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Article: Horror double-feature. (Ryan).(Anzac Day, Malcolm Fraser)
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- July 1, 2002
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ONCE UPON A TIME, city cinemas enticed patrons with the delights of "double-feature" horror movies. (Maybe they still do?) These programs had their fans, though I suspect that quite a few of the seats were warmed by the bums of people getting in out of the rain. You might watch Dreaded Dracula followed, after the briefest interval, by The Mummy? Shriek. (One such "double-bill", I recall, was promoted all over town by exhortatory posters urging, "Come along, and bring your ghoul friend!")
No mere monthly columnist can compete with that sort of high art. Yet I dare below to present a double-feature horror of my own. Spasm I is entitled "David Day Benighted"; Spasm ...