''Sleazoid Express'' (1980–1985, and later editions) was the house journal of the

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movie scene in

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circa 1964-1985. Founded as a one-sheet (later to expand to four to six pages) by Bill Landis, an

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graduate, projectionist, and devotee of the crime-ridden sleaze houses, the magazine not only captured the genre affections but the whole

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milieu of drugs, violence and prostitution. Typical films featured in the magazine, which centered 42nd Street, included ''The Love Butcher'', ''Pink Motel'', ''Shocking Asia'', ''Boardinghouse'' and ''Do Me Evil''. Approximately 48 issues were published over a five-year period, the first issue being dated June 18, 1980, and the last issue appearing in the fall of 1985. In 1999, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford (co-author of the

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biography, ''Anger'') began to publish ''Sleazoid Express'' again. Seven issues of the revamped magazine were published, each issue running more than 70 pages. The seventh issue from 2005, never mentioned on the magazine’s website and only advertised via private email correspondence, was a biography of '' Bloodsucking Freaks'' director Joel M Reed. This was followed in 2007 by ''30 Years on the Deuce: The Wicked Die Slow'', a collection of older articles written by Landis in the 1980s and 1990s for ''The Soho Weekly News, The Village Voice, Swank'' and the original ''Sleazoid Express''. In 2002, excerpts from old issues, along with new material from Landis and Clifford, were compiled into the book ''Sleazoid Express: A Mind Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square'', released by

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. In 2021,

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announced that

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had written a biography of Landis and history of the magazine titled ''Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street,'' to be published December 2021.Encyclopocalypse Launches Daily Grindhouse Literary Imprint with Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street
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