THE SHADOW
A veritable master class in psycho-horror that holds up beautifully
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
Sometimes accidental brilliance is the most irresistible sort.
THE FOG
Impossible though it might seem to believe nowadays, this British horror fest was once considered the height of shock
WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED: A HISTORY OF FOLK HORROR
An exhaustive documentary that purports to explore the roots and manifestations of “Folk Horror” in film
THE COMPANY OF WOLVES
A highly elliptical affair that mixes outright surrealism with traditional horror movie trappings
GIRLY
This British oddity represents yet another case of promising material given indifferent treatment
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
1988: The Year in Bedlam
I really hate to keep repeating myself in my year-end summations, but I just have to say it: 1988 was an abysmal year for movies
THE WYRM
Fast, slick, action packed pulp horror by an author who really knows how to do this sort of thing