Just because you can’t respect a movie doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it. The Golden Age of Crap serves up a sampling of junk-food flicks that gained their audiences on videocassette rental shelves during the ’80s and ’90s, a time when one couldn’t visit the video rental store without being tempted by Italian post-apocalyptic adventures, ninja revenge yarns, and zombie-filled “camcorder epics.” The movies covered here run from sleeper hits (Phantasm II) to cult favorites (The Dead Next Door), from unknown stinkers (Plutonium Baby) to undiscovered gems (America’s Deadliest Home Video), all examined with a critical but fun-loving eye.
#1 by Ed on April 28, 2010 - 9:49 am
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Cool deal, Nate. Sounds like a great book.
#2 by MatthewF on April 28, 2010 - 11:20 am
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So are these versions of your reviews from the website, or new stuff?
#3 by Nathan Shumate on April 28, 2010 - 11:27 am
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Rewritten (in some cases drastically) from the website, plus a couple of extras, like comments from J.R. Bookwalter and Ed Bishop.
#4 by El Santo on April 28, 2010 - 2:15 pm
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So is this the “Super-Secret Book Project” you were always going on about a few years back?
#5 by Nathan Shumate on April 28, 2010 - 2:21 pm
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Actually, no. That “super-secret book project” is still ongoing, though nearing the end. And the secret’s out: it’s a massive survey of the career and work of Charles Band.
#6 by Devon on April 28, 2010 - 5:45 pm
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This is going to look awesome on the bookshelf.
Looking forward to it Nathan.
#7 by supersonic on April 30, 2010 - 11:41 am
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Does the book have the Hieratic Head in it?
#8 by Nathan Shumate on April 30, 2010 - 12:22 pm
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No, I didn’t even want to start on the headache of the copyright on either the sculpture or the photo of it I use.
#9 by supersonic on April 30, 2010 - 1:29 pm
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You’ll have to use something that’s in the public domain, like the Winged Victory of Samothrace or the Leshan Reclining Buddha.
#10 by KeithA on April 30, 2010 - 3:57 pm
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Awesome news, and hearty/hardy congrats!
#11 by Blake on May 3, 2010 - 10:16 am
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Whatever happened to that sword n’ sorcery book that you were subjecting yourself to multiple viewing of the Deathstalker series to write?
#12 by Ken Begg on May 3, 2010 - 10:06 am
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Good grief! That means in this year alone, we’ve already *doubled* the number of books put out by B-Masters!!
#13 by Nathan Shumate on May 3, 2010 - 10:11 am
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And the year is yet young!
#14 by Joshua on May 7, 2010 - 10:51 pm
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Yay! My copy arrived today! That’s pretty quick for overseas shipping.
#15 by Nathan Shumate on May 8, 2010 - 7:08 am
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Bless you, my son!