Robert "Bob" Martin

Robert Martin, born October 8, 1948, was the original editor of "Fangoria", the magazine of horror and exploitation film. Martin steered the publication from 1979 to 1986—the slasher-film boom years.

A collaborative relationship with writer-director Frank Henenlotter resulted in a novelization Martin adapted from Henenlotter's feature film "Brain Damage" and two produced screenplays, "" and "Frankenhooker", with Martin writing initial drafts from Henenlotter's detailed outlines. In 1994, Martin, under the name "Ed Flixman" became editor of "Sci-Fi Entertainment" (later renamed to "SCI FI Magazine"), the "official magazine" of the Sci-Fi Channel, and continued in that capacity through October of 1996. His column of film news continued to run in that magazine, until a blistering argument with the new editor regarding remarks in Martin's column that the new editor feared might incur the wrath of the Sci-Fi Channel.

In December 1996, Martin relocated from his native New York to Los Angeles, where he mostly worked as an Internet techie, but also wrote press materials for a few films, most notably "The People vs. Larry Flynt", in which his description of Flynt as "the last champion of the sexual revolution" stirred the wrath of Gloria Steinem, generating considerable press for the film. (In Martin's original, the phrase had been "the last champion of a failed sexual revolution.")

As of March, 2006, he was working as a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0552979/ Robert Martin at the IMDb]
* [http://community.netflix.com/profile/RobertMartin Robert Martin's personal page within the "Netflix Community"]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1022/letter5-12.html On Getting Canned by Robert Martin]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYfgCou72Rk 40th Birthday rant, 1988]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1022/resume.html online resumé, circa 1997]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/1022/VRTY.jpgVariety's coverage of Swaggert versus Hard Rock magazine]
* [http://community.netflix.com/group/creepymovies/forum/topic/show?id=1993323%3ATopic%3A125087 Why I left Fangoria by Robert Martin]