HOLY S**T IT’S BEEN 27 YEARS!?). So check back tomorrow for this historic review.

Today, I leave you with the Rawhead Rex feature article from Fangoria #61. It was called Rampaging with Rawhead Rex. You can click any of the images to make them BIGGER.

A few tidbits to note. This article mentions that Rawhead Rex was a cannibal king, but, in actuality, he’s supposed to be an ancient fertility god who also happens to be a cannibal. I think some of the fertility stuff was cut out of the movie for obvious reasons. I think I even read somewhere that Rex was supposed to look like a giant anamorphic penis. That would have been an interesting movie.

Also, it seems the studio as well as the director, George Pavlou, had very high hopes for this movie. The director starts talking about incorporating ancient Gaelic texts into the story and character driven horror as well as pulling back on gore in a Hitchcockian way of upping the suspense. That’s a lot of big talk. We’ll see tomorrow if that pays off.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria #61 – Rawhead Rex (1987)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, magazines, movies on October 1, 2014 by Paxton

Here’s the cover to Fangoria #61 from 1987. It features a cover story about Clive Barker’s Rawhead Rex. I have been fascinated by this cover ever since I bought this magazine in the 8th grade. I drew pictures of the Rawhead Rex images inside for art class (try explaining that to your art teacher) and generally wondered what kind of horror movie it was. Was it any good? But for some reason, probably due to never actually finding the movie to rent anywhere, I have never watched it.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria Scream Great #1 – The Incredible Melting Man (1983)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, nostalgia, pop culture, zombies with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, magazine, magazines, monsters, movies, zombies on September 30, 2014 by Paxton

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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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria #1 – 25 years of Godzilla (1979)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, monsters, movies, nostalgia, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Godzilla, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, movies, nostalgia, pop culture, vintage on September 29, 2014 by Paxton

AWESOME-tober-fest 2014 begins!

Let’s begin this year’s AWESOME-tober-fest Fangoria celebration with a quick look at the cover to the very first issue of Fangoria from 1979.

As you can see, there was a feature about the history of Godzilla movies up to that point (25 YEARS!). I scanned in that article, so if you want to read it, here is page 1 on my Flickr stream. Just click to the right to continue through the article’s 8 pages.

There were two pretty awesome Godzilla pin-ups that came with the article. The first is an awesome painting featuring Godzilla battling Megalon on the top of the Twin Towers which I thought has to be an homage to the 1976 King Kong remake with Jeff Bridges and Charles Grodin which featured a poster with Kong astride the same Twin Towers. However, if you read the article, the below poster was designed for the 1973 Godzilla vs Megalon movie. And it features a scene that never appeared in said movie. I love this poster.

This second pin-up is a better look at the Godzilla painting that was used on the cover.

See you guys tomorrow for more, gory goodness from my favorite issues of Fangoria magazine.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

AWESOME-tober-fest begins on Monday!

Posted in Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, magazine with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, magazines on September 26, 2014 by Paxton

This is it. My month long Halloween celebration, AWESOME-tober-fest, begins on Monday. I’ve taken down the “normal” header and colors and put up the spooky Halloween decorations. On Monday I’ll begin talking about all things Fangoria magazine. Expect to see covers, Scream Greats posters, articles, pictures and ads. All the things that made Fangoria the best in horror entertainment.

Plus, every Friday in October I’m going to review a cult horror B-movie of the type that you could typically find inside the pages of the magazine. And, honestly, considering the 5 movies I’ve picked, calling them “B movies” is probably a bit generous. But they are all chock full of ridiculous fun and a plethora of all your favorite cult movie stars. And I’ve picked movies I’ve never watched before. It’s going to be a blast.

See you back here on Monday.