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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
OBSESSION
Here’s something I say was long overdue: a serious challenge to mainstream Hollywood by a YouTuber helmed low budget horror movie
EL ALIMENTO DEL MIEDO
One of the most famous “lost” films of our time, EL ALIMENTO DEL MIEDO (THE FOOD OF FEAR; 1994) was the final film made by Juan López Moctezuma, Mexico’s greatest horror director
HACKED
A brilliant, disorienting and altogether unique “Double Entendre of Rage-Fueled Karma” from 2026
THE GREAT ALLIGATOR
It certainly wasn’t a bad idea: an Italian made JAWS rip-off, crossed with the jungle-set exploitation movie model popular in late 1970s Italy
SCREAMERS (1995)
A Philip K. Dick adaptation from 1995 that, contrary to what you might have heard, isn’t all bad
ORF
In which late 1960s America was given a most fitting epitaph by the late upscale smut outfit Essex House and its top author David Meltzer
ARKADI AND THE LOST TITAN
The magnum opus of France’s Philippe Caza, a 528 page graphic novel whose inception spanned the years 1989 to 2008
BRINGING IN THE CREEPS
Pop culture infused horror by an author who can be said to have cornered this particular field
MOUNT ANALOGUE
A “Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing” that inspired the Alejandro Jodorowsky feature THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)
THE POLLUTERS
A product of the upscale smut outfit Brandon House that reads like a watered-down template for Charles Platt’s THE GAS
HOW LUCKY I WAS: MY LIFE AND TIMES
The self-published autobiography of a writer, professional poker player and teacher who once counted yours-truly among his pupils
PAUL BARTEL: THE LIFE AND FILMS
A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel
TIME, A FALCONER: A STUDY OF SARBAN
The first and only book devoted to the life and literary output of England’s John W. Wall, a.k.a. Sarban
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
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
David Lynch By the Decade
A look back at David Lynch’s fifty-plus year career in film, decade by decade
2024: The Year in Bedlam
Let’s face it: the movies of 2024 by and large sucked
2024: A Look Back in Bedlam
A look back at all things Bedlam
Christmas TV Specials for the Irreparably Brain Damaged: The Japanese Editon
Holiday TV specials from the Land of the Rising Sun