![]() ![]() After settling into life as a husband, father, and author in the 90s, it seemed that Landis had turned a corner-but the ghosts of Times Square were never far behind him.ĭead at the age of 49 on the eve of what should have been a successful comeback, his legacy has nominally been forgotten, most of his work lost, and his memory relegated to a footnote in journalism history. Sleazoid" persona and double-life as an adult film star masked the pain behind the excess: a child genius whose intellect alienated him from his peers a sexual abuse survivor who numbed his trauma with drugs a consummate outcast who only felt at home among other outcasts. Profiled in Film Comment and Rolling Stone for his pioneering work, Landis' over-the-top "Mr. While other magazines were concerned with behind-the-scenes information, tributes, and SFX tutorials, Landis' Sleazoid Express was one part film journal and one part anthropological study, seriously critiquing the grindhouse movies that played the theaters of 42nd Street while also documenting the dying subculture that had grown up around them. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the dawn of the 1980s, there was one serious name in horror and exploitation film criticism: Bill Landis. ![]()
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