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Call for Proposals: “TRUTH AND SOUL: THE FILMS OF ROBERT DOWNEY, SR.”
Temporary Cover Art by Scott Campbell Spectacular Optical Publications (www.spectacularoptical.ca) is a small-press publisher of cult film and pop culture books based in Canada. Following our earlier...
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RIP DANNY KIRWAN, FLEETWOOD MAC’S DRUNK MUPPET
Note: A version of this article first appeared on Rodney Perkins’ Aphanisis blog in 2007, and later in the Into the Music newsletter. It is republished here in tribute to Kirwan’s passing on Friday...
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HORROR EXPRESS BUS TOUR – TORONTO!
In Toronto on August 4th 2018, we’ll be boarding the first-ever Horror Express, a chartered bus tour of iconic horror film locations, taking place throughout the greater Toronto area. This 6-hour tour...
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David Paradis’ LE NID wins the 2018 Barry Convex Award
The jury for the 2018 Barry Convex Award for Best Canadian Feature or Co-Production would like to award David Paradis’ LE NID, for its unconventional and disturbing narrative, its poignant revelations...
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YULETIDE TERROR
Spectacular Optical’s book devoted to the darkside of holiday entertainment, YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR ON FILM AND TELEVISION, makes the perfect Xmas gift for the horror fan in your life! This...
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COCKFIGHT Playing Card Deck
Artist Andrew Barr has designed an amazing deck of playing cards to go with our forthcoming COCKFIGHT book, about Charles Willeford’s 1962 book COCKFIGHTER, the 1974 Monte Hellman film based on it,...
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HORROR EXPRESS – FANTASIA EDITION!
By popular demand, after a successful chartered bus tour of iconic cult and horror film locations in Toronto last summer, Spectacular Optical and The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies invite you...
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WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED is the first feature-length documentary on the history of folk horror, exploring the phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films – Michael Reeves’ The...
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The Child Witness: Peril and Empowerment in 1940s Horror, from The East Side...
While we are all stuck at home due to COVID-19, we’ve dug out some older articles, essays and interviews – this piece was commissioned for the book Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost...
View ArticleDon’t Let it Break Your Heart: Film Programmer Kier-La Janisse In Conversation
From the Matchbox CineClub website: Fearless film programmer and Matchbox hero Kier-La Janisse joined us last week via Zoom to discuss her inspirational career in cinema. In a two-hour conversation,...
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