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Category Archives: Pulp Appeal
Pulp Appeal: John Carpenter’s They Live
A pair of mysterious sunglasses, secret messages hiding in advertising, a weird religious cult preaching about the overthrow of a government, and aliens? That’s John Carpenter’s They Live at its core. The film, starring former WWE superstar “Rowdy” Roddy Piper … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, cult movies, films we love, John Carpenter, Keith David, Roddy Piper
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Pulp Appeal: The Green Hornet
“The Green Hornet – He hunts the biggest of all game, the public officials that even the G-men cannot reach!” Thus starts the half-hour-long radio serial about a millionaire playboy with a crime-and-corruption fighting secret identity, The Green Hornet. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Lee, Chris Roberson, golden age of pulp, inspiration, radio, The Green Hornet, tropes, two-fisted action
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Pulp Appeal: Black Christmas
Bob Clark’s[1] Black Christmas is a 1974 slasher flick widely considered to be one of the inspirations for John Carpenter’s masterpiece Halloween. While it is not the first of the slasher flicks, it is early enough to have had a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, classic movie, horror, John Saxon, movies we love, slasher film
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Pulp Appeal: Switchblade #5
If you want to read some of the best crime fiction being written today, you owe it to yourself to pick up this issue of SWITCHBLADE magazine. More than good time girls and hard luck guys, the stories in SWITCHBLADE … Continue reading
Pulp Appeal: Switchblade #4
If you are looking for a magazine publishing the best in underground crime fiction, you would be sadly remiss passing on SWITCHBLADE. Edited by Scotch Rutherford, SWITCHBLADE fills a much needed gap in publishing hardboiled, stripped down crime fiction. Some … Continue reading
Pulp Appeal: Ghostbusters
When an ancient Lovecraftian-style evil rears its head in New York, who ya gonna call? The Ghostbusters, of course! What, you don’t consider Ghostbusters to reside under the pulp umbrella? I can only assume you skipped over nearly every piece … Continue reading
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Tagged '80s movies, 1980s, horror, humor, Lovecraft, movies we love, sci-fi
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Pulp Appeal: Econoclash Review #1
Econoclash Review Editor: J.D. Graves Econcolash Review advertises itself as Quality Cheap Thrills, and much like Broadswords and Blasters, bills itself as a contemporary pulp journal publishing “publish only the best crime/sci-fi/noir/horror/humor/fantasy and everything else in between.” For a first … Continue reading
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Tagged cheap quality thrills, crime, fantasy, horror, new magazine, Pulp Appeal, pulp fiction
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