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Hello, and welcome to this episode of Office Hours.

I'm your host, Dr. Rebecca McKendry, and this is a supplement show to my regular show that I do on the Fangoria Podcast Network, Nightmare University.

And since last week on Nightmare University, I talked about the aesthetics of gore, kind of the effects of seeing blood, flesh, and guts on screen, I thought for this episode of

office hours, I would dive into the history of GoreZone. GoreZone magazine was first launch in May of

1988 as a sister publication of Fangoria. And the original

concept was that while Fangoria magazine covered well-known movies and large-scale indie productions,

GORZone would delve more into like homespun horror, smaller films. Specifically, it would

focus on the gory bits. That would be the main focus. It was a splatter magazine, and I've forever heard it called a splatter magazine.

At this point in time, some of the most popular articles that Fingoria was doing focused on seeing the artist behind the gore,

the amazing folks that were slinging latex and making the monsters.

And GoreZone dug deeper into the movies that may also be too small, too weird,

too gross, or too just bizarre in general for large-scale coverage in the main magazine.

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