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The Video Watchdog Book

door Tim Lucas

Andere auteurs: Joe Dante (Voorwoord)

Reeksen: Video Watchdog

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Read What You've Been Missing! This profusely illustrated video consumer guide is a must for all fans & collectors of Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy films on tape & disc. A companion to the popular VIDEO WATCHDOG Magazine, THE VIDEO WATCHDOG BOOK contains witty & informative descriptions of 100s of titles, including out-of-print rarities, alternate versions, foreign language & import releases, continuity errors... even detailed descriptions of missing (& censored) scenes! Written by video authority Tim Lucas, whose work has appeared in numerous books & magazines in the United States & Europe. Also includes an indispensible list of more than 650 retitled videos, a book index, plus a complete index to the first 12 issues of VIDEO WATCHDOG Magazine! Features a Foreword by cult Director Joe Dante (GREMLINS, THE HOWLING), a striking full-color cover by Stephen R. Bissette (SWAMP THING), & spot illustrations by Brian Thomas (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES). Here's what the experts say about VIDEO WATCHDOG: "Fascinating... the best effort of its kind I've seen!"--Vincent Price. "A thorough, accurate, & knowledgeable source that's as good as anything I've read!"--Christopher Lee. "Intriguing, thought-provoking, & marvelously obsessive!--USA TODAY.… (meer)
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Published in 1992, The Video Watchdog Book was a companion piece to the new Video Watchdog Magazine, which at the time was an indispensable publication for fans of genre films beneath, behind, and beyond the mainstream. Video Watchdog started out originally as different columns in several other fan-based film magazines such as Gore Zone and Film Comment, and the bulk of this book contains the reprints of those previous contributions before editor Tim Lucas set out on his own to publish what I've always thought of as the Fangoria for adults.

Personally, I was a big fan of Video Watchdog Magazine for a long time, until they printed a review of Sixth Sense that included what is now commonly known as a "spoiler" of the ending. This may seem petty of me, but up until that point Video Watchdog was a very serious publication that devoted much of its time to critiquing and defending obscure low-budget films that most people dismiss as garbage, and always did so with respect for both the filmmakers and the film viewers. On top of loudly defending films that most people would dismiss as trash, Lucas also made it a point of not revealing the ending of any films reviewed in the magazine, no matter how well-known or inconsequential. Soo with this in mind, when the same magazine that rallied against Mystery Science Theater 3000 for insulting great cinema like Hercules Vs. The Moon Men and refused to give away the ending to Beach Blanket Bingo suddenly decided it was not only okay to give away the ending to a mainstream film they didn't like, but to advertise doing so on the cover, I decided it was time to move on.

I still keep this vast tome of original Video Watchdog articles in my collection, however, as it represents an era before IMDB and Google when film lovers like myself needed to depend on publications willing to discuss the movies that Entertainment Weekly would never consider. Things that people search online for now like different titles and deleted/alternate scenes were hard to come by outside of the fandom scene, and despite my issues with the direction of the editorial output, Video Watchdog still remains one of the most professional and exhaustive publications of that era, and this book is a perfect representation of what made this magazine such a treasure at the time. ( )
  smichaelwilson | Nov 30, 2020 |
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Read What You've Been Missing! This profusely illustrated video consumer guide is a must for all fans & collectors of Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy films on tape & disc. A companion to the popular VIDEO WATCHDOG Magazine, THE VIDEO WATCHDOG BOOK contains witty & informative descriptions of 100s of titles, including out-of-print rarities, alternate versions, foreign language & import releases, continuity errors... even detailed descriptions of missing (& censored) scenes! Written by video authority Tim Lucas, whose work has appeared in numerous books & magazines in the United States & Europe. Also includes an indispensible list of more than 650 retitled videos, a book index, plus a complete index to the first 12 issues of VIDEO WATCHDOG Magazine! Features a Foreword by cult Director Joe Dante (GREMLINS, THE HOWLING), a striking full-color cover by Stephen R. Bissette (SWAMP THING), & spot illustrations by Brian Thomas (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES). Here's what the experts say about VIDEO WATCHDOG: "Fascinating... the best effort of its kind I've seen!"--Vincent Price. "A thorough, accurate, & knowledgeable source that's as good as anything I've read!"--Christopher Lee. "Intriguing, thought-provoking, & marvelously obsessive!--USA TODAY.

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