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After graduating from High School way back in 1972, I visited Benton Harbor, Michigan, the city of my Dad's birth. I got invited to spend a couple of days with my cousin, who lived in Niles. It was Friday night, so my cousin, her husband and I took about a half-hour drive to South Bend, Indiana, to take in a movie.

The film was Wes Craven's urban horror classic, THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. I didn't know what I was getting into, and believe me, just a few minutes into it, I knew I was in for a thrill ride. To top off the evening, I was in store for yet another thrill ride. My cousin's husband, who drove us down in his "souped-up" Dodge Challenger, hit the freeway screaming. When I looked at the speedometer from the back seat, my jaw dropped -- we were going more than a hundred miles an hour! Between that and the movie, it was a memorable evening!

Fast forward a few years later, I was in for yet another memorable movie outing. This time my buddies and I waited over two hours to get in to see THE EXORCIST. You can read about my adventure HERE.

Fast forward again and my eyeballs were met with another shocker -- Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. By then, I had been soaking up monster movies and magazines for years, and I thought I could take it all. Well, TCSM leveled the playing field. I couldn't believe what I was watching, but I was definitely riding on a roller-coaster of mayhem.

The 'zine posted today, FANTASY FILM MEMORY, is just that -- it brought back memories of that horrific movie, especially that guy with the mask of human skin running around chopping people up with his chainsaw (R.I.P, Gunnar Hansen)!

FANTASY FILM MEMORY (SHOCKERS)

No. 3

1991

The FFM Association

Editor, Designer, Publisher: Pierre Jouis

Associate Publishers: Jean-Claude Michel; Bruno Terrier

Writer: Gerard Biard

English text supervisor: David Kerekes

Cover: Photo cover

Pages: 42

Cover price: $10.00 (USD)

Printed in France

Print run: 3,000

CA-CA-CANNIBALS!

WARNING!

GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING IMAGES AHEAD!

While you can't classify it as indigenous horror as discussed in yesterday's post, this film however, qualifies as horror by indigenous people, as well as being known as one of the most gruesome and ugly "horror" films of all time.

Shot in the forests of Columbia, Ruggero Deodato's CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) views much like a "mondo" documentary as much as it does a typical jungle adventure film gone viciously wrong. It was banned upon its release in the U.S. and numerous other countries for scenes of animal cruelty and sexual assault. Director, Ruggero Deodato was even arrested (and subsequently released) in his own country (Italy) for suspicion that the murders committed during his film were real (!). Needless to say, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST was and remains to this day one of the most controversial movies ever made.

One of the most notorious scenes - a staked woman.

So what better thing to do than to celebrate it in a horror fanzine? French editor, writer, designer and publisher Pierre Jouis did exactly that with his first issue of FANTASY FILM MEMORY SHOCKERS (July 1990). A French publication with English text, FFM's aim was to feature horror movies based on their shocking and controversial content.