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By Tim Lucas

The Video Watchdog publication collects and updates the beginnings of Video Watchdog (1985 to 1992) from Tim Lucas' first columns in Video instances, Gorezone and Fangoria ahead of Video Watchdog journal got here at the scene. hundreds of thousands of tapes appraised, feature-length articles on Jess Franco, Dario Argento, Edgar Wallace and Terence Fisher, over 650 retitlings and an index to the 1st 12 problems with Video Watchdog journal.

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RIDAYTHE UTI-I (1980) and its various clones. Horror fans, by and large, considered their posturing rather silly, because these rnms were never more than wallows in foam latex and cherry syrup-and heavily censored wallows, at that! Siskel and Ebert have probably never heard of JUNGLE nOLOCAUST or BURIED ALIVE, but perhaps these are the films they should be making a stink about. If you're going 10 be exposed to the sight of the 20-pound eyeball of a dead elephant being cut from its socket-as in Magnum Entertainment's "Shock Box" double feature of MONDO MAGIC and SHOCKING ASIA-wouldn'l you like to be warned in advance?

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