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Wild Beyond Belief!

About Me

Wild Beyond Belief! is a compilaton of interviews with sixteen directors, writers, producers, actors, stuntmen and technicians who worked on some of weirdest, wildest and most influential exploitation films of the 1960s and 1970s.

Interviews include: Al Adamson (SATAN'S SADISTS), Jenifer Bishop (THE FEMALE BUNCH), John "Bud" Cardos (KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS), Robert Dix (WILD WHEELS, BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE), Ross Hagen (ANGELS' WILD WOMEN, SUPERCOCK), Sid Haig (SPIDER BABY), Monte Hellman (BEAST FROM HAUNTED CAVE, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP), Jack Hill (FOXY BROWN, SWITCHBLADE SISTERS), Joyce King (EASY RIDER, WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS), Gary Kent (THE SAVAGE SEVEN, SCHOOLGIRLS IN CHAINS), Anthony Lanza (THE INCREDIBLE 2-HEADED TRANSPLANT), Barton Patton (DEMENTIA-13, BEACH BALL), stuntman Gary Littlejohn (DEVIL'S ANGELS, ANGELS HARD AS THEY COME), Sam Sherman (DRACULA VS. FRANKENSTEIN), Megan Timothy (THE MIGHTY GORGA), and screenwriter James Gordon White (HELL'S BELLES, THE HELLCATS).

The book is now available from McFarland & Company and at Amazon .

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My Blog

The Rondo Awards

The ballot is up for the 2008 Rondo Awards, sponsored by the Classic Horror Film Board. My article on the making of MADMEN OF MANDORAS/THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN (from FilmFax 118) is nominated in the ...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:25:00 GMT

Drive-In Cult Classics Reviews

There are three new reviews of BCI's "Drive-In Cult Classics Vol. 2" 8-movies DVD set now online, and a few of them even reference the liner notes I wrote for the set. Reviews are up at DVD Drive-In, ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:45:00 GMT

Remembering Miss Entertainment

An early, but forgotten, player in one of Al Adamson's first films passed away this spring. Joan Mahoney, a.k.a. Tacey Robbins, was the bouncy lounge singer and leading lady in Adamson's first color f...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:04:00 GMT

My first DVD Liner Notes

The new "Drive-In Cult Classics Vol. 2" DVD set from BCI includes liner notes written by yours truly. I put together a long essay about five of the films: TERRIFIED, MADMEN OF MANDORAS/THEY SAVED HITL...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Happy Birthday to the Drive-In

We almost got halfway through June without acknowledging the 75th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in movie theater by Richard Hollingshead in Camden, N.J. in 1933. My own home town of Co...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:00 GMT

Al Adamson -- The movie!

Response to WILD BEYOND BELIEF! has been great so far, so thanks to all of you who purchased it -- even the person who's selling it for three times the cover price on Half.com. I other news:Fangoria r...
Posted by on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:03:00 GMT

Night of the Bloody Index

I know some of you may be wondering exactly what kind of book is WILD BEYOND BELIEF!? Well, if you're too lazy to read the publisher's description, I thought that knowing which films turned up most fr...
Posted by on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:17:00 GMT

Stephen Oliver & Hazel Court

Variety has reported that actor Stephen Oliver (Steve Welzig), 66, died on March 5. The burly, bearded former cab driver, boxer, actor and onetime husband of Lana Wood (for a whopping six weeks) appea...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:17:00 GMT

Wild Beyond Belief! is now available

"Wild Beyond Belief!" is now available for ordering at McFarland's Web site.You can also pre-order the book at Amazon, although the "official" release date (according to McFarland) is July. That surly...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:56:00 GMT

Upcoming articles

WILD BEYOND BELIEF! is heading to the printer, so the book should be available within the month.In the meantime, I have a few articles being published this spring and summer:CHUCK BAIL - My interview ...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:18:00 GMT