Rates, reviews, and describes over 2,500 horror, camp, sexploitation, science fiction, thriller, and action genre films and includes ordering information, DVD availability, and Internet resources. This description may be from another edition of this product.
This latest edition of the Ultimate Guide continues from the highly successful first edition (no longer in print) in providing the reader with sharp, concise, reviews of every important (and a few not-so important) genre films. The Phantom's unique style and no nonsense approach are refreshing in this era of overblown hyperbole in movie reviews. His rating system is eminently simple and easy to use and while I don't always...
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hey, if you want to read a film critic who reviews the masterpieces(john woo's HARD-BOILED), the good, the bad, the ugly(RE-ANIMATOR), the very ugly (like the disgusting I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE; he gave it 2 stars? roger ebert=ZERO!), the sleazy(abel ferrara's putrid MS. 45), the grade-z movies (MANOS! THE HANDS OF FATE + any Ed Wood movie), etc. etc., then The Phantom a.k.a. Joe Kane's VIDEOSCOPE is for you! it is must-read!...
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The Phantom of the Movies has been working the B-movie circuit in the NY Daily News since 1984. An urban Joe Bob Briggs, he was raised on a diet of sci-fi, horror, fantasy, and exploitation flicks from the late '50s, stale popcorn, too-sweet fountain sodas, and single-screen neighborhood bijous and second-run houses. A veteran of the notorious grind-houses of Forty-second Street from its '70s & '80s heyday, the Phantom (a.k.a...
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The Phantom easily translates his NY Daily News newspaper column into a breezy, fun-filled video guide. Similar in style to Mike Weldon's THE PSYCHOTRONIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FILM, The Phantom throws in interviews with B-movie stars and directors, profiles of stars and overviews of film series.
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I'd never heard of the Phantom before I chanced upon this fine tome - that mixes genre reviews with interviews and profiles of the good and the great from B-moviedom (including Ed Wood, who's Plan 9 is described as 'the one, the only', Jean Claude Van-Damme, and Stuart 'Re-animator' Gordon). The Phantom's reviews are not only informative on video obscurities (all the more relevant in an age where DVD is unearthing a lot...
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