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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ECSTATIC STIGMATIC
One of the more infamous examples of the “No Wave” film movement
CRUEL GHOST LEGEND
A 1968 film that until recently was thought “lost,” CRUEL GHOST LEGEND is a most engaging combination of the ghost and samurai Japanese movie tropes
THE MARK
For sleaze fans this is a title of special interest, a hilariously overwrought Greek sexploitater from 1977
ASYLUM
This 1972 documentary looks in on a most unique method of psychological treatment
PIEGE
A product of the late 1960s French avant-garde, marked by decadence, surrealism and a loose reworking of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
ENEMY OF THE GOOD: POSTSCRIPTS 19
The contents are varied enough in style, quality and subject matter that it’s difficult to render any sort of overall verdict–to some of you I’m sure that fact will be off-putting, while others will take it as a strong recommendation.
ENEMY FORCE
Now, however, a full 110 years later, John Antoine Nau’s ENEMY FORCE seems quite dull and uninvolving. The fault could be with the English translation–or, as the cover proclaims, “adaptation”–by Michael Shreve, who often seems puzzled by the text (
Elsewhere
For the most part ELSEWHERE is a charming, low-key haunted house tale that’s more interesting than scary. It certainly contains its share of quintessentially Blatty-esque wisecracks.
ELEVEN TWENTY-TWO SIXTY-THREE (11/22/63)
A surprise: I admittedly had little hope for this Stephen King 842-page time travel opus, yet it turns out to be King’s finest novel in decades.
ELEKTRA ASSASSIN
The Frank Miller scripted, Bill Sienkiewicz illustrated ELEKTRA ASSASSIN, from Marvel’s adult-oriented offshoot Epic Comics, was a vital yet largely unheralded entry in the comics renaissance of the 1980s.
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