"New Releases" - Gorezone #2

Issue 2 of Gorezone appeared in July of 1988. It still comes across as a somewhat amateur publication with lots of nice pictures but even in it's second issue was beginning to cary some interesting features that were different from it's parent publication. I specifically selected these two articles for that reason. First is a short article on two "new releases", Jess Franco's Faceless and Juan Piquier Simon's Slugs:

Second is an article that was part of an ongoing series during the magazine's run. Here we have the special effects of Poltergeist III:

And finally, one of the reasons I like these old splatter magazines is that when looking through them, I always find a movie that I completely forgot about. Example, The Unholy:

Gorezone #25 - Umberto Lenzi

Hey, who doesn't like eating meat? I mean really, besides vegans and lacto-vegetarians, who doesn't like dead-body food? What's not to like about a good old fashioned corpse feast? For this reason I must digress back into my regular Danksgeben mode and celebrate the consumption of human flesh. Because I know of absolutely zero cannibal movies that haven't been reviewed to pieces, and even fewer of those that haven't made it to DVD, I'll give you the next best thing; an interview with the prince of Italian cannibalsploitation, Umberto Lenzi. This issue of Gorezone came out in 1992.





Friends over at B Movies and Beyond, and Cult Trailers have posted some good Lenzi flavored stuff, check it out.

And.....
here is one of my favorite trash posters, a German version of Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox snagged from an American DVD release insert from 2002 or so.

Gorezone #5 - Bad Taste

Back when nobody knew who the hell Peter Jackson was a little magazine called Gorezone, the red headed stepchild of Fangoria (itself the offspring of Starlog Magazine I think) did this little article on his first movie in January 1988. If you don't like Bad Taste you are in the wrong place. One of the reasons I love all these old movies and held on to these magazines is because of the hands on technical gore, and Bad Taste is at the top of the offal heap on that front.
Most of these pictures are well known since Jackson got big with Dead Alive/Brain Dead and beyond, but it's interesting to read the way they talk about the whole thing knowing what's happened since.