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Jean Rollin And The Tragedy Of The Living Dead Girl

Jean Rollin’s lyrical, gore-drenched zombie film is one of the overlooked masterpieces of European horror cinema.

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What Fresh Hell Is This? Awfulness In News And Culture

Every day, some minor – or major – irritant makes us irrationally annoyed and inspires us to vent furiously. Here, then, is our new regular round-up of dreadfulness and head-slapping stupidity for you to be aghast at.

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The Library Music Familiarity Curse

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The unexpected problem with library music is that it allows familiar tunes to suddenly turn up in the most unexpected of places.

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The Problem With One-Hit-Wonders

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One-Hit-Wonders seem easy to define – but many of the acts given this dismissive label have had major success outside the UK/US singles chart.

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Classic Albums Revisited: Kraftwerk – Tour De France Soundtracks

Kraftwerk’s classic 2003 tribute to the Tour de France cycle race and the technology that drives it is re-examined.

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Sadomaniac: The Kinky Dreams Of Jess Franco

Exploring the fetishistic and obsessive visions of Jess Franco and his unique, erotic and provocative cinematic world.

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The Forbidden Weekend – The BBC’s Censorship Season

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Film censorship explored in a 1995 BBC season of controversial movies and documentaries that explore the BBFC and British moral attitudes.

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Jane Bond, The Super Spy Of Sixties Girls’ Comics

Cool as an early morning rose and as deadly as nightshade, Jane Bond was the female super spy of British girls comics in the 1960s.

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Tabu – F.W. Murnau’s Exotic Tale Of The South Seas

The collaboration between Murnau and documentarian Robert Flaherty is a melodramatic and exotic fiction passed off as reality for Western audiences.

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The Satanic Panic Is Alive And Well In Utah

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The Mormon state takes a deep dive back into one of the more hysterical moral panics of the 1980s.

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Skater Punk Splatter And Indie Experimentation In Twisted Issues

Charles Pinion’s 1980s alt. culture indie movie remains a pioneering work of underground filmmaking.

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Sack The Act – The Fight Back Against The Appalling Online Safety Act

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A new campaign aims to end the British government’s oppressive internet censorship laws before they cause more harm than they already have.

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