Shock Xpress Summer 1988

 

This Summer 1988 issue of Shock Xpress is one of the things turned up in my recent investigation of a box of old magazines hauled out from under the model railway in the spare room.  It is probably the best preserved of the three issues I've so far found amongst the various boxes of old magazines stored for years in my spare room (barring that unidentified stain on the front cover).  As ever, it is chock-full of lots interesting exploitation movie related stuff that, in those pre-internet days, you just couldn't easily find anywhere else.  This includes a lengthy look at Blaxploitation films, features on directors Anthony Balch and Larry Buchanan, plus interviews with Robert Englund, Wes Craven and John Waters.   Any one of those things alone would make the issue worth reading, but you get them all, along with much, much more, including film and video reviews, all for the price of £1.25, in a single package.  As this is only a brief post (I'm feeling a bit rough today), I'll leave you with a scan of the back cover, a reproduction of the poster for Amando D'Ossorio's Serpiente De Mar (1985) (The Sea Serpent):