NAKED THEATER AND UNCENSORED HORROR
The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing
THE AMAZING STORY BEHIND THE LEGEND OF BILLY JACK
An unabashed puff piece that nonetheless emerges as the definitive resource on all things BILLY JACK
THE GARDENER
1970s horticultural horror that features the legendary male sex symbol Joe Dallesandro in his first non-Andy Warhol affiliated film
John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
The aesthetic qualities of John Carpenter’s films are certainly worth enumerating. My interest here is in how those films and their maker transformed Hollywood
BEETLEJUICE 1988
Tim Burton’s second feature was this 1988 triumph, his first collaboration with novelist Michael McDowell
SLEEPY HOLLOW
You won’t find much of Washington Irving’s 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in this 1999 film, but you will find plenty of Tim Burton
THE NIGHTMARE NEVER ENDS
Featuring a stand-out non-NIGHT COURT performance by the recenlty deceased Richard Moll
BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
Here’s a film that hasn’t been getting too many retrospectives, but I say it’s deserving of at least one
RAWHEAD REX
Not a good movie, although it is a fun one
DIABOLIQUE
The most iconic film made by France’s Henri-Georges Clouzot, DIABOLIQUE was the reason he was branded the “Gallic Hitchcock.”