Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Pop Art: Fantastic Films Edition
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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Now that was an awesome magazine.
ReplyDeleteAs a boy in the '70s, it was extremely fun to go to a bookstore/newsstand and check out the science-fiction & fantasy entertainment magazines (Starlog, et.al.).
ReplyDeleteI still have the collection to prove it. :)
SGB
Hi David and SGB:
ReplyDeleteFantastic Films was a GREAT magazine. I still miss it, and enjoy leafing through the issues I own. The 1970s - 1980s was a great time for genre magazines, definitely. I was always a fan of Starlog, Fangoria, Cinefantastique, Fantastic Films, Starburst and the like...
best,
John
You forgot to mention the glossy Omni magazine. It covered film and fiction, with an large helping of 'science' for respectability. Starlog was always my favorite of the bunch, but Fantastic Films always had the most impressive collection of photos in their articles. Didn't Fantastic Films morph into FilmFax?
ReplyDeleteStill love all these mags such as Fantastic Films from the 70's and 80's ! I got one B&W magaize called Phobos which had a cool Dan O'Bannon interview in it, don't think the mag even got to issue 2 !!!
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