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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 81.96.240.106
| | Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 12:16 pm: | |
Died on the 18th of this month, apparently, from cancer.
RIP. A great loss to the horror genre.
The Deep red Horror Handbook was indispensable to me in the 1980s for reading about films I couldn't get to see (thanks to DVD, I've now seen most of them). Balun wrote wittily and succinctly about some great films and some terrible ones - oddly, it was his reviews of the latter that made me seek out some pretty obscure titles. |
Skunsworth (Skunsworth)
Username: Skunsworth
Registered: 05-2009
Posted From: 89.242.178.204
| | Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 01:16 pm: | |
I had the Gore Score and practically carried it about with me bewteen the ages of about 13 and 15 (I've lost it now, which I'm really pissed off about) - I used to think I'd never see any of the films in there. I still remember his review of the movie Monster Dog: "With Alice Cooper. See title. Fuck it." Huge shame and a great loss.
S |
Richard_gavin (Richard_gavin)
Username: Richard_gavin
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 65.110.174.71
| | Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 01:26 pm: | |
What great personalities horror has lost this year.
RIP Chas. |
Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.74
| | Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 01:47 pm: | |
Alas! |
Mark West (Mark_west)
Username: Mark_west
Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.122.61.139
| | Posted on Friday, January 01, 2010 - 12:43 am: | |
A great loss - through the late 80s, I was the only person I knew with an interest in horror and Fangoria and Balun (with his articles in that and Gorezone) really kept me going. |