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Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Zombina and the Skeletones

The Call of Zombina

(9x9 Records)



Being a lifelong devotee of horror cinema (both classic and drive-in detritus sorts), the present writer is reminded of director/co-producer Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula. (The titular menace was, of course,  interpreted by ominous icon Bela Lugosi.) Throughout The Call of Zombina, cobwebbed circumstances in which eerie misdoings seem imminent abound. The magnetism that lurks is as much the product of somber tones as august movements. Dark passages hurtling and implicitly sinister are brewed judiciously; the effect is deliciously fearsome imbalance. 

Recommended: "Blood Rite For the Resurrection of a Sleeping Countess," "Cemetery World," "The Black House," "Vampire's Kiss," "Don't Kick My Coffin," "I'm Horrified!," "Valley of the Shadow," "Dead Birds,"  "Ghost Train II: Oblivion," "No Wonder I'm Always Anxious"

Videos: "Blood Rite For the Resurrection of a Sleeping Countess"   "Ghost Train II: Oblivion"


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