{"id":592,"date":"2015-10-30T05:35:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=592"},"modified":"2015-10-30T05:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:35:18","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-thundercrack-1975","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: \u201cThundercrack!\u201d (1975)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Banned in Canada for decades! Long considered the world\u2019s first &amp; only feature-length underground horror\/porn flick, <em>Thundercrack!<\/em> (originally double-billing alongside early screenings of <em>Pink Flamingos<\/em>) is the epic B&amp;W 150-plus-minutes-long debauched culmination of a counterculture lineage dating back to the 50\u2019s, written &amp; costarring <em>George<\/em> of <em>Kuchar Bros<\/em> renown! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2004 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201c\u2018Realism only comes to the screen when the film jams in the projector &amp; the image begins to bubble\u2019 \u2013George Kuchar.\u201d Available in December on Blu-ray &amp; DVD from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/synapse-films.com\/dvds\/thundercrack-40th-anniversary-dvd-single-disc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Synapse Films<\/a><\/span>! As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/thundercrack.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-593 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/thundercrack-684x1024.jpg\" alt=\"thundercrack\" width=\"627\" height=\"939\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/thundercrack-684x1024.jpg 684w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/thundercrack-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/thundercrack.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Banned in Canada for decades! Long considered the world\u2019s first &amp; only feature-length underground horror\/porn flick, Thundercrack! (originally double-billing alongside early screenings of Pink Flamingos) is the epic B&amp;W 150-plus-minutes-long debauched culmination of a counterculture lineage dating back to the 50\u2019s, written &amp; costarring George of Kuchar Bros renown! 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