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22 October 2009 3:53 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

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By Peter DeMarco

On our second date in my studio apartment, my wife shared her spaghetti dinner with a decaying corpse who had just climbed out of his grave.

This not-for-the-squeamish image was from the 1972 horror anthology Tales from the Crypt, which also featured a skull with cobwebs in its black eye socket.  Dirty Harry’s, .44 magnum pointed at her from another wall, while a hand beckoned her into 1973’s The Vault of Horror.   

You’re an unusual decorator, she’d said.  I told her it was only art.  That I wasn’t the Starry Night type.

The rest of my 350 square foot apartment was consumed with over 25 framed pieces of movie memorabilia from the 1970s, horrifying and violent artwork which symbolized, paradoxically, the nostalgia I felt for the innocence of my movie-going youth.  Equinox.  Race with the Devil.  Westworld.  Straw Dogs. »

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1 article from 2009