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		<title>Book Review: Unmasked &#8211; Kane Hodder Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Ellison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unmasked: The True Life Story of the World’s Most Prolific, Cinematic Killer is one of the most amazing autobiographies I have ever read. Kane Hodder grabs the reader by the throat and drags them through his personal heaven (growing up on an island in the South Pacific, becoming a slasher icon) and hell (brutal beatings from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gross Gifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Ellison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The success of Blanche Knott&#8217;s Truly Tasteless Jokes spawned numerous rip-offs in the early 80s.  Julius Alvin cashed in on the raunchy joke book craze with the Gross Jokes series.   Gross Gifts, the entry from 1983, skips the usual dead baby material and focuses on &#8220;everything from gross cosmetics to gross movies to gross vacations.&#8221;  The &#8220;gross [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Monster</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 04:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Ellison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood Monster, Robert Englund&#8217;s autobiography, is really an exceptional book.  Some actors use autobiographies as vanity pieces and fill them with anecdotes about how great they were way back when.  That isn&#8217;t the case with Hollywood Monster.  Englund became a cultural icon as Freddy Krueger but comes across as a humble actor who&#8217;s quick to praise the directors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Jamie Lee Curtis: Scream Queen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever wondered why an actress who wanted to escape her Scream Queen persona would do six horror flicks in a row, or why Curtis’ hair looked so bad in Halloween II, the answers are all here, folks!]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; Teenage Wasteland: The Slasher Movie Uncut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Stewart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teenage Wasteland is a welcome addition to the list of essential books about horror movies that includes Michael Weldon’s Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, John McCarty's Official Splatter Movie Guide and Stephen Thrower’s Nightmare U.S.A.]]></description>
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		<title>Mother isn&#8217;t very well: Robert E. Howard&#8217;s connection to Norman Bates</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Ellison</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psycho]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Bloch claimed the exploits of Ed Gein, Wisconsin murderer and grave robber, inspired him to write Psycho. After reading Bloch&#8217;s landmark novel for the article &#8220;The Forgotten Norman Bates&#8221;, I believe I&#8217;ve uncovered another inspiration for one of  Norman Bates&#8217; personalities.  The Norman Bates who steals his mother&#8217;s body, dresses in her clothes, and murders Mary Crane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maniac Cop Screenplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 05:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Klyza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the original script for Bill Lustig&#8217;s MANIAC COP, titled simply &#8220;Cordell&#8221; by master screenwriter Larry Cohen. Cordell (aka Maniac Cop) (3.16meg) July 7th 1987 Draft by Larry Cohen &#8211; PDF format Innocent people are being brutally murdered on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. As the death toll rises and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday To Me Screenplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Klyza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to IMDB there were 3 sets of writers on this, John Saxton, Peter Jobin &#38; Timothy Bond, and un uncredited John Beaird. This script, which popped up on Megaupload, is a direct scan of the screenplay which perhaps tellingly has no credited writer on the cover sheet. What you&#8217;ll get a kick out of, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halloween Screenplay (Rob Zombie)</title>
		<link>http://retroslashers.net/halloween-screenplay-rob-zombie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Klyza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It all starts with the screenplay. Whether you liked the HALLOWEEN redux or not, it&#8217;s worth taking a look at the original script to see how the project developed from paper to screen. Halloween - Early draft script by Rob Zombie &#8211; PDF format After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joyride (1983) Book Review</title>
		<link>http://retroslashers.net/joyride-1983-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://retroslashers.net/joyride-1983-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Ellison</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Library]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horror fiction writers were slow to take up the slasher mantle back in the early 80&#8242;s even though celluloid stalkers were carving up hefty profits at the box-office. Anyone scanning paperback racks at the corner market were more likely to find novels about demon possessed houses, Stephen King rip-offs featuring evil little kids with psychic [...]]]></description>
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