KRIMI!#2 out September 2026

 

KRIMI! #2 OUT SEPTEMBER 2026

1. THE MANY DEATHS OF DR. MABUSE (70 PAGES - basically a book in it's own right)

What happened to the scripts and ideas for the CCC Dr. Mabuse movies after 1954's DIE TODESSTRAHLEN DES DR. MABUSE?

- The different storylines of Fritz Lang and Norbert Jacques. All movies and books up to 1964

- Mabuse screams: Laslo Fodor Script for DAS HORRORKABINETT DES DR. MABUSE (1966) and the evolution into THE DISORIENTATED MAN and finally SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970)

- Mabuse in Space: NO SURVIVORS PLEASE (1964), RAUMPATROUILLE ORION (1966), ASSIGNMENT TERROR and THE GREEN HORNET

- EITOPOMAR calling: THE GIRL FROM RIO and Jess Franco's lurid Mabuse fantasies

- The hommages: VENGEANCE OF DR. M and all the others

- The y2K MABUSE graphic novels

- The 2027 CCC-produced TV-series - exclusive set-visit and background coverage

2. THE COMPANIONS OF ELEUSIS

Exploring the rare French mystery mini-series that told us all what a conspiracy theory is. Including projected sequels.

3. CONTINENTAL RULES!

The complete history and all  the films policiers of CONTINTENTAL FILMS the big-time studio the Nazis established in occupied France to keep them French amused: WHO KILLED SANTA CLAUS, PICPUS, THE LAST OF THE SIX, CECILE IS DEAD, THE RAVEN, THE HAND OF THE DEVIL, THE LAST SOU, THE CELLARS OF THE MAJESTIC,  STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE, THE KILLER LIVES IN APT. 21, THE FARM OF WOLVES.

4. PENELOPE WALLACE

Complete biography and all of her published crime novels, read and reviewed for the first time ever.

5. THE WHITE CARPET AND DER HENKER VON LONDON

What happened to the Bryan Edgar Wallace book "The White Carpet," and what is the story behind DER HENKER VON LONDON (1962).

6. DER ALTE

When Krimi OG Siegfried Lowitz got his own Krimi-TV show, heavily influenced by Maigret, people were skeptical. How did this turn out? The full story.

7. DAS RÄTSEL DES SILBERNEN HALBMONDS/SEVEN BLOODSTAINED ORCHIDS

What became the last RIALTO Edgar Wallace movie was in fact based on a book by film noir author Cornell Woolrich ... or was it? Read about all of this and the Colombo connection here

8. OF VAJDAS AND MOSQUITOS

Some called him "The Yugoslavian Ed Wood," but most don't know him at all. Let's talk about David Vajda (I), David Vajda (II) and David Vajda (III) and, of course, Alon D'Armand and their opus magnum, MOSQUITO/BLOODLUST, which surely was the most depraved of all Krimis.

9. TEN RIALTO EDGAR WALLACE MOVIES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE

Hand-picked by Boris and Holger, these are the 10 Edgar-Wallace Krimis you definitely should have watched in your life.

200 pages, color, over 85.000 words (10.000 more than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone!!!).

Packed with new archival findings, KRIMI is dedicated to bringing you new information and thoughts about the 70-year-old genre of the KRIMIS.

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LINKS HERE ON SEPT 30th

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