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More noms.

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:54:49 +0000

My occasional crash-course survey of the cannibal genre continues with Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978), in which a schlocky Italian director makes exactly the kind of movie that people mean when they speak derisively of schlocky Italian cinema. But hey, at least Ursula Andress looks good.

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

Every town has an Elm Street.

Nathan Shumate — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:02:36 +0000

The trailer for the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake is up, and it looks commendable.

I appreciate that this movie takes him back to his frightening, nightmarish roots — the ones he exhibited for about four-fifths of the first movie, and which were subsequently buried under the gimmickry and one-liners of the sequels.

I’m a little worried, though, about the implied revisionism, since it seems from the trailer (though it could be negated in the full feature) that this Freddy Krueger is an innocent, murdered without cause by vigilante justice. That’s absolutely the WRONG tack to take with him. Despite all of the pop-culture charisma that Robert Englund exuded in the role through its many installments, the original Freddy Krueger was the worst kind of human monster: He raped and killed little children. To instead make him a wronged outsider whose revenge is therefore justified in some degree is wrong wrong wrong. Yes, standard issue Hollywood revisionism which makes the good guys bad and the bad guys innocent, but still wrong.

But I may be reading too much into it. I’ll have to wait and see.

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you…

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:27:34 +0000

Darkstone Entertainment
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Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

To Liz, with Love…

kbegg — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:55:36 +0000

OK, on the face of it, not a movie that Liz in particular would seem to be interested in, correct?

Ah, but look closer my friends….

That’s right, Albert Pyun is now such an industry giant that he gets to “present” movies made by other directors!

This is a proud day for world cinema.

Ken Begg is the proprietor of Jabootu: The Bad Movie Dimension.

Relive the Full Moon experience (in a good way).

Nathan Shumate — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:59:00 +0000

For some bizarre reason, The Full Moon Archives Music Collection is available on Jamendo.com, which is a Creative Commons site mostly populated by indie artists trying to drum up some interest with free downloads. That’s right, guilt-free music downloading! This collection contains everything from classic Richard Band themes like The Pit and the Pendulum and Doctor Mordrid (here mislabeled “Doctor Morbid”) to title tracks from Evil Bong and Gingerdead Man 2.

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

Possibly the greatest trailer ever.

Nathan Shumate — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:06:10 +0000

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

All day long I’d biddy biddy bum, indeed…

lyzard — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:53:05 +0000

I hope you’ve all been saving your pennies. This weekend in Dallas, an extraordinary collection of horror movie memorabilia will be auctioned, including an original one-sheet for the Lon Chaney version of The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, an Argentinian poster for London After Midnight, and the jewel in the crown, an original one-sheet for Dracula that was obviously produced before the film was completed and released, as it features a scene aboard the Demeter. There is a serious chance that the standing record for a poster sale, US$443,000 for an original one-sheet for The Mummy, will be broken: the opening bid for the Dracula poster stands at US$100,000. The London After Midnight poster, conversely, starts at a mere US$17,500.

What global economic crisis?

The same auction also carries a series of posters for Mickey Mouse cartoons (including one for The Mad Doctor that I really want), an insert for Freaks (speaking of great taglines: Can a full-grown woman really love a midget – ? Classy, MGM, classy), and a lobby card set for Mad Love. Oh, and there’s also an original one-sheet for Citizen Kane, but who cares about that, right?

[Edited to add: ooh, and an original poster for The Adventures Of Robin Hood, at just US$7,500. Want!]

Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!

I asked, and Lloyd Kaufman answered.

Nathan Shumate — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:12:59 +0000

A transcription of my interview with Lloyd Kaufman can be found here.

Thanks for all the question suggestions, and especially thanks for Fat Guy Loves Dinosaur. There were quite a few other questions in my notes, but his answers were so full and complete that by the time I was ready to ask them he had answered them already.

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

What would YOU ask Lloyd Kaufman?

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:06:30 +0000

Lloyd Kaufman of Troma is going to be in Salt Lake City next week for Tromadance (one of the Sundance hanger-on mini-festivals), and thanks to connections at the comic shop where he’s doing a news conference, I’ll be able to swing a short interview with him (five minutes, maybe).

So. What should I ask the man behind the Toxic Avenger movies?

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.

Farewell, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.

Nathan Shumate — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:15:23 +0000

Though nobody comes to this site to keep on the cutting edge of news, we would be remiss if we did not note the passing of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry yesterday at the age of 76. More than any of other luminaries whom we’ve lost in recent weeks — more than Bettie Page, more (I would argue) than Forrie Ackerman — Ms. Barrett-Roddenberry was an icon of the kind of genre fandom that has infused Western pop culture. As Nurse Chapel, she gave us occasion to see that the unflappable Mr. Spock was on occasion flappable (and gave hope to us socially-maladaptive types with bad haircuts that hot blondes would nonetheless throw themselves at us). As the universal voice of Starfleet computers, she infused our conception of computers with a personality that is still absent from our constantly used desktops (Clippy notwithstanding). As a partner to her husband Gene Roddenberry, she fostered a view of the future that, though inconsistent, maintained a certain spark that somehow attracted masses. As Lwaxana Troi, she brought a big shit-eating grin to Commander Riker’s face when she appeared naked for her own wedding, dressed only in earrings and a saucy smile.

Goodbye, Ms. Barrett-Roddenberry. You go not alone into the next realm; a part of the childhood of everyone in a broad demographic travels with you.

Nathan Shumate is the proprietor of Cold Fusion Video Reviews and the author of The Golden Age of Crap.