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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?
The apotheosis of killer kid movies! This Spanish chiller from the seventies is unadulterated exploitation, to be sure, but it’s also superbly made, suspenseful, disturbing and impossible to forget
WE’RE GOING TO EAT YOU
The second feature by Hong Kong’s Tsui Hark was this Kung Fu infused, cannibal-themed comedy
VIDOCQ
This French horror fest from 2001 will likely be remembered more for its technical innovations than anything else, making greater use of the digital medium than any other film of its time
BURIED ALIVE (1990)
A slightly above average early 90’s TV movie potboiler from Frank Darabont, future director of high profilers like THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION and THE GREEN MILE
SYBIL
This is the famous, multi-Emmy award winning 1976 TV production starring Sally Field as Sybil, a real woman possessed by 16 different personalities
THE DISASSEMBLED MAN
The spirit of Jim Thompson is given a memorably demented workout in this first-person psycho fest.
DIRTY WEEKEND
What we have here is essentially a feminist minded DEATH WISH, although this novel presents itself as something far deeper
THE DEVIL’S POPESS
This wild and strange novella was initially published in French back in 1931. According to the 1999 introduction by Alastair Brotchie, the accredited authors “Jehan Sylvius” and “Pierre de Ruysnes” are pseudonymous; its actual authors may or may not be the surrealist scribes Robert Desnos and Ernest de Gengenbach. As Brotchie smartly concludes, “Whoever the authors were, they evidently enjoyed themselves.”
THE DEMON
This is my favorite novel by the late Hubert Selby Jr., who’s best known for LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. THE DEMON occupies a unique place in Selby’s oeuvre, being (I think) his most interesting book but also his most problematic.
Deliver Me From Eva
Contrary to what you might have heard, this recently interred pulp relic is not a very good book, much less the “neglected classic” some have proclaimed it, but it is engagingly nutty. A fast moving and often (intentionally?) funny account of medical madness in a creepy California mansion, DELIVER ME FROM EVA reads like a transcription of a Stuart Gordon movie set within a 1940s-era pulp fiction framework.
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