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Fever Dreams In Paradise: The Hysterical Horrors Of Spider Island

A mad German sleaze-fest from 1959 that mixes glamour girls, spider monsters and glorious excess.

Mayhem Film Festival 2023: To Fire You Come At Last

Continuing our festival previews with a look at Sean Hogan’s relentlessly creepy slice of Folk Horror.

Mayhem 2022: Birdemic 3 – Sea Eagle

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James Nguyen’s trash trilogy reaches the final (for now) instalment – but will it be third time unlucky or is the outsider magic still there?

The Variety Films Catalogue

A Eurotrash sales brochure featuring spectacular artwork for less-than-spectacular films.

The Christopher Lee Enigma: Meeting A Childhood Hero

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Your Reprobate editor’s first encounter with the great man while filming a Wicker Man documentary.

The Eco-Horror Films Of William Girdler

The indie director’s two Nature Gone Wild movies are more interesting than people would have you believe.

Continental Pleasures For Adults Only: Shock Treatment And The Thrills Of Late Night TV In The 1970s

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A controversial French paranoid classic, the search for nudity on late-night television and the accidental discovery of world cinema: memories of the 1970s.

Have Yourself A Jess Franco Christmas

Your perfect festive decor has just arrived in the form of a Jess Franco Christmas tree topper.

Tacey Robbins – Al Adamson’s Go Go Girl

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Tacey Robbins starred in a low-budget exploitation movie in the mid-1960s, but her career is much more interesting than just that.

This Film Smells Of Death: The Grotty Pleasures Of Andrea Bianchi’s Nights Of Terror

The most notoriously trashy and outrageous film of the early 1980s Italian zombie cycle is more interesting than you might think.

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