EVILSPEAK ISSUE1 seen and heard!

EVILSPEAK DEBUT ISSUE plus free scary cut out mask 

A shout out for a brilliant new horror fanzine I received a couple of days ago - 

issue 1 of EVILSPEAK horror magazine.

 It felt great getting my mittens on a proper tactile fanzine again
instead of those digital web based variety I've tried to get along with,

 I was happily reminded back to the times I used to received numerous fanzine

 and the resultant joys I'd get from poring over the pages.

 In so many ways this new publication delivers brilliantly - straight out of the 
protective bag the first thing that struck me was how great the standard of its
paper stock was , teamed with the glossy cover it seems to add weight to its 
worth and in doing so also bring an added air of authority to its contents. 

The top notch production values continues throughout - pleasingly planned and 

laid out pages ( Justin Stubbs handiwork ) with lots of sensational artwork coupled

 with clear movie stills all serve to  pitch the tone of the mag perfectly. 

It's a mighty 79 pages of lovingly crafted , well informed and nicely written horror 

movie adoration - this how fanzines should be done , all quality work and decently 

presented. 

Have to my express my appreciation to Mike Howlett for his thoroughly 
informative and well written piece on Fantaco,  

 (along with my biggest thanks to him for the kind mention of my work.)

 A lot of hard graft goes into these endeavours so you need to beg , borrow or 

even better still just go buy yourself a copy, support these guys for the all the 

sterling effort they've poured into getting it assembled so beautifully. 

I'm sure you'll agree, judging it by its debut issue It certainly deserves to be a 

huge success 

- long may EVILSPEAK continue to chatter! -

 (I know i want more!) 

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Its Easter weekend, usually long and boring but I finally got around to watching 

the EVIL DEAD reboot and invested some of my time re-reading  EVILSPEAK  and

 then mashed the two with this drawing.

But notice that I skipped back to the masterful RAIMI trilogy to draw my inspiration

 from!

So what can I say about the eagerly await return to the famed cabin in the woods?

Its very brutal , rudely so,  not one that flinches from throwing the nastiest gore and

 maiming across the screen.  There's plenty of vivid bloodletting and done with none

 of the over the top campy florish that entertained us in the originals. In fact theres

 so much blood flow that they really ought to have considered called this outing

 EVIL RED!  

To be honestly fair on my second viewing I did enjoy it a considerable bit more. 

Maybe because i was now seeing it as a stand alone movie and not under the 

umbrella of the Sam Raimi tales. Gone is the slap stick its replaced simply with

 a stab with a sharp stick! I suppose its darker and humourless nature is more a 

telling of a new audiences tastes, it's a product of modern times.

This new movie was good gruesome horror fare but not a patch on those groovy

  original three treasures and some scenes are rather hard to stomach as it a 

movie which at first seems to rely on gore rather than scares and doesn't deviate

from the original set up too much    

EVILSPEAK draws you in.....