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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE REACH
A superlative short film adaptation of what has been called Stephen King’s finest-ever story
SPACE RAIDERS
A TREASURE ISLAND inspired account of a young boy stowing away on a spaceship, this Roger Corman production was poorly received because, quite simply, it’s a bad movie
IMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA (Film)
The one and only Raymond Roussel film adaptation, made by the French TV ace Jean-Christophe Averty
FANTASY MISSION FORCE
This 1983 film is often called the worst Jackie Chan movie ever—it’s certainly the weirdest
RABID
David Cronenberg’s second feature, which stands as an interesting companion-piece to his first, the notorious SHIVERS
THE LONG WALK
This was the second, and most interesting, of several Stephen King novels published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym
THE WILDS
So-so wilderness horror from the eighties
CHILDREN OF THE BLACK SABBATH
Literary horror at its best!
JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS
AIDS-inspired dystopian grunge from the irrepressible Norman Spinrad
PIRATE’S ISLAND
A 1960s YA book with fast-moving action and a nail-biter of a climax
OPPOSABLE THUMBS: HOW SISKEL & EBERT CHANGED MOVIES FOREVER
The first book about the ultra-combative, never-to-be-repeated Siskel & Ebert dynamic
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
HALLOWEEN 3—”WHERE THE HELL IS MICHAEL MYERS?”
A history of “horror’s most misunderstood film,” written by that film’s own writer-director
THE MONSTER SHOW: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF HORROR
20th Century horror, as covered by the enromously intelligent and always entertaining David J. Skal
Horror Novels About Making Movies: A Ranking
Ten standout moviemaking-themed horror novels
BEETLEJUICE vs. BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
All about BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE and why it exists
10 Notable Cinematic Depictions of the Inferno
My top 10 Hell-set films
Films Misplaced: 50 That Got Away
“Lost” films? Not quite.
Shelley Duvall: 1949-2024
Shelley Duvall: Hollywood’s prototypical Quirky Actress.