PULP COVER FRIDAY PRESENTS: MORE STRANGE PULP COVERS This one’s for Scott, by request. I’m not entirely sure what this is illustrating. Well, actually, I am. It’s those two red dots that have me slightly perturbed. Giant measles, maybe? This started out as ALL DETECTIVE magazine (Nov. 1932 to January 1935), then changed to DOCTOR DEATH and lasted for only …
Conan the Barbarian Motion Poster
This “motion poster” is cool as hell, but man oh man, please let this movie be good.
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
HOUND ROUND TWO! I’m back, having just suffered my third major computer failure in about three and half years. This one resulted in the replacement of the hard drive. Fortunately, no data were harmed in the course of this annoyance, though I did have to sit around for about five days twiddling my thumbs while the machine was being repaired, …
Cool Actor of the Week – Ed Lauter
Ed Lauter, our pick for Cool Actor this time around, has an amazing 191 titles listed on his imdb page, starting with an episode of Mannix in 1971. He’s definitely one of those character actors you recognize immediately, although you may not know his name. Lauter guest starred on pretty much every cop show of the 1970s and has never …
Some CBS Late Movie Favorites
If you’re a regular reader of Cheese Magnet, you know we’re big fans of the old CBS Late Movie. As a kid, that’s where I saw a lot of the crazy horror movies that shaped my existence, and of course they also aired some cool TV shows. That’s where I discovered The New Avengers, for instance: At the time, I …
Devil’s Dynamite (1987)
I had no idea what I was getting into with this one, but I wasn’t expecting it to open with a Kung Fu priest guy and a bearded dude who looks like the skinny Joel Silver unleashing a horde of Chinese hopping vampires from a bunch of crates. As the vampires pogo around the room, the priest flings the traditional …
Classic Rock Sunday – Faster Pussycat
All right, admittedly there’s not a whole lot to say about Faster Pussycat — they were formed in 1986 by lead singer Taime Downe and guitarists Greg Steele and Brent Muscat, adding bassist Eric Stacy and drummer Mark Michals to the lineup before their debut album (the self-titled Faster Pussycat) was recorded. They broke up in 1993 after releasing only …
Famous Monsters Saturday
From my collection.
A Career Guide To Your Job In Hell
A Career Guide To Your Job In Hell is a cool anthology I co-edited with Robert E. Vardeman. Nine stories by nine authors, all about folks with crummy jobs — some funny, some horrific, some just flat-out painful. Authors include: Scott Phillips (The Ice Harvest) Victor Milan (CLD: Collective Landing Detachment) Nathan Long (Bloodborn – The Ulrika the Vampire Series) …
John Jos. Miller’s CREATURE FEATURE
POSSIBLY THE GREATEST WERESPIDER FILM EVER MADE For awhile now I’ve been considering doing a column discussing how bad movies can be good, and if any movie cries out for such a discussion it’s HORRORS OF SPIDER ISLAND. The script is idiotic. Only a single cast member’s acting rises above high school drama club level. The special effects are ludicrous …
Classic Rock Sunday – Suzi Quatro
Gotta keep this one short, unfortunately — Suzi Quatro deserves more attention but with Tanzi off at Gallifrey One in Los Angeles and me trying to get everything sorted on the paperback edition of my novel, Squirrel Eyes, it’s a madhouse around Cheese Magnet Central. It’s probably safe to say that Suzi is best known in the United States for …