1.01.2011

An Intro From Bleeding Skull's "Dan" Budnik

Hello, everyone. Welcome to The Collected Movie Reviews of Cyril P. Drathmoor blog, sponsored by the "Boys" at Bleeding Skull.com.

Back in 2002, I was given access to some rather fascinating material pertaining to a book I was researching. The Material consisted of the collected papers of a man named Cyril P. Drathmoor. I was asked to go through several thousand pages of notes, diary entries, drafts and newspaper clippings to see if there was anything worth publishing.

There was.

I spent one year assembling a book entitled The Collected Movie Reviews of Cyril P. Drathmoor. The man had written a movie review column for a small paper for one year and most of the movies he reviewed were of great interest to me. I presented the memoir/ book to the publishers and, due to endless legal issues to dull to go into even on a blog, the book ended up sitting unpublished for most of the decade.

Until now...

I have been given permission by the Estate to serialize the contents of the book on this blog over the course of 2011. So, once a week, there will be a new entry containing (generally) one of Cyril's reviews. Mr. Drathmoor has his own special "Reviewing Voice" and he was a big influence on me. I'm honored to present the work of this obscure but fascinating man to you.

Please enjoy.

"Dan" Budnik

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