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Mario

"Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the gun." -Ash, Army of Darkness

About Me

I’m a horror movie fan and I love to meet and talk with other fans of the horror genre.I write reviews for Critical Condition(www.critcononline.com), the "Online Magazine of Obscure and Bizarre Films on Video & DVD" covering horror, exploitation, grindhouse classics, low budget action/thrillers, women-in-prison films, and more.“FILMS ON THE FRINGE” is the name of my column which covers obscure '80s low budget horror, contemporary indie horror and B-flicks, and some Cinema of Transgression. I personally like to refer to it as “Movies That Fred Refuses To Review.” :) (www.critcononline.com/films_on_the_fringe.htm)I'm also a contributing writer and journalist for the horror website Fear Zone (www.fearzone.com) where I have reviews, articles and interviews with filmmakers and actors posted. I'm getting my own column for the site and it's entitled "MARIO'S INDIE HORROR GALLERY."To my credit, I had written a screenplay when I was in high school.I enjoy meeting and talking with people who make low budget horror movies.Please check my blog entries frequently for my views on the latest Hollywood movies, rants, and other things on my mind. All posts are open for discussion in case you want to voice whether or not you agree with me.

My Interests

Movies, Music, and Art

I'd like to meet:

Alice Cooper

Music:

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, U2, The Moody Blues, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Jackson Browne, The Rolling Stones, Genesis, David Bowie, Elton John, Alice Cooper, AC/DC, Deep Purple, Yes, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Steely Dan, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Metallica, Nirvana, Green Day, Pearl Jam, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Talking Heads, The Violent Femmes, The Cramps, The Damned, The Smithereens, Rush, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, John Mellencamp, Bob Seger, Guns 'n' Roses, Whitesnake, Joe Walsh, ELO, Jefferson Airplane/Jefferson Starship, The Scorpions, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Rainbow, Dio, The Cult, Duran Duran

Movies:

Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Dawn of the Dead (1978), The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Dead Alive, Bad Taste, Re-Animator, Bride of Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, Return of the Living Dead 3, Phantasm, Phantasm 2, Phantasm 3: Lord of the Dead, Night of the Creeps, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, John Carpenter’s The Thing, Prince of Darkness, They Live, Friday the 13th series, A Nightmare on Elm Street series, Halloween series, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The People Under the Stairs, The Blob (1988), Day of the Dead, From Beyond, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Basket Case, Basket Case 2, The Monster Squad, The Toxic Avenger, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger 4, Meet the Feebles, The Frighteners, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Blood Diner, Street Trash, Combat Shock, Tromeo and Juliet, Terror Firmer, Buttcrack, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo, Decampitated, Chad Ferrin’s Unspeakable, Cannibal! The Musical, Tenement: Game of Survival, I Drink Your Blood, Eraserhead, Rabid, Videodrome, Nekromantik, Nekromantik 2, The Burning Moon, Last House on Dead End Street, I Was a Teenage Zombie, Flesh Eating Mothers, Suspiria, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, Evil Clutch, The Prowler, Maniac, The Burning, The Redeemer, Nightmare (1981), Mother’s Day, The Slumber Party Massacre, Sleepaway Camp, Silent Night, Deadly Night, Splatter University, Nail Gun Massacre, The Deadly Spawn, Nightbeast, Spookies, Neon Maniacs, The Dark Power, Black Roses, Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare, Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except, Brain Damage, Frankenhooker, Deadbeat at Dawn, The Manson Family, Psychos in Love, Rock ‘n’ Roll Frankenstein, Boardinghouse, Blood Cult, 555, Beyond Dream’s Door, Nightmare Sisters, Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama, Haunting Fear, Murder-Set-Pieces, Chaos, The Dead Next Door, Skinned Alive, Robot Ninja, Ozone, Polymorph, Bloodletting, Meat Market, Meat Market 2, Binge & Purge, Midnight Skater, Demon Summer, Quest for the Egg Salad, Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!, Filthy McNasty, Flesh for the Beast, Shadow: Dead Riot, The Machine Girl, Audition, Barricade, Satan's Playground, Malevolence, Brutal Massacre, Mulberry Street, Nightmare Man, Severe Injuries, The Resurrection Game, A Feast of Flesh, Leif Jonker’s Darkness, Shatter Dead, Back From Hell, The Necro Files, Hatchet, August Underground, August Underground's Mordum, August Underground's Penance, The Redsin Tower, The Mutilation Man, The Atrocity Circle, At Dawn They Sleep, Bone Sickness, Dead Girl on Film, Savage Harvest, Savage Harvest 2: October Blood, Ice From the Sun, Scrapbook, Deadwood Park, The God Memoirs, Synchronicity, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, The Girl Next Door, The Lost, Inside, Frontiers, Nails, Visions of Suffering, Philosophy of a Knife, The Gateway Meat, Gutterballs, Live Feed, Cannibal Campout, Woodchipper Massacre, Ghoul School, Video Violence, Video Violence 2, Zombie Bloodbath Trilogy, Psycho Sisters (1998), Slime City, Suburban Nightmare, Bite Me!, The Screaming Dead, Shock-O-Rama, Feeding the Masses, Chainsaw Sally, Skin Crawl, Splatter Farm, Splatter Beach, Bacterium, Creature from the Hillbilly Lagoon, The Stink of Flesh, My Dead Girlfriend, The Feral Man, Serial Killer, House of Carnage, Day of the Ax, Aspiring Psychopath, Dead and Rotting, Hell Asylum, Horrorvision, I'll Bury You Tomorrow, The Blood Shed, Raving Maniacs, Dr. Horror’s Erotic House of Idiots, The Rage, Home Sick, Killer Nerd, Bride of Killer Nerd, The House That Screamed, The House That Screamed 2: Hellgate, Clay, Truth or Dare?-A Critical Madness, Killing Spree, Creep, Dirty Cop No Donut, A Clockwork Orange, Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, Stand by Me, A Christmas Story, 48 Hrs., Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Smokey and the Bandit, Raising Arizona, Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Scarface, Boogie Nights, American Pie, American Pie 2, Wedding Crashers, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Full Monty, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Van Wilder, Bad Santa, High Fidelity, Tropic Thunder, Jackass: The Movie, Jackass 2, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, Orgazmo, JFK, Nixon, All The President’s Men, Mississippi Burning, American History X, The Warriors, Almost Famous, Pink Floyd The Wall, Bowling for Columbine, Super Size Me, Dazed and Confused, Mallrats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Dogma, Clerks, Waiting, Super Troopers, Old School, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, The Waterboy, Superbad

Television:

South Park, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, King of the Hill, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Late Show with David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Reno 911, Dave Chappelle Show, Mind of Mencia, Mad TV, Blue Collar TV

Books:

Clive Barker’s A to Z of Horror, The Fearmakers, The Films of Stephen King, Screams & Nightmares: The Films of Wes Craven, Cronenberg on Cronenberg, Movie Psychos and Madmen, Shock Express, The Monster Show, Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Psychotronic Video Guide, Creature Features Video Guide, The Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. 1 & 2, More Gore Score, Filmmaking on the Fringe, The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, VideoHound’s Cult Flicks & Trash Pics, The B-Movie Survival Guide, Video Nasties 1 & 2, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In, Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In, Profoundly Disturbing, Profoundly Erotic, The Evil Dead Companion, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger, Make Your Own Damn Movie

Heroes:

Joe Bob Briggs, Lloyd Kaufman, George Romero, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, Stephen King, Tom Savini, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Peter Jackson, Jeffrey Combs, Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, John Waters, David Lynch, Ray Dennis Steckler, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Andy Milligan, Al Adamson, Doris Wishman, Don Jones, Gary Kent, Jeffrey C. Hogue, Roger Corman, Jim Wynorski, Don Dohler, Roger Watkins, Fred Olen Ray, David DeCoteau, Charles Band, J.R. Bookwalter, Mike Raso, Ron Bonk, David Sterling, Ron Ford, Jeff Leroy, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Kevin Lindenmuth, Jeff Burr, Scott Spiegel, Brett Piper, Trent Haaga, Chris Seaver, James L. Edwards, Matthew Jason Walsh, Henrique Couto, Chris Gore, Ted Newsom, Courtney Joyner, Ted Bohus, Michael Gingold, Tony Timpone, Chas Balun, Bruce G. Hallenbeck, Michael Weldon, Bob Martin, Donald Farmer, Todd Sheets, Kenneth J. Hall, Steve Puchalski, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, Bill Moseley, Gunnar Hansen, Edwin Neal, Robert Z’Dar, William Smith, Joe Estevez, Ted Raimi, Tom Sullivan, Trey Parker, Matt Stone

My Blog

Cinema Wasteland this weekend!

Hey there, Right now, I'm gearing up for Cinema Wasteland in Ohio this weekend. It's that time again. Time for me to go out and party with my friends in the horror industry. I look forward to meeting ...
Posted by Mario on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:24:00 PST

Happy birthday to me!

Hey everyone! Today I celebrate my 25th birthday! To be honest with you, I really don't feel that much older. LOL! I'm looking forward to it nonetheless. My parents are getting a party ready for me ri...
Posted by Mario on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:49:00 PST

Latest news

Well, I finished up all my classes at community college last week so now I can finally get my associate degree. It's a big accomplishment. I think I'm going to take a break over the fall while I decid...
Posted by Mario on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:07:00 PST

My weekend at HorrorHound

Hey there, I had a great time at the HorrorHound Weekend convention in Pittsburgh on Saturday! I got an autograph from Danielle Harris from HALLOWEEN 4 and 5 and Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN and I got my pi...
Posted by Mario on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:31:00 PST

CLOSET SPACE review online, GUTTERBALLS, SKELTER, BLACK ICE, ZA, BEAST IN ME up soon, and more

My review of the CLOSET SPACE pre-release festival edition was recently posted. You can check it out here. I have reviews of BLACK ICE, THE BEAST IN ME, GIMME SKELTER, GUTTERBALLS, and ZA-ZOMBIES ANON...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 12 May 2008 12:05:00 PST

Pittsburgh HorrorHound Weekend

Right now, I'm starting to save up for the HorrorHound Weekend convention at the Pittsburgh Expo Mart in June. It looks like it's going to be a good show. I'll be hanging out with Fred Vogel and all m...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 12 May 2008 12:21:00 PST

The Comicon, new reviews for the month, and more

I had a lot of fun at the Pittsburgh Comicon last weekend. My mom and grandma came along with me and I hung out and visited with Mike and Amy a good bit. I didn't buy much, but I did get a few movies ...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 05 May 2008 09:48:00 PST

Marcus Koch interview, GIMME SKELTER, Pittsburgh Comicon, etc.

Hey there, My interview with Marcus Koch has been posted on FearZone.com recently. Check it out here. I received my DVD of Scott Phillips' GIMME SKELTER earlier this week. My order was one of the firs...
Posted by Mario on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:29:00 PST

My weekend at Wasteland

Hey there,My trip to Cinema Wasteland on Saturday was possibly the best one yet! I had a great time! I got to meet Sid Haig and he signed my DEVIL’S REJECTS and SPIDER BABY DVDs. I also got to h...
Posted by Mario on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:41:00 PST

The latest...

Howdy, I’ve been so busy lately, it’s just crazy. Sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind. I’m sure we’ve all been there. You have so many different things going on all ...
Posted by Mario on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST