Spring 2002
60 pages digest-sized
Metropolis
The 75th anniversary of this fantasy classic.
Non-Linear Motion
Skot Deeming examines the video work of Sadie Benning.
Midnite Movies:
Rob Craig’s introduction to his study on the seven sci-fi / horror films of Larry Buchanan, produced under the banner of Azalea Films. This is part of a monograph, The Cinema of Larry Buchanan, now long out of print, completely written by Rob, which includes the introduction featured in ESR #5, plus reviews of The Eye Creatures, Creature of Destruction, Curse of the Swamp Creature, In the Year 2889, It’s Alive, Zontar The Thing from Venus, and Mars Needs Women!
Lawrence Tierney R.I.P.
Leo Walsh’s Lester Bangs-ish tribute to the tough-guy actor.
words on the bottom
Leo Walsh takes on Walerian Borowczyk, after his editor was too chicken to!
49th Parallel
The documentary films of Ron Mann (Grass; Twist; Poetry in Motion)
Saturday Afternoon
The first of a short-lived column on Saturday matinee programmers debuts with the Blondie series, the classic serial The Adventures of Captain Marvel and Roy Rogers in The Far Frontier.
Discoveries in the Dark
Celebrating Kino’s video release of the one-of-a-kind avant-garde horror film, Dementia (aka – Daughter of Horror).
Ray Dennis Steckler and You
Part two of our serialized study on the B-movie icon, continues with The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies?!? and Rat Phink a Boo Boo. Learn from them!
Site-Ings
Rob Craig’s website on the legendary producer K. Gordon Murray.
Print Film
Book and zine reviews by Greg Woods and Skot Deeming: Hollywood Trail Boss, by Burt Kennedy; Cinema Sewer (Robin Bougie, editor) Issues 2 to 8; My Last Sigh, by Luis Buñuel; Schlock-O-Rama: The Films of Al Adamson, by David Konow.
The Analog Video Enthusiast (later renamed Short Takes):
The Blank Generation (1979); Boycott (1985); The Brain Eaters (1958); Exile (1994); Female Jungle (1956); Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991); Track of the Ants (1993); The White Orchid (1954) …all out there somewhere on Good Old VHS!
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