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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
WITHIN THE WOODS
The genesis of THE EVIL DEAD was contained in this 8mm short from 1979, made by a young Sam Raimi and his friends Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel and Ted Raimi
BEHIND THE DOOR
A hard-hitting example of silent horror, hailing from 1919, that was “lost” for nearly a century
CARRIE (1976)
The first and best screen adaptation of Stephen King’s debut novel
RAW DEAL: A QUESTION OF CONSENT
An absolutely astonishing 2001 doco that, in light of the Cornell University scandal, is deserving of renewed attention
WHEN YOU COMIN’ BACK, RED RYDER?
Very likely the acting highlight of the recently deceased Marjoe Gortner, who’s deeply menacing and devilishly charismatic as a crazed hippie terrorizing a desert diner
DIE MONSTER DIE!
The “World’s Worst Horror Fiction”…? That may well be accurate
REVELRY IN HELL
A notorious 1939 pulp novella adapted into an adults-only 1990 comic
SATAN’S SAINT
This novelized biography of the Marquis de Sade has been widely neglected, but I say SATAN’S SAINT demands a rediscovery
THE NIGHT BOAT
It’s far from the best of Robert R. McCammon’s early horror novels, but THE NIGHT BOAT has, at the very least, an irresistible premise involving a sunken Nazi submarine harboring flesh eating zombies
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
A quintessential example of Quiet Horror: elegant, old-fashioned, and subdued, not to mention very English in its setting and outlook
FICTIONAL SELVES
A good memoir by a good guy who happens to have been one of David Lynch’s most important collaborators
JACKSPLOITATION! THE FILMS OF JACK HILL
An attractively designed anthology devoted to the films of Jack Hill, one of the foremost cinematic exploiteurs of the 1960s and 70s
DARK DREAMS: AN OBSESSIVE LOOK AT ROMANO SCAVOLINI’S NIGHTMARE
A book that is indeed quite obsessive in its probe of this 1981 anti-classic
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A strong, if quirky and outdated, horror media overview from the 1960s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
TV Flashback: A LITTLE SHUDDER?
A long-forgotten horror anthology program hailing from 1970s Norway
Jeremy Thomas: 1949-2026
There was nobody else quite like producer Jeremy Thomas, and there will assuredly never be another.
Tim Curry: 1946-2026
All about one of modern filmdom’s finest, and most underrated, performers
Clive Barker on Kickstarter: A Good Idea?
Clive Barker’s upcoming anthology, currently being hawked on Kickstarter: legit or not?
Smut, Paris and Ed Wood
Two not-quite-classic Paris-set smut novels, one written by Ed Wood