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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 5h

It's another Vintage Monster Mag Monday on Pop Culture Schlock as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From 1965, here's the third issue of Monsters To Laugh With by Stan Lee! Lasting for just seven issues, this obscure magazine changed its name to Monsters Unlimited from issue 4 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 1d

It's a 31 Days of Halloween Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Back to 1984 today via issue 62 of the legendary UK genre magazine and its striking Twilight Zone: The Movie cover. "You wanna see something really scary?"

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 2d

...This single won the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song at the 12th Golden Raspberry Awards in 1992! Check out that vintage Woolworths price sticker too! 2/2

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 2d

It's another Seven-Inch Single SATURDAY on Pop Culture Schlock, and Day 18 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! Here's (MC) Hammer with 'Addams Groove', the theme song to the 1991 film, The Addams Family... 1/2

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 3d

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend... all heavy metal horror as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! Today, 1985 kult klassik, Hard Rock Zombies, on a Region 2 Digital Versatile Disc 💿🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 3d

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 4d

"From the Amazon's forbidden depths came the Creature from the Black Lagoon..." in Living Dead Dolls form from Mezco! Yes, it's Day 16 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown!

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 5d

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock, and Day 15 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! Now half-a-century old, here's issue 38 of Dracula Lives, as the Prince of Vampires meets Werewolf by Night - the team-up you demanded! 🦇

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 6d

Day 14 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown and another fangtastic item: an original Vampirella ink drawing by Mike Hoffman from 2012.

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 7d

It's another Vintage Monster Mag Monday on Pop Culture Schlock as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From 1981, here's issue 2 of Amazing Cinema featuring a striking cover image of 1980's Fiend (aka Deadly Neighbor) - you don't see magazine covers like that anymore! 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 8d

It's a 31 Days of Halloween Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Here's issue 70 of the iconic genre magazine featuring David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dead Zone on the cover. The glory days of your local newsagent!

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 9d

Day 11 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown and a truly fangtastic vintage item! From 1976, here's issue 9 of Marvel Classic Comics - Dracula! 🦇

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 10d

It's PCS's random movie recommendation for the weekend... all heavy metal horror as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! Today's killer kult klassik is 2015's The Devil's Candy on an Italian Region 2 DVD. If you're not familiar with this flick, that Flying V has got you interested, right?!

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 11d

Day 9 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown is literally terrorific! From 1997, ring twice for the Tales of Terror first day cover, featuring Dracula, Frankenstein, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles! 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 12d

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock, and Day 8 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From 1976, here's issue 74 of Dracula Lives featuring The Legion of Monsters: Dracula - Prince of Darkness, Werewolf by Night, and the uncanny Man-Thing together in one big mag!

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 13d

Day 7 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown pulls a modern classic off the PCS365 bookshelves. Here's my hardback copy of Grady Hendrix's 2016 novel, My Best Friend's Exorcism, signed to me by Grady himself 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 14d

It's Vintage Monster Mag Monday on Pop Culture Schlock as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! From 1964, here's the second issue of Monsters To Laugh With by Stan Lee! This obscure magazine lasted for just seven issues, the title changing to Monsters Unlimited from issue 4 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 15d

It's a 31 Days of Halloween Starburst Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! From October 1983, get psyched for issue 63 of the iconic UK genre magazine. Check out that striking cover - the return of Norman Bates!

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 16d

Day 4 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown grabs this cult classic from the spinner rack. Marvel's Spoof comic book ran for just five issues and this is number 4 from 1973, taking a bite out of Blacula under the title, "Blechhula!" 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 17d

It's Pop Culture Schlock's random movie recommendation for the weekend... all heavy metal horror as part of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! Tear down the walls with a killer klassik: 1986's Trick or Treat on a Region B blu-ray from Germany, under the title, Ragman 🤘🏻🎃🤘🏻

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 18d

"It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters!" Day 2 of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown serves up this delicacy: an original lobby card from the U.S. theatrical release of 1980's Motel Hell! 🎃

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 19d

It's another UK Weekly Wednesday on Pop Culture Schlock, and the first day of my 31 Days of Halloween countdown! So, a classic horror comic to start: from 1974, the third issue of the fangtastic Marvel UK weekly, Dracula Lives! 🦇

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 20d

Thunderbirds 2086 was the English dubbed version of the Japanese anime series, Scientific Rescue Team Technoboyger, loosely inspired by the original Gerry Anderson Supermarionation series, Thunderbirds. Here's the UK annual, published by Grandreams in 1983.

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 21d

It's Vintage Magazine Movie Ad Monday on PCS! To get you in the mood for the PCS365 Halloween Spooktacular that begins later this week, here's a great full-page ad for the UK rental release of 1990 horror sequel, The Gate II, on VHS, straight from the pages of the late, great Fear magazine 💀

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Pop Culture Schlock @popcultureschlock.bsky.social · 22d

It's another Seven-Inch Single Sunday on Pop Culture Schlock! Written by Jim Steinman for the soundtrack of Walter Hill's cult 1984 movie, Streets of Fire, here's Fire Inc. with 'Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young' on seven-inch vinyl from MCA Records.

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