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The Lost

            I cannot emphasize enough how great this disturbing 2006 thriller, based on a novel by the late/great splatterpunk author Jack Ketchum, is. Set in Sparta, New Jersey it’s about the psychotic Ray Pye (played with fiendish glee by Marc Senter)…
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That’s Exploitation

            I can remember it like it was yesterday. My mother was in the basement ironing. And I was down on my knees, begging shamelessly. This had gone for nearly an hour. She wasn’t even acknowledging me by then. Periodically she…
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Sam Pasco and Ironmaster

            Talk about going down the rabbit hole. I just finished this terrific book about Italian exploitation director Umberto Lenzi (Seven Blood-Stained Orchids/Orgasmo/The Tough Ones/Cannibal Ferox) by Troy Howarth called “Make Them Die Slowly” and I was catching up with other…
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