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Shock Cinema Magazine is an essential periodical for fans of cutting-edge, retro cinema. Each issue features in-depth interviews with the most intriguing character actors, cult celebrities and maverick moviemakers of all time and critiques a wide array of film obscurities, including grindhouse action, sexploitation, horror, sci-fi, drive-in dreck, overseas oddities, and arthouse dementia.
 
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The latest issue features interviews with:
William Sadler (The Shawshank Redemption, Die Hard 2, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Martine Beswicke (Thunderball, Dr. Jekyll And Sister Hyde, One Million Years B.C)
Emily Lloyd (Wish You Were Here, A River Runs Through It, Chicago Joe and the Showgirl)
Kathryn Leigh Scott (Dark Shadows, The Great Gatsby [1974], The Last Days Of Patton)
Constance Towers (Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss, Sergeant Rutledge, The Horse Soldiers)

There are also dozens of informative and entertaining film, DVD and Blu-ray reviews, including George Segal, Shirley Knight and Robert Culp in The Lie, written by Ingmar Bergman; Mylène Demongeot in Henri Verneuil's What Price Murder [Une Manche et la Belle; a.k.a. A Kiss For a Killer]; Dolores Faith and Dean Fredericks in Wild Harvest; Stewart Petersen in Lyman Dayton's Rivals; Edward J. Forsyth's Caged Men [a.k.a. I'm Going To Get You Elliot Boy]; Jindrich Polák's A Game Without Rules [Hra Bez Pravidel]; Cliff Potts in Cry For Me Billy; Shannon Whirry in Lee Frost's Private Obsession; Robert Powell in The Wednesday Play: "The Hunting of Lionel Crane"; Frank Bonner in The Hoax; Tony Musante in Damiano Damiani's Goodbye & Amen; Ulli Lommel's Daniel the Wizard; Richard Widmark and Keith Carradine in Blackout; Yasuharu Hasebe's Black Tight Killers; Joe Adair in Pat Rocco's Drifter; Thierry Zéno's Bottomless Mouth Open to the Horizons; Enrico Montesano in I Hate Blondes [Odio le Bionde]; Robert Ayres in Delayed Action...

Donald Pleasence and Andrée Melly in The Big Day; Peter Falk, Vic Morrow and Peter Lawford in A Step Out of Line; Kylie Foster in Tony Paterson's Centrespread; Bridgette Andersen in Éric Rochat's Too Much; Helga Anders and Anthony Steel in Rabbit in the Pit [Häschen in der Grube]; Arne Skouen's Fire in the Night [Det Brenner i Natt!]; Martin Potter and Julie Foster in All Coppers Are...; Gerald McRaney and Shawnee Smith in Easy Prey; Bob Hoskins and Dan Aykroyd in Rainbow; Kurt Raab and Margit Carstensen in Ulli Lommel's Adolf & Marlene; Georges Franju's Shadowman [Nuits Rouges]; Karen Young in Deep in the Heart; Fabio Testi and Lynne Frederick in Lucio Fulci's The Four of the Apocalypse; The Sex O'Clock News; David Warbeck in Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood; Marleen Gorris' The Last Island; Pietro Germi's The Facts of Murder; Joan Collins in Homework; Susan George, Robert Klein and Pia Zadora in Pajama Tops; Monte Hellman's Beast From Haunted Cave and Roger Corman's Ski Troop Attack; and much more...




REVIEWS FROM OUR PREVIOUS ISSUE, SHOCK CINEMA #64 

Professor Ambrozy Kleks takes us on a
trippy live-action musical-fantasy adventure
from Poland in Travels of Mr. Kleks.

Patrick Dewaere and Stéphane Audran in
director Alain Jessua's provocative sci-fi
allegory, Paradise For All.

NYC housewife Tudi Wiggins discovers
passion in the Caribbean with studly
Christopher St. John in Hot Pants Holiday.

John Washbrook stars in a hokey Christian
melodrama from Ken Anderson, Man of
Steel
.

 

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