Cult Fiction 1: Horror

Until just a few years ago one of the major plusses of collecting horror fiction was that it was incredibly easy, and inexpensive, to acquire. Not anymore!

GRIMM MEMORIALS

If there’s one thing to be said in this 1990 splat fest’s favor, it’s that it definitely won’t leave you wanting more.

BLACK BUTTERFLIES

Restraint is something you won’t find much of in a John Shirley story, and that’s particularly true here

Zombie Media in the 1990s

By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film

Jack Ketchum: 1946-2018

This one hurt. Certainly there have been a lot of famous people deaths that have affected me, but this one impacted me especially

THE MANGLER

In light of the untimely August 26, 2017 death of director Tobe Hooper, here’s a look back at one of his late period films

LOFT

Like director Eckhart Schmidt’s earlier film TRANCE, LOFT is steeped in 1980s new wave culture, which can be taken as a good or bad thing depending on one’s point of view

KUSO

2017’s gross-out movie of note, a freeform exercise in sub-Cronenbergian excess with a satiric thrust and overall fixation on bodily secretion