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The Monster Times

Volume 1 Number 43
The World’s First Newspaper of Horror,
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Creature credit for our arresting
CURSE OF THE DEMON cover goes
to Linda Marshal!, latest addition to
TMT's sprawling art staff, who.
under the infinitely patient direction
of publisher Larry Brill, fashioned
this frightening cover practically all
by herself.
SATANS OF THE CINEMA!
Scare scholar Jason Thomas surveys, with crucifix m hand, the diabolical contributions
made by screen demons, from the days of Melies to the present.
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HELL'S HEROES!
TMT think it’s about time to
re at
with your aliens, monsters and fiends— let’s give
the Devil his diabolical due.” The Horned One is.
say, “To Hell
6 Comics maven Howard
who have been
Phillips delves into the deviiish history of four-coior fiends
giving hell to Comiedom's superheroes for four demonic decades.

after all, one of the world’s most sinister staples

THE MONSTER SCENE FROM HELL!
and certainly Western Civilization’s most venerable
villain, so, by Beelzebub’s beard, we feel it’s only
correct, proper, meet and just to devote an entire
9 Another informative edition of our ever-popular Monster Scene feature
with emphasis this time on the doings of the damned.

issue of this fearless publication to his craven im-

MEPHISTO’S MASTERPIECE!:
age. Lucifer’s lot has never been an easy one, as his
His Satanic Majesty’s long and defeat-filled history
in folklore, films, books and comics more than
10 Horror film
demon
critic
epic, THE EXORCIST,
David Bartholomew presents an eerie exegesis of Horrordom's hottest
a controversial tale of Good. Evil and Indifference.

bears out. A tip of the horn to this longtime loser is

THE EXORCIST: AYES AND NAYS!:
surely in order, we feel. Sinister scoop-hunters Roy Frumkes and Donna Killian get some surprising reactions
To do justice to the Prince of Evil, we rounded up
a stellar cast of Mephisto mavens and satanic
11 to THE EXORCIST fro'm such cinematic celebrities as Sam Peckinpah and Max Von Sydow'

scribes to cover as much as Old Nick’s fiery history

as we could. For film fiends, Jason Thomas contri-
WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES!:
TMT editor Joe Kane recalls a rarely seen but truly terrifying demonic classic —
butes an exhausting survey of SATANS IN THE
CINEMA; Tom Rogers protests such celluloid dese-
13 Beniamin Christensen's 922 WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES.
1

crations of H.P. Lovecraft’s demonic works as THE

DUNWICH HORROR and DIE. MONSTER, DIE; LOVECRAFT LOSERS!:
Pioneering fright fictioneer H.P. Lovecraft has been getting the cinematic shaft
Roy Frunkes analyzes Jacques Tourneur’s
masterful classic, CURSE OF THE DEMON; and
15 from shoddy filmmakers tor years now. as Lovecraft lover Tom Rog., ' qpints out

last,(and certainly least) TMT Editor Joe Kane^

recalls with frightful fondness Benjamin Christen- ENTERPRISING EXORCIST!:
sen’s silent satanic study, WITCHCRAFT commander of the USS Enterprise, frequently doubled as
Captain Kirk,

THROUGH THE AGES. For you exorcism enthusi- 19 STAR TREK scholar Doug Murray demonstrates
a futuristic exorcist, as

asts, we have David Bartholomew’s in-depth

critioue of William Friedkin and Peter Blattv’s THE TMT HANDY HOME DO-IT-YOURSELF EXORCISM KIT! ’

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:

THE EXORCIST; Roy Frumkes and Donna NationalLampoon scribe Dean Latimer contributes an eerily invaluable guide to
Killian’sEXORCIST-oriented interviews with such potentanti-demon products and exorcizes guaranteed to drive demons from your door
cinematic celebrities as Sam Peckinpah and Max
Von Sydow; Doug Murray’s profile of CAPTAIN CURSE OF THE DEMON — PART I!

KIRK, EXORCIST; and Dean Latimer’s handy

Ban-It-Yourself Exorcism Kit. Comics Tans are
likewise served— as Howard Phillips traces the Evil
22 Roy Frumkes
CURSEOFTHE DEMON,
delivers a detailed analysis of
from its
Jacques Tourneur's terror classic.
conception rightonuptothetitle credits.

One’s angry em;tnnitefs*^flh four-coldf" siipeT^ TICKS OF THE TRADE!:

heroes, from Mercury to the Silver Surfer. If BillFeret and friends bring weird word of new monstrous media offerings.
that— along with several satanic surprises not including several EXORCIST imitations and capsule critiques of made-for-TV demon films

mentioned here— isn’t enough to slake the evil

thirst of even the most dedicated demon devotee, ROSEMARY'S BABY!
well, may Mephisto have mercy on your soul, man. TMT critic Alan Brandman analyzes the evil ingredients that made ROSEMARY'S BABY —
Before we go to the Devil, however, the TMT Roman Polanski s perverse precursor to THE EXORCIST— so satanically successful.
Dept, of Corrections would like to point out a few of
the more salient errors that marred the otherwise
typically brilliant issue, that preceded this one. We
neglected to^ run JasonvThomas’' byline under his Now for the Good comments. The cover was Thanks for the model. Henry. The Monster
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING lH AN photo story or great, I thought.
Hooray for Six Versions of Frankenstein.
Times Museum has yet to see the light of day
but you might want to check out The Monster
credit TMT Media Editor R. Allen Leider for his Jason Thomas knows a good movie when he Times Store. Located at 167 West 21st Street
Trek Talk interview with STAR TREK mentor sees one. (between 6th and 7th Avenues), The Monster
Even though have never seen John Zacherly
I
Times Store specializes in all kinds of monster
Gene Roddenberry. Also, there’s a line missing in in action. enjoyed the article on him. and he
I
goods— books, novelties, masks, just about
Don Hutchison’s SAGA OF OPERATOR 5 certainly seems to know how to liven up a
everything of a macabre bent. The Monster
show. Times Store is open from 12 to 5, Monday
article— in the middle of the third column on page 7, admired John Tibbets’ article on VAMPYR.
1
through Friday, but potential browsers and
the text should read, “The estimable Crowe, gentle- a film which seldom has received the attention customers are advised to call first at (212)
it deserves. Incidentally, this was the best
man’s gentleman extraordinary, did not dream that installment of his series.
691-7782.

Carleton Victor, photo-portraitist of worldwide SPACE: 1999 looks delicious, but living
Terror Tribute
reputation, was a convenient cover for Jimmy where do. Maine, there is a possibility that
I

shall never get to see it. It looks a lot better

Christopher. The sharp-nosed, stiff-shouldered
I

than UFO. which was a pretty good show in

To the Editor...
remember the program STINGRAY, must say ('cause
I it’s true). TMT #41 was
Crowe,” etc. You can rest assured that those itself. I

beautiful! It's sure to become a collector's

Although it was not a great show, thought it i

responsible for these monstrous mistakes have item. It had something for everyone.
was good children's entertainment, which is
However...
been swiftly and severely dealt with. certainly lacking nowadays.
Did my eyes deceive me or was Mark
Anyone remember WILLARD? Well. caught
We’d love to linger a moment more but, what
1

Carducci's report about the Shepperton auction

it on the tube last night, and you should have
left out of #41 's Monster Scene? Sounds like ft
with our creditors and the Devil to pay, we re afraid seen the butchering job CBS did on it. am I

could be an interesting article

Cl seriously considering a letter to the network.
we must needs be on our way. By the way. whatever happened to all those
Mitchells filmbook of IT! THE TERROR

TELL IT TO rats involved in WILLARD and BEN? Did they

have to exterminate them after all that training?
have a request to make. How about running
FROM BEYOND SPACE was a good article
about an overrated film. wonder how many
I

feel as strongly about this film as he does. The

THE MONSTER TIMES IS PRODUCED AND CREATED BY LARRY

THE EDITOR I

articles on BARBARELLA or a few of

Bergman’s horror-inspiring films such as THE
MAGICIAN (starring Max Von Sydow) or HOUR
low budget still does not excuse the cheap
sounding title.
The Frankenstein films article did justice in

BRILL AND LES WALDSTEIN. Editor-in-Chief JOE KANE. Praise and Nays Its coverage, as did the article on YOUNG
:
OF THE WOLF. Would also appreciate FRANKENSTEIN, although the latter doesn't
Managing Editor: RON BARLOW. Media Editor: R. ALLEN something on Polanski's films, including
LEIDEP. Associate Editors: THOMAS ROGERS, MARK FRANK, To the Editor... seem worthy of much more than a mere ’

CUL-DE-SAC.
JASON THOMAS, MARK EVANIER, STEVE VERTLIEB, JIM I have decided to write to you people Thanks for listening to my ravings, but the
mention that, unfortunately, it was made.
WNOROSKI, BILL FERET. Assistant Art Director: COLETTE (finally), mostly because haven't done so The Zacherly article failed to mention that
CONNOR. Contributing Writers: GODZILLA, DON THOMPSON,
I
Doctor says have to go back to my padded
I

recently. However, before bestow any ole Zach did several LP's of his horror humor
JOE THOMASINO, D.A. LATIMER, GARY GERANI, ALAN
I
room now. Keep up the good work.
deserved praise upon TMT, shall first offer a and songs in a similar vein (sorry) as
BRANDMAN,. BUDDY WEISS. DON FIOTO. DAVID STIDWORTHY, Doug Thorsnjo
MONSTER MASH. From what understand,
I

few opinions to bore you with. Albion. Maine

I

GARRY BROWN, RON HAYDOCK, GARY SVEHLA, LON TALBOT, have just read issue #41 and here are my the albums are still available.
DAVID BARTHOLOMEW, HOWARD PHILLIPS, ED SUMMER, I
.

SPACE: 1999 sounds like it might make it.

GEOFF OLDHAM. JOE ZANNIERI, JOEL VANCE, ROY FRIMKES, derogatory remarks (the compliments come
think Mark Jacobson went to see
DOUG MURRAY. Contributing Artists: TOM ARMSTRONG, later). I
FRANK BRUNNER, TOM SUTTON, NEAL ADAMS, GRAY YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN in the wrong frame of
MORROW, BILL NELSON, JIM JANES, 6ERNI WRIGHTSON, mine— II is not supposed to be a frightening
JEFF JONES, ERNIE COLON. JOHN BYRNE. MIKE KALUTA. it is not supposed to treat the Creature
film,
Marketing Director: WARREN CHAPMANS. Contributing Photo- seriously. It is a parody of those 1930s horror
graphers: BARRY GLUSKY, EMANUEL MARIS. Circulation: movies, Mark, and it is supposed to be “a sea
DAVID HUTT. Advertising Manager: LARRY BRILL. Creepy of ha-ha’s." On this level the film
Consultant: THE CREEP. West Coast Representative: LARRY
admirably, and although you are fully entitled
WALDSTEIN.
to your opinion, it might be nice if somebody
THE MONSTER TIMES \o 43, September 1975, is published by built you a^NEW frame for your mind.
The Monster Times Publishing Company, Inc., 11 West 17th Street,
The photos that accompanied the
New York, New York 10011. All rights reserved by The Monster article were... well... YUCH
Times Publishing Company, Inc. Nothing may be reprinted in
whole or pari in any manner without express written permission
Joe Kane — noticed that swipe at Polanski's
I
VAMPIRE KILLERS. Watch it. Joe— that was
from the publisher. SUBSCRIPTIONS: UiS.A.: $8 for 12 issues, an excellent film.
$15 for 24 issues, $25 for 50 issues. Canada: $11 for 12 issues.
Joel Liman’s film, from his own description,
Foreign: $20 for 12 issues. Please allow six weeks for
deserves the obscurity it is getting. It sounds
subscriptions to become effective. SUBSCRIBER CHANGE OF
Now that TMT's sprawling staff of creature
Too often tho. the powers that be go by a
contributors have been chastised and praised,
show's first telecast and fail to allow an
each in his turn, we have some good news for
audience buildup. Hopefully the results ol the
you: BARBARELLA will be receiving the royal
article in TMT will provide this series with a
TMT filmbook treatment in a near-future issue
of this publication, and we’ll also be running a
significant initial audience, keeping it on the
air.
detailed expose of the fright film butchery
succeeded How about a filmbook on SON OF BLOB, it
performed by TV film editors. As a Bergman
has two of my favorite singers in it. They aren't
fan, you'll also want to take a look at our
pad actors either!
mini-interview with Max Von Sydow on page 1
Rusty Pietrzak
of this issue.
Dayton. Ohio
mummy
Thanks for the warm words, Rusty. The
Shepperton Auction report finally turned up in
Manhat4an Monster Mart
TMT 42.
To the Editor...
am sending you something for the Got a gripe? Somethin’ you want to get off your
I

hairy chest? Or, perchance, a nice note of

ADDRESS: Allow eight weeks! notice, and please send an address ilke a piece of garbage, and it's obvious why "MonsterTimes Museum." The UFO spaceship
big distributors refused to handle it. Who does praise for your friendly fiends at TMT? Then
imprint from a recent issue or state exactly how label is addressed. from THE INVADERS TV show. am a great fan I

Uman think he is? He turns out a piece of gore,

send them straight to us. Remember: It takes
All subscriptions, inquiries, address changes or undeMverabie of The Monster Times: love every issue. I
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all kinds ... and so do we. Address all

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Ian has always had a Demons are

lascination with devils — they our business,
and religions,
exist in all cultures
ouronly business
and were (and still are) even
worshipped at times. Naturally, ...in this special All-
the film industry could not pass Demon, All-Exorcism
up any opportunities to capitalize Issue of TMT
on this durable trend. Since 1896,
at least. And
there have been over 100 motion
pictures containing demons of
what better
one kind or another, and there way to kick off
have been countless others this very spe-
concerning devil worship (THE cial issue than
BLACK CAT, THE DEVIL’S with Jason
OWN, CRAZE, etc.). There were
many (mostly short subject) Thomas’ ex-
productions featuring His Satan- haustive (not
ic Majesty during the silent era, to mention ob-
and although the pace slackened sessive) his-
since then, we are currently
undergoing a revival of such tory of prac-
films due to the success of THE tically every
EXORCIST. It seems that demon movie
everybody wants to get into the ever made?
act nowadays, and movies like
That’s a rhetor-
THE DEVIL’S RAIN, RACE
WITH THE DEVIL, and THE ical question,
DEVIL AND MR. JONES will by the way, so
soon be coming our way. A lot of rather than ex-
these productions have been
pend your en-
good in their own way, but the
more recent ones tend to be
ergy arriving at
shoddy and derivative. Let’s an answer,
hope things pick up soon. we’d suggest
you squander
SATAN’S SILENTS it instead on this
George Melies is pretty much
considered to be the Father of
informative, revealing
Animation. He made approxi- survey of cellu-
mately 500 short films between loid Satans.
1896 and 1912, and most of these
contained fantasy elements. He
was really incredible, and many
of his techniques led to the
fantastic special effects that
appear in movies today. His
filmography includes at least a
dozen shorts containing demons,
but we don’t have room to go into
these in detail. (You’ll find the
titles and release dates of these
and numerous other devilish
silent shorts listed at the
conclusion of this satanic survey.
-Ed.)
Since 1897, there have been at
least 15 films releasedunder the
The snarl of the sidhe —a new^variation on your
traditional demonic fiend— was one of the
title. FAUST. These all dealt, in highlights of CRY OF THE BANSHEE, a
various ways, with the classic generally weak demon outing that saw ah evil
German legend of an intelligent Vincent Price, among others, done in by this sly
man who lusted after youth and devil. Mephisto maven Jason Thomas spared
greater knowledge, and was neither time nor expense to bring us this terror
willing to sell his immortal soul treatiseabout the cinematic doings of the Lords
to get them. Other adaptations- of.the Damned.
like FAUST AND MARGUER-
ITE, which was filmed four times
—
since 1897 were also lensed, and
at least half a dozen of these
titles contained the name
“Faust” in them. DANTE’S
INFERNO was another oft-
filmed favorite, with at least four
versions (1909, 1910, 1924, 1935)
floating around, but the famous,
tour of hell in these versions!
usually turned out to be merely'
dream sequences.
In 1911, an interesting bit of
cinematic deviltry, SATAN — OR
THE DRAMA OF HUMANITY,
was released in Italy, Dante's
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former stomping ground. This
was based in part on John 'kerwin Matthews lays violent hands on Torin
Thatcher as Pendragon, an evil figure who could
Milton's Paradise Lost and was
change into a winged demon at the drop of a
composed of four separate
wizard’s hat and had at his command several
In the prelude, the War in would have succeeded if a
episodes. In each, the Devil was surly, unsightly demons, in a scene from JACK
Heaven was briefly shown and, — glowing cross h adn’t one day
depicted in a different time THE GIANT KILLER. naturally, that’s when the Devil
appeared in mid-air and caused
period: the Garden of Eden, and his followers were cast into
him to disappear. Satan was also
during Christ’s life, the Middle hell. Throughout the rest of the
featured as the fiery Doomsday
Ages, and the contemporary film, winged demon-lord
the
THE
dragon that spewed forth
“underworld.” During the course went around disguised as a FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE
of the film, he invented intoxi- prince, tempting mortals and APOCALYPSE.
being downright rude. At the
cating beverages in order to In 1922, the LEAVES FROM
bring about the fall of humanity finale, he fled when the heroine SATAN’S BOOK revealed four
(temperance, anyone’?). That recited the Lord’s Prayer. stories about the Devil’swork on
same year saw the release of In THE DEVIL’S LOCK Earth. The first one showed how
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THE DEVIL AS LAWYER, in SMITH, a silent Austrian entry he had changed his appearance
which Satan— in the role of of 1919, several laborers made a and led Judas to betray Christ.
Justice, strangely enough- pact with old Lucifer. The In the others, he posed as a
managed to get a dishonest man German classic SATANAS (1919) Spanish Inquisitor, a celebrity of
convicted of his crimes. was really three stories in one. In the French Revolution, and a
THE STUDENT OF PRAGUE it, Lucifer traveled through member of the Russian Red
(1913, 1926, 1936) was a ancient Egypt, Borgian Italy, and Guard. During this same year, an
combination of legend and tales Russia (during the Revolution) in imaginary meeting between Lu-
by E.T.A. Hoffman and E.A. Poe. a fruitless attempt to find cifer and the title characters
This time around, Mephistoph- someone who could derive good occurred in DON JUAN AND
eles appeared as a sorcerer. In- from evil. Supposedly, this would FAUST. WITCHCRAFT
terestingly enough, the soul of have saved him from eternal THROUGH THE AGES (1922)
the protagonist was symbolized damnation. was a phantasmagoria of occult
by animated mirror image.
his When the ’20s came along, beings and practices and a
The most recent version of this THE DEVIL (1921) again en- genuinely eerie gem.
story was a musical. tered our world in human form, It seems that there were
Of the two versions of THE this time disguised as a doctor. Italian muscleman movies as far
SORROWS OF SATAN (1917 He spent his time trying to make back as- 1926, as was evidenced
and 1926), the one directed by a pair of lifelong friends distrust by MACISTE IN HELL. Deep in
D.W. Griffith was far superior. each other, and he probably the infernal regions, the power-
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ful hero saw Dante’s Satan: a

giant monster in ice, holding
Judas, Brutus, and Cassius in his
ugly mouth. Other demons
appeared here in abundance, and
some female ones mated with
mortals and begot little mon-
strosities. It wasn’t until some 36
years later that this flick was
remade as THE WITCHES’
CURSE, and the plotline then
was somewhat less involved.
THE PRINCE OF TEMPTERS
was up to his old tricks in 1926,
when he tried to corrupt an
English nobleman by using a
temptress. When the woman
failed towin his love, she helped
the fellow against the Evil One.
Satan appeared wearing a
tuxedo in THE DEVIL’S PA-
RADE (1930), and there were
three versions of SATAN’S
FIVE WARNINGS (1938, 1945,
1969), in which the Lord of
Darkness made five predictions
that came true. Finally, in 1939, a
war between gods and demons
was filmed as India’s DEVJANI.
DEVIL’S DEFEAT
this article today.
Oneof the most entertaining of
THE UNDEAD
all devil films was ALL THAT (1957) was a
low-budget American-Interna-
MONEY CAN BUY (1941)-also
tinal release that turned out to
known as THE DEVIL AND be rather good. In it, the mind of
DANIEL WEBSTER. In this a 20th century prostitute was
offering, a poor New Hampshire
sent back in time to share the
farmer was granted wealth and
body of a previous incarnation.
success for seven years; after
this time, he was supposed to
Two witches— a young, beautiful,
world. bad one and an old, ugly, good
relinquish his soul (or his son’s)
to the Devil himself. were We
Amusingly, the Devil (Cedric —
one shared her ensuing adven-
Hardwicke) was shown watching tures, and the Devil popped up
awarded an extra treat here, Hugo Haas' BAIT (1954) in the once in a while to enliven things
because quite a tew zombies and film, and he narrated the movie even more and to barter for
spirits were thrown in, too. At as well. The French entry of this mortal souls. Although the
the conclusion, the famous Daniel year, CLOSED DOORS, present- heroine straightened herself out
Webster (without whom we ed a hell that was a lavishly at the finale, the hero (a
might not have had any decorated hotel room. The contemporary scientist) became
dictionaries) convinced a jury of occupants were stuck there stranded in the past. The Prince
dead American villains that the he sent the guy “upstairs.” forever, tormenting each other of Evil laughed loud and long at
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man should not lose his soul. In When a doublecrossed racke- with endless philosophizin, 'le man’s irreversible predic-
revenge, the calm Mr. Scratch teer died and went to hell, he and accusations. ment.
(Walter Houston) prevented made a bargain with Old Nick in
Webster from ever attaining the ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER
political post he wanted so badly.
(1946). He then inhabited the
An artist purchased THE body of a living judge and
DEVIL’S HAND (1942), and the attempted to get revenge and
Horned One told him that he undo all of the man’s good work.
would have to sell it for less than Don’t worry, though; things
he paid within 24 hours, of else worked out fine in the end
he would be transported to hell because the villain was a
for eternity. France continued its somewhat righteous dude, after
long list of demonic entries all.
during this year, also, when a In the 1947 version of THE
medieval Satan sent THE DEV- DEVIL’S HAND — also known as
IL’S ENVOYS to Earth to CARNIVAL OF SINNERS-a
eliminate the love of a young poor artist made a bargain with
couple. These creatures— who Guess Who. In exchange for his
ance), Milland succeeded in
had been selfish sweethearts soul, the chap received a live trapping his prey. However, a
when they were alive were — hand that brought him wealth priest interfered and used a Holy
empowered to turn people into and corrupted him. Tauntingly, Bible to make the fallen angel
stone. Later on in the film, Satan gave him an opportunity to fail.
Lucifer joined them, but his plan buy back his soul at a very low THE BEAUTY AND THE
failed. The Evil One even tangled price, but the amount doubled DEVIL (1949) was a fine takeoff
with a real “evil one” in THE each day. The guy was so greedy on Christopher Marlowe’s “Tra-
DEVIL WITH HITLER. There that he allowed too many days to gical History of Dr. Faustus,” Carol Speed fell victim to demonic possession in ABBY (1974), a black-oriented
in, Satan tried his worst to get elapse, thereby sealing his doom. with some interesting variations. imitation of THE EXORCIST. William (Blacula) Marshali played the bishop
the infamous Nazi dictator to In it, Satan went around called upon to rescue the heroine from the clutches of an ever-greedy Satan.
perform one good act so that
In ALIAS NICK BEAL (1949),
granting requests— for a price, of
Hitler wouldn’t replace him as
we got an opportunity to see Ray
course; the time-honored themes Another Faustian variation A number of the “Bowery
Milland in one of his first horror was MARGUERITE
Lord of the Lower Depths. of greed and wasted youth OF THE Boys” films contained fantasy
films, as a modern-day demon
In the 1943 comedy, CABIN IN provided the motivation for this NIGHT (1955), set in 1920s Paris. elements, and in UP IN SMOKE
THE SKY, Rex Ingram (who who was out production. At the conclusion, After meeting a drug trafficker (1957), Huntz Hall sold his soul to
to get the who was really Mephistoph-
once played God) was cast as when the “hero” repented, Me- the Devil in order to get the
soul of a Faust made the traditional names of winning race horses,
Lucifer; Jr. He and his four “Idea phistopheles (a “second-class eles,
Men” plagued the main charac- good man. demon”) caused the economic bargain to regain his youth. and the creature appeared daily
ters and tempted them with all
Through collapse of his country in a When the usual ensuing love in the forms of talking monkeys,
sorts of things — unsuccessfully, slow and parting act of revenge. The affair between Faust and Mar- skeletons, and so on, to provide
careful guerite failed, the woman died, him with the information. At the
for the most part. Lucifer people, led by the now-ruined
listened to a man’s life story in planning man, succeeded in routing the — —
and ironically only the demon end, our hero got out of the
(and clairvoy-
HEAVEN CAN WAIT, in ordeq devil and returning to their mourned her. bargain because his horse was
to determine where the fellow’j former existence. One year later, FAUSTINA disqualified. As a result of his
soul belonged. At the conclusio sold her soul to the demon One ended up as
failure, the Evil
THE DEVIL TO PAY Mephisto for her lost youth. A a mortal soda jerk until some
Another Italian demonic entry three-headed flying dragon new victims came along.
was FAME AND THE DEVIL starred in Russia’s THE SWORD CURSE OF THE DEMON
(1950), which was also released in AND THE DRAGON (1956), but (1958) was brilliantly directed,
the U.S. as ONE NIGHT OF a tat “wind demon” had a sup- but many complain that
critics
FAME. When lovestruck man
a porting role in the movie. The we should not have been
used an Oriental charm to hero (who was also fat) managed permitted to see the giant
summon the Horned One, he to capture the demon, and he demon; I for one enjoyed viewing
traded his soul for immediate used the thing’s power for his the fearsome beast. (See Roy
fame. After being placed in the own benefit. Frumkes’ detailed analysis of
bodies of a singer, a fighter, and When Lucifer (Vincent Price) this fine fright film elsewhere in
a diplomat, he awoke to find that wanted to destroy Earth, a this issue. Ed.)—
jthe transplants had all been a heavenly trial was convened and suppose it was inevitable that
I

dream. the Spirit of Man defended us. the Lord of the Underworld
In MEET MR. LUCIFER Throughout the 1957 movie, we would end up in a musical
|1953), an actor portraying the saw a condensed version of THE comedy, and he did; in DAMN
"title character fell through a trap STORY OF MANKIND (the YANKEES (1958). Ray Walston
door and ended up in Hades for a most interesting aspect of which played His Satanic Majesty in
while. This dream comedy ws that an Egyptian pharoah this delightful farce about an old
posited the idea that television is gave Satan one million souls). man who wanted to be young and
This fancifui heli-dweiler tried to sabotage old Saint Nick, of ail the dastardiy a diabolical invention that the Naturally, our defender won out famous, and also help out his
deeds, in the 1959 Mexican fantasy fiim SANTA CLAUS, starring Jose Eiias Devil is using to spread misery against his witty opponent, and favorite baseball team. Satan
Moreno y Cesareo Quezada. and confusion throughout the that’s why you’re able to read granted his request and used an
The Monster Times
irresistible (so some
thought) woman to corrupt him.
Everything turned out alright
the end, though,
Walston’s plans.
SANTA CLAUS
rather an unlikely title for a
demon film, but one played a
very important comical role in
this Mexican production.
Throughout the story, the thing
from hell busied itself with
attempts to sabotage Saint Nick.
“Mr. Ho-Ho-Ho” eventually tri-
umphed, however, and the devil
ended up upside-down in a
chimney, or some such thing.
INGMAR’S EVIL ONE
Ingmar Bergman
respected director, and there
have been many books written
about him, but his DEVIL’S EYE
(1960) is not too well-known. This
humorous social commentary
made Satan want to corrupt a
mortal (virgin) woman whose
goodness had caused him to
develop a stye. He sent Don Juan
to Earth to seduce her, but this
failed and goodness triumphed
(sort of). Several other demons
appeared at intervals, including
one that could hear anything that
was happening anywhere in the
universe, and another that got
locked up in a cupboard. Another
humor-oriented demon film, the
Swiss THE DEVIL MAY WELL
LAUGH, was released the same
year and saw Satan tempt a
of hobos.
The French-Italian
DEVIL AND THE TEN COM-
MANDMENTS (1962), present-
ed the Lord of Darkness as the
movie’s narrator, and later on he
appeared in the form of a snake.
At about the same time, Satan
was invoked by THE DEVIL’S
PARTNER, but I don’t know if
he actually appeared or not.
THE DEVIL’S MESSENGER
(1962) was a foreign-made pilot
for a TV series called 13 Demon
Street, starring Lon Chaney as
His (baggy-eyed) Satanic Majes-
ty.At the beginning of the tale, a
youngs dead woman was given
the option of either suffering in
hell or becoming the Devil’s
emissary on Earth. She accepted
the latter, and then went around
three times to corrupt mortal
men. With the success of these
missions, Satan gave her the
formula for a super-atomic bomb.
It was then left up to mankind
whether to use the weapon or not
(we’re still here, though —
think).
Quite a number
appeared in the animated spec-
tacular, JACK THE GIANT
KILLER (1962, all
control of the evil
Pendragon, who had the ability
to change himself in to a winged
Demons get a head start on theirvictims
people dragon, among other things. At
one point in the film, the
in unsightly devils attacked the
except for heroes in a violent sword-and-
sorcery sequence. When Pendra-
(19.59) was gon was slain, though, the
monsters ceased to bother
anyone.
Demonic possession was the
theme of THE DEMON (1963).
The victim this time was a young
woman who became quite upset
over disembodied voices and
terrifying nightmares (wouldn’t
you?). When a priest tried to
exorcise her, she attacked him
while shouting in an unknown
tongue, and his attempts to save
Another demon
her failed.
is a highly visited Earth in THE DEVIL ON
VACATION (1963). To
sure that he enjoyed himself", the
creature made a couple become
younger in exchange for
gambling money.
DIFFERENT DEMON
A strange, invisible demon-
was
thing called a Horla
introduced in DIARY OF A
MADMAN (1963). This beast
was one of many from another
dimension, and they were some-
times able to breach the barrier
between our domain and theirs.
It was a demon in its o^j|^ way
because it thrived
on evil. Vincent
Price was the
second and
trio
effort, THE
Robed coachman transports deserving
scene from THE DEVIL’S NIGHTMARE,
last victim of the fiend, which
took control of his body and then
made him turn to murderous
deeds. At the conclusion, his self-
sacrifice caused the monster to
die in a flaming building.
Both THE HAUNTED PAL
of demons ACE (1963) and THE DUN-
WHICH HORROR (1969) were
cinematic adaptations of H.P.
under the Lovecraft tales. (See the article
sorcerer, on Lovecraft elsewhere in this
issue). In 1964. the Devil turned
up again, in Mexico’s DIABOLI-
in yet another appropriately violent vignette from
make
some
Bedevilled old duffer gets forced bed-of-nails therapy in a typically vile scene from THE DEVIL’S NIGHTMARE, a 1972
quickie that had little to offer beyond a good set of gory stills.
CAL GAME. demon who wanted to take over very interesting moments that
the body of a good guy. This dealt with a giant demon, an
According to the Bible, Jesus
Christ was tempted by the Devil moody, well-done effort was outsized spider, an apparition on
while they were in the “wilder- supposed to be a pilot film, but no horseback (Death), Chris Lee as
ness.” This was shown in THE series ever came out of it. a good warlock, and the Sabatic
GREATEST STORY EVER Throughout the story, the Goat himself! Despite its many
nefarious creature got stronger faults, the film remains a favorite
TODL (1965), but not in the
as it neared its goal, and on of mine.
silent version of KJING OF several occasions it even con- The most recent Faust movie I
KINGS (1927): in the latter, the
Evil One made his sales pitch
fronted the heroes while in know of is DOCTOR FAUSTUS
disguise. At the exciting conclu- (1967), which starred Richard
sion, it succeeded in its mission, Burton as the intellectual who
but then the resident psychic sold his soul to Satan (who
investigator destroyed it. appeared once in the movie). In
Peter Cushing and Chirstoher return, he was granted his every
Lee starred in THE SKULL wish for a number of years. The
(1965), which also featured a somber, sympathetic demon in
foreign demon. This invisible human form, Mephistopheles, re-
creature was very attached to mained at his beck and call for
the skull in question, and often the allotted period, but he
used it to commit murder by constantly suggested to Faust
animating the calcium. The skull that he withdraw from the
was able to fly and bite people to bargain and beg forgiveness
death, and it did a pretty good from God. When the time ran
job of it. This was one of those out, the fool tried to save himself,
flicks in which the evil continued but he was pulled into hell
to exist (triumphant) at the anyway.
conclusion. One of the all-time classics of
In 1478, Beelzebub sent the the occult is ROSEMARY’S
Archdevil Belfagor to the land of BABY (1968). Unlike most
the living for the purpose of adaptations, this was taken
victim to hell-haunted house in another
renewing a war between Rome almost word-for-word from the
starring Erika Blanc and Jean Servais. and Florence. The demon substi- original novel. (See Alan Brand-
tuted himself for the Pope’s son, man’s critique of that classic
following the Temple scene. I but he soon got emotional over a further on in this issue.)
seem to remember that Satan beautiful woman and ended up as TORTURE GARDEN (1968)
made a brief appearance in the
sound version of KING OF
KINGS (1961), but I’m not sure
about this because I don’t think
the Devil was shown to the
audience. In GREATEST, Don-
ald Pleasance was cast as the
Tempter, and he appeared
several times throughout the
film.
The DARK INTRUDER (1965)
was none other than a Sumerian
THE DEVIL’S NIGHTMARE.
— —
This scene reminiscent of ROSEMARY’S BABY transpired in the course of
an obscure opus entitied EXORCISM’S DAUGHTER, a wicked work neglected,
doubtless for good reasons, by our otherwise exhaustive demon scholar.
THE DEVIL IN LOVE (1966). treated us to no less than two
A very amusing black cornedy things from hell: Satan himself,
with a modern setting was and a cat-creature that went
BEDAZZLED (1967), in which around hypnotizing people and
Satan (Peter Cook) ran a eating human brains. The feline
legitimate Soul Exchange. He was not stopped during the
made a bargain with a young course of the movie, and the
man (Dudley Moore) who man- Devil naturally continued his
aged to botch seven wishes dastardly deeds at the conclu-
before he made the Devil decide sion. This film was reminiscent of
not to take him after all. At one DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF-
point, we got to hear the voice of HORRORS, in that it predicted
"God," and at another we saw a the future of several of the
nearly naked Raquel Welch as characters. Aninteresting Czech
Lilian Lust, one of the personi- film of 1969, GENII, saw several
fied Seven Deadly Sins. demons journey from the center
I got turned on to the study of
of the Earth to check up on
witchcraft in 1967, after having humanity.
seen THE DEVIL’S BRIDE. This
immature, optimistic romp CONTINUED ON PAGE 27
through warlock land had a few

page 6
Exhibiting a “swiftness and ferocity unheard of in earthly creatures," Draaga,
a monster in the employ of a villain called “The Judge,” altempts to put an
abrupt end to the comic book career of THE DEMON, one of Jack Kirby's better
efforts and the industry’s first demonic superhero. This action-packed illus-
tration appeared in the March ’73 issue of THE DEMON. Copyright National
DEMONS V&
MADE THEM DO IT
Another of TMT’s sprawling staff
of monster mavens and demon
devotees, Howard Phillips, con-
tributed the following compulsive
survey of Comicdom’s eeriest Evil
Ones and their rugged encounters
with four-color superheroes, and
a frighteningly fascinating survey
it is. Whatever other accusations
you might wish to level
humble publication, you can’t
accuse us of knowing more than
we tell.
I ’m back again, this time with a
I
survey of demons in comic books.
As one might suspect, I could not
possibly fit all of comicdom’s den-
izens of hell into an article of this
size. Therefore, I’ve decided to
cover only those demons who
have crossed the paths of
super-characters who have had
their own series. If we can get
enough favorable response to
to this pibce, well probably end
up doing one on other graphic
demons someday. Until then. I’m
sure that there’s plenty in this
issue to keep all of us busy.
Mercury was a Timely hero
who first appeared
RAVEN #1 (1940). He was the
same Roman god of speed that so
many ot us know and love (and
worship?), complete with wings
on his head and ankles. In what
*"was apparently his only episode,
he was dispatched to Earth by
his father, Jupiter, in order to
combat Pluto who —
was in
essence Satan, Lord of Hell. It
seems that the villainous Dark
God had disguised himself as
Rudolph Hendler (actually Adolf
'Hitler, but U.S. heroes would not
be officially at war with him until
the following year), and had
gotten “his” country to declare
war on the rest of the world. In a
single story. Mercury seemed to
stop the entire conflict and
thwart his horned foe.
In CAPTAIN AMERICA
(Timely, 1941), Hurricane re-
placed Mercury. Some people
think that the two heroes were
one and the same, because they
looked exactly alike and pos-
sessed the same powers, but this
new character was the son of
Thor (who was one of the Norse
gods). lasted until CAPTAIN
He
•AMERICA #11, but the only
issue I have details on is #2. In
this, he battled Pluto (alias the
Devil), who only appeared in the
lastpanel on the final page. Ths
wasn’t very impressive for the
Lord of Darkness, and
how often he was shown
stories about this
Asgard.
LUCIFER’S LADIES
The origin of Claire Voyant,
the Black Widow, was given in
MYSTIC #4 (Timely, 1940). This
woman was
unusual and illogical
murdered she went
in that issue:
to hell, and sometime later Satan
turned her into a superheroine,
of all things! In each of her five
tales in MYSTIC, U.S.A., and
ALL SELECT, she returned to
our world in order to kill
evildoers and then deliver their
Periodical Publications.
souls to the Master of Hades. Her
touch meant instant death to
bad guys, and she was able to
perform certain miracles (per-
haps she should have been called
the Black Angel). Naturally, I’m
sure everyone would like to
know why Satan would want to
put an end to the work of villains.
at this Don’t ask me, though, because I
can’t understand it.either!
A year later. Madam Satan
(also known as Black Satan) came
along in PEP #17 (M.L.J.— now
"Radio”). She was a woman who
had died and gone to purgatory
(?); because she had been so
corrupt while on Earth, the Devil
chose her for his mate and sent
her back to our humble land of
The premier issue of
DC s BEOWULF,
DRAGON SLAYER pit-
ted that superhero of
early European folk-
lore against his arch-
enemy Grendel, a min-
ion of Satan and veter-
an of many a mead-
hall brawl. In a comic
in RED written by Michael
Usian and drawn by
Ricardo Villamonte.
#1
mortals to -do his dirty work.
I wonder From what I can determine, she
other was always defeated by some-
in
god from thing or other (like, primarily,
the “powers of goodness”) during
her six-issue career. Where could
she be now, I wonder. Perhaps
she’ll turn up in one of the
WHATEVER BECAME OF...
books someday.
In VENUS #10 (Atlas, 1950),
the son of Satan was granted
permission by his vile father to
journey to Earth. Soon after he
arrived, he declared his love for
the Roman goddess of love and
threatened to unleash demons of
floods, earthquakes, typhoons,
and other catastrophes if she
T,
t I
ill
'PiZ
Stone, as she was known, had
some very bad habits, such as
corruption, murder and monster-
m Mhm
raising. After a brutal reign of
terror, the Purple Claw ended
her fun by shooting a zombie
.jem with her magic pistol. At that
instant, the Queen of the Undead
became just another pretty pile
of bones.
DEMONS DRIVEN OUT
After the prudish Comics Code
Authority was formed in 1954,
most demons and other monsters
were effectively exorcised from
comic books. During the next
mm ten-plus years, a monster would
occasionally sneak into a four-
color mag that subscribed to the
Code, but these W'ere extremely
tame compared to the beasts of
ye olden days. On the whole,
comics were awfully dull during
this period —
nobody got killed,
the bad guys always lost, and so
on. Fortunately, things changed,
and the Children of the Night
i
run rampant in today’s graphic
I
periodicals.
DEMONS USHERED IN
Whenthe Spectre was revived
SHOWCASE
in #60 (DC, 1966),
his firstopponent turned out to
be Azmodus, the same demon
did not consent to become his
who had been responsible for his
bride. At the conclusion of this
becoming trapped in the body of
tale, Venus called upon Apollo to
his human host for over 20 years.
imprison the fiend in a fiery disc
After a battle royal that started
for eternity. That just goes to out on Earth and ended up at the
prove that it’s good to have
very “end of time,” the Spectre
friends in high places— especially
vanquished his inhuman enemy.
they’re gods.
if
memory serves me right,
I have a copy of an I.W.
If
Azmodus returned to plague us
Enterprise reprint, ‘
PURPLE poor mortals, but the Ghostly
CLAW which I presume got
#8j Guardian naturally defeated this
stories from one or more of
its
nasty creature from another
the first three issues of THE Although we haven’t
astral plane.
PURPLE CLAW (Toby Press, heard from the Dark Demon in a
1953). The hero of this interest-
long time, the Spectre has had
ing series went around fighting
own ADVENTURE.
alKsorts of monsters and fiends,
his series in
Check it out.
and one episode he encoun-
in
The true Satan returned
tered a {emale demon. Brima comics in MARVEL SPOTLIGHT
//
x;
#5 (Marvel. 1972). He
summoned by Johnny Blaze, a
jdaredevil motorcyclist
r wanted to sell his soul in order to
save the life of another. The Evil
One granted his wish and turned
him into the (new) Ghost Rider,
but for some asinine reason that
was never adequately explained,
Satan never collected Johnny’s
soul. Instead, in GHOST RIDER
#9 (1974), a man who just might
have been Jesus Christ rein-
carnated (the clues were there)
declared that G.R. was free of his
bargain. Satan hasn’t given up,
though, and since the Ghost
Rider’s intro he’s had to contend
with quite a few other demons.
I was never crazy about any of
Jack Kirby’s DC characters
except for one: Etrigan, the
Demon (1972). Not counting
Kamandi, he outlasted Kirby’s
other series by at least three
issues, and if we’re lucky he’ll
return one day. I’m not going to
include anything else on this
character, because Tom Rogers
covers him in-depth elsewhere in
this issue.
Sometime during the long
history of the Legion of Super-
Heroes, they too battled a
demon. This tale, “The Lad
Wrecked the Legion,” was
reprinted in the first issue of the
Legion’s own mag (1973). It dealt
with a super-powered teenager
who had been possessed by an
evil space demon. Had it not been
for the timely arrival of Saturn
Girl and Element Lad, the entire
group would have been taken
over by other such beings. On
the final page, gold exorcised the
creature and drove it away.
One of the most awesome foes
that ever challenged Marvel’s
Dr. Strange was the super-
demon, Shuma-Gorath. Their
confrontation lasted for a num-
ber of issues, during which the
sterling sorceror fought several
lesser monsters. Finally, in
MARVEL PREMIERE #10
(1973), this bout ended with the
destruction of the Ancient One’s
ego. Both he and Dr. Strange had
chosen to sacrifice their lives so
that Shuma-Gorath would be
stopped, but neither one of them
truly died.
DAIMON THE DEMON
As one might immediately
suspect, Daimon Hellstrom is a
to
demon. His mother was a mortal,
but his father is none other than
was
who
JoKnny Blaze, a.k.a. THE GHOST
RIDER, speeds into a showdown with
Satan on the cover of the December,
1974 issue of THE GHOST RIDER,
written by Tony Isabella and drawn by
Jim Mooney. Demons take note;
According to our comics scholar,
Who
Johnny’s soul is still up forgrabs.
Satan himself. Our semi-human
hero, also known as the
Satan (natch!), was introduced in
MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #13
(Marvel, 1973). His origin—
along with his sister’s (Satana)
was told in the following issue.
Almost all of Daimon’s battles-
have concerned his sire in some
way. Usually, he combats one or
more things from the fiery pits,
and occasionally other super-
heroes pitch in to help him. For
example, he and the Human
Torch defied Dryminextes, a
member of the Devil’s court,
had possessed a bunch
American Indians in MARVEL
TEAM-UP #32 (1975), The only
thing that’s good about this
series is that, because of his hot
heritage, there is a possibility
that Daimon may one day turn on
his allies.
One of DC’s best series ever.
Swamp Thing, has already
contained two tales with demons
in them. In the eighth issue
(1974), the slimy monster/hero
came upon a town that had been
taken over by a grotesque
blasphemy called M’Nagalah,
— — a
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This eternal, many-tentacled hor- elemental that was summoned by “APE” POSTBR
—
ror which w'as very reminiscent
of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu (see
larticle elsew-here in this issue)
Iconsumed living flesh and grew
a self-sacrificing black
J udging by the way the tale
hero.
ended, this monster will not turn
up again. On the other hand, I
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Hades. The conflict between the Slayer. As of this writing, only
the first issue has been released
to the public, but I anxiously
await the next one (in which he is
supposed to meet up with Satan
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Buckler.
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Unclean (who, by any other The Silver Surfer’s most Check this publication out,
name, would seem as foul). enemy is undoubtedly
despicable because it’s really something
During two violent struggles Mephisto,who rules a hell else.
with these flying fiends, the somewhere on another astral Two months later, DC’s
stone hero defeated them before plane. This red-skinned demon- STALKER #1 W'as published.
they could harm his friends. We lord is much like Satan, but is This variation on an old theme
never learned the outcome of this apparently not as powerful. Ever concerns a young man who sold
plot— nor whether Kaballa him- since Galactus’ former herald
his soul in return for invincible
self was a demon because the — was stranded on Earth, Mephisto combat skills. The only trouble
series was abruptly discontinued took an intense disliking toward is, his soul was removed from his
due to apparent lack of interest. him. Every chance the vile bod.y as soon as the bargain was
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was not an evil thing. Because of one. Despite all of the villain’s whole game. The last we saw of
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Atlas’ Wulf the Barbarian. In
despite the distribution problems is of creatures from but
hell,
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the nation. The Grim Ghost is (1975), this poor man’s Conan them up and tell us about them.
one of their more unusual was confronted by the giant If anybody disagrees with any of
water demon, Bel-Shugthra. This
characters primarily —
because the carefully considered opinions
he’s dead. His “bag” is the same green, tentacled malcontent was offered herein. I’ll sic a demon or
as the aforementioned Black vanquished by a towering two on them! Sleep
Widow; when he died and his
fire tight, fans.
soul went to
(Issue #1,
hell
1975), the Devil made a deal with
Atlas Comics’
him. He was returned to the land
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the layoffs in the auto industry of
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What the world needs now is NOT yet
another ad variation on the classic
KING KONG Empire State Building
tion’s classified ad department.
Oddly enough, in this ad the original
still from KING KONG is used, rather
scene, but that, apparently, is exactly than an artist’s rendition of same.
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what it’s getting. This time the culprit Thanks go to Shawn Hunter, of Fort
peared in the April 6th edition of the keeping busy.
is the FORT WORTH STAR-TELE- Worth, for bringing this ad to our
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musically speaking, under the full
TIMES butof THE NATIONAL LAM-
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OFA moon? Certainly not anyone who’s

heard the group on view here. TMT is
proud to welcome to humble
GOTHAM CITY and any other publica-
tion willing to trade plugs with them.
The members of BOJ are all young,
COUNTER pages a brand new and
rhythm’n’blues combo
its
truly original
called Blind
spirited and look just like Ringo [ex-
cept Jennifer who more closely

CREATURE Orange Julius, seen here taping their

Richard Staehling of Vancouver,
Canada, sends us word of the first
showing of Theodore Roszak’s THE
CRIME OF DR. FRANKENSTEIN,
which premiered in Vancouver this
April 9th past. Roszak, author of the
much celebrated THE MAKING OF A
COUNTER-CULTURE, is presently a
visiting professor at the University of
British Columbia. Subtitled “A Pop
Myth And Monster Show,” THE
CRIME OF DR. FRANKENSTEIN is,
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rhapsody on Frankensteinian themes”
tracing the “antecedents of Mary
Shelley’s myth.” The show focuses
on such odd creatures as the
homonculus, the Golem, “assorted
automata from the 18th Century,” and
includes historical quotations from
the likes of Paracelsus
Century alchemist), Gershom Scho-
first and (thus far) only TV show
appearance.
sembles Mick]. Blind Orange Julius
serves up hot heaping helpings of raw
blues flavored with a pinch of soul,
Even if you’re a TMT reader who sprinkled with delectable country-
isn’t info the “new music,” some of western licks and garnished with
the members of this merry band some of the tastiest lyrics you’ve ever
should strike a familiar chord. On the" eaten. ..er, heard.
far left, in the blue denims, weighing Blind Orange Julius provides
in at a trim 115 pounds, is none other table-tapping musical entertainment
than Mean Joe (King Rude) Kane, for people of all ages who can prove
premier guitarist, famous writer and they’re at least 21. At their recent
Editor-In-Chief of THE MONSTER opening at C.B.G.B. (a cabaret
TIMES. Seated is NATIONAL LAM- located at the junction of Bleecker
POON scribe and frequent TMT and Bowery), BOJ’s fresh brand of
contributor Mean Dean (Dean the musical fare, peppered with spritely
Scream) Latimer, the funny Blind tunes like “Twisting Your Life Away”
Orange Julius, and next to him is and “I Gotta Scream,” kept audiences
Mean Rex (Sexy Rexy) Weiner, the riveted to their seats, though the
cute one; Rex is also the managing half-chewed bubble gum left on same
editor of APPLE PIE magazine and the certainly helped. A TMT reporter
founder of the infamous Pie-Kill showed up at a recent performance
Unlimited pie-throwing agency. That
and polled individual audience
covers everyone but the unidentified
(a 16th BLIND ORANGE JULIUS — Ready to cook, and cookin'. And for dessert, a
members’ reactions to the group. “It
lady who. to this day, retains that pie in the face, courtesy Rex Weiner's Pie-Kill Unlimited. reminded me of something never
I

status and who assures us that she heard before,” one impressed onlook-
lem, Thomas Hobbes, William Har-
and the band are “just good friends.”
vey, J.J.. Rouseau and Julien
LaMettrie, as well as passages taken
directly from the Shelley book.
The gang,
thank
incidentally, would like to
their choreographer. Prince
BLIND ORANGE lUUUS er volunteered. “They serve up a rich,
tasty blend of rock, blues and country
all right,” added another, “only a half
Jeanette, and wish their wardrobe thriving in Fun City— has added two tambourinist Jennifer Stock, who hour later you’ve got indigestion
According to Roszak’s program
manager a speedy recovery. new members since this photo was already got her plug in TMT. Blind again.”
notes, “We will also be tuning in on a
Blind Orange Julius — one of many taken;NATIONAL LAMPOON writer Orange Julius is the official house The talent is (probably) there; the
few contemporary Frankensteinian vi-
unique all-writer bands currently Mad Ted Mann and actress-singer- band not only of THE MONSTER ability will (hopefully) come.
brations, observing in passing how
yesterday’s science, fiction becomes
today's science fact, and how old
horrors become new Nobel Prize
winning breakthroughs. The selec- The AMERICAN PETER CUSHING clubs, and had been corresponding
tions dealing with brain extraction,
computerized intelligence, biological
cloning, electrical brain stimulation,
CLUB held its first annual meeting
Saturday, April 5, at the McAlpin
with Mr. Cushing for several years. “I
thought it might be nice to start an
American club, since he didn’t have
GOOD NEWS!
Hotel in New York City. HORROR GALORE AT THE
and the general desacraclization of Twenty-five members of diverse one, but had so many fans over here,” MONSTER STORE!
life are not gags or satirical exaggera-
ages and backgrounds, some of them Debbie explained. “I wrote to him, Another eerie new enterprise, THE
tions; they are (alas!) current coming from as far away as Ontario, and he was delighted with the idea, MONSTER TIMES STORE, recently
research and development quoted opened its creaking doors in New
met to discuss Cushing and to view so decided to go ahead with it.”
I

York City's famous Chelsea district.

from the work of Dr. Dean two of his films TWINS OF EVIL and The Club publishes THE AMERI-
:
Located at 167 West 21st Street
Wooldridge, Professor I.J. Good, NIGHT CREATURES. CAN PETER CUSHING CLUB JOUR- (between 6th and 7th Avenues), the
Professor James V. McConnell, The club, which is just over two NAL, a handsome quarterly contain- store specializes in all kinds of
Professor Jose Delgado, and Profes- years old. has a membership of over ing reviews, critiques, and previews monster goods books, novelties.
sor B.F. Skinner.” ni7?ks. and just about any item of a
200. Although called the AMERICAN of films starring Peter Cushing, as
mocabre bent, including much
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read by Rozsak, Betty Roszak and members are from the United States. films and off-camera. (Note; These MONSTER TIMES STORE is open
Gerry Nairn, who
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Bennett, there are members “from photographs, but actual glossies,
FRANKENSTEIN showing up since the above hours
film in the course of
the cerebral show. Sounds intriguing,
but unless you live in Vancouver, or
England, France, Australia, and
Japan, so it’s really an international
club.”
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THE EXORCIST A TMT TERROR CRITIQUE MAX VON SYDOW as Father Merrin, ELLEN BURSTYN as Chris MacNeii, JASON MiLLER as Father Karras, LiNDA BLAIR as Regan MacNeii,
the frightened parent. God’s advocate. the possessed child.
BY DAVID BARTHOLOMEW the Exorcist.

Without a doubt, William Fried- The eyes have li- At the sametime, one has to pay a price
the telltale gaze of for such savage reduction of material. As a
kin’s THE EXORCIST is the most the demonically po-
controversial horror film to appear sessed, that is.
result, THE EXORCIST is all lean
Linda Blair’s intense narrative drive; the development of the
in many a full moon. Not since
portrayal of a young film is nearly totally horizontal, seldom
Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO (1960) girl in the grip of the
vertical. There is potentially interesting
has a horror film aroused so much Evil One charged the
material in the book, although it lies
film with much of its
debate about its artistic and moral undeveloped there, too. In saying this, I
powerand won
—
merits and THE EXORCIST has Linda an Oscar do not mean to downgrade the film all that
surely surpassed even the Hitch- nomination for her
much, particularly Friedkin’s considerable
troubles.
cock thriller in the intensity of visual skills, especially at a time when
critics’ and fans’ various reactions. movies seem to have lost the ability to tell
We asked TMT critic and frequent coherent and satisfying stories. It is just
contributor that there is not too much beyond the
“Cinefantastique”
clean effective storyline to allow the film
David Bartholomew to detail his
reaction to both film and book, and
to rise above its genre! THE EXORCIST,
therefore, misses the chance to be
his lucid examination of THE pretentious in the clumsy manner of genre
EXORCIST begins herewith... films PLANET OF THE APES to
from
THE OMEGA MAN to NIGHT OF THE
LIVING DEAD. At the same time, it
In a neat reversal of the notorious misses out on the thoughtful thematic
Hollywood tradition, William Friedkin has
resonances that so strongly sparked
fashioned a vibrant, class movie from a
others, say, Robert Mulligan’s THE
junk novel. William Peter Blatty’s florid
OTHER or Roman Polanski’s ROSE-
book reads like the overkill first work of a
MARY’S BABY (the latter also adapted
recent, aggressive graduate of the
from an airy, pre fab novel).
Famous Writers’ Home Correspondence
School; he writes like a Ray Bradbury
gone berserk. The book is doubly
irritating in that it seems written solely in that Friedkin and Blatty (the latter
visual terms, all breathless dialogue and serving as both screenwriter and
action, like a Golden Book for adults, producer) have taken and vividly
minus the pictures. Its superficiality lays translated into film. Gone are all parts of
bare the obvious underlying intention that the novel that add unnecessary weight to
it was being written with an eventual, the streamlined narrative flow. The
even pre sold (Big $$) screenplay in mind. novel’s plotting is so pared down, in fact,
The novel seems merely a perfunctory and that it makes several essential characters
messy means to a pecuniary end. That it nearly superfluous, like Kinderman, the
could stay on almost everyone’s best-seller movie-nut police detective (Lee J. Cobb),
lists for over a year says something else or Sharon, Chris’ secretary (Kitty Winn),
about American reading habits. or the movie director Burke Dennings (the
The book’s only salient feature was its late Jack MacGowran). Indeed, one
story,which made reading it not only wonders why they appear in the film at
possible but even, at times, compelling except to provide more warm bodies to
all,

and fascinating. As everyone must know scare. In one important sense, however, I

by now, THE EXORCIST concerns the do appreciate this economy, especially

demonic possession of a young girl. It is when one considers the sheer drudgery of Ellen Burstyn wrestles with moral dilemma and bedevilled daughter in a scene from William
orecisely this storv and its inherently a film like Franklin Schaffner’s chaotically Friedkin’s THE EXORCIST, a film our critic hails as a fright genre classic and one that has
crowded PAPILLON. aroused more controversy than any other horror film in recent memory.
harrowing ana Done-cnuung uappings

Rather than rely solely on the ^Sy now, all the cheers and jeers that thought of THE EXORCIST? You see, MAX MAKES POINT
opinions of TMT’s creature crew of greeted that all-time horror spectacle, Peckinpah’s latest, and perhaps best,
Max Von SydpIV played Father Merrin
resident experts, we decided to
’ THE EXORCIST, have been fully film-BRING ME THE HEAD OF in THE EXORCIST. Rumor had it that he
dispatch ace fright reporters Roy registered on audience barometers all ALFREDO GARCIA— is generically an
was so disturbed by William Friedkin’s
over the world. Some poor traumatized American gothjc horror film, a tale in the
Frumkes and Donna Killian to track directorial style that he walked off the set
fools— I think we’ll have to include tradition of Poe. In addition to this,
down various film industry folk in
ourselves in this category— have found
tor a few weeks to restore his spirit. Max’s
Peckinpah is a self-proclaimed biblical STEPPENWOLF, in which
order to record their reactions to their lifestyles profoundly altered by a
latest film is
scholar. Horror and religion. ..surely he
that controversial epic, THE his character, Hesse’s Harry Haller, is
single viewing. In fact, with all the night would be most enlightening if questioned
EXORCIST. And sure enough, in ward pursued by demons of another sort-
lights now blazing in this country to about THE EXORCIST. Or so we personal tears, doubts, and visions of
what seemed like no time at all, off demons of the dark, we think
might it
thought...
other realities.
Roy and Donna checked in with an have been more appropriate had Con
Edison, rather than Warner Brothers,
TMT: Mr. Peckinpah, how did you like We were talking about HOUR OF THE
even half dozen riveting responses THE EXORCIST? WOLF, and of one particular scene
from the likes of EXORCIST star funded the film.
Others, the less susceptible amdng us
PECKINPAH (gushing warmly); I wherein a father tells a child that if he
Max Von Sydow, director Sam found the film mildly entertaining. (Long doesn’t behave he will be locked in a dark
(those who believe that darkness is
Peckinpah, writer Jesse Lasky Jr., silence) closet -wherein dwell little demons who
populated by various shades of the color
producer Hal Ashby, and film- TMT: Oh.... Well, how might you have will eat his feet, when the conversation
bla^ rather than by nameless things with
makers Tobe Hooper and Wes teeth), will forever find the name Linda done it? turned to THE EXORCIST.
Craven. Their illuminating opinions Blair to be synonymous with gimmicky PECKINPAH (venturing graciously): TMT; When you mentioned demons
follow... decadence of the sleaziest sort. That would take weeks and hours of biting feet, I instantly remembered...
So much for the audience. What of the discussion. (Long silence) VON SYDOW: I drop the idea!
THE EXORCIST: film industry people themselves? Where TMT: Oh.... Well, what did you find TMT: ...THE EXORCIST!
do their opinions fall inthe furor that has wrong with it? VON SYDOW: We shouldn’t talk
AYES AND NAYS split this country into opposing legions of
about
PECKINPAH (reiterating, with typical that.
the Fearful and the Fearless? We checked whimsy): I find no fault with it at all. It TMT: It’s another way to treat demons.
with a few, and here, rivulets of ink on was mildy (Long
these hallowed pages, flow their exclusive
just entertaining. VON SYDOW: Yeah. That’s another
silence) way to do it.
responses.
TMT: Oh.... Well, thank you very much. TMT: They did it pretty well...
BY ROY FRUMKES SURLY SAM PECKINPAH (always generous to a VON SYDOW: Yes, they did. They did
AND DONNA KILLIAN What do you think Sam Peckinpah fault): Uh-huh. (Long silence) it very well.

The Monster Times
LEE
J.
the silent witness.
CERTAIN SHOCKER
I cannot stress too much that THE
EXORCIST is a horror film, a ijmean and
rude shocker. Friedkin has made almost
no concessions to a general mass audience,
which is remarkable (and a point for which
Warner Brothers should be congratulated)
since the film's slowly bloating budget all
the way from $5 to over $10 million
—
negative cost has obviously demanded
that the film be a solid commercial
success. What separates THE EXORCIST
from a lavish NIGHT OF THE LIVING
DEAD for adults are those qualities that
Hollywood can, or at least. in past decades
did, provide; time and money. (The film's
lensing alone took over a year.) Time and
—
money and Friedkin was given a surfeit
of both — allow for top talents to work
their careful peak. The results are plainly
evident on screen.
I mention NIGHT OF THE LIVING
DEAD not lightly since I happen to like
that film quite a bit. Both films work from
the same impulse: terror arising from the
unexplained and the irrational. But THE
EXORCIST packs an incredibly more
powerful punch. Its effect is of even more
unrelieved (and unresolved) tension,
strongly psychological, even pathological,
than that of NIGHT. This is partly due to
THE EXORCIST'S extraordinary spiecial
effects (created by Marcel Vercoutere
with makeup designed by Dick Smith)
which give the film an awesomely realistic
quality— an acute documentary aura— that
grants further credence to the film’s color
photography (traditionally more artificial)
than to the (largely TV-learned) grainy
black-and-white images of NIGHT. Not for
one second can we believe NIGHT could
actually happen. Romero's film convinces
us of its nightmare fantasy, but in THE
EXORCIST we are stone-cold awake.
The film is not so much spooky as
downright frightening, in the explicit,
graphic manner to which the modern
horror film has become accustomed. With
TMT: I had nightmares.
VON SYDOW: Did you?
TMT: I had to play the radio at
night for
two months. Is there a strong preoccupa-
tion in the northern countries with
mysticism and the supernatural?
VON SYDOW: No, not in this way.
TMT: Have you any belief in-it?
VON SYDOW: No, I don’t. But I think
Swedes are mystics in another way. You
know we are Protestants; we are
P.uritans. For example, Fellini, and what
KITTY WINN as Sharon, Jack MacGOWAN
the faithtui servant. the dissipated director.
itshloody deaths and assaults, verbal and
vusual obscenities and foul spewings of all
kinds, THE EXORCIST borders on the
excessive; the film relentlessly probes and
manifests the nature of evil and its
omnipresence. I cannot recall a film that
has so disturbingly convinced us of the
The names of priest among
reality of evil.
— the actors and technical advisors seems
reassuring, for the film, I feel, only
appears to suggest a highly moral tone
and conclusion. The end particularly
seems to be strongly influenced by what
one feels to be F riedkin's skepticism.
The film presents the doctors and other
medical and scientific, even psychiatric,
specialists as not only helpless and
basically valueless in helping the afflicted
at Regan, but as stuffy, emptily-reassuring
authority figures, the epitome of
professional incompetence. It is small
wonder that Chris turns to the Church for
help. Yet, with further reflection, I be-
lieve the film implies that religion, too,
is equally ineffectual in dealing with or —
even diagnosing— evil. It is just as
powerless, since it operates on the
assumption of a basic goodness in
humanity. It is in the film’s attitude
toward the Church that we come to the
crux of the film where film and book and — have taken Regan with him. The person
perhaps Friedkin and Blatty— separate.
(Let’s not forget that Friedkin had Blatty
barred from much of the post-production
work on the film.)
The book posits the Church as ultimate
salvation for both Regan and Chris;
Merrin, the old priest (Max von Sydow),
and Karras, the troubled young priest
(Jason Miller), do release the demon from
Regan, although the act costs both of them
their lives. The film, which up to now has
reproduced in equally fulsome detail the
signs and meaning and evidences of the
demon’s possession, is subtly different.
The Church is not victorious after all;
neither is Merrin or Karras. Exorcism is
an established (and perhaps embarrassing
to modern leaders) rite of the Catholic
EXORCIST starMax
Von Sydow talks
sinistershopwith
TMT reporter Roy
Frumkes, but
attempts to evade
EXORCIST-orlented
queries. As for Roy,
dark eye circles and
glazed expression
offer ample evidence
of countless
sleepless nights
induced by that
fright film classic.
Photo by Dagmar
he represents, is exactly the opposite to
what Sweden might represent. But the
fact that we live in a country way up
north, where we have such different
seasons, so many depressing months of
darkness and cold. ..when we feel that the
year is turning and the warmth coming
back to us, it can be months away; and
when we reach the high point— mid-sum-
—
mer eve when we have daylight all
through the night, more or less, when we
feel that this is ending, now we are going
back to the darkness. We are so .
as Dennings, WILLIAN FRIEDKIN,
filmmaker.
Meanwhile, up in Regan’s room, a terrified Sharon (Kitty Winn) and anxious Father Karras (Jason
Miller) withstand zero degree climate to wage a war for Regan's ravaged soul.
Church; it requires no sacrificial victim, as
Karras becomes. If Karras had been as
strong as Merrin, apd as resourcefully
buckled by faith, the demon might have
been exorcized, but in defeat he would
possessed is not, after all, the object
desired by the demon, which is why the
victim bears no memory of the experience.
The demon is after bigger game, the
priest who comes forward to exorcise him.
— —
Thus the rite as a rite fails in the film.
You may couple this, if you wish, with
Chris’ atheism; she consults the Church as
a last grasp, as she would another doctor.
Her lack of religion may add to the
demon’s strength. Also, the reticence of
the Church, the stand-offish attitude of a
prove-it-to-me-beyond-all-shred-of-doubt
stance, while perhaps understandable, is
just as strong and forbidding as the staid
ineffectiveness of Science and Medicine.
The Church fails in its very unwillingness
to accept evil in a concrete (i.e., nonfigura-
dependent oh nature, on the climate and
seasons, that nature becomes very
important to us.
Most Northerners in Scandinavia are
fascinated by the mystic qualities of
nature, and if you read, for example, the
northern myths or folk tales you can very
well understand how these peoples’
imaginations have worked. It's a special
kind of mystique which does not involve
the devil.
LASKY LIKES MORAL STANCE
Jesse Lasky Jr. was in the United
States briefly to publicize his new book.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HOLLY-
WOOD? The Lasky name hails back to
Film’s origins; Lasky Sr. produced THE
SQUAW MAN, the first feature film, with
Cecil B. DeMille. Soon afterward, he
formed Paramount Pictures, under whose
banner DeMille’s films were produced.
Jesse Lasky Jr. wrote the screenplays
forsome of DeMille’s best films, including
the two great fantasies, SAMSON AND
DELILAH and THE TEN COMMAND-
MENTS. Though some took these great
spectacles as religious dogma, it is clear
that they were written as fantasies, a fact
which Mr. Lasky confirmed personally.
What would Lasky, a genteel soul
whose pseudo-religious fantasy scripts
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WILLIAM PETER BLATTY,
author and producer.
tive) form. To gather proof to take before
the Church for permission to perform
exorcism, Karras exhaustively investi-
gates Regan’s behavior and speech, and
although it runs counter to his eyes and
ears and instincts, he finds natural
evidence to explain Regan’s symptoms.
The book implies -that all behavior,
including Regan’s extremes, can be
explained away, in Karras’ words, by “the
limitless abilities of the mind,” powers like
telepathy, ESP, or telekineses that lie
dormant in most people. The book even
leaves open the major question of whether
Regan was actually possessed by a
demon. In the film there is no doubt,
perhaps because Friedkin and Blatty have
not allowed themselves the time to pursue
these ideas. THE EXORCIST, like THE
OTHER, says that evil is real and
pervasive, and the idea is made doubly
clear and terrifying by the film’s refusal to
attempt ah explanation of how or why the
demon chose Regan.
were produced in Hollywood’s golden (and
censor-ridden) era, think of a
rather
modern, very uncensored religious fanta-
sy like THE EXORCIST?
TMT: What did you think?
LASKY: It held me fascinated from
beginning to end. I read the book. I know
Blatty. I know the producer— Noel
—
Marshall who was at one time a
representative of mine, a dear friend. I
felt that the picture was riveting. And also
I felt that, strangely enough, and I’m sure
thousands will quibble with this, it had a
good moral orientation. I think that films
need a' kind of orientation, and some of the
most contemporary films that are made
have it. Whether they meant to have it or
not, it is there. They are not amoral films.
And this film certainly showed the
triumph of good over evil, with casualties
—
along the line terrible casualties. But
this I think was good from a film
standpoint. I think there’s a great danger
in filmmaking in our time not to somehow
have an orientation. Life is confusing
enough. I don’t give a damn about censor-
ship. If you’re dealing with people who are
erotic, then let them be erotic. But truth
and consequences, I also believe, are a
reality of life. Whether one is an atheist or
religious doesn’t matter. There are .still
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DEMONIC DUEL
In occupying the central role of the plot
in the film, the Karras character unavoid-
_
ably denigrates the Merrin role. This is
one reason the Prologue exists, although
it seems inexplicable in the film. The book
deals lengthily withd;he duel between the
demon and Merrin for power, not merely
the possession of Regan’s soul and body.
Literally, in the Old Testament sense, it is
a battle between Good and Evil. This
battle is alluded to in the movie and set up
quite brilliantly by Friedkin (the camera
tracks up the stairs and in to the door; we
—
react even cringe, Saturday-afternoon-
—
kid-style because we have witnessed the
horrors that lie in wait beyond it.
Friedkin’s massive talent is never more
apparent or more powerfully realized than
in those instances where we move toward
that door.). But for all the build-up and
laying out of paraphernalia, the crucial
battle never really occurs. The omission
leaves a ragged hole at the end of the film.
The novel’s rite lasts nearly two days,
and, before it is finished, involves every
member of Chris’ household. The film
unfortunately telescopes this exhausting
experience to one lengthy bout. The
performance of the rite is interrupted by
Karras’ failure; later, as Merrin trudges
upstairs to continue, we stay downstairs
with Karras until the piercing light of
religiousmartyrdom strikes his murky
eyes, the camera
and tilts up in
magnificent awe to watch Karras march
up to the room, knowing, I think, that he
will give up his life. This cutting of much
''of the battle gives the lie to the exquisite
prologue set in Iraq (with its foreshadow-
ing alien culture strongly conveyed)
where Merrin has discovered the arti-
facts of a demon named Pazuzu (the film
changes him from a demon to the demon,
the Devil, which makes little sense other
than increasing the already grandiose
dramatic values; part of the gasping
quality of the book was in realizing that
for all this demon’s power and foulness, he
was only an underling and completely
puny compared with the Devil). In the
film, Merrin is called in to help Regan,
because he has performed exorcism -
Before, not, as the book hints, because he
recognizes the demon and somehow
believes that in violating the tomb in Iraq
he must share in the responsibility for
unleashing him on the world. The
Prologue ends with a fine spate of cutting
by Friedkin between the statue of the
demon, Merrin, an Arab silently watching
(as Kinderman will do throughout the
plot) and two dogs fighting. The cuts
resolve to a two-shot of Merrin facing the
statue with the winds howling around
them and the sun beating down. This is a
sharp foreshadowing, a one-to-one face-off,
of what will later occur in Regan’s
bedroom.
The film lets us down at a crucial point.
boundaries. Unless we hold to -some kind
of orientation, I think we’re in the last
days.
AYERS AIRS VIEWS
Gerald Ayers, the producer of
LAST DETAIL, is a thoroughly outspo-
ken, and very glib, gentleman whose next
project, Isaac Asimov’s THE CAVES OF
STEEL, may be a scie nee fiction
masterpiece. The film follows the ad-
Trioof EXORCIST
witnesses offer
expert testimonies
for the TMT record:
Jesse Jasky Jr.
(ieft), Sam Peckin-
pah (center), Tobe
Hooper(right).
ventures ot a cop and his robot partner,
and the poteritial creative roster includes
actor Jack Nicholson and director Hal
Ashby, who earlier teamed up for THE
LAST DETAIL. On THE EXORCIST,
Ayers had some interesting things
To wit:
AYERS: I have nothing to say about
THE EXORCIST.
TMT: Uh-oh.... What did I hit
Finding Merrin dead on the bed, Karras
begins to beat Regan. Although we want
—
to cheer him on partly to release the
incredible tension wrung out of us by the
—
film we have to realize he is only hurting
the child. He trades his life for Regan’s,
hut only in defeat, impotently hitting out.
Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller,
modity that’s in scarce supply
Perhaps the most shattering voice the
demon throws at him, other than his
mother’s, is the bum’s in the subway:
“Couldja help an old altar boy. Father?”
.Karras gives up, albeit heroically, but
.with none of the “fiercely shining glint of
triumph” that Father Dyer notes in the
book. The demon’s eyes become Karras’;
when he jumps from the window,
however, he has regained his own,
perBaps a last act of free will. We really
never clearly find out. The important
point, one that the film may not wish to
make (which, as critic Andrew
noted, makes the film not only about evil
but evil itself) is that the demon has not
been destroyed. Evil has triumphed. At
least over Karras.
POSSESSED PERFORMANCE
The sequences with Regan are
grisly and nearly unbearably horrifying.
Regan is played by a non-actor, Linda
Blair, in a role that called less for acting
ability than pure stamina. It is hard to
believe that this role — experience,
or, on another level that the film does not
explore, an actor’s possession by his role
—will not follow her through life. Perhaps
only a non-actor could have done it so well.
Her sequences are so uncommonly
wrenching that one can easily miss the
extraordinary quality of acting in the
sequences that separate them. This, of
course, adds to the terror of the wilder
passages, because Jason Miller and Ellen
time?
AYERS: Well, I’m told it’s
in American cinema. looking at
I like
landmarks. I stop and see roadside
THE markers, learn about the passage of
Cortez across the land, and landmarks in
the American film business I’m very
happy to see."
TMT: You’re giving
euphemism for something.
AYERS: No, no. I’m happy.
as a matter of fact, recently, that it was a
pity that my little picture had to come out
the same season with
in a giant such as
that.
to say.
TMT : That’s bad. .
AYERS: That’s fine, fine. Look, I don’t
mean to be facetious about it. It’s quite a
on this sideshow. So fine.
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Burstyn; especially make us believV To of zerodegrees^, to provide the genuine
apprec^te the craft and skills of ITtb icy aJnnJ^here that accompanies a
actoi;^ which redeems what a lot of critics Session. One can read these tales and
are g^ing to dismiss as justanother horror., majwel that Friedkin (like Hitchcock) did
film^/a second iHpwing becopips virteally not allow his $10 million monster tq
.
mgindatory. '
,/ overcome him. There is precious litj/e
.
here to THE —
subtlety in the film like the flashes of.the
innocent child which re-surface periodical-
ly throughout Regan’s possession but —
Friedkin has avoided a dull literalizatioh
of the novel’s images that could have been
artlessly stultifying and more than a trifle
degrading.
The film, incidentally, is based on an
actual case study of the last Churcjb-sane-
tioned exorcism, performed, in Maryland
in 1949. Blatty has changed the character
from a little boy to a little girl, presumably
for the greater horrific contrast (some
little boys seem quite capable of at least
some of what goes on in THE EXORCIST
entirely on their own). Blatty also escapes
to a greater extent the damaging
Freudiaij reading that could be given to
the book. THE EXORCIST is a tale of the
supernatural which, if Blatty is to be
believed, involved the supernatural.
Friedkin and Blatty (and Warner
Brothers) have let themselves in for a lot;
considering the moral chaos created by
the recent Supreme Court decision, their
film will probably help to define, in one
as pressured priestly pair, represent Regan’s last hope, a com- way or another, the word “obscenity.” The
in Friedkin’s 10 million dollar demon epic. film will many people off; the
turn
reviewers’ response to it, although
BIRDS in that careless and undiscerning overwhelmingly favorable, allows for little
critics willcharge Friedkin, as they did —
middle ground one either likes it or
Hitchcock, with creating a monster not loathes it.
unlike those of the formula 50s creature Time Good horror films, unlike
will tell.
movies, or even one of Universal’s old science fiction, have an almost superna-
workhorses, which eventually overpowers tural ability to age very well; the good
both the director and his film. Friedkin ones almost never date. Despite its
does an admirable job of illustrating the faults —
and I have probably become too
increasingly horrifying takeover of Regan involved here in that old bugaboo book vs.
— much like the creaking series of film-I think THE EXORCIST is a classic
dissolves used to transform Jekyll to of its genre. In time, Friedkin’s film may
Hyde or Talbot to the Wolf Man. Even transcend even that.
more amazing is the transformation of the
Sarris demon’s power, adroitly sketched by THE EXORCIST'S imminent arrivai signais that
Friedkin, from the comforting playmate it’s time for us to take ieave of this Satanic
subject. Whether or not Friedkin’s (iirn can.
Captain Howdy (like the imagined withstand the test of time and retain its ‘classic’
companion of Amy in CURSE OF THE status will be up to future scare scholars to
CAT PEOPLE), a harmless figure who decide.
eases the loneliness of childhood, to the
full naked terror of the demon. Much of
strong, this, as I mentioned before, is due to the
technicians; the film’s special effects,
makeup and art direction may be the best
that I have ever encountered. In this
context, the hospital sequence, when
really, Regan is given the skull X-rays, is a dire
warning of the explicitness of what is to
come. (It serves, also, to link in our
identical revulsion the horror of an
everyday, if medical, occurrence with the
unnatural acts that will follow.) The film’s
production stories are all there in the
literature, from the set of Regan’s
bedroom built on a gyro device so that the
entire room could be instantly tilted to
any angle, to its refrigerated temperature
HOOPER HYPES TRACK often the case with the creators of the
a landmark strongest celluloid stomach-turners, in-
In the opinion of the Frumkes half of
this column, THE TEXAS CHAINSAW cluding Hitchcock, Hooper and Ken
Russell. We reached Wes at the studio
MASSACRE was one of the' best films of
where he was finishing the trailer to his
1974. Its writer-producer-director, Tobe
Hooper, is young and low-key, and most of
latest film.
his lifehas been immersed in film and TMT: I need your feelings on THE
EXORCIST.
filmmaking. His attention to technical
me a long detail is everywhere apparent in CRAVEN (laughing): Oh dear.
CHAINSAW, and it is not surprising that
TMT Did you like it?
:
his comments on THE EXORCIST CRAVEN: Yeah, I enjoyed it. It made
gravitated in that direction.
the hair on the back of my neck stand up
HOOPER: think that releasing it with
I on end. That’s the only picture I can ever
a magnetic track was really effective. remember doing that to me.
TMT: That was Friedkin’s whole thing,
TMT: Is there anything you feel didn’t
looking for top quality in sound. work?
HOOPER: I did same. Buzz
the CRAVEN: Yeah, her make-up. I
Knudson dubbed EXORCIST and CHAIN- thought it looked phony... I don’t have
SAW' too. He was the key mixer at anything profound to say about it. It was a
Todd-AO. In fact, CHAINSAW has a few good, superior horror film.
EXORCIST effects in it. When the guy So there you have it an even half —
I was told, gets his head sledgehammered and his dozen inside responses to the film that’s
head flips around, I used the sounds not done more for insomnia than any in recent
only that I created with a crunching skull memory. It was well worth the visits, time
and the impact, but also that neck-clicking and dimes to it took to secure said
sound from the little girl. responses, in our eerie estimate at least.
CRAVEN REMARKS One final word of advice, however: Should
you ever find yourself in need of an
Wes Craven, writer'director of the gory exorcist, be advised to pay him on
LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, is a time. ..or you may very well be
sensitive, quiet individual, and such is
repossessed.
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Even though the reputation and

popularity of fright fictioneer
H.P. Lovecraft has grown greatly
since his belated rediscovery in
THOSE LOUSY LOVECRAFT FILMS o
IMHYDEMONte
the 60s, filmmakers have adapted
his weird works with a disturbing
lack of either love or craft. Scare
scholar and avowed Lovecraft-
lover Jason Thomas thinks the
late horror author deserves
better, and proffers his less than
flattering views on the butchered
Lovecraft efforts that the screen
has offered thus far...

H.P. Lovecraft was undoubted- BY TOM ROGERS

ly one of the finest horror fiction
authors in' history, yet many
people haven’t the faintest idea
who he was. He often wrote
science-fiction short stories dis- Vincent Price, as
possessed protagonist
guised as terror tales, and his
seeks to protect
entire “Cthulhu Mythos” is really
heroine Debra Paget .

a literary series about powerful from crowd of

(seemingly eternal) alien “gods” harmless genetic
from another dimension. While hu mutants with
his works werfe excellent and W faces hall-
incredible,
nately
they were unfortu-
great disappointments
lU
ys'
erased in THE
HAUNTED
^
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whenever they were filmed as X»'. PALACE IM
motion pictures. The tremendous
incompetence with which pro-
ducers, directors and screen
writers “adapted” Lovecraft's
stories was truly appalling, but
^ perhaps a loose adaptation is
better than none at all. Some of
you readers may think that, but I
certainly don’t! If something
can’t be done right in the media,
it shouldn’t be done at all.

bear in mind that it is a Lovecraft
production, and not a Poe. As an
adaptation, it isn’t too bad but
that’s because the novella is one
of H.P.’s weaker works.
Two years later, DIE,
STER, DIE (1965) came
Infuriatingly enough, there was
no. advance notice that this flick
had anything to do
Lovecraft. It starred
Karloff, Nick Adams, and Freda
Jackson, and it was not really a
bad film in itself. However, as an
adaptation of “The Colour Out of
Space,” which was one of
Lovecraft’s most terrifying tales,
it was atrocious! Both versions
dealt with a meteorite which fell
to Earth and then started
mutating all within its range. In
the movie, everything other than
the meteor was drastically
Lon Chaney Jr. and Price make grim discovery in another scene from THE
different, and it was a tremen-
HAUNTED PALACE, the best of a poor lof of Lovecraft “adaptations.”
dous disappointment compared
to the original work. Adams was
Many of works
Lovecraft’s except for the reading of Poe’s certainly no Lovecraftian protag-
deal with a demon-god named poem— came loosely from H.P. onist, and Karloff wasn’t too
Cthulhu. This giant, octopus-like Lovecraft’s longest work. The
menacing in his-wheelchair; since
monstrosity currently resides in Case of Charles Dexter Ward Lovecraft hardly ever mentioned
another dimension, to which he (his only novella). In the women in his tales, I need not
had been banished by a band of beautiful credits, one was lucky if mention that the heroine of the
good (?) gods centuries ago. one saw the real author’s name at filmwas out of place. There were
Since then, Cthulhu has been all! The flick was an interesting two monsters, but they didn’t
trying to return to our universe one, starring .Vincent Price as compare with the horrors that
in order to conquer it. He the possessed protagonist and had been created for “The Colour
occasionally manages to get some featuring Lon Chaney (Jr.) as his Out of Space.” Hopefully, an-
poor mortal dupe or fanatic to
dumb assistant. There were other movie version will be done
help him in this task, but so far genetic mutants
in abundance in someday; it’s too eood a tale to
someone else has always come this one, and even a demon waste on something like DIE,
along and spoiled the evil one’s (Cthulhu'?) that
delighted in MONSTER, DIE.
plans. As you can see, it isn’t
easy being a mean, ugly creature
ravaging the flesh of captive Next came THE SHUT-
rather, it was a suspense-thriller occult elements rather than the
by August Derleth. In '
the
demons themselves, and Sandra
— credits, Lovecraft was men- Dee was a real waste of time as
tioned, but he wouldn’t have the lady menaced by the
liked it had he known. mysterious horrors. Like DIE,
MON- MONSTER, DIE, this motion
along. picture should also be remade
LAST LOVECRAFT if ithas a chance of turning out
It wasn’t until 1969 that the better!
with last Lovecraft movie was re- There were a few short
Boris leased. This was THE DUN- adaptations of Lovecraft’s works
WICH HORROR, and it starred that appeared on the generally
Dean Stockwell as the semi- poor anthology, NIGHT GAL-
demon, and none other than LERY, during 1971. “Pickman’s
Sandra Dee was thrown in as the Model” and “Cool Air” were
heroine. Despite the flagrant
’
done, as well as a comical version
miscasting, the production was of what might happen if one calls
surprisingly good. However, it upon the Old Gods in vain
had no impact whatsoever (entitled “Professor Peabody’s
compared to the original tale of Last Lecture”). These were
the same name. Worst of all, we better adapations than the
never got to see the giant demon, movies had been— which doesn’t
except for very brief glimpses at say much for the film industry.
several points in the movie. It Perhaps someday we’ll get to see
would have been better if we a faithful adaptation of one of
never got to see it. Needless to H.P. Lovecraft’s magnificent
say, the storyline was altered stories; until then, we might be
radically to suit the producer’s better off with none. That’s the
idea of a hit. It played up the way the celluloid crumbles.
[
Nick Adams,
an unlikely
Ldvecraftian hero,
confronts character
who's almost as thin
as the film itself
in a scene from DIE.
MONSTER, DIE.
H.P.'s fans still pray
for the day when
filmmakers will do
right by their idol.

from another plane of existence

mortal women. This offering, TERED ROOM which
(1967), I
which was directed by Roger will only mention here because it
(and you thought you had Corman, is worth seeing, but wasn’t really a Lovecraft tale;
problems). Anyway, there are ,

quite a few offshoots of the
Cthulhu theme, some of which
were written by Lovecraft, and
others of which were done by
such distinguished creators as
August Derleth, Robert Bloch,
Robert Howard, and others.
Despite all this coverage and
popularity, there are still many
people who don’t know who H.P.
Lovecraft was. Fortunately, his
works started appearing in
paperback collections during the
1960s, and a number of them are
still available. Try one out; the
reading is not easy, but is
certainly worth the effort. His
command of the English lang-
uage, along with his fantastic
imagination, make for a delight-
fully horrific time.
PURLOINED PALACE
The first Lovecraft film was
THE HAUNTED
(1963), which was billed as an
Edgar Allan Poe number. Actual-
ly, everything that occurred—
Freda Jackson played the violent, radiation-afflicted wife of Boris Karloff in
Daniel Haller’s DIE, MONSTER, DIE, an unsuccessful attempt to recreate on
celluloid H.P.’s “The Colour Out of Space.”
Lovecraft Filmography
MONSTER, DIE
DIE, (1965) HAUNTED PALACE (1963)
American-International 80 min. American-International 85 min.
Directed by Daniel Haller. Directed by Roger Corman.
Screenplay by Jerry Sohl, from Screenplay by Charles Beau-
Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of mont, from (principally) Love-
Space." Starring Boris Karloff, craft’s “The Case of Charles
Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Dexter Ward.” Starring Vincent
Freda Jackson, Terence De Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney
Marney, Patrick Magee.
Jr., Leo Gordon, Elisha Cook,
DIINWICH HORROR (1969) John Dierkes, Barboura Morris.
American-International 90 min.
Directed by Daniel Haller. SHUTTERED ROOM (1967) 7
Screenplay by Curtis Lee Han- Arts 99 min. Directed by David
son, Henry Rosenbaum and Greene. Screenplay by D.B.
Ronald Silkosky, from Love- Ledrov and Nathaniel Tanchuck,
PALACE cralt's story. Starring Dean from stories by August Derleth
Stockwell, Sandra Dee, Sd and Lovecraft. Starring Gig
Begley, Sam Jaffe, Lloyd Boch- Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver
ner, Barboura Morris. Reed, Flora Robson.
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What, we may well ask, All-

Demon, All-Exorcism issue would
be complete without an article
detailing the exorcistic exploits
of Captain Kirk, commander of
the USS Enterprise? Just about
any, you may well answer, for as
far as we can see there's little
connection between STAR TREK
and Satan. Not so, TWIT scribe
Doug Wlurray may well interject,
and he supports that contention
in the following article dealing
with the ^od captain's demonic
duels with futuristic forces of
unchained evil.

‘Get off my
ship! We
know what
you are!
You can’t
harm us!” Captain Kirk,
Day of the Dove

You may think that exorcisms

are only performed by befrocked
priest and saintly prelates, but
it's just not so. For three years,
James T. Kirk, Captain of the
USS Enterprise, performed the
—
same function Exorcist with- —
out ever removing the gold
uniform of a starship commander
or donning black robes and white
collar.
You say you don't remember
Captain Kirk casting out de-
mons? Sure you have! Think back
STAR
CAP’T BY
DOUG
MURRAY
now
TREK
to the following
episodes...

ENTERPRISING EXORCIST
DAY OF THE DOVE. An alien
KIRK
Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Klingon Commander Kang (Michael Ansara) go at it phaser and tong in an eternal struggle engineered by a mysterious
life force, composed of pure evil
evil force in the DAY OF THE DOVE episode. Said demonic force was one of several futuristic fiends defeated by the Enterprise commander in the
energy, has taken control of the course of STAR TREK’S three seasons on the tube.
Enterprise and is forcing Kirk
and crew back to battle it out
with Kang, the Khngon Corn- mander. And that battle will last for eternity, because the alien in
question will not allow anyone to
die. The battle is waged for the
sole purpose of giving perverse
pleasure and weird nourishment
to the demonic creature. Kirk,
finally realizing the awful truth
of the situation, forces the alien
off the Enterprise by confronting
it with a strong counter-dose of
good energy, fellowship and
—
love driving the alien into space
by means of this greater force.
WHERE NO MAN HAS
GONE BEFORE. Kirk is com-
pelled to destroy an old and dear
friend, Lt. Commander Gary
Mitchell, when the latter is
turned into a veritable god by a
strange force at the edge of the
universe. Impervious to normal
weapons and deaf to Kirk’s
arguments and pleas, Mitchell is
finally killed when his only equal.
Dr. Elizabeth Dehner (also
transformed by that same
strange force), temporarily
drains him of his powers,
enablihg Kirk to overcome him
and inadvertently place him in
the path of a falling boulder. The
reason for Dr. Dehner’s sudden
switch of loyalties? Kirk’s elo-
quent denunciation of godhood
without responsibility, and life
without humanity.
Though Kirk confronted and
conquered odd evil forces
episodes like CHARLIE X,
SQUIRE OF GOTHOS, RE-
TURN OF THE ARCHONS,
“There’s more than one way to fight a fiend,” says William Shatner, THE CHANGELING, THE UL-
applying karate fist to face of unidentified assailant on the April '74 TIMATE COMPUTER, RE-
Since STAR TREK’S demise,
cover of FIGHTING STARS.
added martial arts techniques to his considerable exorcism
Bill’s
skills.
TURN TO TOMORROW and
OBSESSION, wasn’t until the
it
WOLF IN THE FOLD episode
that Kirk and crew again met up
with a case of true demonic
possession. In that episode, Kirk
and friends come face to face(in a
manner of speaking) with one,of
human history's most infamous
villains— Jack the Ripper. The
Ripper, it is revealed, is not a
specific entity after all, but a
force, an alien power that
possesses humans and uses them
to further its own horrid ends.
When the Ripper uses the
Enterprise’s own Mr. Scott tor
its nefarious purposes, Kirk and
Spock soon uncover the truth of
the matter. Once exposed, the
creature escapes into the ship’s
computer. Kirk feeds the compu-
ter an insoluble problem to drive
the demon out, in dead human
form, a form which he then
breaks down into its component
atoms and— with the aid of the
transporter— scatters through
space. The terror of Jack the
Ripper is finally over.
BY PEACE POSSESSED
In THIS SIDE OF PARA-
DISE, the demonic danger is of
quite another sort. This time,
rather than promoting unhappi-
ness, destruction and death, the
possessing force wants only
peace and love. Kirk, however,
as the only Enterprise crewman
free of the force’s hold, decides
that man must be free to choose
in his own way of whether or
life,
not said life is inferior to what
this force can offer. After
exorcising this well-meaning
demon from Spock, Kirk and
Vulcan work together to free all
the Enterprisers from the force’s
“curse.” Right or wrong, for good
or ill, the interplanetary explor-
ers are free again to choose for
themselves the lives they wish to
lead.
Finally, in THE CHILDREN
SHALL LEAD THEM, Kirk
comes into contact with a weird
group of children. ..children who
play as their parents lie dead
around them. ..children who seem
incapable of crying.. .children
who have an uncanny mastery
over man’s emotions and an
ability to turn those emotions
against their enemies. As it turns
out, the children are under the
influence of a certain Gorgon, the
“friendly” angel. But Gorgon is
actually something less than
friendly; he plans, in fact, to
conquer the universe, to stamp
out goodness and light and make
all people his slaves. Gorgon,
however, is helpless without his
agents, the children, and when
Kirk shows them the true
ugliness of the creature they
have befriended, they realize
their mistake, banish the evil
“angel” forever and finally cry
for their lost parents a sign of—
their return to humanity
So, indeed. Captain James
Kirk has encountered more than
his fair share of strange spirits of
evil, —
forces that in less en-
lightened days, before time was
measured in stardates might —
have been called demons, agents
of Satan, minions of the Dark
One. And Kirk defeated them—
through forceful argument, ban-
ishment and, in several cases,
through luck and the arrival of a
the faithful “deus ex machina”
supplied by the scriptwriter. As
long as evil continues to exist,
there will be m'en who will
recognize and confront this evil...
men like Captain Kirk, Exorcist.
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page 22
Here are two things wrong
withTHE CURSE OF THE
DEMON; Peggy Cummins and
the Demon.
^
Miss Cummins
is so innocuous
she could be a pod from THE
INVASION OF THE BODY
SNATCHERSXwho walked out of
a closet two years later and
found herself on the DEMON set.
Discovering Dana Andrews to be
nearly as one-dimensional as
herself, she decided to hang
around.
Unlike Miss Cummins, the
Demon was forced on director
Jacques Tourneur by studio dolts
who were' frightened not by the
superior suspense and shock
scenes, but by too few frames
being filled with a gruesome,
drooling monster’s face. Now we
must tolerate the burden of their
' relief, and each close-up is worse
than the next: the same
low-angle shot, with a descend-
ing, quivering puppet head that
could have been a reject from
Sesame Street. Ah, the taste of
the studio bigwigs.
In the long shots, the demon is
more palatable, and the last
scene is so well-edited and
conceived that it hardly bothers
one at all. But I’m sure if
Tourneur had known well in
advance that pressures would
force him to abandon the rules of
Lewton, he might have come qp
with something better than a
winged gargoyle who probably
found post-production employ-
ment with Kabuki troupe.
a article on the titles of the film in
Everything else about the iilm
is good to excellent. Of course,
we must contend with an edited
version of the original NIGHT
OF THE DEMON, filmed in
England, which has never been
shown here. One realizes how
extensive the editing may have
been wheni in the title crawl, the
woman playing Hobart’s wife is
listed (Hobart is the patient in
the chemical-hypnosis therapy
sequence) but never seen in the
film. In addition, about 15 minues
into the, film, an East Indian,
Doctor Kumar, enters Holden’s
(Dana Andrews) hotel room,
apologizing to those present for
being late. He is informed that
“It’s okay. We were just about to
begin.” Begin what? What was
he late for? We never find out,
and nothing is ever begun.
Much as I would love to see the
uncut British version of CURSE
OF THE DEMON, I’m crazy
about the American release copy.
I think it is exemplary filmmak-
ing, in which every scene is
compact and furthers the story,
where the story is told equally,
well verbally and visually, where
all the elements of cinema are
put into play— cinematography
and lighting, music, editing,
writing, ^direction, art direction,
special effects, sound, etc.
Consider the introduction of the
protagonist— Holden. We
aren’t
dulled by a verbal description;
we see his picture on a
newspaper lying over his face as
he slumps in his plane seat trying
to catch some sleep. His behavior
in these formative moments
clearly establishes him as rude,
cynical, and headed for trouble.
It also begins his "ambivalent
relationship with the film’s
heroine. Hitchcock’s pacemaker
would have doubtless recharged
over all this expository work
accomplished in purely cinematic
terms. It demonstrates the care
with which the rest of the film is
constructed, scene by scene, and
sjiot by shot.
EERIE OPENING
The film, to begin a long recap,
commences with a wonderful
shot— the Columbia Pictures
—
logo in which a woman holds a
torch aloft. What is so nice about
this shot is the ominous music
behind it. Even a venerable insti-
tution such as the studio takes on
a weird aura with an unsettling
orchestral strain accompanying
BY ROY FRUMKES
Full-time screenwriter and
Tourneur’s CURSE OF THE DEMON to be one of the finest fright films ever produced— and
we agree.Toumeur.who apprenticed under RKO producer Val Lewton and directed such de-
ceptively titled masterworks as THE CAT PEOPLE and WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE in the
40s, Struggled against severe budgetary limitations and studio interference to craft a mi-
nor classic of the genre. First part of Roy’s analysis of Tourneur’s gem begins herewith...
it. Next we see several hazy -day
shots of Stonehengfe— a cluster
of runic carved boulders that
represents one of man’s greatest
earthbound mysteries over—
which is heard the standard B
film prologue, slightly better
than the norm because this is
chiefly a case of ‘A’ film artistry
struggling against ‘B’ film com-
promises and budgetary restric-
tions, like the films of Lewton, or
Samuel Fuller, or Peter Watkins,
or Ken Russell’s BBC efforts.
“Ithas been written,” a
narrator intones, “since the
beginning of time, even unto
these ancient stones, that evil,
supernatural creatures exist in a
world of darkness... And it is also
said, man, using the magic power
of the ancient runic symbols, can
call forth these powers of
darkness, the demons of Hell!”
And the music blares out of the
speakers and the fiery titles fill
the screen.
I think here, at the beginning,
we really can distinguish this
film as excellent, rather than
great. The key is in the formula.
Lewton more or less created
something new back in the ’40s,
due to budgetary demands and
the fact that Universal had
already copyrighted the names'of
the famous monsters. Equipped
with a poetic, literate sensibility,
he created films which ached
with delicacy, from which horror
sprang like the worst kind of
shock— like when the water
suddenly goes ice cold in the
shower. This blend of fragility
and horror, mainly implied arid
highly stylized, plus- a fine
command of the medium, en-
nobled all those little Lewton
works.
Tourneur was, of course, one
ofLewton’s ‘boys,’ as most TMT
readers already know. He direct-
ed THE CAT PEOPLE and I
WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE,
sometime TMT contributor
proving his particular talents to
be up to Lewton’s particular
demands— many feel more
than any other director who
worked under Lewton’s super-
vision.
What we have, in 1957,
Tourneur doing the closest thing
one can imagine to recreating his
earlier aesthetic and generic
triumphs with Lewton. But,
ultimately, Tourneur is.
Lewton, and so CURSE OF THE
DEMON ultimately is derivative
and imitative, not original. This
is no morO serious than saying
Carol Reed’s THIRD MAN
was
derivative and imitative of
Welles, which it was, or that
Carol Reed’s NIGHT TRAIN TO
MUNICH was derivative and
imitative of Hitchcock, which it
was. So what! It may diminish
Reed as a brilliant innovator, but
he is so skilled that it was our
good luck to have a second
Welles and Hitchcock around.
In addition to style, Reed was
going formula, and so
Tourneur. What I occasionally
wonder is what would have
happened if someone as revolu-
tionary as Kubrick had tackled
the film. The difference between
excellence and inspiration would
have probably been instantly
apparent. A gray sky behind
Stonehenge is guaranteed to
produce a somber, foreboding
mood. Kubrick probably would
have given us a cheery, lofty-
clouded day, devoid of any
obvious menace, and inevitably
all the more terrifying. Yet we
must be very grateful for what
beauties we are given. DEMON
is only a shade behind Lewtori*s
work, and it is one of the finest
and most charming films of the
supernatural we have.
AUTHORS OF EVIL
Getting back. ..the titles
, .
The Monster Times
was adayted, is 22
pa^sia^fing, and alD'the roots of
the filn?N(^;^bpv ?ound there:
Karswell’s dis'Rkii^^ disapproba-
tion by his anti-peei^Sfi^^« party
/ The title fiend
r from CURSE OF for the children, only wtHii^qr
THE DEMON more cruelty fas we shall later
one of the shiver
is
screen’s most con- see); the library scene; Duning
troversial creatures ; (the Holden character, more or
many critics maintain
that the demon’s too-
less) being helped by a relative of
vi vidpresence detracts
the deceased critic (not scientist)
from an othenwise fine Harrington— only in this, case
him. From a purely helped by a nephew, not a niece;
cosmetic point of view, the growing terror and feeling of
though he does make
,
for an effective fiend,
being watched and pursued; the
as artist Raymond quote from Coleridge (“...Be-
Zatarga’s rendition cause he knows a frightful fiend
of the demon demon-
strates.
Doth close behind him tread”);
and finally, on the train, the
passing back of the parchment.
But the film nobly transforms
the story, retaining all of its
beauty and horror, and enlarging
and embellishing and cinema-
tizing it every step of the way.
The story is a third person
objective narrative; the film is a
first person subjective experi-
ence.
To Bennett and Chester I give
the most loving praise for their
finely constructed, articulately
dialogued screenplay. An adapta-
tion displaying great fondness
and imagination toward the
subject. Old Montague would be
turning in- his grave now, but
only to get a better view of the
mini-screen on his cryptovision
set.
END OF THE BEGINNING
Ending the first of a two-part
question leaves a lot to come. I
can’t help it; I got carried away.
And next issue there may be
some surprises in store. Let me
bring this chapter to a close with
a plaudit for an unsung hero of
Roy Frumkes considers Jacques many films, the Casting Director.
In this case it is Robert Lennard,
a name to reckon with. Yes, it
was. Tourneur who gave the final
I
okay to all those marvelous
characters whose memorable
faces fill the passing frames of
CURSE OF THE DEMON. But it
was Lennard who dug them up,
pear, and we notice that the scavenged through the personali-
script has been adapted by ty files after studying the script
so Charles Bennett and Hal E. and listening to anything Tour-
Chester from the story by neur had to say. Some casting
' Montague Rhodes James. James, directors will populate a film
appointed Provost of Eton with hordes of faceless mugs.
is College in 1918, was a student of And with each poor choice,
ancient and medieval lore, and another bit of nuance is lost,
his hobby was the writing of another piece of the film falls into
ghost stories involving satanic the great gray chasm of indefini-
forces pent-up over the eons in tion where most film goes as far
not netherworlds where only practi- as the human mind is concerned.
tioners of the Black Arts were So let’s hear it for Robert
foolish enough to tread. Many of Lennard, a fine casting director;
his tales can be found in a volume THE CURSE OF THE DEMON,
entitled GHOST STORIES OF a fine film; and Joe Kane, here’s
AN ANTIQUARY, and a few are another fine mess you’ve gotten
available in the marvelous me into!
GREAT
Modern Library volume,
TALES OF TERROR AND THE CURSE OF THE DEMON (1958) 83
SUPERNATURAL. His style min. Directed by Jacques Tourneur.
Screenplay by Hal Chester and
was dry and academic, and very Charles Bennett, from the story
literate, heading in the direction “Casting the Runes" by Montague B.
James. Starring Dana Andrews,
ofyLovecraft, but never making Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis,
it. He lived from 1862 to 1936.
Maurice Denharn, Athene ^yler
Liam Redmond, Reginald Beckwiih,
Casting the Runes, the story Ewan Roberts, Peter Elliott,
from which CURSE OF THE
is
Wry evil conjurer Niall MacGinnis advises biunt American scientist Dana.
Andrews to vacate his terrifying turf in an eariy scene from Jacques Tour-
ap- neui’s masterful CURSE OF THE DEMON.
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We’ve just received word that another

demonic horror film is on the
way— THE DEMON LOVER. The
fright film is currently being shot in
and around an actual castle in
Jackson, Michigan (of all places) and
is written, produced and directed by
Donald G. Jackson and Jerry
Younkins. Ted NugenI and the Amboy
Dukes are writing the musical score
and will also appear in the film, set
for an October release under the ban-
ner of Wolf Lore Cinema.
Nicholas Meyer, author of the
Sherlock Holmes’ THE SEVEN PER
...is our way of getting the latest CENT SOLUTION, is writing a
hot-pff-the-weird-wire info to you, teleplayfor ABC-TV. Entitled THE
serving up all the news of what’s
cookin' in every medium, from the
rare to the haif-baked to the weti-
There seems to be a lot of
expectation about the filmization of
NIGHT THE MARTIANS LANDED, the
script
dered
deals with the chaos engen-
by Orson Welles’ famous
CREATURE
done: ' reviews, previews, bulletins
and controversial comments on
horror, sci-fi and fantasy happenings
Peter Benchley's JAWS. Robert Shaw
stars in this film about an incredibly
giant and malevolent shark, not one
"panic broadcast” of H.G. Wells”
WAR OF THE WORLDS
TV film slated
in 1938. The
sometime
COLORING
CONTEST
is to air
in films, books, comics, TV and even for the weak of stomach. during the Fall season.
real life. We have spared no costs,
Norman Lear, creator of TV’s
time or tender egos in bringing you MAUDE and ALL IN THE FAMILY,
this expanded editiorr of our beloved As much as we hate to Interrupt this
returns to the cinema with a remake
Teletype page, so feet free to sendms special, unique, one-time-only AIL Woonsocket, Rhode Island.
of H.G. Wells' THE MAN WHO
letters full of lavish praise for our Demon, All-Exorcism issue of THE Deserving, in the art-oriented eyes
COULD WORK MIRACLES. Roland
selfless efforts to keep you “in-the- Young MONSTER TIMES, we think it only fair of our distinguished judges, of
played the title role in
know." Handling Fright Film Fore- and proper, meet and just to honorable mention are the following
Alexander Korda's original master-
casting chores is “Breezy Bill” Feret, announce (finally) the hicky winners Crayola wizards and magic marker
piece, which, recall, had an incred-
I

who kicks off this feature with his ibly spectacular finale. Lear will have
of the TMT Creature Coloring Contest mavens: Henrv L. Davis of Goviter.
column,- which begins directly be- we ran back in TMT 37. Choosing a Miss.; Barry Griffith, South Portland,
to make lotsa use of Paramount’s
low .. talented trio of creature-colorers from Maine: Mike Epperson, Murray, Utah;
special effects dept, to equal Korda's
the hundreds upon hundreds entries Jessica Wolf, New York City; Laura
version.
received was no easy task, and the Perkins, Houston, Texas; Stan Wong,
SUPERMAN will be coming to the Though he usually plays heavies, highly-qualified contest judges re- Vancouver, Canada; Douglas Bruce,
screen a colossal production from
in Ernie Borgnine finally gets a chance cruited from TMT’s sprawling art staff Richmond, Va.; Donnie Pitchford,
Alexander Salkind, and, surprisingly to play a monster in Bryanston’s THE suffered many a moment of anxious Longview. Texas; Murt Strotbeck,
enough, Brian Clemens, scripter tor DEVIL’S RAIN. I’m looking forward to indecision, to say nothing of sleepless Jackson Heights, N.Y.; Ray Rodecker,
THE AVENGERS and dozens of this one. nights, in the process. But, in a Jamaica, N.Y.; Jon, Tim and Jennifer
ABC's Mystery Movies, is preparing a sparsely attended ceremony in the Stoke, West Sullivan, Maine; Steven
live screen adaptation of none other spacious TMT art room, our Rossi, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mike Mathews,
than Marvel’s SPIDERMAN. beleaguered judges handed to pub- Sedalia, Mo.; Mark Costanza, Bradley,
lishers Brill and Waldstein three sealed HI.; Jack Page, Toronto, Canada;
From the makers of AMERICAN
GRAFITTI issues MESSIAH OF EVIL, envelopes containing the names of the Matthew Crispino, Centereach, N.Y.;
starring Michael Greer, Marianna Hill,
winners of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes Mike Mahoney, Nashua, N.H.; Martin
of our Creature Coloring Contest: Van Dyke, Apple Valley, Minn.; Sean
Joy Bang, and Elisha Cook. This one,
Film Ventures International has in Isl Prize ($25.00 cash money and a Glover, Watkins Glen, N.Y.; and our
about cannibalistic zombies run
amok, is pretty poor. current release an exorcism epic free one-year subscription to TMT) youngest contestant, Michael Elyea,
Roger Cormaji will be bringing us entitled BEYOND THE DOOR. goes to Brian Wagner. 17, of Joplin, age 2, of San Diego, California.
DEATH RACE Amicus has quite a production Missouri. Congratulations Brian Wagner, Steve
2000, a quickie
capitalizing on Norman Jewison’s
schedule. They seem to be placing a 2nd Prize ($10.00 cash money and Engberg and Steven Schooley— not to
lot of hope in their current Edgar Rice a free one-year subscription) is mention all you honorable mentionees
ROLLERBALL, starring David ^ung Burroughs’ THE LAND THAT TIME hereby awarded to Steve Engberg, 14, —for a fiendish job well done. Of
Fu” Carradine as a racedrir^ who
scores points by runnnin^ down FORGOT, which could possibly have of Builington, Iowa. course, we wish everyone who entered
pedestrians. (Maybe he scor,6s double as many as two sequels. Amicus will 3rd Prize (no cash money and a free could have emerged a winner, but
for little old ladies.) Coi/man also
soon be filming, as had hoped. I one-year subscription) becomes the what good is a contest without losers,
plans TIDAL WAVE, concerning the Burroughs’ classic of inner-world property of Steven W. Schooley, 10, of we ask you.
submersion of Japan. Pellucidar .ATTHE EARTH’S CORE,
Millie Perkins and Vanessa Brown
tiich could feasibly have asmany as
sequels. Everybody better see these
,
star in Moonstone Films’ production
of THE WITCH WHO CAME OUT OF 3 and 4 times apiece, and maybe,
THE SEA, with
just maybe. Amicus might think
a screenplay by
about bringing ERB’s JOHN CARTER-
Robert Tho^.
MARTIAN TRILOGY to the screen.
Just for kicks, they’ve also got lined
up a 3-0 horror titled CURSE OF THE
CAT PEOPLE (a remake of the Val
NEW YORK^ FIRST ANN^jAL Lenton classic?).
While we’re in the vicinity of Big
Ben, let’s see whatHammer is up to:
Christopher Lee inTO THE DEVIL, A
DAUGHTER, a remake of Hitchcock’s
classic THE LADY VANISHES, a

CONVENTIOI\-1975 version of Dennis Wheatley’s master-

piece THE SATANIST, and one that
even escapes me— H. Rider Hag-
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 The Monster Times page 25

Bradford Dillman. Carroll O’Connor. handling of an interesting idea.

The first of video’s occult ventures, Rating
’ ‘

and undoubtedly the finest. Guy

Endore-based concept has full-length
antique mirror possessed by elusive
force of demonic evil. Convincing
SATAN’S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
(1973) ABC. Starring Roy Thinnes,
Kate Jackson. Thinnes. dean of the
GODZILLAGHIDRAH
demoniacal mini-movies, is cast as
performances, brilliant scripting:
Satan himself in this predictable
Paul Wendkos directs up a tempest of
supernatural excitement and once
again proves his mastery of lilted and

'
upward angle shots. Highly recom-
thriller about innocent school girls
combatting unearthly forces. Down-
beat finale surprises no one. Rating:
RGDAN-mACIILA
mended Rating
. :

SOMETHING EVIL (1971) CBS. All in your own home,

For some strange
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HORROR AT 37,000 FEET, THE
Starring! Sandy Dennis. Darren McGa-
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into new house, encounters a
rampant supernatural power, fren-
reason, TV zied photography during possession
sequences substitutes confusion for
suspense: bedevilled child effect
inly partially effective. SOMETHING
EVIL is nothing special! Rating
anytime you want to see them!
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Back 1968, many a fantasy film

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BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN and the
MEPHISTO WALTZ will never make
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wasn't until a few years later that THE
EXORCIST surfaced to revive rabid
interest in the doings of the damned.
But even if Satan and his hoofed
henchmen are still not quite the
cinematic celebrities we might have
hoped them to be, they do appear to
have transformed the usually tepid
tube into a veritable inferno of
made-for-TV terror of late. The F 4— RODAN the Flying Mohster F 5-TASTE THE BLOOD OF F-6 BATTLE FOR THE
The greatest flying monster of DRACULA Starring Christopher Planet OF THE APES. ..
following is a checklist of some of the ..

time does battle with the earth'

more memorable telepix dealing with
demonism and the occult. Read this
listing quickly, attentively
with a crucifix clenched tightly in
your palm. Who knows. ..the soul you
save may be your own!
BLACK NOON (1971) CBS. Starring
Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray
Milland, Lynn Loring. A preacher and
his young wife encounter some
curious townfolk in this familiar but
occasionally effective horror tale set
in the old west. Thinnes tries hard as
the idealistic priest, while Mimieux is
appropriately delicious as the evil
CBS. Starring William Shatner.
(1972)
and only Roy Thinnes. Buddy Ebsen, Tammy
Grimes. Lynn Loring. Excellent cast
wasted in forgettable little opus set
aboard commercial liner carrying a
shipment of haunted ruins. Just
another sub-par role for Shatner since
his STAR TREK success. Rating
" ‘
NORLISS TAPES, THE (1972)
Starring Roy Thinnes. Angie Dickin-
son. Feeble attempt to pilot series
based on adventures of occult
researcher Thinnes is merely an
...
The greatest of all the
ait Lee as the blood-sucking Count
Who will win this titanic battle’ Dracula!! In this horror-filled "Ape movies. Super fast-
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Belinda Montgomery, Wilfred Hyde- This epic battle of the monsters classic the evil Prince of Darkness
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subliminal, intelligently developed
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NBC. under the stress of a malevolent
occult power. This odd. extremely
stylized, and ultimately effective tEneCES
combination of psychological charac
ter study and supernatural fantasy i

young thing out to destroy his impoverished NIGHT STALKER re- director Robert Day’s most remarl
marriage. Unusual locale helps working with none of the original’s able and underrated work to dat
overcome some of the traditional
suspense, pacing or intelligence. Billy Goldenberg’s score is stagge
Living dead sculptor fashions statue ing and was later heard a
witchcraft-demonism trappings, and
there are several splendidly photo-
in demon’s ima’gey- comes to life background music for ABC’s THE
graphed dream sequences. Rating: during flaming climax. Notably poor SIXTH SENSE. Rating: "•Vs
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Gene Barry, James Drury. A captured Strike Against National, Speaks, The Crumbling
The Great Comic Art Disney Empire. George &
outlaw,
Devil,
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farmer Drury and his bedevilled

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FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION
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DEVIL’S DAUGHTER, THE (1972)

ON TELEVISION & IN FILMS...
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LORDS OF DARKNESS:
A History of Celluloid Satans
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6
SATAN IN THE SEVEiNTIES
BEAST OF THE YELLOW
NIGHT (1970) was one of those
blood-and-gore thrillers that
hailed from the Philippines. It
told the story of how a man sold
his soul to the Devil, and then
became several men in succes-
sion. He absorbed the evil from
each one, and occasionally
became a were-monster. As
usual, the villain got just what
he deserved in the end.
One British entry that was
quite excellent was THE BLOOD
ON SATAN’S CLAWThis .
eerie production was occasionally
hard to follow, but it sure was
worth the struggle. The demon
Behemoth gathered a group of
worshippers in ye olde England,
• and they often brought him
young human sacrifices. For-
tunately, the provincial governor
learned of all this and used the
symbols of Christianity to smash
the coven and its diabolical
leader.
A new type of demon was
introduced to theatergoers
CRY OF THE BANSHEE (1970):
a sidhe. The monster — which had
been summoned to do
bidding of an outraged head
—
witch didn’t even know that it
was inhuman, except at certain
nocturnal times. It usually took
the form of a young man, but
whenever it had the opportunity
to attack a member of villainous
Vincent Price’s family, it changed
into a werewolf-like fiend.
A young student was shown
16th century Madrid by THE
heroine, and a year later he sent
her to murder the hero. You just
can't beat the Devil!
.Satan himself took some time
off from his duties in hell to make
a very brief appearance (sort
in THE MEPHISTO WALTZ
119711. This dull but moody
offering dealt with devil worship-
pers and soul transplants, but it
was certainly not the first movie
to feature this technique (the ad
campaign claimed that it was).
Although the primary villain
didn't lose at the conclusion, he
didn't quite w'in, either.
A 19'72 adaptation of Chaucer’s
THE CANTERBURY TALES
contained' an
in
the
Hapless victim of satanic intervention is dogged around by Barbara Parkins in
scene from MEPHISTO WALTZ, a 1971 offering that made up in dullness what
Brothers film, and she was
married. The best thing that this
film offers is some good makeup,
but other than that it’s really not
w’orth seeing, especially
ofl already seen THE EXORCIST.
It’s debatable whether Paul
VYilliams played a demon or a
m.an in THE PHANTOM
THE PARADISE
(1974). In
event, Satan appeared by
since he arranged for the
protagonist to sign over his soul
to him. At the conclusion, just
about everybody died, including
Williams. 'This rock version of
THE PHANTOM OF THE
OPERA was rather good at
times, and worth seeing.
In the recent cheapie,
LUM OF SATAN
(1974?),
young woman awoke
an
institution for the insane, and
eventually learned that she was
going to be sacrificed to the
Archfiend himself. She was
saved, though, because she
wasn’t exactly a virgin (which
was required); the Devil got
really annoyed at this oversight,
and in revenge he destroyed his
worshippers. Now does
a
it
an ocean liner to his domain. The
movie ended before we learned
how' they made out.
The most recent TV-made
if vou’ve demon drama was ABC’s inter-
esting NURSE WILL MAKE IT
BET'TER (1975). In this, Lucifer
went around as a homely
middle-aged woman and collect-
ed souls in return for miracles.
He was depicted as being really
despicable in this (as he no doubt
is), and in the end he was
defeated in a most unusual way;
however, the price that the
heroes paid for winning was very
high. As in THE EXORCIST, our
traditional anti-monster weapons
were useless against the fiend.
ASY- There have also been a number
a of animated, full-length motion
in pictures that contained the Devil
and/or his minions. Two of these
were FANTASIA (1940) and
SLEEPING BEAUTY (1955),
both of which were done by Walt
Disney. The former flick con-
tained a long sequence that dealt
with a gigantic demon who
summoned other supernatural
creatures to meet on Bare
it make Mountain. However, when bells

lacked in interest.
LAME DEVIL (1970); quite a few
other fantasy elements surfaced that took place in hell. There and then went to hell. Since she
in this flick, too. During the same were demons torturing
galore, didn’t really belong there, a
year, a child possessed by Satan their victims (which
included gifted fallen angel taught her
killed her parents and got mixed Church officials). The rest
of the how to be truly wicked, and then
up with a devil cult in SINTHIA, film is fairly good, but doesn’t returned her to the land of the
THE DEVIL’S DOLL. deal with the supernatural. The living. Her eternal fate, from tfie
I started watching BLOOD OF Devil presided ovpr a marriage tale’s conclusion, was to fee
THE MAN DEVIL. (1971) once in DIABOLIC WEDDING during sexually frustrated.
on television, but it was so awful the same year.
that I gave up on it. Judging by Several demons appeared in Sammy Davis, Jr. was cast as
some stills I’ve seen from the the unsuccessful dealer of souls in
the dreadful DEVIL’S NIGHT-
latter part of the thing, it seems MARE (1972). This flick had the
POOR DEVIL (1973), another
as though Lon Chaney played a typical family curse/unknowing-
TV pilot that flopped. This
demon (or the Devil himself). visitors-stop-at-the-haunted-cas-
humorous comedy presented a
There was supposedly a were- tle plot. It also ended as usual-
different image of Hades — it
wolf around, too, but I have no resembled a modern city, with
in flames, as the film should
real evidence to support this. have.
Satan overseeing his diabolical
Was any reader able to stomach affairs from a plush office
The Horned One may have
(similar to the lavish drawing
this production? appeared in Mexico’s SATAN OF room that appeared in THE
EQUINOX (1971) was a pretty ALL HORRORS (1972), in which
awful movie, but the special two brothers offered their sister DEVIL’S EYE). The Lord of
effects in it were incredible! The to him in exchange for immortali- Darkness, by the way", was
plot was presented in flashbacks, ty, but I don’t know. However, played by none other than Chris

This is, we promise, the last shot we’re gonna run from THE DEVIL'S
NIGHTMARE. But even though that forgettable film has come and gone, Hor-
rordom has several other Satanic titles already on the way, including HOUSE
OF EXORCISM, THE DEVIL’S RAIN and THE EXORCIST, ITALIAN STYLE.
When they get around to THE LAST EXORCISM IN PARIS and THE EXORCIST
II, though, that’s when we’ll toss in the terror towel.

sense for him to kill his tolled and pilgrims chanted, the
followers? evil ones fled. Interestingly
The Devil was back again in enough, Bela Lugosi was hired to
SATAN’S TRIANGLE (1975). pose (with a cape) for the demon
His base of operations this time sketches. The second film had a
was that famous body of water in lot of funny-looking demons
which so many planes and ships running around, doing the
have mysteriously vanished over bidding of the sorceress who cast
the years. The Evil One went the spell that put the members of
around possessing dead bodies in the castle to sleep. At the
order to kill people and lure conclusion, she transformed her-
whomever he could into his wide self into a fire-breathing dragon
sphere of influence. At the finale, and was slain by the handsome
Satan— after having failed to prince.
corrupt a religious man lured — Hell, I finally finished!

Occult investigator Leslie Nielsen is about to be visited by the devilish title
effective 1965 fright film originally shot as a TV pilot.
and it showed how four college he did show up at the conclusion
students got mixed up with of THEWITCHES; after a trio of
Azmodeus (a major demon). attractive women killed a man,
They acquired an occult book the Evil One took time out from
that he wanted (the Necronomi- his busy schedule to congratulate
con?), and he dispatched three them for a job badly done.
giant monsters a squid, — an Several X-rated movies have
anthropoid, and a blue ogre— to contained demons, but not many
fetch it. Finally, Azmodeus of them reach the local theaters.
changed himself into a huge THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES
winged demon and attacked the (1973) concerned, itself with a
The Devil’s Castle (1896), The Mother-in-Law (1910), The Devil, The
Laboratory of Mephistopheles (1897), Servant, and The Man (1910 and 1916),
character from DARK INTRUDER, a brief but The Temptation of Saint Anthony Bill Bumper’s Bargain, Satan on a
(1898), The Devil in a Convent (1899), Rampage, Satan on a Mischief Bent,
The Devil and the Statue, The Satan’s Rival, Satan Defeated (1911),-
Lee, and he did a good job in the Treasures of Satan (1902), Beelze- The Devil’s Grotto, The Devil To Pay
itole. bub’s Daughters, The Condemnation (1912) The Devil and Tom Walker, Don
of Faust, The Enchanted Basket Juan’s Compact, Satan’s Castle
UP-TO-DATE DEMONS (1903), Faust and Marguerite, The* (1913), Satan’s Rhapsody (1914), The
ABBY (1974) was a rip-off of Wandering Jew (1904), The Merry Blabk Crook, The Devil, 'The Devil’s
Frolics of Satan, Mephisto’s Son Darling, Civilization, The Scorpion’s
THE EXORCIST, except that (1906), The Devil, Mephisto’s Affinity, Sting (1915), The Devil’s Prize, The
thistime the cast was black, ancT The Devil and the Gambler, Satan Devil, The Servant, and The Man, The
the sexual aspects were played Finds Mischief, The Devil’s Three Devil’s Toy, Devilish Business,
up. The woman who was Sins (1908), Mephisto and the Devilled Crabs, The Devil’s Assistant
possessed this time around was Maiden, Satan’s Smithy (1909), The (1916).
also quite older than the victim in Devil’s Billiard Table, The Devil’s

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Though since overshadowed by the outsized acclaim afforded
Polanski’s ROSEMARY’S BABY caused
THE EXORCIST, Roman
quite a cinematic stir when it was first released in 1968 and was
itself responsible for a spate of satanic imitators, just as the
Friedkin film is today. There are even those who much prefer
ROSEMARY to EXORCIST, citing its sinister subtlety as a co-
gent quality that the latter film largely lacks. Alan Brandman is
one such ROSEMARY booster and heaps praise upon that
demonic offering
Rosemary assumes shocked mien as she be-
holds bedevilled babe in climactic scene from
ROSEMARY’S BABY, a classic tale of male be-
trayal.
A serious examination of that species
of horror film dealing with demons, devils,
and witches must ultimately lead one to
ROSEMARY’S BABY. Released in 1968,
itnot only occupies a respectable niche in
Horrordom’s hall of fame, but remains a
cinematic classic of sinister suspense that
rivals many of macabre-master Alfred
Hitchcock’s efforts in quality and
intensity. But what in the devil’s name
were the elements that coalesced so
perfectly to create this masterpiece?
To begin with, we have the story itself,
based on the best-seller by Ira Levin. To
refresh some merpories; this is the tale of
Rosemary, a young, chic, attractive
newlywed whose joys at the prospect of
approaching motherhood steadily become
replaced by a gnawing fear of demonic
intervention. At first it is merely her
eccentric neighbors who give her the
spooks. Then it is her husband. Does she
or doesn’t she? Only her obstetrician
knows for sure...
Now, intriguing stories about satanic
skullduggery have come our way before
and haye been afforded lesser fates. How
many eerie classics have found themselves
betrayed and torn asunder by the schlock
meisters of B moviedom? Only a fortunate
few have escaped unscarred from low
budget-poor quality handling with the
ease of such a phenomenally unpredictable
fluke as NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.
The scars usually show. And they often
prove fatal.
Why ROSEMARY’S BABY works so
well is in no small measure due to the
respect and care accorded the treatment
of the story.Here we find no hack writer
exploitively milking the tale for sheer
shock value, as is so common in other eerie
endeavors. Likewise, the director’s
concern is less with paralyzing the
audience with images of horror than with
patiently allowing the story to unfold, at
its own pace, its own web of suspense. The
herein...
Rosemary consults trusty ally
Maurice Evans while warlock Sid-
ney Blackmer looks on.
attention given to the formulation of
believably complex characters has been
matched by only a few other films in the
genre. The same can be said for the
pungency and sophistication of the
dialogue and the overall coherence that
keeps the narrative so well-paced.
The chief credit for the film lies in four
hands. The first two belong to the
responsible for both the screenplay and
direction; Roman Polanski. The second
pair are those of that familiar white-haired
wizard of the weird: William Castle,
producer. The success of this film marked
an odd turning point for both their
careers.
DEMONIC DEBUT
For Polanski, it marked the triumphant
debut of his first totally American-made
production. After crafting such earlier
masterworks of suspense as the Czech-
made REPULSION and KNIFE IN THE
WATER, Roman found his career in a
kind of artistic limbo after the ambiguous
reception granted his more recent film
ventures. Happily, he fared
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Discovering her but rarely praiseworthy.
paranoia to be all too The final elements that contributed to
Rosemary wields
real,
rosemary’s critical success were the
lengthy blade in im-
excellent acting and atmosphere.
potent effort to fend
off the forces of Gifted with a budget quite large by
Evil...
horror film standards, Polanski was able
to have a top-notch, perfectly suited cast
at his disposal. Mia Farrow draws out just
the right amounts of sympathy and
tension as the pale, paranoid heroine. As
the husband torn between love of wife and
lust for fame, the often manic John
Cassavetes is, for a change, the perfect
shade of intensity. We are never quite
sure how we feel about him or how much
we can really trust him. The neighbors
(witches) next door are a marvel of
contrasts. Ruth Gordon as Minnie
Castavet projects a flamboyant, almost
yenta-like quality in her seeming concern
for Rosemary (remember her chocolate
)^nousse?). As her warlock hubbie, Sidney
^ Blackmer emerges as all charm and mild-
mannered suavete. In other key roles,
Ralph Bellamy as an untrustworthy
doctor, and Maurice (Dr. Zaius) Evans as
one of Rosemary’s few are also very
allies
Devil-worshipping doctor appearance (a
effective. Ditto for the brief
; (Ralph Bellamy) and la Hitchcock) of that irrepressible ham,
iyenta witch (Ruth Gordon). William Castle. Still, though obviously
provided with a goldmine of talent, the
devil’s share of the credit must go to
Polanski.
The same must be said of the richly
evocative atmosphere, which also plays a
key role in the film’s success. Though also
achieved largely via the blessings of high
production values, it is still ultimately
Polanski who pieces the puzzle together
through clever manipulation of his people,
props, and sets and imaginative use of his
camera. Note especially Rosemary’s
jarringly surreal nightmare in which she
has been drugged so as to conceive
through Satan an anti-Christ. These
images are truly horrific. It is to
Polanski’s credit that he so teasingly
treats us to only limited doses of such
explicit terror, the better to let it slowly
well up within us until the eerie climax,
itself a gem of horror and emotional
ambiguity (when Rosemary is finally
confronted with her baby).
SUBTLE SCARES
It is such subtle manipulation of the
viewer’s own fears, not the overwrought
images of fright any talented hack can
employ, which should be emulated by
anyone seriously interested in evoking the
truest sense of terror. Films like THE
EXORCIST leave less to the imagination
Rosemary iMia Farrow) in the increasingly chilling embrace of and more to the gut in deriving their
Faustian mate (John Cassavetes) in ROSEMARY’S BABY, one superficial thrills. Sometimes, as with
of schlock-shock auteur William Castle’s few terror triumphs. THE EXORCIST, that is enough, and it
Roman Polanski likewise handled directing chores in fine
does indeed work. More often than not,
fright fashion.
though, it flops, or, even worse, becomes
BY ALAN BRANDMAN
ludicrous. Consider the brace of films
semarys spawned by
THE EXORCIST,
classics
ROSEMARY’S BABY
the decade’s two
of demonic horror. To varying
degrees, such opuses as THE BROTHER-
and
HOOD OF SATAN, THE MEPHISTO
WALTZ, ABBY, etc., have failed to
impress because they have ignored the
blueprint for success provided by
superior with witches than he had with
ROSEMARY’S BABY in favor of a more
exploitive schlock approach. Lamentably,
vampires, his British-made FEARLESS
budget considerations sometimes destrov
VAMPIRE KILLERS having not only
any possibility for quality before t
been panned but its original print so
camera is even loaded. Without adequate
drastically altered that he requested his
performers, dialogue, or sets, most
name be removed from the American
productions don’t stand a chance. Still,
release. The artistic control he fought for
some inventive filmmakers are proving
and maintained over ROSEMARY’S
that money is not all, concentrating
man BABY served as a stepping-stone for the
instead on the pure, essential elements
freedoms sought by such other film
that made horror films so horrifying long
pioneers as Stanley “2001” Kubrick. As
before the invention of 3-D or color (wit-
for Polanski himself, the success he
ness again our friend NIGHT OF THE
achieved with ROSEMARY has provided
him with the enviable freedom to LIVING DEAD). But finally it all too often
remains a case of adhering to the “safe”
comfortably pick and choose whatever
film properties he views as worthy (e.g.,
theory— that of attacking the viewer’s
fears and fantasy from without, not from
CHINATOWN).
For William Castle, ROSEMARY within. It was inabandoning this tried,
but all too untrue, formula that
signified the successful transition, if not
quantum leap, from director to producer.
ROSEMARY’S BABY was a real pioneer
of the horror film.
Ironically, ROSEMARY, the first film
which he did not direct, proved to far
ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968 1 34 min. Written and
surpass any of his earlier efforts, which directed by Roman Polanski. Produced by
were basically exploitive-type shockers William Castle. From the novel by Ira Levin.
Starring Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes. Maurice
like GHOSTS, THE TINGLER,
13 Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Ruth Gordon, Ralph
Angela
HOMICIDAL and MACABRE-films Bellamy, Patsy Kelly,
Cook, Jr.
Dorian, Elisha
critically which were often financially successful
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I FREEI POWERFUL MUSCLES FAST! Wanted Desperately!!!!!! She (Steiner); 7. Jurgle
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Ail
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and 500 catalog of Hammer/ Trekand sci-fi fans! TCTS much interesting material Star Trek .ives" Write to
HORROR Items for sale. Wanted: pics q/ Godzilla
universal Bodybuilding Box 4 85 Dept.IVIU and other Jap. Monsters. IS a fanzine'adzine with as possible. John Sim- NBC and Paramount for
I Dearborn, Michigan 48121
35c per copy. Randy
Palmer. 57^ 2nd St. So.. Also will sell pics of
you in mind Free classi- mons. 71-21 Fresh Pond
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Arlington, Va. 22204 famous monsters cheap Publishes quarterly. 50c 112^7.
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The Little Nemo Comic available. Send to Jay
able. Jim Rondeau, 943
Barron. 725 32nd St SW Will write for your zine Wanted Any material
Shop. New comics early, Lorraine Ave.. Los Altos, Iree! Articles, stones,
over 100, OCX) back issues Wyoming, MICH 49509. CA 94022. dealing with Irwin Allen's
poems, etc. Please in- "The Poseidon
and one of the largest clude SASE when wril-
Adven-
collections of comic art For sale Universal Mon- ture. and The Towering
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New Fanzine" The Hearse ing Thanks! Jerry Baker.
anywhere. 108-30 Ascan now 319 Rawson Dr.. New Interne Send lists and
2491 Merrick Rd. Bellmore. N.Y. <516)221-1537 Cent. 1967 Duotone Peter Cushing 4.00. Ave. (one block off ture, Mummy, etc. For Delivers #1 available
prices to Jeff Hornsbv.
The Hell Fire Club: Embassy N.D. Keith Mitchell. Robert Brooks lor immediate mailing. Carlisle. 0 45344
Queens Blvd.). Forest $4.50. 205 Pennsvlvania Avenue.
Horror and Science-Fiction Section ues! star Peter Cushing 3.00. House ol Horror: 511 East North St.. Features Avengers pho-
Hills, N.Y (212)263-5296, Britt (" Asylum"’) Ekiund, New Roads. La. 70760
27x41 1-Sheet Posters Unless Indicated Otherwise S niversal N.D. Rondo Hatton 3.50. The Crazies: Mon. -Sat 10-6 Closed Wairensburg, MO 64093. tos. movie reviews, arti- I

Cambrist Films N.D. Lane Carroll 3.50. The

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cles. pictures $1 in U S. love you! ^nonymous. ' I

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Hunchback of Rome: Dino De Laurentis Free! issue of C.O B R..A S2 outside 48 pages, rek fans. Want
(N.D.)NoDate Star Trek fans! Federa- catalogue of souvenirs
Production Gerard Blain 2.50. The Land Unknown: The official "Planet of the today. Specify this ad offset Give THD a try
now and be honorv member ot tion Enterprises sells sold at the New York Star
Universal N.D. Jock Mahoney 3.00. This Island Apes" Club is Robert Esposito. 1640 N
Star Trek material. Good
Frankenstein; Universal Re-Release Ca. 1957 accepting new members C.O.B R.A organization Trek Convention. Send
Earth: Universal Re-Release N.D. Jeff Morror 3.00. Parkstcle. Chicaqo. HI prices and selection. For
Large figure of the monster Colin Clive, limited Dues are$2.50 yearly with 100 members. C.O.B R.A name, address and 10c
Slaughterhouse Five: Unusual poster made for the 60639 catalog send 25 cents
quantity 5.50. House of Dracula: Universal N.D.
Lon Chaney. Lionel Alwill 5.00. Blood of the Sutton Theatre opening in New York City, limited monthly bulletins and HQ 135 Seventh SI.
and SASE to Federation
stamp to. Telrad Ser-
vices. P O Box 832
many extras. Send dues Perkasie PA 1 8944
Vampire: Univ.-IntI Donald Wolfit, Barbara quantity, 3.50. Teenage Zombies: Governor Films Trade; Mad Special 15. or Enierprises 5498 Blos- Westminster. Md. 21157
.dramatic large depiction of monster carrying girl, or stamped envelope to C.O.F. 24, for {Curtis/ som Wood Dr., San Jose.
Shelley 4.00. Return of Mr. Moto: Lippert Film Apes. Bill Woodruff, 141 W'dHled real human
1965 Henry Silva 3.00. War of the Gargantuas: UFA Don Sullivan 3.50. House of Frankenstein: Urban Ave.. North Provi- skulland Batman caids Marvel) Monsters of the CA 95124.
Movies 7. Monster Mania For sale" horror 'science
N.D. Lots of monsters 3.50. Phantom of the Opera; Universal N.D. Karloff-Chaney-Carradine 5.00. The dence. R.I.02W4. Steve L. Wilson. 50 S.
2 for Planet of the Apes 1 fiction press sheels trom
Devil's Own; Hammer-Seven Arts 1967 Joan Hummels-
Hammer-Universal Re-Release I960’s Herbert Lorn
Fontaine 2.75. Twisted Nerve; Natl. Genl. 1969 Wanted; Material on To-
Railroad
town PA 17036
St .

& 2. Mint condition a Buy —

Sell Trade at — AiP Columbia. Allied
2.50. The Valley of the Gwangi Warner Bros. More
;
MUST. Marie Supersnipe Comic Book Artists. Universal (pro-
monsters, James Franciscus 3.00. The Thing from Hayley Mills 2.50. The Bird with the Crystal shiro Mifune stills, — Garrion,
Littleton, N.H. 03561. Art Emporium. 1617 Sec- motion kits. 1931-6(JS ).
Plumage: UMC Pictures N.D. Original poster that magazine articles in any College sludenl. lest fan
ond Ave., NYC 10028 Also stills trom UFO
Another World; RKO Radio Re-Release N.D. 3.00. made Alfred Hitchcock a household word 3.00; language, particularly nlo writing, comix, film,
The 0^ Mars Invaded the Earth: 20th Cent. 1%3 What would happen if (212) 879-9628. New & Night Gallery. Siarlost.
also available 22x28 with 4 11x14 lobby posters Japanese, posters, press- sports, etc. would like to
Kent Taylor 2.50. Tower of London: Universal
.

Conan came out? Would old comics, original art, Mission Impossible, no
attached— sold as one complete unit 6.00. From books. Also Star Trek meet intelligent, liberal-
he finally understand why lists. Send SASE with
Re-Release N.D. Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone young lady with simi- big little books, movie
Earth to the Moon: (Jules Verne) RKO Radio N.D. concordance and 3rd 5d
Red Sonja prefers not his memorubiiia, science your wants. Five Planet "

4.00. The Wolfman: Universal Re-Release N.D. Limited quantity 3.00. The Projected Man: Limited season supplement- Must lar interests, esp Orien- fic-
Apes’ press books.
groin? sorcerers weave of
Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney 3.50. Invasion of the quantity 1.50. Blood Beast from Outer Space; be good condition. Nikki tal Box 37. 167 21 St W lavender pages and love
tion.
Times
& The Monster
$15 eleven different
Blood Farmers; NMD Films 1972 Lots of Horror, Harris Associates N.D. John Saxson 22x28 with 4 White. Macquarie Private NY. NY10011.
grows summer
like Tate Planet" stills. $15 Al-
Norman Kelley 3.00. Scars of Dracula: Hammer 11x14 posters attached sold as one complete unit Hoetl. Macquarie Street. peaches. —Demian. lred Wemnb. 21 87 Cruoer
N.D. Duotone Christoher Lee 2.50. Invasion of the Barton. A.C.T Australia - Oil paintings, favorite Pin-ups, Portraits. Press Ave. Bronx NY 10462”
4.50. Legacy of Satan; Damiano Films N.D. limited creature or non-creature
Blood Farmers: NMD Films 1972 Duotone Norman quantity 2.00. The Human Monster; (Edgar
2600 '
Wanted: Lost in Space Books. Physique Poses,
Kelley 2.50. Night Creatures: Univ.-Intl. N.D. Peter 1 Sendphotooi photocopy, viewmaster and bubble 50 years of Scenes from
Wallace) Carroll Pictures Release Ca. 1948 Bela Wanted anything on
Cushing, great art work 3.50. The Blood on Satan's Lugosi, unusual artwork 4.50.
For Sale. ’5 different • 16’ x20'’. $8.00: 18"x24’'. um cards. Also The Time motion pictures, west- Godzilla vs. Gigan and
Planet of Apes ’press- $12.00. 24"x30", $17.00. unnei Viewmaster. Write erns.
Claw; Cannon Films N.D. Parivich Nymark 3.50. books. $16; i1 different
I horror, musicals, other Big G movies Also
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: ) Larger canvas on request Pete Theodorowiez, 44 etc. Movie star news, 2l2 stuff on Ape planet. Tony
stills, $16. Alfred Wein- LToby Walker. 1836 Bus Silver Lake Drive, Aga- Eas! 14 St., NYC. New
Important! Important! Important! All posters sold Silva. 247^0(h Ave
>
N.D. Universal Re-Issue Boris Karloff 4.00. nb, 2187 Cruger Ave., San
Cauldron of Blood and Crucible of Horror: Double are in very good to excellent condition. Center fHouse Cl, Kalamazoo. wam, Mass. 01001 York, come in person Francisco. CA 94 16.
.

Bronx, N Y 10462. Mon.-Fri. 1-6, Sat. 1-5,

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feature Cannon N.D. Boris Karloff and Michael tears, rips and excessive wear will be noted. Side Mich. 49001.
Gough 3.00. Godzilla’s Revenge and Island of the and corner tears that require minor taping are not
Burning Damned: UPA Productions N.D. Peter noted. All posters with the exception of 11x14’s
Cushing and Christopher Lee 3.a). The Evil of and 14x22’s and some 14x36’s and 22x28’s are
Frankenstein: Hammer-Universal N.D. Peter shipped FOLDED.

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know about dinosaurs but were,
CAPTAIN KIRK understandably, afraid to ask.
$2.00 -k 60c postage and handling
After our breath-stealing Giant
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$2.00 + 60c postage and handling to our regular format with such
eerie items as a BARBARELLA
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received well over a half dozen features. So keep those cards,
letters on the subject), TMT is letters, and, most importantly, coins
State.
happy to announce the return of our coming, and we’ll continue to do our
always forward-broking Next Issue perverse part here to put monsters
(Sorry, but no foreign or Canadian orders tor
feature. The feature in question— on the map, where they, by Godziita.
these items can be accepted.]
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