Lunchmeat is a fanzine that celebrates the obscure and  esoteric of cinema! It features tons of reviews of rare and out-of-print vhs tapes, as well as original cartoons, articles, and more.

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We’ve piled the meat high with Lunchmeat #5 with in-depth reviews of hard-to-find flicks such as Jennifer, The Jitters, Night Terror, Thou Shalt not Kill… Except, and Black Devil Doll from Hell along with a heaping helping of other blood-encrusted cinematic treats that are sure to stick to your teeth! Also lurking within the pages, we have an interview with Tony Riparetti about his prolific career as a B-movie film composer and his many collaborations with low-budget maestro Albert Pyun.

Painter extraordinaire Keith Batcheller candidly tells about his career hammering out video covers (House of the Long Shadows, The Tomb) for the releasing companies in the 80s. We’re also proud to present an interview with Black Lodge Video out of Memphis, TN: a rental store that’s sure to induce time travel, hurling you into VHS days gone by. Speaking of time travel, we’ve also dug up a bunch of Horror vinyl for you nostalgia hounds to chew on in what we like to call Tales from the Crate! Dig those groovy sounds!

Wait… There’s more?!… Much more! Rob Hauschild is back with a slimy box of tapes pulled straight from the trash; Heather Drain shows us she knows her shit when it comes to 80s music videos (and the 80s in general) with a review of Vestron Video’s Picture Music, and Putrid gives us his totally amazing one page comic: The Birth of Slithis! And, as always, the Crossword Troll has a challenge for you in the realm of Slasher flicks. Defeat him, and you shall win prizes. That’s right: PRIZES! Fantastic ones! We’re talking VHS tapes and stuff!!

What other video vittles and forgotten treasures await you in our newest issue? Guess you’ll have to grab one…before it grabs you!! Keep those eyelids peeled and glued, kids! Hoooo-haaahhhhh!!!

The guys at Lunchmeat VHS magazine not only continue to impress me, but they keep getting better and better with each passing issue. I thought I knew a little something about obscure cinema, but they really dig deep into the recesses of VHS hell. But not only do they review the coolest shit ( see; Black Devil Doll from Hell, which is getting released soon by Shawn Lewis!), but they do some of the most interesting interviews with people I have never heard of (don’t miss the talk with Keith Batcheller this ish!). I’m a little scared that Lunchmeat is going to get too big and sell out because of how good they do as a small press, but until they do, I am going to enjoy their little slice of cult nostalgia. Do yourself a favor and pick up issue #5 and all of the back issues… better yet, subscribe. It is well fucking worth it.

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MALICIOUS FISHES
Joe Dante schools us on Piranha, a Jaws rip-off packed to the gills with blood, boobs, and other low-budget mayhem from the Roger Corman school of exploitation filmmaking.
PLUS: Alexandre Aja on Piranha 3D, and Roger Corman discusses the controversial Humanoids from the Deep.
by Phil Brown and John W. Bowen

CONVULSIVE BEAUTY
Nightmares in Decay, a new book celebrating macabre artist Harry Clarke, signals a renewed interest in turn-of-the-century genre artwork.
PLUS: The most provocative periodicals of the era.
by Chris Jozefowicz

KING OF THE CARDBOARD CASTLE
A new documentary celebrates the world’s most unstoppable horror host, Count Gore de Vol.
PLUS: Six more contemporary horror hosts.
by Eric Veillette and Trevor Tuminski

LURID BE THY NAME
Astro Zombies, Blood Orgies and Corpse Grinders – Ted V. Mikels reflects on six decades of low-budget sensational cinema.
by Dave Alexander

DEPARTMENTS:

NOTE FROM UNDERGROUND
A salute to poster artists.

DREADLINES
Scholars gather at Oxford for Fear, Horror and Terror; Historic home of Hammer classics set to become housing; Genre scholar Everett Franklin Bleiler remembered

THE CORONER’S REPORT
Weird stats and morbid facts. Sick Top Six: Resurrected Water Rotters.

NEEDFUL THINGS
Arachnoid Guitar, Immortal Coffee, Dia De Los Muertos Jewellery, and Sarah Legault Dolls.

CINEMACABRE
CineMacabre features reviews of Open House, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Burning Bright, Southern Gothic, Neowolf, The Eclipse, Bloody Mary, Dead Mary, and Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet. Blood on a Budget spotlights Pop Punk Zombies and Horrid. And Reissues reviews Gamera vs. Barugon (1966), Horror Hospital (1973), The Best of Trailers from Hell Volume 1, and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961).

CINEMARQUEE
Thriller: “The Incredible Doktor Markesan” (1945).

BOWEN’S BASEMENT
The Kindred (1987).

BLOOD IN FOUR COLOURS
Features Dark Shadows: The Complete Series Volume 1, plus reviews of Dracula #1 of 4, Classic Red Sonja Re-mastered #1, Mystery Society #1, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac #1 of 4, and Nanny and Hank #1 of 4.

THE NINTH CIRCLE
Spotlight: Dark Regions Press’ New Voices of Horror anthology series. Library of the Damned says farewell to Necro Publications. Plus, reviews of Horror Film Aesthetics: Creating the Visual Language of Fear, Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Handling the Undead, Nate Kenyon’s Sparrow Rock, Adam Nevill’s Apartment 16, Nate Southard’s He Stepped Through, Nick Arnold’s Evil Inventions, and John Skipp and Craig Spector’s The Bridge.

TRAVELOGUE OF TERROR
The Amsterdam Ghost Walk – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

THE GORE-MET
Menu: Slasher (2007) and Break (2009)

AUDIO DROME
Featuring the doom metal of The Body. The Blood-Spattered Guide spotlights Adult.’s horror shorts. Plus reviews of Theater of Blood (OST), Dead Like Me (OST), A Primitive Evolution, Haunted George, Those Poor Bastards, Sybreed, Grave, Ramesses, and Scaremaker.

PLAY DEAD
Naughty Bear, A Vampire’s Romance: Paris Stories, and I’m Not Alone.

CLASSIC CUT
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968)

GIVEAWAYS THIS ISSUE!
25 new subscribers will win Galaxy of Terror on DVD, courtesy of Shout! Factory.

The latest issue features interviews with:

• Actor Jim Kelly (Enter the Dragon, Black Belt Jones, Three the Hard Way)
• Actor Ed Lauter (The Longest Yard, Family Plot, Magic, Death Wish 3)
• Actor Jack Betts (Django Meets Sartana, Spider-Man, Gods and Monsters)
• Director Gordon Hessler (The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Scream and Scream Again)

There are also dozens and dozens of informative film, DVD, and book reviews, covering such titles as:

• Klaus Kinski‘s warped live-performance documentary Jesus Christ Saviour
• Elizabeth Shepherd in the short-lived UK TV-series The Corridor People
• Raoul Servais‘ animated/live-fantasy fantasy Taxandria
• Robert Sampson, Pippa Scott and Billy Graham in For Pete’s Sake!
• Anna Friel in Juraj Jakubisko‘s Bathory
• Yvette Mimieux in Brainwash
• Carroll Baker and George Maharis in Sylvia
• Ray Wise in the sci-fi pilor Condor: Secret Agent of the Year 2000
• Alex Cord and Britt Ekland in Stiletto
• Christine Spencer and Don Wood in James Felix McKenney‘s Satan Hates You
• Zachary Oberzan‘s one-man Rambo-adaptation Flooding With Love For the Kid
• Shelley Hack and George Hamilton in Hal Needham‘s Death Car on the Freeway
• Lindsey Hillard in Godchildren (a.k.a. The Hawaiian Split)
• Grant Williams and Shirley Knight in The Couch
• Tomes and Talismans
• Piotr Szulkin‘s Bewitching Eyes
• Rafal Zielinski‘s Jailbait and Screwballs
• Carol Lynley in Once You Kiss a Stranger…
• Professor Lust
• Sophie Marceau in Andrzej Zulawski‘s L’Amour Braque
• Oren Shai‘s Condemned
• Troma’s War
• Jeff Bridges and James Mason in Burgess Meredith‘s The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go
• Mickey Rooney in Fernando Arrabal‘s The Emperor of Peru
• Raimund Harmstorf in the German crime-drama Bloody Friday
• Nathan Wrann‘s Burning Inside
• Dimmick’s Doubles‘ Filthy Harry
• Christopher Mitchum and Olivia Hussey in H-Bomb
• Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
• Kent Lane and Tisha Sterling in The Wild Pack (a.k.a. The Sandpit Generals)
• Claudio Caligari‘s Toxic Love
• Barry Newman in The Lawyer
• David Durston‘s The Love Statue
• Anita Sanders in Tinto Brass‘ Attraction (a.k.a. Black on White)
• Tom Hardy in Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Bronson
• Robert Wagner in Banning
• Ross Hagen in Bad Charleston Charlie
• Nick Oddo‘s Welcome To the Underground
• Konstantin Lopushansky‘s Visitor Of A Museum
• 50,000,000 Joe Fanklin Fans Can’t Be Wrong
• Greg Robbins‘ Bible-thumping, teen-tearjerker-fantasy C Me Dance
• Enzo G. Castellari‘s Eagles Over London
• Ann Gisel Glass in Hanna D: The Girl From Vondel Park
• Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death
• Dennis Hopper in Mad Dog Morgan
• Yuri Ilyenko‘s A Prayer For Hetman Mazepa
• Victor Juliet‘s Director’s Cut
• and many more…

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