Joel M. Reed fits into the "deep cut" category
of exploitation film knowledge. Most who remember his film career remember it
for Bloodsucking Freaks, one of th...
An interesting little controversy popped up in hard rock/AOR fan circles at the end of last year when Gordon G.G. Gebert announced the release of a self-publish...
Before he came the kingpin of hard-rockin' discography overview books, Martin Popoff established himself as a specialist in heavy metal criticism via review gui...
A while back, Schlockmania covered a pair of special issues of Drive-In Asylum, an entertaining new 'zine done in the style of the classic cult movie 'zines of ...
Back in the day, Fangoria was important to horror fans but it wasn't a struggle to find it. Any halfway decent newsstand or mall bookstore always had it in stoc...
In the short term, the internet dealt a savage blow to the world of the cult movie 'zine. It allowed enthusiasts of all kinds to dispense with the costs and th...
If you are familiar with the world of old school direct-to-video horror, the name Bret McCormick might ring a bell. Between the mid-'80s and the mid-'90s, he c...
That period of time from the mid-'60s through the dawn of the '80s was perhaps the single most amazing stretch of pop culture for anyone interested in all thing...
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...
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...
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...
A cinephile's view of a filmmaker is often shaped by their first experience with the filmmaker's work, particularly if there's not a lot of information availabl...
