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Schlockmania’s Favorite Episodes From MIAMI VICE: Season 1 – Part 2

DonMarch 9, 2018

Schlockmania's look at the debut season of this key '80s cop show continues with six more key episodes. Like the episodes covered in the first half of this ove...

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SWEET – SWEET FANNY ADAMS: The Art Of Becoming One’s Own Glam-Rocker

DonMarch 6, 2018

Sweet had a long road to respectability as rockers. Like a lot of young acts in the U.K. during the late '60s and early '70s, they made a bid for music busines...

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THE VAN (1977): Customized Vans And Pop Culture Anthropology

DonMarch 2, 2018

This fun quickie represents a double cash-in: not only does it capitalize on the mid-to-late 1970’s customized van trend, it also acts a pseudo-adaptation of th...

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THE LAST HUNTER (1980): The Vietnam War In A Italian Funhouse Mirror

DonFebruary 28, 2018

There are two things Schlockmania loves about Italian genre cinema of the '70s and '80s. The first is its habit of taking a popular American film and doing a h...

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PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: The Lurid Charms Of The Paperback Horror Era

DonFebruary 22, 2018

If you didn't live through it, it's hard to express what an amazing time the '70s and '80s were for fans of horror fiction. With the advent of blockbuster horr...

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THE CANDY SNATCHERS: An Exploitation Beauty With An Icy Heart

DonFebruary 20, 2018

One of the major reasons that 1970's exploitation movies are so attractive to cult movie fans is their sense of freedom. Not only do they offer more excitement ...

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Schlockmania’s Favorite Episodes from MIAMI VICE: Season 1 – Part 1

DonFebruary 15, 2018

Few shows have ever captured the zeitgeist the way Miami Vice did. It took a buddy cop dynamic as old as Dragnet and gave it a brand new style that built on an...

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HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE: Gothic Goes Gonzo With Naschy

DonFebruary 13, 2018

You can't discuss Spanish horror cinema without mentioning Jacinto Molina, a.k.a. Paul Naschy. He was Spain's Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff all in ...

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THE RATS: A Shock Horror Legend Is Spawned

DonFebruary 8, 2018

One of the most reliable trends in paperback horror of the '70s and '80s was the subject of animals going wild. Virtually every species got its moment of hip-p...

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THE SLAYER: Journey To The Island Of Cerebral Chills

DonFebruary 6, 2018

At a time when it seems like every cult movie has been unearthed and analyzed six ways from Sunday, it's a comfort to learn that there are still obscure classic...

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HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN: Film Writing That Gives ‘Til It Hurts

DonFebruary 1, 2018

If Schlockmania has a single criticism of film writing in this post-blogging era, it's that the writers often demand total ego gratification without giving back...

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Schlock-Wire: Schlockmania-Penned Short Film PAGE-JUMPER To Premiere At Pensacon On February 24th

DonJanuary 29, 2018

I'm proud to share the news that a short film I wrote and co-produced will have its first public screening at Pensacon. It is called Page-Jumper and it's equal...

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Schlockmania’s Favorite Episodes From MIAMI VICE: Season 1 – Part 2

SWEET – SWEET FANNY ADAMS: The Art Of Becoming One’s Own Glam-Rocker

THE VAN (1977): Customized Vans And Pop Culture Anthropology

THE LAST HUNTER (1980): The Vietnam War In A Italian Funhouse Mirror

PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: The Lurid Charms Of The Paperback Horror Era

THE CANDY SNATCHERS: An Exploitation Beauty With An Icy Heart

Schlockmania’s Favorite Episodes from MIAMI VICE: Season 1 – Part 1

HUNCHBACK OF THE MORGUE: Gothic Goes Gonzo With Naschy

THE RATS: A Shock Horror Legend Is Spawned

THE SLAYER: Journey To The Island Of Cerebral Chills

HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN: Film Writing That Gives ‘Til It Hurts

Schlock-Wire: Schlockmania-Penned Short Film PAGE-JUMPER To Premiere At Pensacon On February 24th

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