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Post by bushwick on Oct 11, 2010 7:59:45 GMT
Have just checked and seems there's no thread for this, so thought I'd start one...
My first impression (one chapter in) is that this is great. Atmospheric, has that arcane-backwoods-countryside-"yurr narrt fram round 'ere" vibe that Guy does so well, and two bloody murders in the first 35 pages. An occult theme to this one, about the hunky son of a witch.
Nicely written, more 'serious' in tone than some of his. Anyone read this? Thoughts? I will do a proper review when I get back off hols.
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Post by bushwick on Sept 23, 2010 18:22:41 GMT
Incredible. The fact that stuff like this is being published gives me a warm feeling inside. I will have to get involved.
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Post by bushwick on Sept 19, 2010 13:27:08 GMT
Apologies for not posting here for yonks (always check every day though...) and then cheekily plugging this: horribleinjury.bigcartel.com/product/normal-man-that-joyless-vibe-cassettewe've self-released our album on ultra-modern cassette (with a download code for mp3s in concession to 21st century). It's £5 inc postage, ltd to 200. 12 tracks of thuggish rock/numb punk for fans of Drunks With Guns, Fang, Black Flag, Flipper, Pissed Jeans etc etc with cover art by me. and a lovely review here to persuade you: www.lastdaysofmanonearth.com/blog/?p=1703thanks...will post about some books soon!
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Post by bushwick on Sept 19, 2010 13:11:49 GMT
Frankly I was too bored to pay attention. I can´t stand this movie. Sometimes movies just don´t connect, especially if the dreaded time-lag did its work. After reading so much about it beforehand I could only wonder what the hype was about. I thought it boring. That the cameramovement gave me a headache didn´t help either. ;D ...have to agree...the fact that I'd heard so much about this film before I saw it completely voided the point of watching it..
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Post by bushwick on Sept 19, 2010 13:07:02 GMT
Good call Mark! I saw the trailer for this a few years ago and it took me a while to track it down, finally got the American VHS. It's awesome. The 'head-clash' scene between Reb Brown and the Russian baddie is priceless, as is Reb Brown's grief when his little native pal cops it... One of Bruno's best. There is a sequel that I managed to download which is OK but not as 'good'. If you like THAT, then do yourself a favour and watch this...the whole thing on youtube in one part: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXX8w0PJQUk&ob=av1e&has_verified=1IMDB link here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0084573/'Raw Force' aka 'Kung Fu Cannibals' starring a very pissed Cameron Mitchell...please, just trust me on this, I can't do it justice...staggering stuff
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Post by bushwick on Jul 23, 2010 15:05:12 GMT
Re: 'The Clinic' (the story by which I found Vault Of Evil and began my pulp addiction, lest you forget!)...Johnny, I'm sure you at one point said the author may be Clarence Paget? Is this info no longer credible?
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Post by bushwick on Jul 19, 2010 17:13:00 GMT
Hi Steve
Thanks dude, but managed to pick one up from amazon for a not too bad price recently and read 7 and 8 in quick succession. Such big print, so few pages! They really are like kids' books with horrible violence and perversion thrown in! thanks for thinking of me though chap!
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Post by bushwick on Jul 19, 2010 17:08:58 GMT
Who Could Kill A Child is a film that could probably only have been made in the controversial, experimental, anything-goes period of the mid-seventies. According to Serrador (in an interview in House of Hammer I think - see how all these things link together?)... Ah, memories! When I was... oh, about 10 or so, I suppose... I used to do my own 'magazine' called, wait for it... Horrorscope. Wrote it all out myself longhand in biro, drew all the pictures, stapled the bastard. Circulation of 2 or 3. Remember my dad leafing through one copy and being a bit taken aback by an article I'd written (well, it was really more of a paraphrase of that same HOH article you mention) about Who Could Kill A Child. I think he was ready to call in a child psychologist. I'd never seen the film at the time of course, I just thought it sounded... interesting. When I did finally get to see it years later I was a little bit disappointed, to be honest. Not that it's a bad film at all, just that I think I'd built it up in my mind to some sort of semi-mythical status - you know, it was one of those films that I'd heard about (ususally courtesy of HOH) but never thought I'd get chance to see. It still amazes me that you can get just about anything on DVD these days - I'm assuming this is true of WCKAC - or at least find it on the internet with little or no fuss. It's like when I saw Driller Killer for sale in the local pound shop once - probably cut to ribbons but still, this stuff was considered dangerous back in the day, if not actually obscene. These days it seems it's about as dangerous as a garden gnome. I digress... Steve, you freak me out - I did EXACTLY this sort of stuff when I was kid. Uncanny. My folks did actually get a child psychologist in to see me as I just drew pictures of monsters and bloody violence!
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Post by bushwick on Jun 20, 2010 13:09:42 GMT
A few things on the North East coast this weekend:
William K Wells 'Effigies' (Granada 1981) (Satanic curse on something or other, looks OK but nearly 400 pages is taking the piss)
Felice Picano 'The Mesmerist' (NEL 1980) (reprint of a US book about a man possessed with the power of hypnotic evil, Harlan Ellison likes it apparently. Same cover image as that 'Man With The Staring Eyes' [think that's the title] that I believe has been discussed on here)
'Klaus Netzen' (L James) 'The Killers: To Win and To Lose' (Mayflower 1974) (80p, a win for me, got three of these now)
...and these all pale into insignificance when put up against...
...'Nick Blake' 'Chainsaw Terror' !!!!!!! (Star 1984)...
...£2 for a nice crisp copy with just a wee coffee-mug ring on the cover. Absolutely made up. Was considering biting bullet and paying a fiver-ish from amazon for this one too. I've started reading it, and like everyone has said, it's great, really pervy and gruesome, no boring preambles and straight into the action. Prefer this to the early 'proper' Hutsons I've read (and I like those too, don't get me wrong). Also there are no references to heavy metal yet, which I found very restrained of Shaun! that's the only thing restrained about this book, though...
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Post by bushwick on May 20, 2010 12:48:11 GMT
You struck gold there my friend! that book is worth heaps.
As I recall, this book was edited by the publisher due to excessive nastiness and re-issued as 'Come The Night'.
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Post by bushwick on May 14, 2010 11:30:53 GMT
Hi pals
I haven't checked in here for an age, hope everyone's well, I have bought and read lots of 'good' books of late and I shall eventually get round to spreading the joy on this forum....have got married, been mad busy etc etc...
anyhow, I really want a copy of this Laurence James sleaze-fest. I have all the others but can't read no 8 till I get this! Can anyone oblige? I am happy to talk money, or I have a number of doubles someone may be interested in...some PC Westerns, some GNSes, can't recall exact details...but if you have a spare copy of the above book, please get in touch!
-Noah
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Post by bushwick on Feb 20, 2010 10:17:18 GMT
Just read 'Kill Squad: Dead Wrong' by Mark Cruz, picked up from the always reliable Leeds Market for 20p. Greatly enjoyed it. Three San Diego cops who bend the rules and get results - a hunky white ladies' man, his black colleague (who comes in for lots of 'friendly' racial jibes from his white partner and doesn't seem too bothered, this being a pulp novel from 1975) and a sexy Hispanic lass. A multi-ethnic crime-busting team who get involved with an aeroplane hijacking plot involving twenty of the world's most beautiful women, a corrupt Hollywood impressario type and a seven foot tall sadistic brute.
Chet Tabor (the white lad) has to use his sex powers on the impressario's beautiful wife. A crazy smack-addled hippie kidnapper chick gets her eye poked out. Various beautiful models are sexually humiliated by the big seven-foot brute. Some good carnage including a man getting shot up the arse, and a Manson-esque ratbag called Pixie nicking someone's hangglider and meeting his doom on the rocks below. And the long-suffering police chief who is sick of Kill Squad making problems for him and constantly pops antacids for his ulcer, but has to grudgingly accept that Chet Tabor is always right!
Short page count, big print...good stuff!
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Post by bushwick on Jan 26, 2010 10:56:22 GMT
apologies to self-promote yet again...
we've finished recording our album...there's four tracks as a preview on the myspace, address in above posts.
we're also on facebook if anyone here bothers with that...search 'NORMAL MAN'.
We're looking for a label to put our record out, so if anyone knows any budding David Geffens who have money to burn in some kind of tax-loss exercise, please get in touch!
we have a few gigs coming up in the North...we're always up for more, we'll play anywhere for petrol money...again, get in touch!
.end of transmission.
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Post by bushwick on Jan 26, 2010 10:36:42 GMT
This looks quite good, I gotta say. I like the idea of watching all the Video Nasties - a proper head-battering exercise...The Beast In Heat followed by Don't Go Near The Park followed by Forest Of Fear...those three alone would be enough to splatter anyone's mind...
and kudos for getting the Pan story in there Johnny, fine work...
Eight quid though...hot dang!
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Post by bushwick on Jan 9, 2010 22:00:14 GMT
bloody marvellous. I'm on it. There's stuff there I know nothing about (Captain Gringo, Headhunters, Dynamit).
This Captain Gringo stuff looks promising. Amazon marketplace prices are scary indeed...
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