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Paracinema Magazine Issue 15 Out Now
Young Guns – Fact vs. Myth: The True Story of Billy the Kid by Christian Sellers. Exploring the cinematic history the legendary western outlaw Billy the Kid and his portrayal by Emilio Estevez in the 1988 hit Young Guns and its sequel Young Guns II. While John Fusco’s scripts was arguably the most accurate big [...]
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Paracinema Magazine Issue 14 Out Now
Crimewave: The Story Behind the Movie Sam Raimi Would Rather Forget by Christian Sellers. A look at the troubled production Crimewave, Sam Raimi’s follow-up to his cult classic The Evil Dead. Written in collaboration with the Coen Brothers, the movie suffered due to interference from the studio, prompting both the director and writers to disown [...]
ARTICLES
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The Good, the Bad and the Fulci
Tales of Redemption and Revenge from Four of the Apocalypse To many he was the Godfather of Gore, responsible for no less than three video nasties, the ultra-sleazy Euro slasher The New York Ripper and one of the many adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat. Yet before he embraced his taste for carnage, [...]
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The Plague of the Zombies
Whilst the early years of zombie cinema had been largely American produced and set in such remote and ‘alien’ locations as Haiti, the 1960s saw Britain developing an interest in the undead. Alongside Sidney J. Furie’s 1961 effort Doctor Blood’s Coffin and 1965’s The Earth Dies Screaming, the most significant of these features was The [...]
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Magazine Covers
Prior to his work as an author and screenwriter, Christian Sellers first entered the industry as a writer for various movie magazines. This began in early 2007 when he began writing for UK publication GoreZone, a magazine he remained with for the next two years. During this time he interviewed an array of filmmakers, writers [...]
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Dark Delicacies Book Signing
Exclusive to Dread Central, here’s a handful of photos from the book signing for The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead, which just took place at LA’s house of horror, Burbank’s Dark Delicacies (3512 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA). Incredibly well attended, the event saw most of the film series’ cast and [...]
