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And welcome back to coast to coast.

George Norrie with you.

Chris Alexander with us, a Canadian author.

His book is called Art Trash Terror, Adventures in Strange Cinema.

He's an editor.

He's a teacher.

He is a composer and producer of the electronic music concept albums, music for murder, blue eyes of the broken doll, body double, and draculon. Chris, welcome back. You're on with my buddy Rich Mirror about a year ago.

George, I've been on several times, and every time I come back, it's, well, it's like coming home, George, so I appreciate you having me on in these wee small, well, I'm in Toronto, so the wee small hours of the morning. It's my pleasure to be here, so thank you. We love you, buddy. How'd you get involved in cinema like this? Well, it's, you know, it's from a young age your perspective on the ride

depends on when you get on the train and i was three years old and i discovered the band kiss in the

library and jean simmons was my first vampire i think and uh it's true he had the cover of love gun

was misplaced in the library and it was in the children's section and then that cover jean

has his head tilted back and he's got fangs and there's emaciated vampire women swooning at his feet.

So I had a double awakening on that day.

My grandmother took me into a wax museum in Niagara Falls called the House of Frankenstein,

which melted my mind.

And then I saw finally 1978's invasion of the body snatchers, the Philip Kaufman remake,

on television one night,

and that was it. There was no turning back, George. I made it my life's work to see all I could see, learn all I could learn, and now I'm over the half century mark, and I don't think I'm going to

change. So this is probably me until the last breath is taken. I eat, sleep and breathe this stuff, George.

What do you think, Chris, of the old classics, the old black and white ones and things like that?

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