Cinema Sewer Two
Edited by Robin Bougie
FAB Press 2009
Cinema
Sewer is always one of my favourite zines. Handwritten and illustrated, filled to
the brim with extreme content, adult films, cult and horror, sleaze and lots
more - it takes the depravity of underground film to an artform. The first
compilation in book form was published in 2007 and brought together early
issues of Cinema Sewer, while Volume Two takes us even further into illicit
territory. It covers issues 13-16 of this mind blowing publication, revised,
expanded and presented with an additional 90 pages of content.
It
is difficult to describe the experience of Cinema Sewer to the “uninitiated”;
the whole magazine is a work of art; being presented in handwritten form with
comics, cartoons, movie covers and lots more. The content borders from the
extremes of adult film, lovingly illustrated with perverse cartoons, to horror
and cult classics and rants about everything in-between. It reminds me of the
very early dates of underground comics and magazines, every page is packed to
the edges with rants, reviews, commentary, cartoons, movie posters and
memorabilia.
From
The Killing of America, the ultra-violent “shockumentary” to Bongwater Butt
Babes, a title on which I do not need to comment !
From
interviews with such figures as Lee Carroll, the porn star and David Hess to
reflections on XXX comics. From the twenty five best movies adapted from a
comic book to a retrospective on Dorothy LeMay. From Mommy Put Me in Porn, the
story of Athena Star to zillions of movie reviews of titles you will never have
heard of and when you see them, will never want to hear of them again. This is
a book which is guaranteed to bring a grin to the face of any devoted
Cinemaphile.
Cinema
Sewer will shock, arouse, titillate and offend. If you are easily disturbed by
the discussion and depiction of all manner of bodily functions, then don’t
bother. But if you want to explore the wildest, sickest and sexiest films in
genre cinema history in the most amusing format possible then Cinema Sewer II
is for you.
If
you want to get Cinema Sewer issue by issue visit http://www.cinemasewer.com/
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