Join the geeks of WENG'S CHOP for their BIGGEST ISSUE YET as they dig deep thru the outer reaches of oddball and obscure to bring you the wildest and weirdest in global cinema This issue includes Articles: In Memoriam - Ray Harryhausen, The Witch Lives Again , The Odd and Unique Cinema of Larry Cohen, Rizal Mantovani's Kuntilanak Trilogy, The Search for Weng Weng: Shooting Diary, The Mick Travis Trilogy, The Devil Does Nollywood, The Stupendous Cinema of SyFy, Joe D'Amato: The Last Centurion of Eurotrash, The Legacy of Sonny Chiba, Top 10 Weirdest Improvised Weapons. Interviews: Tim Doyle, Ryan Nicholson, Lubega VicentColumns: Geek Roundtable: HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, Box Set Beatdown, Beatdown/Heads-up, Stephen Bissette's Spiderbaby Sinema, Steve's Video Store Volume 2: DON'T, Mexican Monsters on Parade Part Dos, Pimping Godfrey Ho, The Ferocious Aspect: Indian Fantastic Cinema Part 5, Cult Cinema Under The Gun.Reviews (Films), The Bookshelf (Book Reviews) The KrisWord Puzzle, Our Contributors & Final Thought.
For The Untold Story of the 1929-'31 Dracula Stage Tour "Down Under", Aussie writer Daniel Best unearths some fascinating little-known facts on the subject, and his painstaking endeavors to piece together as many as possible of the various scattered pieces of the puzzle that still remain in existence go far in helping the reader envision how these now-largely-forgotten stagings of Dracula in Australia might have been.Interspersed throughout with reproductions of original vintage newspaper advertisements and articles, plus many more seldom-seen images besides, Best's text is illustrated with as much visual material as could be found all these many decades-indeed, the better part of a century -after the fact. Using the text as a guideline, combined with the precious few and therefore all-the-more priceless images depicting scenes from performances of it, readers should have little difficulty in visualizing the play in at least some limited form in their mind's eyes; at least enough to give them an inkling of an idea about how this production-largely since long-lost amidst the hazy mists of time-may have looked. In addition, this book contains information pertaining to numerous other stage productions of Dracula performed in Australia since Ashton Jarry first trod the boards there in 1929, resplendent in full vampiric regalia... albeit sans any fangs, but complete with pointy "Spock" ears As a record of an only-sparsely-documented piece of theatrical history, Australian Gothic amounts to an indispensable read for both theatre and vampire enthusiasts-and more specifically, Dracula buffs-alike.
