Bewitching Hazel
David Del Valle
notes the recent passing of Hazel Court with an
entertaining and sometimes moving memoir of his long
friendship with the actress and her actor-director husband
Don Taylor! Including Hazel's comments on films like THE
CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and PREMATURE BURIAL, and co-stars
Vincent Price and Anton Diffring!
Meiko Kaji
Woman with a Vengeance
Danish film
scholar Rikke Schubart describes the unique and
haunting appeal of the
enigmatic star of the LADY SNOWBLOOD
and FEMALE PRISONER SCORPION series!
Things From the
Attic
CED VideoDisc: The
Dawn of High End Video
Rebecca and Sam
Umland look back at the introduction of letterboxing
on home video--not on VHS, but on CED discs,
a forerunner of laserdisc--with an archeological review of
AMARCORD and MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL!
DVD Spotlight
Kim Newman
reviews rediscovered performances by Boris Karloff,
Lee Marvin, George Reeves and others in
SUSPENSE: THE LOST EPISODES, COLLECTION 1!
Also reviewed
in this issue...
APARTMENT 1303
AQUARIUM
BLUE SUNSHINE
CHARLIE CHAN VOLUME 3:
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
THE BLACK CAMEL
CHARLIE CHAN'S SECRET
CHARLIE CHAN ON BROADWAY
CHARLIE CHAN AT MONTE CARLO
DEATH SENTENCE
THE DEVIL'S RAIN
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (David Hemmings version)
THE DUNGEON OF DR. DRECK
GAMERA, SUPER MONSTER
THE HOUSE OF USHER
JEKYLL: SEASON 1
LIZ & HELEN (aka DOUBLE
FACE)
LOFT
METAL SKIN: SPECIAL
EDITION
MONSTROID
THE NIGHT OF THE
SORCERERS
PLANET OF DINOSAURS: 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE
VAMPIRA: THE MOVIE
WITCH'S MIRROR
... and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY on Blu-ray!
Ramsey's Rambles
Ramsey
Campbell on Jean Renoir's LE CRIME DE MONSIEUR
LANGE!
Audio Watchdog
Douglas E.
Winter reviews new soundtrack releases, including THE
BLOB, Roger Corman's THE INTRUDER and more!
Biblio Watchdog
Brett Taylor reviews
John Kenneth Muir's HORROR FILMS OF THE 1980s and David
Kalat's A CRITICAL HISTORY AND FILMOGRAPHY OF TOHO'S
GODZILLA SERIES!
All this and much,
much MORE!
Other
contributors featured in this issue:
John Charles, Bill Cooke, Shane M. Dallmann,
Sheldon Inkol,
David Kalat, and Tim Lucas.