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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
PUMPKINHEAD
An eighties horror film that at least tries to spin a character-based, emotion-centered yarn that doesn’t rely on derivative splatter
PROMETHEUS TRIUMPHANT
A modern (2008) silent that tries very hard to recreate the style of bygone films like NOSFERATU and THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
2014: A LOOK BACK IN HORROR
Below you’ll find the latest addition of my annual “Look Back in Horror” overview. Film, Fiction, Tributes.
THE DELUGE
This proto-disaster movie hails from 1933. No, it’s not “good” by any means, but is fascinating in its presentation of one of Hollywood’s favorite movie tropes in embryonic form
CREEP
A chick-lost-in-subway-tunnels chiller, and a good one
THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY
To be sure, a lot of crap was published during the horror boom of the 1980s, but some real gems also made their way to publication during that period, and were inexplicably lost in the shuffle. Examples of the latter include the early novels of Jack Ketchum, which have only recently gotten the attention they deserve, and Michael Talbot’s THE DELICATE DEPENDENCY, an unassumingly packaged paperback original that has yet to receive its full dues.
THE DEEP SEA DIVER’S SYNDROME
The traveling-into-dreams trope has long been a prominent, and problematic, staple of horror and science fiction. This French novel, originally published in 1992, is a stellar example of the format–and, I feel, an overall standout in the field of imaginative fiction. Kudos to Melville House, and translator Edward Gauvin, for putting out this better-late-than-never English language version.
DEATH’S APPRENTICE
Ambitious and indisputably well written, as you’d expect given that thhe co-author is K.W. Jeter, but only puddle deep.
DEATH TOUR
These days it’s common for would-be filmmakers to turn their unproduced scripts into novels, although I’m not sure how prevalent that practice was back in the seventies. Yet reading David J. Michael’s DEATH TOUR, a largely forgotten but fairly potent seventies horror fest, I couldn’t help but picture it as a low budget movie: it’s extremely action heavy and has a tightly contained setting, not to mention a distinct three act structure.
DEATH BY DREAMING
An interesting entry in the dream craze of the eighties, when it seemed every other horror-themed book and movie involved dreams
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