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Review of Cthulhu Cult by Venger Satanis (aka Darrick Dishaw). 168 pp, with some very atmospheric illustrations.  This review based on a PDF, but the book is available in print from LuLu I gather...
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Film Reviews
This is touted as a ‘lost classic’ from the early 70s, reissued as part of a series of DVDs and Videotapes by Salvation Films- and frankly it should have stayed lost. The best thing about this is the box; one of those covers that draws the purchaser in and hooks them, but sadly has little to do with the film contained therein.
 
With a vague and disjointed plotline about vampires in an old mansion in the country; this rambles along, with some utterly shambolic lesbian asides and a meaningless bondage scene that seems to have been clumsily spliced in from another movie. Apparently this is the ‘cut’ version, 85 instead of 88 minutes- for which I am thankful, as it’s saved me a few minutes of my life; and I can only assume whatever cuts were made are as a result of some human compassion by the censor, and not to preserve our fragile little minds from being warped by anything interesting or provocative, as there is precious little evidence of that anywhere else in the film. There is also apparently a 102 minute version; instead of which I might suggest consumption of some form of animal tranquilliser or a large quantity of garden weedkiller.
 
One hopes that once this film is buried it will not rise again…. thus there are no buying links here, out of compassion for you, dear reader
 
0.1 out of 10, avoid.
  

Theatre Reviews
Some interesting personal coincidences with this one. I went to see it on the birthday of Leamington’s other famous son, Aleister Crowley, and only then I realised it was a year to the day since I was working backstage on ‘Return To The Forbidden Planet’, a musical based on a an old Sci-Fi film, which itself is nothing more than ‘The Tempest In Space’.   Read More...

Theatre Reviews
His Dark Materials - the two part drama based upon Philip Pullman's Lyra trilogy - will be re-opening at The National Theatre, London, UK, on November 20th 2004. Here is Ramsey Duke's impressions of the same production as it played earlier this year, with additional comments on the interview with Philip Pullman to be published in Caduceus magazine, Autumn 2004.   Read More...

Book Reviews
Gamaliel is someone either having the most monstrous dreams, or is really a vampire, and she herself is not sure: "either I dreamed, or I am a monstrous phantom prolonging its life by feeding on blood". The story is written in the first person, and in a female voice, and further exemplifies Mr Grant's wonderful command of language - one character having "a sluggish face like a sour pastry" with "dank foliage for hair".   Read More...

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