Thursday, July 30, 2020

THE CRASH AND THE CANNIBALS by Theodore Clifford








Sexed up exploitation potboiler based on the infamous "Alive" Andes Flight Disaster of 1972, churned out just a year afterwards. Reads like a 70s TV movie-of-the-week with hardcore inserts, as a cast of drug dealers, terrorists, movie stars and more spice up the real life story of cannibalism, which is allotted a few measly pages amidst the melodrama. "Theodore Clifford" is undoubtedly a pseudonym of copyright owner Sylvia Von Block, a pulp writer who was no stranger to noms de plume. The striking cover design merits mention as effective graphic art, with just a stock photo of some mountains and a little cutout jet silhouette bracing us for impact.

2/4

Lancer Books, 1973

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