Little Shoppe of Horrors #40 Out This Month

May 9, 2018 by Jon Kitley in Misc. Ramblings and tagged Bruce Hallenbeck, Chris Knight, Constantine Nasr, John Carpenter, Little Shoppe of Horrors, Mark Maddox, Quatermass and the Pit, Rudolph Cartier | 2 Comments

LSoH40

The latest issue of this best magazine devoted to Hammer Films, Little Shoppe of Horrors, will be releasing issue # 40 this month. The main theme for the issue is Quatermass and the Pit (1967) which will have a 26 page making of by Bruce G. Hallenbeck, one of the best Hammer authorities and writers around! There will also be an unpublished interview from the early ’70s with Rudolph Cartier, who was the man behind the original BBC Quatermass series, by Chris Knight. You will even get to hear from John Carpenter talk about the importance of Hammer, as well as Prof. Quatermass.

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Book Review: The Hammer Vampire

June 2, 2016 by Jon Kitley in Reviews: Horror Reference Book and tagged Bruce Hallenbeck, Hammer Films, Hammer Horror, Hemlock Books, Midnight Marquee | Leave a comment

HammerVampire The Hammer Vampire
By Bruce G. Hallenbeck
Published by Hemlock Books, 2010. 240 pages.

Now being pretty familiar with Hammer films already, I was wondering just what I was going to be able to learn that I didn’t know already. But this just goes to show you that when it comes to horror history, we are all students of the genre. I have been a fan of Hallenbeck’s work every since I discovered Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine quite a few years ago. I believe it was issue # 8 which came out in May of 1984. It had a shot from The Vampire Lovers on the cover and the main article was written by Hallenbeck. In fact, believe in most of the issues, the main article was written by him. There is a reason for that. Mr. Hallenbeck knows his Hammer. With each issue of the magazine, we learn more and more about the “studio that dripped blood” and the people that worked there. This book is no different.

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New AIP Book Coming from Hemlock

January 1, 2016 by Jon Kitley in Book News and tagged AIP, Bruce Hallenbeck, Hemlock Books | Leave a comment

RocknRoll Monsters What better way to start off the new year than talking about a new book! I don’t really have much information about this new title coming from Hemlock Books over in the UK, other than it should be out sometime in June, and is being written by Bruce G. Hallenbeck. Of course, that should be enough info to wet your appetite and to put it on your future want list!

While I’ve already got a couple of books on American International Pictures, I think the more information and stories about this production company the better. They cranked out some of the most entertaining movies of that era, thriving at the drive-in market and beyond.

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