CULTCUTS REBORN!
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Well, actually we never went away. Always working in the dark and
less in the limelight these last two years. Many great supporters and
readers emailing asking us if we would be back with another update and
back to our weekly news updates, etc. Well, that time is now!
September 22nd and our site has been reborn back into cult life.
For those who have been and are curious why the site hiatus, it is
very simple and I'll keep in relatively short. On January 18th of
2008 (over 18 months ago), Cultcuts' Web mistress and my lovely wife
stopped breathing due to viral pneumonia. She was dead for over 20
minutes. Fortunately, several key paramedics got a pulse going again
and she was rushed to the nearby hospital where she remained in a coma
for close to three months. After three surgeries, two procedures and
one night where her temp reached 108.9 degrees (she broke records
folks!), some of the doctors were ready to throw in the towel. Myself
and her key physician fought to keep things going and not lose hope.
After one tough afternoon with lawyers and one awful brain specialist,
we refused to unplug her despite warnings that she would never wake up
or if she did, should would be nothing more than a brainstem. Three
days after my refusal to sign away her life, she woke up. Memory and
brain intact. She is currently learning to walk again, which will
take up to another two years, but she's obviously a tough and stubborn
woman!
15 Months later, after a very long road of mental and physical
therapy, she came home and demanding to get back to work! Thanks to
support from our staff: Craig Hamann, Heather Drain, Douglas Waltz and
especially my business partner and fellow managing editor/writer
Michael Mackie and his wife, we've been able to prevail and pick up
the pieces of our lives that were once so on hold and get back to
living forever changed, hopefully a little wiser and humbled due to
the experience.
Like I said at the top of this newsletter, we've still been around.
Receiving screeners, talking to folks inside the industry and getting
a lot of life encouragement from friends, family and you, our
supporters. We have lots of reviews to put up and we thank everyone
for their patience and sticking with us, so let's get with our first
set of reviews in almost two years...
LATEST FULL LENGTH REVIEWS:
SACRED FLESH from Redemption Films
PHILOSOPHY OF A KNIFE from Unearthed Films
GOREGOYLES (revisited) from Helltimate Studios
CULTCUTS SHORTCUTS CAPSULE REVIEWS:
HUNTING CREATURES from Unearthed Films
FRONTIER(S) from Lionsgate Home Entertainment
AUTOMATON TRANSFUSION from Dimension Extreme
YELLOW FANGS from Cinema Epoch
Make sure and check out our site for this week's latest DVD releases
including Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD, The Blu-Ray release of
GOJIRA, AUTOPSY OF THE DEAD and more. We look forward to hearing from
you! - Mark Engle, Co-Owner Cultcuts
http://www.cultcutsfilms.com