Sinister
Tales
Sinister
Tales
the netzine devoted to international horror and the supernatural
a romantic horror online presentation
The Sinister Tales base of operations: a
castle/mansion overlooking the Hudson River
It is here that I spend my nights, working, contemplating, receiving guests
and waiting for Madelenia to save my soul
WARNING: THIS NETZINE IS MEANT
FOR THE MATURE AND RESPONSIBLE.
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The Blind Dead Have Risen Spanish director Amando De Ossorio created horror's most frightening sadists, the Blind Dead, risen Templar knights who sought blood and destruction in contemporary Europe The Mark of Naschy Spain's greatest horror star is celebrating 30 years as an influential presence in fantastic cinema Horror Fumetti Italians call their comics fumetti, and we offer a provocative cover per month from their scandalous horror lines The Stefan Grabinski Site Poland's greatest writer of the weird and the fantastic. The equal of any horror writer of this century. Includes the brand-new first English translation of Grabinski's classic train story, "Engine Driver Grot." Links Euro-horror and others, from Jess Franco to Goblin
THE CONRAD VEIDT SOCIETY HOME PAGE
Conrad Veidt, one of the greatest actors of all time, and a superb interpreter of romantic horror, has an excellent web site devoted to his life and films. Click here.
FROM YOUR HOST Welcome to Sinister Tales. This netzine is dedicated to the horror genre with an international, and particularly European, flavor. For far too long the horror genre has been discussed in the United States within limited ethnocentric aspects. Granted, our home-grown horror is nothing to be dismissed. Poe and Lovecraft in literature, the Universal Horrors and Corman's Poes in film, prove that the United States has a tradition of horror that is solid and noteworthy and influential. Yet there remains an equally impressive (sometimes even more so) world of horror beyond the borders of America. From the psychological chills provided by the Polish Stefan Grabinski to the impressive output of Spanish film-maker/star Paul Naschy, from the sadian films made by Hammer and the British team of Baker and Berman to the screams of independent terror coming out of Brazil's Jose Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe), the world of horror is indeed international. With the advent of video, many boundaries have been crossed, and the true horror aficionado is ever searching for and savoring hitherto unknown or mythically rumored international horror fare. Such an encouraging state of affairs does not diminish the importance of journeying even farther, into realms of literature, legend, and forbidden or obscure cinema that have not been uncovered yet, that are still mysteries glowing with salvation and spiritual transcendence. Sinister Tales is on such a journey. So, welcome again.... Mirek (eurosin)
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Coming from Fab Press
A major collection of essays on International Horror
Edited by Steven Jay Schneider
Contents:
Michael Hoover & Lisa Stokes, “Enfant Terrible: The Terrorful,
Wonderful World of Anthony Wong”
David Kalat, “French Thrills: A Secret History of the Horror Film”
Jude Akudinobe, “Cultural Precepts, African Cinema, and the Spectral
Realm”
Viola Shafik, “Cinema Without Horror”
Jürgen Felix & Marcus Stiglegger, “No Way Out: Psycho Killers
and Home Invaders
in the Austrian Horror-Thrillers Angst and Funny Games”
Alan Jones, “True Origins: Italian Horror Cinema From Freda to Avati”
Daniel Bird, “Exterminating Angels and Terrifying Buildings: The Cinema
of Walerian Borowczyk”
Steffen Hantke, “The Dialogue with American Popular Culture in Two German
Films about the Serial Killer”
Gary Rhodes, “Mexican Monsters and Mad Scientists of the 1930s and
40s”
Kaya Ozkaracalar, “Between Appropriation and Innovation: A First Look
at Turkish Horror Cinema”
Miroslaw Lipinski, “Underappreciated and Unapologetic: The Soulful Horror
Cinema of Paul Naschy”
Michel Larouche, “The Chilean Films of Alexandro Jodorowsky: A Sacred
Violence?”
Steven Jay Schneider, “Repackaging Rage: The Vanishing and Nightwatch”
Ramie Tateishi, “The Contemporary Japanese Horror Film Series: Ring
and Eko Eko Azarak”
CD Review
At its best, music is an invocation to the imagination, requesting it to take flight into whatever chasms and scenes the dreamer offers surrender. Midnight Syndicate has provided us this invocation, a soundtrack to an eerie film never made, a phantasmagoric dream never dreamt--except in one's midnight mind, of course. For the uninitiated, Midnight Syndicate can be best described as Wojciech Kilar (of Coppola's Dracula fame) meets Goblin (of Dario Argento fame), fusing elements of the classic and the contemporary, and adding on the cobweb-enshrouded whispers of ghouls and vampires, rovers and mad men and women.... The spires of the Gothic, the potency of electronic greatness, the gentleness of aged dew drops falling from centuries' old crypts, the stately walk (or is it glide?) of the black-robbed vampires, the frank, sacrilegious hymns of banished monks, the death knell of humanity and the rising of the beast--are all here, if you dare to enter with your soul unprotected by the artifacts and homilies of the commonplace.
There could be no clearer acclamation of the noteworthiness of this CD than to suggest that film producers of horror and suspense seek out Midnight Syndicate to uplift their own movies with such invocations as this music undoubtedly produces both in the mind of the dreamer and the spirits of the undead.
Click here for Midnight Syndicate's website, and how to order.
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