Bedabbled! Brit Horror & Cult Cinema mag

[dem]

Rick Rawling

Issue 3 of Bedabbled!, the journal of British Horror and Cult Cinema, is now out. It's a Vampire film special: 72 pages packed with articles, reviews and rare illustrations. For more details please go to the Bedabbled! blog.

[justin]

Thought I'd post a few words on Beddabbled! 3. I'm not entirely without prejudice as I helped to design out the zine, but here is what I'm saying about B! in an editorial in the new Fanatic....

The third issue of ‘Beddabled!’ Martin Jones paean to British horror and cult cinema is the best yet. ‘Getting Wasted With the Vampires’ is the theme and rather than the Hammer love-in you might expect (unless you know Martin that is!), the articles are a highly-diverse and fascinating look at many aspects of vampire cinema and TV.

Critical yet affectionate, insightful yet accessible, this is a class act. And there is a piece of detective work from Martin that will blow the mind of any fan of British horror paperbacks.

Martin is down to the last 12 copies, so if you are interested I recommend you pull your finger out sharpish!

[algernon]

Hi. I was lucky enough to be able to purchase the last copy of Bedabbled ~3 from Hemlock books.....and I think its brilliant!!! I had only just recently heard about this brilliant magazine. Now I'm just kicking myself that I didn't discover it sooner and collect issues 1 and 2. I know this is a long shot (a very very long shot...) ..... but does anyone know where I'd be able to get copies of the first two issues? Or does anyone have a few extra copies they wan't to sell?
I bet I already know the answer.....:-(

[algernon]

P.S. Sorry about the typo on "want". D'oh!!!

[helrunar]

I realize this is a super long shot, but does anyone know if there are any copies still available of the second issue of this title, the one with the Satanic cults theme?  I presume it is long out of print.

I actually enjoy Virgin Witch, mostly because I'm a huge Patricia Haines fan.  Interesting too that the director was the stunt coordinator for The Avengers.

H.

[dem]

You might like to contact them via the blog, Bedabbled!, but don't build your hopes up ...

[dem]

Available now:

Greetings Bedabblers,

Well, it only took Christopher Lee eight years to don his cloak again after Dracula (1958) so we think we're entirely justified in not having to explain the long distance/break/gap between issues of Bedabbled! Suffice to say, that Bedabbled!#5 'Keyhole Love' is out now and available via your local branch of Amazon here

Contents include reviews of Deadly Strangers, Corruption, Deep End, Goodbye Gemini, Groupie Girl and the bizarro pornographic film Diversions. Add to that articles on Alexis Kanner (Goodbye Gemini) and Skip Martin (Horror Hospital), plus an interview with Henry Normal, co-creator of perennial B! fave Dr Terrible's House of Horrible... all for £3.99. Our switch to Kindle Direct Printing (basically print-on-demand) was a big decision, but time is in limited supply these days and it ensures that the mag is always in print, and available more or less worldwide. Enjoy, spread the word and keep your fingers crossed that #6 will be published sooner!

Martin Jones

[helrunar]

Skip Martin should have had higher billing in Horror Hospital, a not-so-guilty pleasure here. It would seem that some padding was needed to get the film out to the desired or commissioned 90 minute running time, and some of Martin's improvisatory work in scenes where he was the only actor on camera made what would have been rather dull stretches brilliantly funny.

The mag is not really my flagon of mead, but I'm glad to hear that it's back in business.

cheers, H.

[fritzmaitland]

Gav Crimson is a good man

[dem]

Martin Jones [ed.] - The Best of Bedabbled! British Cult & Horror Cinema (B!, July 2020)

Rik Rawling

Boys and Ghouls,
We are very pleased to announce the publication of The Best of Bedabbled! available now via Amazon.

The Best of Bedabbled! collects together a selection of articles from the early issues of the magazine. Initially published in runs of 100 between 2011-14, the first four editions of Bedabbled! are now long out-of-print. Each issue was themed, and this new compendium is split into four sections honouring each theme. The Best of Bedabbled! contains writings on classic, obscure, misunderstood, sleazy, weird and just plain odd movies from a time when all those descriptions made for a normal trip to the cinema. Films featured include Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, Bloody Kids, Unman, Wittering and Zigo, Nothing But The Night, Virgin Witch, Satan’s Slave, The Devil’s Men, Disciple of Death, Incense for the Damned, Dance of the Vampires, Vampyres, Dracula AD1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Yes Girls, Straight On Till Morning, Sweet and Sexy and Cool it Carol!

PLUS! BRAND NEW REVIEWS of The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, Night Hair Child, Death Shock, Eye of the Devil, Devils of Darkness, Vampira, Permissive and Prostitute. 100 pages of wyrd cinematic wonder, wrapped up in a homicidal tea-time cover by Rik Rawling!

BUY IT HERE.

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Derek Gray

Greetings Boys and Ghouls,
Bedabbled!#6; 'The Room Inside Your Head' is out now via Amazon. 60 pages of claustrophobic worries featuring articles on Performance, The Servant, The Innocents, Our Mother's House, Demons of the Mind, What Became of Jack and Jill?, The House That Dripped Blood and more! Cover art by Derek 'Gothic Nightmare' Gray.

BUY BEDABBLED!#6 HERE

THE SHADOW OF THE FOX
Bedabbled! contributor Jim O'Brien has written an essay delving into Norman J. Warren's downbeat sci-fi/horror/rural masterpiece Prey, via D.H. Lawrence and the "cuckoo in the nest". It has been published as the first limited edition release by Port Margin, an occasional non-fiction imprint of Exile in the Margins, and can be purchased HERE.

B!ack issues, did you say?
We've found a box of Bedabbled!#1: Redux. This was a reprint of the first issue (well, most of it) and included the original reviews of Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, Blood on Satan's Claw and Bloody Kids, as well as new reviews of Baby Love, The Damned, Absolution and Unman, Wittering and Zigo. Space is needed in the B! attic, so we're giving these away FREE: if you want a copy, just email your postal details to bedabbledAThotmail.co.uk and we'll send you one. First come, first serve.

OFFBEAT
A new edition of the book that was one of the deciding factors in starting Bedabbled! is about to be published by the forever-groovy Headpress Books. Offbeat V.1 came out around ten years ago, and this revised and updated edition includes a ton of new reviews and articles (including a few by myself). More details HERE.

Peace and Love,

Martin.

[andydecker]

Thanks for the notice. I actually have an old issue from 2012, #3, which was a lot of fun. Can't remember how I got it. Maybe should do a few scans.

[helrunar]

Gorgeous cover. I love the name Headpress Books. I somehow thought this mag had sunk without a trace years ago but again, I am most likely misremembering.

H.

[Mike Brough]

Mar 25, 2022 6:54:34 GMT dem said:

Derek Gray

Greetings Boys and Ghouls,
Bedabbled!#6; 'The Room Inside Your Head' is out now via Amazon. 60 pages of claustrophobic worries featuring articles on Performance, The Servant, The Innocents, Our Mother's House, Demons of the Mind, What Became of Jack and Jill?, The House That Dripped Blood and more! Cover art by Derek 'Gothic Nightmare' Gray.

BUY BEDABBLED!#6 HERE

THE SHADOW OF THE FOX
Bedabbled! contributor Jim O'Brien has written an essay delving into Norman J. Warren's downbeat sci-fi/horror/rural masterpiece Prey, via D.H. Lawrence and the "cuckoo in the nest". It has been published as the first limited edition release by Port Margin, an occasional non-fiction imprint of Exile in the Margins, and can be purchased HERE.

B!ack issues, did you say?
We've found a box of Bedabbled!#1: Redux. This was a reprint of the first issue (well, most of it) and included the original reviews of Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, Blood on Satan's Claw and Bloody Kids, as well as new reviews of Baby Love, The Damned, Absolution and Unman, Wittering and Zigo. Space is needed in the B! attic, so we're giving these away FREE: if you want a copy, just email your postal details to bedabbledAThotmail.co.uk and we'll send you one. First come, first serve.

OFFBEAT
A new edition of the book that was one of the deciding factors in starting Bedabbled! is about to be published by the forever-groovy Headpress Books. Offbeat V.1 came out around ten years ago, and this revised and updated edition includes a ton of new reviews and articles (including a few by myself). More details HERE.

Peace and Love,

Martin.

I've just ordered a copy of Offbeat - due midweek.  Has anyone reviewed it yet or will I be the first?

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Dec 3, 2023 18:57:55 GMT Mike Brough said:

I've just ordered a copy of Offbeat - due midweek.  Has anyone reviewed it yet or will I be the first?

Certainly first on here, Mike. Wouldn't know about elsewhere.