DanteNet.com Movie reviews of drive-in movies
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Horror movies, Klaus Kinski, gore flicks, exploitation and drive-in movie reviews
Description
Started by Lou Goncey and Dan Taylor (that's me), ER debuted in the fall of 1986 with tons of reviews and an interview with the legendary John Waters. (You can read that first interview here on our site.) Unknown to us, there was an entire drive-in film zine movement afoot and we quickly became familiar with publications like Steve Puchalski's great SLIMETIME, Craig Ledbetter's influential EUROPEAN TRASH CINEMA, Jeff Smith's brilliant WET PAINT and other great examples of B-movie fandom.
Originally intended as a quarterly publication, ER made the jump to a more frequent distribution schedule with issue #3. The review zine format stuck and though not published as often as I would have liked, ER did make it into the hands of our subscribers on a regular basis.
By the mid-1990s, the drive-ins we frequented were gone and it was getting harder and harder to find diamonds in the cinematic rough. We'd tackled such weighty issues as The Guide to Klaus Kinski (also reprinted here), Women in Prison Films, and other junk film topics, but found the zine drifting into offbeat pop culture coverage (like horror movies made into Atari 2600 games) as well as music reviews. Subscribers were often confused about the publications direction, especially those who had loyally followed the zine since its blood-spattered debut.
