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TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK

About Me

One of the many photocopied cut-and-paste fanzines that emerged during the home video explosion of the 1980s, TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK was founded in Syracuse, NY in July 1987 by 15 year-old Paul DeCirce and 16 year-old Chris Poggiali. Heavily influenced by Steve Puchalski’s SLIMETIME, which was published across town and distributed in the Syracuse University area, TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK reviewed new and old horror, action and exploitation movies that were being released to theaters and videocassette. During the four years of the Temple’s existence, Paul and Chris – with tremendous help from their dedicated staff of writers and artists – produced 24 issues and accumulated close to 150 subscribers from all over the world. It wasn't a very good-looking ‘zine, and at times it was barely legible, but TEMPLE OF SCHLOCK was a product of its time: a time when you had to use a typewriter, scissors, scotch tape, glue stick and the United States Postal Service to put together the type of thing you’re reading right now – a time before Internet blogs and message boards made it possible for anyone with a computer to express themselves with the push of a button. Above: Two photos of the north side of 42nd Street in 1985. Below: The south side of the street 10 years earlier.Myspace Backgrounds

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"Anybody wants to know what I’ve done for a living just has to look up there on the screen.” -- Jack Starrett (11/2/1936 - 3/27/1989)

My Blog

Temple of Schlock house party

In case you haven't visited our new pad yet, swing by the Temple of Schlock and have a look around.The address: www.templeofschlock.blogspot.comYou bring the wine.  We'll supply the cheese.Po-Man & Pa...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:33:00 GMT

R.I.P. Cirio H. Santiago (1936-2008)

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/2 0080928-163369/Cult-films-producer-Cirio-Santiago-dies-at-72 Temple of Schlock's Top 10 Santiago flicks 1.     ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:31:00 GMT

Jack Starrett films screened at the Eastman House

Chris will be at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY tomorrow night (August 14th) to introduce Jack Starrett's A SMALL TOWN IN TEXAS (1976) and next week Bob Plant...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:33:00 GMT

"The Great Drive-In Grindhouse Trash-O-Rama Trailer Show" a Success!

Chris was feverishly ill last night, but the show went on without a hitch and a good time was had by all (even the guy who kept yelling "Where's Mothra?!" during the Godzilla trailers)....
Posted by on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:01:00 GMT

Congratulations!

Erica Lynn McDaniel and Temple of Schlock co-founder and co-editor Paul V. DeCirce were married this past Saturday, June 7th, 2008 at Meadow Creek Mountain Resort in Parrottsville, TN. ...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:03:00 GMT

"The Great Drive-In Grindhouse Trash-O-Rama Trailer Show" is coming!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008. The New Rochelle Public Library is located on Lawton Street in New Rochelle, NY. A Temple of Schlock presentation.  Thanks to Don Guarisco for helping us compile ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Check out the Po-Mans "Friday Screen Test" at DVD Panache

Chris is the subject of today's "Friday Screen Test" over at Adam Ross' excellent blog DVD Panache.  Dig in: http://dvdpanache.blogspot.com/
Posted by on Fri, 30 May 2008 08:28:00 GMT

Issue 5 now posted in "Pics"

The March 1988 issue of Temple of Schlock has just been uploaded to the "Pics" section.  If you have any interest in finding out what a bunch of wiseass high schoolers in upstate N...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:07:00 GMT

42nd STREET FOREVER VOLUME 3 is now available!

Hey there, Temple dwellers!  42ND STREET FOREVER, VOLUME 3: EXPLOITATION EXPLOSION is now available for sale at Best Buy and from your favorite online stores!  A great trailer compi...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:27:00 GMT

Issue 4 now posted in "Pics"

A few things I want to point out. 1. As I said last month, we were having trouble keeping the left margins from sliding off the pages, but this shouldn't be too difficult to read.  When we went d...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:47:00 GMT