Manos Screening & Book Signing!

Growing up with ManosThe ultimate in bad cinema, Manos: The Hand of Fate will be screening next month at the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, on Nov. 11th at 7:30pm.  Actress Jackey Neyman Jones, who appeared in the film will be there for a Q&A about the film and her experiences being part of this cult classic. Joining her will be author Laura Mazzuca Toops, who co-wrote, along with Jones, the book Growing Up with Manos: The Hands of Fate. For the details about this event, just click HERE.

If you can’t make it to the screening, Jones will be having a book signing at Bucket O’ Blood on Sunday the 13th. No real details have been listed yet, other than this bit of news being mentioned by Jones herself. Once we get more details, we’ll be sure to announce it here. In the meantime, here is the link to their website. Just click HERE.

For those of you that have not yet….experienced Manos, now is not only your chance to change all of that (as well as your life), but you also have the opportunity to meet someone directly involved with the film, as well as picking up her book about the making of it. Not a bad way to spend an evening, don’t you think?

If you want to order a copy of this book ahead of time, you can do that from the publisher, in either hardcover or softcover edition at BearManor Media, by clicking HERE.

Hammer’s Dracula Scrapbook Available

dracula-scrapbook-frontPeveril Publishing’s latest must-have edition, The Hammer Dracula Scrapbook, is now available for order. Keep in mind, there are only 600 copies of this available so if you have ANY desire to order this, you might want to do it now. Once their books go out-of-print, the prices just get ridiculous.

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Books, Books, and More Books!

Nothing like finding even more titles for my ever-growing list of “Need to add to the Library” that seems to better longer and longer every day, which constantly gives the middle finger to those that say this kind of media is dead. Recently, I have come across some new titles that I know will be upcoming editions to my library. Very soon, my precious….very soon.

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The Unrepentant Cinephile

Unrepentant Cinephile

Every now and then I have a little gathering of friends over to watch a bunch of flicks. Might be one of our annual Turkey Day marathons, or just because it has been a while since a little movie-fest and we feel the need to have one. One of guys that always jumps at the chance for one of these get-togethers is our friend Jason Coffman, another Chicago area film nut, like the rest of us. But actually, Jason takes it beyond most of us film geeks, and truly is an avid cinephile. He doesn’t care how large or small the budget is, when or where it was made, he’ll watch it with the same interest. He’ll explain just why he likes a certain film that most would turn their nose at, so much so that after he explains his opinion, it will make you want to go watch it!

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Tiny Terrors Fills Little Horrors

Little Horrors

And yet more news of another book I will need to add to the libarary! T.S. Kord has a new book out entitled Little Horrors: How Cinema’s Evil Children Play on Our Guilt, coming from McFarland. I heard about this book from a good friend, fellow writer, and another avid reference book fan, Gavin Schmitt. He had posted a review of the book on his blog and it immediately got my attention. While I might have my own review up here at some point, once I get a hold of my own copy, you can read Gavin’s wonderful review on his site by clicking the link below:

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Behind the Screams!

BehindtheScreams

Learn how the actors got into character, whether it is being a scream queen like Heather Langenkamp in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, or Neve Campbell in the Scream flicks, to those that create the characters that terrify audiences, like Tim Curry in Stephen King’s It, or Brad Dourif from the Child’s Play films, and many more from titles like Last House on the Left, Amercian Horror Story, Dark Night of the Scarecrow, Sick Girl, and even Jaws.

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Ever Hear of Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment?

Well, if you grew up in a video store in the ’80s and ’90s like I did, then you are at least aware of some of the movies they put out. Releasing titles like The Exterminator, Black Roses, Moontrap, Maniac Cop, and a trio of terror from cult director Frank Henenlotter, not to mention its fair share of martial arts/action flicks like No Retreat, No Surrender, Shapiro Glickenhaus Entertainment gave audiences some fine family entertainment. Okay..maybe not for the whole family.

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Dracula Scrapbook Rises from the Publisher

We are huge fans of Peveril Publishing and have several of their titles in our library. They consistently put out amazing editions that not only look gorgeous, but are filled with a ton of information. And across the pond, one of the biggest authorities on Hammer Films is Wayne Kinsey. So anything with his name on it, is well worth the money. Peveril announced some time ago that they were working on their latest volume, The Hammer Dracula Scrapbook and it is close enough to being completely that they have released the final cover, as you can see below.

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Young Frankenstein Book Coming!

The one of the many great things about Mel Brooks’ Young Frankenstein is that even though it is a paraody of those classic Universal horror films that we all love, it still is done with such honor and respect for the subject matter. And nobody did that better than Brooks, of course with the help of writer/actor Gene Wilder.

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