Luana by Russ Manning

The Euro Jungle Girl flick LUANA sure did have an awesome batch of help.  Frazetta poster art and here we have Russ Manning doing a short strip.  Enjoy!!  Click the strips and soak up the awesome!

ALTAR...The Turkish Conan!!

I have FINALLY seen ALTAR, which like many other Turkish films before it ends up with a "Turkish..." tag. This one is a Conan riff that is loads of fun to watch.  It isn't the fastest paced, most violent or even the most exciting--but like so many Turkish films before it, ALTAR is utterly unique and interesting.
And here is a whole bunch of Altar!!

Turkish Lobby Cards! And there are more (and some amazing others) at TURKISH POSTERS!

Barbaric Postal Pugilism!!

I can't say I've ever played a game by mail...but this looks quite cool.  Has anyone reading this had an experience with this kind of RPG?  Click the scan and wonder...

Barbaric Beasts and Wicked Werewolf Fun!!

Another year, another vacation for me...just a short hop, but I wanted to leave something cool up here.  I'm really excited to see ASCENSION OF THE BLIND DEAD getting unleashed in the upcoming ZOMBNIBUS from Asylum Press entitled ZOMBIE TERRORS!  With artwork by the one and only Billy George of Ruined Earth-this story will pop out your eyes, toss them down a werewolf woman's throat, she'll spit 'em out in to the face of an Undead Templar and they you'll have to squeeze the pulp back in with the hope that your psyche will recover!
That is if the Blind Dead don't steal that gooey eye pulp.

But the fun doesn't stop there!  No sir...ya see, Zombie Terrors is loaded with some amazing creators and artwork. Look at the preview...go ahead.

See, I told you!  I'm a fan of Szymon Kudranski and that stuff looks damn wild.  Never mind that it is published and features work by the one and only Frank Forte.  I've spent a good amount of time reading the stuff he's written and drawn (is there really any better guy with a gun that has a giant stinger thing on his head than Warlash?)-pretty damn cool. There is a hopping vampire story!!  Wow.  Yep, we need that.  And then, to top it off...Tim Vigil. Now, say what you will, the guy draws horror like nobody else. New Tim Vigil? Happy Halloween!!

Overall, this looks like a great book and I'm thrilled to be a part of "and many more..." as well as a reader.
Amazon has it for a nice discount right here, or you can order from the publisher.  Be sure to send them a shout out that YOU love The Blind Dead and are chomping at the bit to see them ravage the earth!  I have a few crazy ideas you might enjoy... 

THEY CAN SENSE THE RHYTHM OF YOUR BLOOD...and this Halloween, you can read them under the covers with a flashlight!

Enjoy the weather and see everyone once I get back from the beach!!  Hopefully The Ghost Galleon is docked and waiting for me...

John Carter-Warlord of Mars via Gold Key!

And a little bonus Marvelized John Carter!

Sorceress! Jack Hill and the Barbarian Vixens!

Graveyard Rendevous #35 Truly Released!! Guy N. Smith fans rejoice!

After many stops, starts, mis-steps and hurdles I'm pleased to see that Graveyard Rendezvous, the fanzine for the Gun N. Smith fanclub has released Issue 35.  A great buy for fans that are still in to GNS as well as those that may not know that much about the Great Scribbler!  This issue includes short fiction by GNS (Howling On The Moors), fiction by Brooke Vaughn and Stuart Neild, a list of available back catalog items from Black Hill Books, The Old Brides Column (a must have), Writers Forum, miscellania and reviews. Nice to see Bruce from Bookgasm there, and I will admit to feeling a great sense of pride at seeing one of my reviews in the lead off spot for the issue.  

This is probably the first printed matter from a certain project I had been working on, and it makes me happy to see it.  Ringin' the DEATHBELL is always fun.

Show GNS some love and try this 'zine out...perfect to stoke your fire for killer crustaceans, bad boy bankers and nymphomaniac housewives!  Email blackhillbooks@hotmail.com and tell Ceri you need your GNS!

The Vorpal Sword!

Thor The Conqueror - Tonino Ricci Rages and Rushes a Barbarian

Tonino Ricci is easily one of the great low budget directors of Italian genre schlock that ever walked.  Now, I'm not advocating for the guy, I leave that to my irresistible lust for the cinema of Alfonso Brescia, but he does have a certain charm to his films.  Thor The Conqueror has little in the way of plot, logic or political correctness, but it does have a lot to give the Barbarian completest.  Thor is a played with little expression by Conrad Nichols (Bruno Mininti) and follows our hero, who is a complete dolt by the way, as he is guided by a truly he-man woman hating owl mystic that never shuts up. Hell, that owl man actually promises to die early in the film...never does.   I guess they forgot that part of the script as they went along.

But what it does offer us, is a bunch of entertaining action scenes, a use of music that may actually be the worst I've heard from a Ricci film, Malisa Longo (always welcome) and a "full blooded" attitude that would make Manning Lee Stokes say "tone it down a bit man..." if he heard it.  When Thor first meets a woman his Owl Guide tells him to "Lie her down, play with her, for what else is she good for?"  Needless to say, a horde of evil barbarians burst in on Thor learning about women (?) and kill her immediately.  Thankfully for Thor, there are women to hear lamentations from and bad guys to slay.  Not a good film, but a very special entry in to a genre I really enjoy. The NeoPeplum will always hold a special place in my heart. 

Besides...any film that gives Jess Franco's CANNIBALS a run for the least impressive cannibal tribe ever shown on screen is GREAT to me. Not sarcasm folks, I love some bad cannibals!