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Bloody Blogs -
Chris Alexander's Blood-Spattered Blog
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Written by Chris Alexander
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 03:30 AM |
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At the risk of enduring the slings and arrows of loyal LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT lovers, I'm going to have to admit to never really personally grooving on Wes Craven's 1972 crass-ification of Ingmar Bergman's shattering 1960 drama THE VIRGIN SPRING. Cheap, mean and unpleasant to the max, the film has one major strength and that's leading thug Krug played by David Hess. Drooling, manipulative and despicable on every level, Hess made LAST HOUSE's chief antagonist one of the most vomitous heavies in film history, the driving force behind one of the wonkiest but most influential wallows in sadism and human misery ever committed to celluloid.
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Bloody Blogs -
Chris Alexander's Blood-Spattered Blog
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Written by Chris Alexander
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Sunday, February 01, 2009 03:10 PM |
Before you bury your talons in this week's BLOOD SPATTERED BLOG, be sure to read the first installment of my interview with cinema legend Mark Damon…
For those of you who were left hanging on a cliff anticipating my Italian terror tinged follow-up, here it is.
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Read the Many Lives of Mark Damon Part 2...
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Chris Alexander is a lifelong cineaste, obsessed with eccentric horror movies, weird romance, black leather and spacey, strange music. Based in Toronto, he was a former critic and columnist for Canadian horror entertainment periodical RUE MORGUE before joining the ranks of the legendary FANGORIA magazine, a publication he was completely obsessed with as a child. He still gets a buzz when he sees his name in the masthead.