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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
BLOOD REINCARNATION
An example of Hong Kong anthology cinema, consisting of three thematically linked shorts contained in a 98 minute whole
BISIKAN ARWAH
Indonesian horror with a monster tongue, horrific transformations, bug eating, Kung Fu fighting and lots of excess insanity
CORPSE EATERS
The first-ever Canadian gorefest, and a fitting companion-piece to CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
A movie that didn’t seem like much when it premiered in 1992, and which I was hoping might have improved in the ensuing decades. Quite simply: it hasn’t
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
HALLOWEEN IV
Dennis Etchison’s 1986 screenplay for HALLOWEEN IV was discarded, and there’s a reason for that
COLD HAND IN MINE
Eight stories by England’s late Robert Aickman, one of the 20th Century’s greatest and most individual horror writers
THE UPTURNED STONE
A 1990s graphic novella incorporating a tender coming-of-age tale, ghosts, a giant pumpkin and Halloween
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
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A strong, if quirky and outdated, horror media overview from the 1960s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
A MANHATTAN GHOST STORY: From Published Novel to Unfilmed Screenplay
Examining one of the finest novels of the late T.M. Wright, and its unfilmed screenplay adaptation by Ronald Bass
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?