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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ZEIRAM
An inexplicably popular example of Japanese Tokusatsu (live action special effects based cinema) that I say is mid
RETURN TO BABYLON
The world’s most famous “Haunted Film,” with ghosts alleged to have been directly involved in its production
THE WORLD OF DARKNESS
An example of a failed 1970s TV pilot that went on to become a cause celebre among horror fans
LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
THE BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD
A 1973 grindhouse product, of note primarily because it was directed by future arthouse auteur Alan Rudolph
APE RAPE/WANTON WITCH
A Jim Harmon two-book compendium, one a routine potboiler and the other a gross, irresponsible, morally indefensible piece of unalloyed filth that (needless to add) I greatly enjoyed
TRUCKER FAGS IN DENIAL
A one-shot comic book, scripted by the late JIm Goad, that’s sure to offend absolutely everyone
MANIAC SIREN
From the always-irrepressible Ramble House, here’s a compendium of two early 1960s sleaze novels by the late pulp meister Jim Harmon
DR. BLOODMONEY
One of the late Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels, involving nuclear war, mutants and a disc jockey in space
ASHES, ASHES
An extended Hieronymus Boschian cavalcade of destruction in a futuristic milieu, written back in 1943
HORRORS!
A strong, if quirky and outdated, horror media overview from the 1960s
IN DEEP WATER
A most compelling true-life account involving a shipwreck, sharks and near death on the open seas
SURREAL LIVES
A most welcome history of the Surrealists, marked by richly detailed, narratively informed prose
CANNIBAL WORLDS
A knowledgeable and wide-ranging tome that more than delivers on its promise of being the most comprehensive tome on Italian cannibal cinema of the 1970s and 80s
HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL
This 700-plus page memoir by a Hollywood insider was to the aughts what Julia Phillips’ notorious YOU’LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN (1991) was to the previous decade
THE ODYSSEY…and Everything Else
My feelings about Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY? I say it’s a blast, although I have some reservations…
Jim Goad: 1960 (or ’61?)-2026
All about the recently deceased Jim Goad, who embodied the saying “You get out of life what you put into it”
James Williamson: 1959-2026
This week we bid farewell to one of the most mercurial, enigmatic, and questionable author-publishers in recent history
Obfuscation and Misunderstanding in the Film Adaptations of Philip K. Dick
About the film adaptations of Philip K. Dick, arguably the least understood SF writer of our time
The Disconcertingly Familiar Horrors of PENPAL
All about what is arguably the most impacting work of fiction to emerge from Reddit.com