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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Street Trash or cult classic? (1987)

Posted in Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, movies, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazines, movies, pop culture on October 9, 2014 by Paxton

Yesterday I showed you a picture gallery of the cult horror movie Street Trash that was published in Fangoria #67. I also announced that Street Trash was going to be my Fangoria Movie Friday review this week. Today I’ll show you guys an article from Fangoria #63 also about that little seen cult gore classic. The article discusses how the movie has become a “cult classic” which is weird because the article is from the same year that the movie came out. I’m not sure you can accurately judge a “cult classic” that soon. I would maybe say it was a “cult hit”, but not necessarily a cult classic. And that’s coming from one of the co-hosts of the Cult Film Club Podcast, so you can “take that to the bank” (my new catchphrase).

Like Rawhead Rex, I’ve been fascinated with this movie because of the Fangoria article I’m showing you today. The pictures in the article tell the story of my fascination. Is that a wino f**king melting into the toilet?! And is that makeup artist in page 3 using a Coke bottle to liberally spread gore about said toilet?! WHERE CAN I SEE THIS MOVIE?! STAT!

Answer: Nowhere. I never found it. So I never watched it. However, just recently I did acquire a copy of the movie specifically to fill in that hole in my horror soul. And tomorrow, you will get to read my longtime brewing review of this movie. Like the article asks, is this movie a cult classic, or just street trash? Find out in this week’s Fangoria Movie Friday review.

But for now, here’s that historic article from back in 1987. It features lots of good behind the scenes info on the making of the movie like the fact that it started out as a short created for film school and the director was paid to pad it out to feature length. I should track down that short. There’s also a nice little interview with the lead makeup artist, Jennifer Aspinall.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria #67 – Clive Barker’s Hellraiser (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 8, 2014 by Paxton

Today I’m going to show you one of the more “colorful” Fangoria covers. Check out Fangoria #67 featuring Clive Barker’s Hellraiser. I actually just watched Hellraiser for the first time this year. It was originally going to be one of my Fangoria Movie Fridays but I decided on another movie. It was definitely an interesting watch, especially because Pinhead doesn’t have as big a part in it than I expected.

As always, click to see it on Flickr, BIGGER.

Also in this issue, was a pretty gruesome picture gallery celebrating the release of Lightning Pictures’ underground gorefest hit, Street Trash. While I decided not to pick Hellraiser as one of my Fangoria Movie Fridays, I did pick Street Trash. And I’m going to review it on Friday.

So enjoy this gallery of crazy melting hobos.

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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Fangoria Scream Great #23 – Day of the Dead (1985)

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 October 7, 2014 by Paxton

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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AWESOME-tober-fest 2014: Don Post Halloween 3 masks (1983)

Posted in Fangoria, Genres, Halloween, holiday, horror, magazine, movies, nostalgia, pop culture with tags AWESOME-tober-fest, AWESOME-tober-fest 2014, Fangoria, Halloween, magazines, movies, nostalgia on October 6, 2014 by Paxton

Welcome back to week 2 of AWESOME-tober-fest 2014. This month I’m celebrating the bloody best of Fangoria magazine.

Let’s start this week off with a mask ad. Ads for prop masks were not rare inside Fangoria. As a matter of fact, each issue had at least two or three ads for masks every month. By different companies. As a matter of fact I showed you a few Fangoria mask ads during last year’s AWESOME-tober-fest.

Here’s an awesome color ad for some Don Post masks. But not just any masks, they are the three Silver Shamrock masks from the infamous Halloween III: Season of the Witch. This ad was found in Fangoria #25 (1983).

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

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

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.