On the stands now (July 2009)

Notes

Bill Landis is dead
According to various internet forums Bill died December 23, from a heart attack.
Bill wrote to me years ago to tell me about Sleazoid Express when I started this site. We became friends. He sent me many e-mails about strange movies, he wrote about his family, he asked me my opinion about starting his web site, he even printed my notes on a certain movie in Sleazoid Express. When the Sleazoid Book was published, he sent me a copy and my name was in the 'thank you' page. People were asking me: 'What's good about internet?' 'Well', I was saying, 'I met a great American writer and he is mentioning my name in one of his books'. I rarely update my site anymore and I don't read many movie mags but every time I was getting into my e-mails I was hopping for a new message from Bill announcing a new issue of his magazine or, even better, a new book. R.I.P. Bill. If it's not real, it's here in La Cosa

La Cosa is THE magazine in Spanish about horror, sci-fi, fantasy and other wicked genres in the movie and TV world. Monsters, spies, UFOs, naked chicks, wolfmen on wheels, lubricated gladiators, twisted twins, giant dinosaurs, nudist camps, serial killers, mutants, sinful dwarves, gorillas, second string super heroes...
Axel Kuschevatzky, editor and publisher, writes to moviemags.com:
'I started the magazine in 1995, with borrowed money and some cash I got going to a Quiz Show on TV. It used to be a part black and white magazine until 3 years ago.'
We are grateful to Axel for all the info he send. You can find it here. Chris Poggiali writes to moviemags.com
Thanks for all info Chris.
"Temple of Schlock [was] a photocopied cut-and-paste fanzine that I co-founded with Paul DeCirce in Syracuse, NY back in July of 1987. At the time, I was 16 years old and Paul was 15. Heavily influenced by Steve Puchalski?s Slimetime, which was published across town and distributed in the Syracuse University area, Temple of Schlock reviewed new and old horror, action and exploitation movies that were being released to theaters and videocassette.
During the four years of the Temple?s existence, we produced 24 issues and accumulated close to 150 subscribers from all over the world. We also had a good roster of contributing writers, like Jeff Smith (of Wet Paint), Dave Szurek, Kris Gilpin, and John W. Donaldson, and cool graphic artists including Barry Wooldridge and Jeff Gaither doing stuff for us.
Paul and I edited the first 16 issues together, then Paul took a break and I did #17 and 18 on my own. Paul returned for #19, then left for good. I edited the next five issues and started a sixth, but called it quits in December of 1991. #25 was never finished.
Paul and I have recently reopened the Temple as a MySpace page. We can be found here: www.myspace.com/originaltempleofschlock. All of the covers are scanned on the site, and we're slowly scanning the original issues and posting those as well (but only #18 is up as of now). Come by and say hi!"