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3 December 2009 9:54 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Coming soon (this month to be exact) to a bookstore near you is Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box, edited by Jacques Boyreau, the guy behind Trash: The Graphic Genius of Xploitation Movie Posters. This 200-page soft cover tome documents our ghoulish favorites from video stores past in full splatterific detail, encased, ever so snugly, in a "facsimile VHS slipcase".

I can’t even begin to tell you my excitement. But wait ... there’s more!

On Saturday, December 12th, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery in Seattle, Washington, will hold its 3rd Anniversary Party featuring the Portable Grindhouse book launch.

Then, on Sunday, December 13, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm, as a continuation of the anniversary celebration, the Gallery will feature a five-person panel of genre experts focusing, again, on Portable Grindhouse. Its editor, Jacques Boyreau, will be moderating the discussion, which will cover exploitation favorites, »

- Heather Buckley

17 November 2009 3:00 PM, PST | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.

Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, Gone with the Wind, Thirst, Rome: The Complete Series and the Blu-ray debut of David Fincher’s awesome Fight Club (shown above with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton). We are Jack’s excitement at this release finally coming out.

Check them out:

Movies

Bruno ~ Sacha Baron Cohen, Paula Abdul (DVD and Blu-ray)

Clerks ~ Brian O’Halloran, Kevin Smith (Blu-ray)

Downhill Racer (The Criterion Collection) ~ Robert Redford, Gene Hackman (DVD)

Fight Club ~ Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter (Blu-ray)

Galaxy Quest ~ Tim Allen, »

- Heather Toshiko

30 March 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Releasing a new zombie comic onto today’s ghoul-filled shelves might seem like beating a dead horse, unless you’ve a got a super-cool approach—and Mark Rahner definitely does. Debuting in May from Moonstone Books is Rotten, an undead Western he co-wrote with Robert Horton, featuring art by Dan (Tall Tales) Dougherty. The storyline follows Civil War veteran William Hade, who’s pulled back into service as a secret agent for President Rutherford B. Hayes. His mission is to control a terror crisis plaguing the nation: that of living corpses violently making their way through the West.

Perhaps the best thing about Rotten is Rahner’s determination not to camp it up, but play it with real Western grit. “Rotten started out as a combo of genres that I’d always wanted to see smashed together,” he tells Fango. “Zombies, Westerns and secret agents, and dark—not ruined by a tongue-in-cheek approach. »

3 articles from 2009