My Reviews column at Cinefear Video

Recently I've began reviewing product for Keith Crocker's Cinefear Video (a legendary mail-order outfit mentioned in an earlier blog post). All my reviews can be found at the Cinefear Blog - my column is also called 'Chelle's Inferno', as a 'companion' to this blog. So far there's write-ups for GUYANA: CULT OF THE DAMNED, GIALLO IN VENICE, SHADOW OF ILLUSION, ABBY and SEXORCISMS and coming soon detailed reviews on Crocker's own memorable contributions to horror/exploitation - THE BLOODY APE and BLITZKREIG: ESCAPE FROM STALAG 69. And while you're there do yourself a favour and check out my fellow reviewer, author Allen Kupfer's column 'Cupfuls of Kupfer', who enlightens us on everything from CARNIVAL OF BLOOD to BLACK EMANUELLE, WHITE EMANUELLE.

http://cinefear.blogspot.com.au/p/chelles-inferno.html

THE EXPLOITATION JOURNAL - one of the greatest of the classic horror fanzines

Step back in time to the halcyon days of horror/exploitation zinedom with THE EXPLOITATION JOURNAL, one of the most legendary publications of the era co-founded by Cinefear president Keith Crocker. First published in 1987, what made EXJ a standout from the rest of the pack was that it featured amongst the first IN-DEPTH articles on Andy Milligan, Michael and Roberta Findlay, Jess Franco and Joe D’Amato. Back when hardcore fans of exploitation and drive-in cinema had to rely on fanzines for their information before everything could be found in one click, they could count on EXJ for carefully researched material featuring Keith’s inimitable, entertaining writing style (as opposed to the avalanche of tedious imitation zines that followed consisting of text ripped off verbatim from mainstream horror mags, repetition of facts everyone already knows and sloppily-written film reviews).

Beginning as a typewritten, photocopied zine, THE EXPLOITATION JOURNAL gradually transformed into a more professionally produced, desktop-published read, whilst continuing to fill its pages with quality articles on diverse subjects such as Victor Israel and AIP biker films and rare interviews with NOT the usual suspects (i.e. producer Don Davison, director Norman J. Warren, actors Mel Wells and Carol Speed, and more). As well as special issues dedicated to Spanish and Mexican horror films, American drive-in filmmakers, and ‘The Last House on the Left’.

But enough talk, check out THE EXPLOITATION JOURNAL for yourself – the early out of print zines are free for you read here at the Cinefear blog (so far the first six are issues are fully scanned, keep checking back as every OOP issue will be eventually scanned and added to the blog). Check out this groundbreaking chapter in genre publications here:

http://cinefear.blogspot.com.au/p/exploitation-journal.html

And later available back issues can be purchased for spare change: Each issue is $5 including shipping for U.S. customers, $8 for overseas customers via surface mail, $10 for airmail. Pay by credit card, check or money order. Get ‘em HERE before they’re gone forever!!!!!

http://www.cinefear.com/journal.html

Visit CINEFEAR VIDEO for all your horror/trash/(s)explotation film wants - www.cinefear.com

Been searching for years for that long-‘lost’ movie you’ve been itching to see but no luck? Been burned too many times by dodgy traders/sellers? Tired of viruses from the torrents gamble?  Check out Keith Crocker’s CINEFEAR VIDEO, one of the longest-running sources for rare and unavailable films, operating since 1990. A collector’s site run by fans for fans, Cinefear is dedicated to first-rate, highly knowledgeable and quality service, have advertised in all the major genre publications (Fangoria, Psychotronic etc), and been quoted in Time Magazine. Want lists are also accepted; if not in stock, Cinefear Video will search for every request, no matter how obscure!

Browse through the site’s extensive catalogue (regularly updated!!!) and have your horror/trash/(s)exploitation appetite whetted by everything from the old faves (Argento, Fulci, Bava, D’Amato, Franco, Deodato), to the most obscure giallos, to the Turkish no-budget Hollywood rip-offs, to classic  TV movies unavailable anywhere, to silent and golden-age chillers, to vintage porn, you name it and it’s there! Visit CINEFEAR VIDEO now for QUALITY service and QUALITY source materials from true connoisseurs!

http://www.cinefear.com/

...and if, like myself, you've been curious about whether the hardcore cut of the late, great Jess Franco's EXORCISM - with Tio Jess himself as one of the XXX perfomers (!!!) - YES it does exist and is avaliable at Cinefear Video for those inclined...

Welcome to Chelle's Inferno!!! I'm not one for rambling introductions, so in a nutshell I'm a longtime fan (20 years) of the finer things in life - Eurohorror, trash, (s)exploitation and cult cinema (and their soundtracks), classic metal and punk, true crime, kitsch culture, retro computer games, etc....

Also a all too-infrequent genre writer - former reviewer for Australia's #1 horror website Digital Retribution and co-writer/publisher of Archetype Malice back in the day.
I'm finally getting back into writing, thanks to inspiration from several brilliant genre scribes Robert Monell, Keith Crocker, Heather Drain and Casey Scott and last but definitely not least Melbourne's own John Harrison (Sin Street Sleaze) and Adam Lee (Spasmo Mixtape).

Some random favourite films off the top of my head - Ghosts of the Civil Dead, Scum, Cannibal Holocaust, Deep Red, Tenebrae, Christiane F, The Girl in the Yellow Pyjamas, Rabid Dogs, Shock, Class of 1984, The House by the Cemetary, Beyond the Darkness, Absurd, To be Twenty....

Back after I figure out how this thing works...only 7 years too late!!!!!