Mexico may have its masked wrestlers and its Aztec mummies, but Brazil has its Coffin Joe, or Ze do Caixao. Coffin Joe is the alter ego of actor and director Jose Mojica Marins. Coffin Joe made his debut in 1963's At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. Coffin Joe is evil, amoral, and obsessed with trying to find the "perfect" bride and he leaves a lot of corpses behind in his quest. He has been featured in film, television, songs, videos, and comic books.
Surprisingly, Coffin Joe is not featured in The Strange World of Coffin Joe. The movie instead is a compilation of three shorter exploitation films written and directed by Marins.
Hold on to your hat, this is going to be a wild ride!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_LLHwJ6H3k
Small House of Everything
Tuesday, October 4, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
MUSIC FROM THE PAST: IT CAN'T BE WRONG
The Four Vagabonds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2v8oabsjCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2v8oabsjCs
INCOMING
- Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, editors, Vamps. Vampire anthology with 18 stories, some from newer writers (Stephen King, Tanith lee), some from older writers (Robert Bloch, Manly Wade Wellman, William Tenn), some from mucho older writers (Julian Hawthorne, F. Marion Crawford, Theophile Gautier, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Sheridan LeFanu). A lot of familiar stories here.
- Anne McCaffrey & Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Acorna's Rebels. SF novel. the eighth in the Acorna (The Unicorn Girl) series. "acorna's people, the Linyaari, have begun reclaiming their homeworld from the ravages of the brutal Khleevi. But the first wave of explorers has unlkocked a larger mystery about the origins of the Linyaari -- one that has led Aari, Acorna's beloved lifemate, on a dangerous journey from which he may never return."
- Frederik Pohl, The Boy Who Would Live Forever. Fixup SF novel in the Gateway/Heechee series. "Stan and Estrella, two young people from Earth, journey to the Gateway asteroid looking for adventure, and discover each other during a flight on a Heechee ship. they settle among the Heechee on a planet in the galactic core, never suspecting that the two of them may be the last, best hope to save the humans and Heechee in the core from destruction be a crazed madman." Pohl was one of the most consistently good SF writers of the last sixty-five years.
- John Ringo & Brian M Thomsen, editors, Citizens. A posthumous (for Thomsen) military SF anthology with 15 stories written by (mostly) familar writers who have served in the military. Every anthology has to have a hook, right? Luckily, the stories (at least those I'm familiar with) are first-rate.
- Dan Simmons, Black Hills. Supernatural thriller, and much more. Another big, fat book (618 pages) from Simmons, this time he ranges from the Battle of Little Big Horn to the creation of the Mt. Rushmore monument. Every Simmons book is an event.
- Jon Tuska, editor, The Lawless West and The Untamed West. Western anthologies with three novellas by Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey, and Max Brand in each. Tuska, who dies earlier this year, was a knowledgable editor and literary agent in the western field; his passing left a great hole.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
FEMALE PIRATES
Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Ching Shih...If you meet any of these ladies on a cruise, RUN!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_OyjMiISc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he_OyjMiISc
Saturday, October 1, 2016
STORIES BY FAMOUS AUTHORS ILLUSTRATED...#7: THE WINDOW BY CORNELL WOOLRICH (SEPTEMBER 1950)
Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated... was published by Seaboard Publishing and lasted for 13 issues, providing competition for the elephant in the room, the much bigger and better known Classics Illustrated. Not only did Seaboard usurp the concept from Classics Illustrated, but it used some of the same artists, angering Albert Kanter (the owner of CI ) who bought the tiny, pesky competition. What was to be Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated...#14 (The Red Badge of Courage) was published as Classics Illustrated #98, perhaps the thinnest comic book in that line because the story (following Seaboard's usual length) was only 32 pages long.
A major exception to the 32-page length was issue #7, which came out 52 pages. This issue also differed from the others by featuring a story that was a bit unlike anything else Seaboard published in the series, which had previously adapted The Scarlet Pimpernel. Captain Blood, She, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Beau Geste, and Macbeth, and would go on to adapt Hamlet, Nicholas Nickelby, Romeo and Juliet, Ben Hur, Svengali, and Scaramouche. Also, The Window was adapted from a movie, RKO's 1949 adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (Mystery Book Magazine, March 1947).
The film starred twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman, and Paul Stewart. Directed by Ted Tetzlaff from a script by Mel Dinelli, the movie was actually shot in 1947 but was shelved by studio head Howard Hughes for two years. Woolrich's original story was later published under the title "Fire Escape" in his pseudonymous collection Dead Man's Blues by "William Irish."; it has been republished several times, most notably in two anthologies edited by Bill Pronzini. A proposed remake of the film eventually morphed into 1984's Cloak & Dagger, featuring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman.
Back to Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated...: Tommy Woodry is a young boy prone to exaggeration and telling stories. His world of make-believe included, cowboys, Indians, gangsters, and whatever else his vivid imagination could conjure. Of course, no one believes his tales and the adults get very tired of his fabulations. So when Tommy is the only witness to a murder he is not believed. Except by the killer.
Woolrich's tale for the comic book was adapted by Dana Dutch and drawn by Henry Keifer (perhaps the best-known of the artists who were poached from Classics Illustrated).
Enjoy this bit of comic book noir.
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=23425
A major exception to the 32-page length was issue #7, which came out 52 pages. This issue also differed from the others by featuring a story that was a bit unlike anything else Seaboard published in the series, which had previously adapted The Scarlet Pimpernel. Captain Blood, She, The Thirty-Nine Steps, Beau Geste, and Macbeth, and would go on to adapt Hamlet, Nicholas Nickelby, Romeo and Juliet, Ben Hur, Svengali, and Scaramouche. Also, The Window was adapted from a movie, RKO's 1949 adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (Mystery Book Magazine, March 1947).
The film starred twelve-year-old Bobby Driscoll, Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Ruth Roman, and Paul Stewart. Directed by Ted Tetzlaff from a script by Mel Dinelli, the movie was actually shot in 1947 but was shelved by studio head Howard Hughes for two years. Woolrich's original story was later published under the title "Fire Escape" in his pseudonymous collection Dead Man's Blues by "William Irish."; it has been republished several times, most notably in two anthologies edited by Bill Pronzini. A proposed remake of the film eventually morphed into 1984's Cloak & Dagger, featuring Henry Thomas and Dabney Coleman.
Back to Stories by Famous Authors Illustrated...: Tommy Woodry is a young boy prone to exaggeration and telling stories. His world of make-believe included, cowboys, Indians, gangsters, and whatever else his vivid imagination could conjure. Of course, no one believes his tales and the adults get very tired of his fabulations. So when Tommy is the only witness to a murder he is not believed. Except by the killer.
Woolrich's tale for the comic book was adapted by Dana Dutch and drawn by Henry Keifer (perhaps the best-known of the artists who were poached from Classics Illustrated).
Enjoy this bit of comic book noir.
http://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=23425
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