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Maniac Cop Screenplay
Here’s the original script for Bill Lustig’s MANIAC COP, titled simply “Cordell” by master screenwriter Larry Cohen. Cordell (aka Maniac Cop) (3.16meg) July 7th 1987 Draft by Larry Cohen – PDF format Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the … Continue reading
Freddy Krueger’s A Nightmare on Elm Street magazine
In 1989 Marvel Comics gave Freddy Krueger is own black and white magazine. The magazine only lasted for two issues due to the outcry from angry parents. Marvel wanted no part of the controversy and cancelled the book before the … Continue reading
Monsters Attack #2
Monster Attack! was a short lived black and white horror magazine published by Globe Communications, the same folks responsible for Cracked magazine, from 1989 to 1990. Editor Mort Todd mixed horror stories from famous artists with articles on horror films, directors, … Continue reading
Retro Slashers In HorrorHound Magazine
Check out the latest issue of HorrorHound, #22 It’s got A-Z retro slasher coverage and a retrospective on Media Home Entertainment, the company that brought many slasher delights to your VHS deck!
Splatterbowl: The Shape vs Jason vs Leatherface
Back in the early 80s Fangoria held a Maniac Match-up contest. Contestants were asked to create a comic strip featuring a duel to the death between The Shape, Jason, and Leatherface. John Arnold and Linwood Sasser’s winning entry, 1st Fangoria … Continue reading
Happy Birthday To Me Screenplay
According to IMDB there were 3 sets of writers on this, John Saxton, Peter Jobin & Timothy Bond, and un uncredited John Beaird. This script, which popped up on Megaupload, is a direct scan of the screenplay which perhaps tellingly … Continue reading
Halloween II Retrospective in Fango #288
Any Halloween fan wanting to know more about the rest of the night HE came home should check out Pat Jankiewicz’s interesting retrospective in the current issue of Fangoria. Director Rick Rosenthal reveals how behind-the-scenes battles between John Carpenter and … Continue reading
Halloween Screenplay (Rob Zombie)
It all starts with the screenplay. Whether you liked the HALLOWEEN redux or not, it’s worth taking a look at the original script to see how the project developed from paper to screen. Halloween – Early draft script by Rob … Continue reading
Joyride (1983) Book Review
Horror fiction writers were slow to take up the slasher mantle back in the early 80’s even though celluloid stalkers were carving up hefty profits at the box-office. Anyone scanning paperback racks at the corner market were more likely to … Continue reading
How To Survive A Horror Movie (2007) Book Review
Talk about finding a diamond among a bunch of worthless rocks. I first saw Seth Grahame-Smith’s excellent book on a new release table sandwiched between mountains of Oprah’s latest Book of the Month and literary dreck that folks buy but … Continue reading