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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
CONGO
A 1995 release that deserves to be ranked with exotic camp-fests like COBRA WOMAN (1944) and SHEENA (1984)
LEGACY
“A rich woman deteriorates mentally” is the plot summary provided by the imdb about this film, and those five words do indeed adequately sum it up.
JOHN’S NOT MAD
The first and best documentary about Scotland’s John Davidson, the world’s most (in)famous sufferer of Tourette’s Syndrome
HAATHI MERE SAATHI
The supposed “Most Unusual Film Ever Produced in India,” and certainly one of the top elephant movies of all time
EDEN AND AFTER
A wildly experimental, albeit extremely bloody and erotic, art film that was quite popular with mainstream audiences in France
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
THE NIHILESTHETE
An altogether unique novel that fascinates and annoys in equal measure
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
GILLIAMESQUE
A “Pre-Posthumous Memoir” by the outspoken London-based cartoonist-turned-director Terry Gilliam, and everything you’d expect
NEUE SLOWENISCHE KUNST
From the underground publishing outfit Amok Books, a sumptuously designed art book about a most unique European art collective
THE EXOTIC ONES: THAT FABULOUS FILMMAKING FAMILY FROM MUSIC CITY, USA–THE ORMONDS
It’s hard to believe this large format hardcover is the first book devoted to the Ormonds, but I’m glad it’s finally here, and that it delivers on its promise
Kris Kristofferson: 1936-2024
Looking over an eccentric yet highly distinguished acting career
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.