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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE DAY OF THE BEAST
A Christmas movie we can all get behind!
KINGS AND DESPERATE MEN
PRISONER fans take note: this 1981 Canadian production reunites the principal actors of that immortal series Patrick McGoohan and Alexis Kanner in an arty suspense drama
DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
GRAND GUIGNOL
This not-very-funny comedy from France pays tribute to Paris’s fabled Grand Guignol Theatre
THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS
The legendary Grand Guignol Theatre provided the source material for this silent drama from 1929
HOUSE OF PAIN
It doesn’t exactly break new ground (naughty nuns are hardly a novelty in erotic fiction), and I’m not entirely sure the “classic” tag is appropriate, but HOUSE OF PAIN does nonetheless deserve credit for the very real sense of anguish that emanates from its pages.
THE HOUSE OF FEAR
The late Leonora Carrington was a world-renowned painter and designer, and also one of the most interesting authors to emerge from the surrealist movement.
HOT IN DECEMBER
This blistering novella by the incomparable Joe Lansdale is something of a companion-piece to his 1989 psycho-noir masterpiece COLD IN JULY..
HORRORWEEN
Unlike the others, HORRORWEEN is composed of three standalone stories, all previously published in slightly different versions.
HORNS
Joe Hill’s second novel is far better overall than its predecessor A HEART-SHAPED BOX, fulfilling many things the previous book promised but didn’t deliver.
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On “Holy Indies” and Armageddon
As long as there have been movies, it seems, there have been evangelical films
THE REAPING and GRINDHOUSE: A Tale of Two Flops
Two horror-themed would-be blockbusters have recently opened, THE REAPING and GRINDHOUSE, and in the month since their respective April 6 releases both have flopped majorly
The Twisted Fiction of David J. Skal
I know David J. Skal best as a writer of dark fiction, and one of the most distinctive such authors on the scene
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.