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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Editors would like to thank all of the writers who contributed so much hard work to this
volume. We would also like to offer our sincere thanks to Jean Rollin for contributing the
foreword. Thanks also to Brian Yuzna, Jorg Buttgereit and Giovanni Lombardo Radice for their
support and assistance with compiling the interview materials used in this book.
We would also like to thank Andy Black, Charlie Blake, Gwen Bouvier, Peter Brooker, Nicola
Daine, Dirk Van Extergem and the staff of the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film,
Mikel Koven, Mylene Halsall (Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment), Howard Martin
(Hem Productions), Magnus Paulsson and all the staff at the Fantastisk Film Festival, Tuomas
Riskala, Cristina Sagardui, George Savona and Sally Young (Cathy Beck Communications).
Dona Kercher's essay, 'Violence, Timing and the Comedy Team in Alex de le Iglesia's
Muertos de Risa', was first published in Post Script, and we wish to thank Gerald Duchovny for
allowing us to reprint the essay in this volume.
Finally, we offer our thanks to the staff at Wallflower Press for their continued assistance and
support of the Alterlmage book series.

The images used in the chapter Alternative Belgian Cinema and Cultural Identity: S. and the
Affaire Dutroux', are courtesy of Luc Reynaert/Europartners Film. The images used in 'Jorg
Buttgereit's Nekromantiks: Things to do in Germany with the Dead' and A Very German
Post-mortem: Jorg Buttgereit and Co-writer/Assistant Director Franz Rodenkirchen Speak',
are courtesy of Jorg Buttgereit (with the exception of the director's image, which is courtesy of
Thomas Ecke). The images of Place on Earth and Of Freaks and Men in 'Mise-en-scenes of the
Impossible: Soviet and Russian Horror Films' are courtesy of Intercinema Agency, Moscow.
The images used in 'Emmanuelle Enterprises' (from the film Emmanuelle only) are copyright to
Studio Canal Image. (The film is available on D V D in the UK from Momentum Pictures and
we wish to offer our thanks for their support in finding these stills for us). The images used in the
following chapters: '"The Film You Are About to See is Based on Fact": Italian Nazi Sexploita-
tion Cinema, 'Masochistic Cinesexuality: The Many Deaths of Giovanni Lombardo Radice',
'Male Masochism, Male Monsters: An Interview with Giovanni Lombardo Radice', 'Black Sex,
Bad Sex: Monstrous Ethnicity in the Black Emanuelle Films', 'Jean Rollin: Le Sang d'un Poete
du Cinema' and 'Trans-European Excess: An Interview with Brian Yuzna, are all courtesy of the
Noir Collection and we would like to thank Andy Black for his assistance with finding illustra-
tive material for this volume. T h e cover image is from Re-Animator (1985), directed by Stuart
Gordon/produced by Brian Yuzna, and is courtesy of the Noir Collection.
The rest of the images contained in the book are the property of the production or dist-
ribution companies concerned. They are reproduced here in the spirit of publicity and the
promotion of the films in question.

Ernest Mathijs dedicates this book to Gwen
Xavier Mendik dedicates this book to Essie -for a more perfect, future time