{"id":1243,"date":"2010-07-11T23:12:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2010-07-11T23:12:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T22:12:29","slug":"martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2010\/07\/11\/martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George A Romero&#8217;s 1977 <I>Martin<\/I> offers a remarkably ambiguous, playful, disturbing and original take on the vampire. It has just been released by Arrow Video as a two-disc collector&#8217;s edition, including the Italian cut of the film (believed to have been re-edited by Dario Argento and missing some scenes from the US version), which is reviewed below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1244\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/martin.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1243]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/martin.jpg?resize=474%2C2012\" alt=\"\" title=\"Martin\" width=\"474\" height=\"2012\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1244\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Review by Adam Cadwell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">For more information on Adam Cadwell, go to his <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.adamcadwell.com\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George A Romero&#8217;s 1977 <I>Martin<\/I> offers a remarkably ambiguous, playful, disturbing and original take on the vampire.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic review by Adam Cadwell<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[120,119,118],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-comics","tag-romero","tag-vampire-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/surUP-martin","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1739,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/06\/15\/stake-land\/","url_meta":{"origin":1243,"position":0},"title":"Stake Land","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"June 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Set in apocalyptic America, the story follows the travels of vampire stalker Mister and orphaned Martin, picked up by Mister as an apprentice\/vampire killer pal. 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