In the same spirit as the book collection topics, let's talk zines:

Absurd : 2, 3, 5, 6

Banned In Britain : 1, 2

Bits & Pieces - 7, 9

Black : 8, 10, 11, 12

Bloody Darlings : 12, 13, 18,

Bloody Hell : 2, 3,

Cinema Sewer : 11

Creepy: 25, 115, 137, 140, 142,

Darkside : 66, 88, 89, 90, 93, 94, 98, 99

Deep Red : Vol. 3 No. 1

Deranged : 1, 2, 3

DVDZone : 1, 2

Eerie Magazine: 4, 115, 126,

Ekko : 24, 28

ETC - European Trash Cinema : Vol. 2 #7

Extase : 1, 2, 3

Eyeball : 5

Famous Monsters: 49, 139, 155, 157,

Fangoria : 69, 74, 80, 81, 98, 99, 247

Fatal Visions : 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17,

Filmtozzen : 1

Films And Filming : VOl. 11 nr. 12, vol. 12 nr. 01

Giallo Pages: 3, 4

Imaginator : 5, 6, 7

In The Flesh : 1 (reprint) 8, 9, 10, 11

Inferno : 1, 2, 93/1-2, 93/3-4, 11

Kosmorama : 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 172, 173, 187, 206, 212, 218,

Mifune : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8

Monster Fantasy : 4

Monsters And Heroes : 6

Necronomicon : 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Obskuriøst : 9, 5/6, 7/8, 4, 3, 2, 1

Psycotic Reaction: 1

Psychotronic Video : 3, 7, 8, 18, 20, 24, 28, 37

Redeemer : 1, 2, 3

Rue Morgue : 31, 33, 38, 47, 48, 49, 50, 70, 71, 72, 78, 79

Scarlet Street : 33

Scary Monsters : 21

Scatter : 1, 2

Shivers : 7, 19, 23

Shock Cinema: 33, 35

Solo-issues : Mondo Franko, Ultimo Mondo Franko, Franks Hermetiske Garage, Spawn - Official Movie Magazine, Sinerama, Film Extremes, Directed By Lucio Fulci - Italy's Gore Master, "...and you will live in TERROR - John Martin Explores The Beyond, Dracula '79 sept 1979.

Stay Sick! : 1, 2, 3, 4

Trauma : 4, 5

Ultra Violent : 2, 6, 7

Unrated : 1

Video Watchdog : 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 26, 30, 31, 44, 45, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56, 57,58, 59, 61, 62, 64,65, 66, 67, 68,69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 122, 123, 124, 129, 131, 132, 133, 134, 140, 141

Videooze : 4

Widescreen : 1

I'm cheating a little but I just got a monsterpack of Famous Monsters of Filmland in CBR format.
THis was my favorite magazine as a child.
I have an odd assortment of the actual magazines that survived me cutting them to shreds and pasting them on my wall...but that monsterpack is issues...

Famous Monsters of Filmland #1-10,33-34,36,38,40,43-44,46,49-50,53-54,57,60,85,87-89,94-95,97,100-101,104-105,107-109
Famous Monsters of Filmland #112-121,124-125,129-140,142,145-150,155,160-161,163,165,168,172-173,175-177,184-185,187,189
Famous Monsters of Filmland 1965 Yearbook
Famous Monsters of Filmland 1970 Yearbook
Famous Monsters Presents - 1982 Film Fantasy Yearbook
Famous Monsters - Star Wars Spectacular

You can get them if you have the patience and the room on your harddrive at demonoid...

I haven't got all of my zines here to post a list, but these were my favourites - all from a '91-95 period I reckon, and mostly UK-based. Expect us to go through a load when we do our book/zine special in a show or two's time...

Samhain
In the Flesh
Atrocity
Subterrean
From Beyond
Deep Red
Awsom 50
Trash City
Invasion Of The Sad Man Eating Mushrooms
Mentally Penetrated By An Acid Enema
Killing Moon
Mkultra
Legend Of The OVA-fiend (anime zine)
Animace (ditto)

Great lists above.... I didn't have much access to fanzines in Ireland, but I had copies of In the Flesh, Samhain, Videooze, ETC, and a excellent one-off Invasion of the Sad Man Eating Mushrooms annual... Also had a few copies of Headpress which always featured weird articles like A Guide To Leeds' Public Toilets.... I kid you not....

Dan you're featured in the Invasion book, with a review of Flesh for Frankenstein... good solid revew it is too....

Cool, thanks! I wrote a few things for Darren and John - a big Russ Meyer feature was one that I remember penning. For some reason I never actually had a copy of the Invasion book, so I won't have read that review since I first wrote it!

Maybe someone might be able to answer this question... In '93 I picked up a fanzine called The Best of Video Horror (Media Publications) a compendium of some 450 reviews of pre-cert horror. There were a number of contributors, some of them who went on to other things like John Hill (who did the short lived Monstroid), David Flint (Headpress) and Adrian Smith (who did Delirium) but one that always stuck out for me was someone known mysteriously as The Horror Consultant...he had a great style...of the million reviews of Cannibal Ferox I read over the years, his one I always remember....Does anyone know who the enigmatic Horror Consultant was ? Is he still around today ??

Wow. I'm jealous. All I can find around here is Fangoria and Rue Morgue. Once in a while, I bump into a Video Watchdog.

I hate living in the sticks. *sigh*

Ah I know how you feel Wil, Ireland is hardly the nervecenter of cinematic culture either...

I don't see many fanzines for sale these days on eBay. I picked up a few issues of Shock Xpress but its been slim pickings... I guess people tend to hang onto them. I wouldn't sell the few of have....

Same here, or actually, you can't find ANY of these zines here. So I just order everything on-line.

Ah, the Horror Consultant. At the end of the 80s, when all the interesting films disappeared from our video library shelves, he used to regularly pop across the channel to take advantage of their liberal censorship laws.
His reviews were pretty good, and I discovered a lot of unknown stuff through him at the time.

I think you’ll find it was actually Trevor Barley, the guy that ran Media Publications. He used to deal in fanzines, book etc etc for the horror community at the time.

In fact he put out his own fanzine, ‘Cold Sweat’ which I contributed the odd review and article to on occasion.
My first published scrawlings appeared in Cold Sweat, a review of the ‘Splatterfest 90’ film festival.
Unfortunately I was a bit restricted who I could proudly show it to as it nestled uncomfortably next to a review of ‘The Pig Fucking Movie’. Ahh, those were the days.

In recent years he has moved into making a few sleazing films himself.
He has done this under the pseudonym Roman Norwicki but (history repeating ?) denies its actually him so he could subsequently give good reviews to his own movies and hopefully peddle more.
These were falsely claimed to have been shot in Poland but were actually shot in London, but using Polish and Russian accesses, who were subsequently subtitled.
If interested check out http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1090803/

Anyway, although it may not be relevant to all listeners, I think covering the fanzine scene of the early 90s would be a great idea for the podcast. I still have a pretty large collection of UK and US zines from the time, boxed up at the back of a cupboard.
I’ll have to dig them out. No doubt there’ll be a ‘Oh My Brain Hurtsâ€

Hey Paul, many thanks for that, the mystery is solved....

I used to own most of the zines mentioned in this thread but unbelievable to me now some years ago I threw most of them away!!

I went through a big culling period were I had to offload a lot of stuff I had collected and dumped or sold a lot of material. Of course I have more space now but now the nostalga has kicked back in.

It would be good for someone to create a web site which has scans of lots of zines that have long been out of print. There are lots of sites that have scanned in old computer games magazines that make for a nostalgic read.

I think the magazines I miss the most are my collection of old House of Hammer magazines - I would love to get my hands on all of them again. I recently got hold of a special that was a collection of some of the strips and features that I have started to scan in and 'digitally re-master' as all the pages had turned yellow and the ink was faded. They look amazing now.

Howl I know what you mean about throwing shit away.... I binned most of my pre-cert videos when DVD arrived. It didn't have anything rare and a lot of the videotapes were becoming mouldy, but I wish I kept the sleeves...

Yeah, it would be great if someone was uploading some stuff... I often visit a blog that hosts scanned Industrial music fanzines so one for cinema would be very cool...

There actually is one out there but its all French stuff... might be worth a visit if you're French speaking though... some of the scans are a bit racy though so if you're in work, take care...

http://bxzzines.blogspot.com/search/label/cin%C3%A9ma

It would be good for someone to create a web site which has scans of lots of zines that have long been out of print. There are lots of sites that have scanned in old computer games magazines that make for a nostalgic read.


I don't know how many other zines are available but as I wrote you can get the FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND in CBR format for which you need a comic reader like COMICAL or many others.

http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1849890/3512827/

Hey thanks for that Daniel.... for rapidshare guys like me... go here:
http://www.kaskus.us/showthread.php?t=986299