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4 May 2009 9:46 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

My courtship with 1973’s Terror Circus, a.k.a. Barn Of The Naked Dead, began in 1997, my junior year of high school. I was young and in love with a beautiful girl, Sarah, who would eventually become my wife. We were frolicking around town on one gorgeous Sunday afternoon when I stumbled upon the latest edition of John Stanley’s book Creature Features in some mega-bookstore. Stanley’s compelling description of Circus enchanted me for years to come:

“The humiliation of women reaches an all-time exploitation low in this first-feature effort from director Alan Rudolph, who went on to direct major Hollywood features… This has no redeeming values in depicting depraved Andrew Prine, a desert hermit with a mother fixation who kidnaps stranded women and ties them up in his barn… Out in the toolshed, meanwhile, there’s a mutated monster (caused by Nevada nuclear tests) that likes to break out and kill. »

12 April 2009 11:01 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

I get lots of lovely lurid stuff in the mail that sometimes I just don’t have the time to write about and the stacks of sick flicks are starting to pile up. So just to ensure that these occasionally spectacular new release/ reissue titles don’t slip through the creepy cracks, allow me to insert this little dark entry in ye old Bloode Spattered Blogge and lay some love on a slew of pictures that recently rocked my world.

Ready? Here we go…

The Centerfold Girls

I first sort of picked up on the myth of Andrew Prine back in the late 80’s, when I caught a screening of Charles Band’s ho-hum sci-fi action cheapie Eliminators on late night TV. His presence failed to register, but the name for some reason seemed to stick in my skull. The deeper I sunk into my never ending obsession with grittier strains of horror cinema, »

2 items from 2009