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“When the VHS explosion occurred at the start of the 1980s, Al Adamson’s films were everywhere, on fly-by-night labels like Rainbow Video. Starved of mainstream product, rental shops were awash with the likes of The Man with the Synthetic Brain, Dracula vs Frankenstein, Vampire Men of the Lost Planet, Killer’s Curse and Five Bloody Graves, most of which were retitled releases of other films (themselves often cut-ups and rejigs of previous movies). That didn’t matter, because most of us were only vaguely aware of Al Adamson, who was never given the time of day in serious horror movies books by people like Alan Frank, and might have only had passing mention in the horror mags of the day. Even Fangoria, which did a sterling job of covering oddball filmmakers from years ago in the early days, didn’t do Adamson as far as I recall. It would be a few years until he was written about by anyone (and then not approvingly), and so his movies felt like a genuine discovery at the time – you’d see a couple, clock the name and then start deliberately hunting out more. That wasn’t unusual – as baffling as it might sound to the instant experts clogging the field now, back in the day we had to search for these films and piece together knowledge about their maverick directors as best we could. Renting films you knew nothing about was part and parcel of a movie education.” Remembering exploitation maverick Al Adamson and discussing the new documentary on his life and shocking death, Blood & Flesh. Full article on the website. “Making the changes that will prevent killers being created is very, very difficult. It might be impossible. And it requires everyone to look inwards. Much better to continue to ‘other’ people after they have snapped, and blame everyone else. Trying to understand what makes a murderer is hard and perhaps require a little empathy. it’s much easier to take a ‘monkey see, monkey do’ approach and blame it on movies or games or music.” The Scapegoating of Entertainment. Full article on the website now. Electric Banana- the library music band that included members of The Pretty Things and soundtracked 1970s sleaze. Their story on our website. “Fonda had a somewhat forgettable acting career in his early twenties, before America, the world and Fonda in particular turned on, tuned in and dropped out. He was a long haired, acid-tripping rebel and mainstream Hollywood didn’t know what to do with someone like that. He hung out with rock bands like The Birds, met the Beatles and allegedly inspired one of their most famous tripped out lines: ‘I know what it’s like to be dead’. He took part in the riot on Sunset Strip and recorded a single – now much sought after – of songs by Gram Parsons and Donovan. In short, Fonda was cool.” Peter Fonda 1940 - 2019. Full tribute on the website. Friday film viewing: Jan Svankmajer’s Alice. A day late, but happy birthday to the legendary Uschi Digard, born August 15 1948.

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