Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope is an American cult movie magazine that is released four times a year. The publication is edited by Joe Kane and has spawned a reference book entitled The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos.

Recent issues have included interviews with such well known B-movie directors as John Waters

John Waters (filmmaker)

John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films...

, James Gunn

James Gunn

James Gunn may refer to:*Sir James Gunn of Scotland, explorer, member of Henry Sinclair's survey expedition in the 14th century*James Gunn , US Senator from Georgia...

, Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...

, George A. Romero

George A. Romero

George Andrew Romero is a Canadian-American film director, screenwriter and editor, best known for his gruesome and satirical horror films about a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. He is nicknamed "Godfather of all Zombies." -Life and career:...

, Walter Hill and Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna is a director, writer and producer of films.- Life :Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Panama before moving to the United States in the 1960s.- Career :...

 and such famed cult actors as Crispin Glover

Crispin Glover

Crispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor, director and screenwriter, recording artist, publisher, and author. Glover is known for portraying eccentric people on screen such as George McFly in Back to the Future, Layne in River's Edge, unfriendly recluse Rubin Farr in Rubin and Ed, the...

, Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Jo Barbeau is an American actress and the author of three books. Barbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical Grease, and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay in the sitcom Maude...

, L. Q. Jones

L. Q. Jones

L.Q. Jones is an American character actor and film director, known for his work in the films of Sam Peckinpah.-Life and career:...

, Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell

Tobin Bell is an American film and television character actor. After years of work doing stand-ins and background work on films, he got his first major acting job in Mississippi Burning and went on to star in made-for-television films and guest star in television shows throughout the 1990s.Bell...

, and Clint Howard

Clint Howard

Clinton "Clint" Howard is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor with numerous brief appearances on television and films. He has played many bit parts in movies directed by his brother, actor-turned-director Ron Howard. He is also the uncle of actress Bryce Dallas Howard...

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Works

Books

• The Phantom of the Movies' Videoscope: The Ultimate Guide to the Latest, Greatest, and Weirdest Genre Videos, By Joe Kane. Three Rivers Press, New York, September 2000, 592 pp. ISBN 0812931491
• The Phantom's Ultimate Video Guide, by Joe Kane. Dell Books, New York, October 1989, 756 pp. ISBN 0440502128

Staff

Videoscope's most frequent writers include Debbie Rochon

Debbie Rochon

Debbie Rochon is a Canadian B-movie actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in Troma films.-Biography:...

, Terry and Tiffany DuFoe, Tom Weaver, Don Kaye, Calum Waddell

Calum Waddell

Calum Waddell is a British writer and film critic.-Biography:His books include Minds of Fear, Taboo Breakers and the forthcoming work Jack Hill: The Exploitation and Blaxploitation Master, Film by Film and his work has been published in such magazines as Neo, Dreamwatch, Impact and Fangoria.In...

, Tim Ferrante, Dwight Kemper

Dwight Kemper

Dwight Kemper is the author of three mystery novels, Who Framed Boris Karloff?, Bela Lugosi and the House of Doom, and The Vampire's Tomb Mystery. The first two are published by Midnight Marquee Press, the third by Helm Publishing...

, Dan Cziraky, Nancy Naglin, Kevin G. Shinnick and Joe Kane himself.

External links

• Videoscope at Amazon
• Magazine homepage