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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HWY: AN AMERICAN PASTORAL
A film made by the late Jim Morrison that’s best viewed as exactly what it was: a preview for bigger and better things that unfortunately never arrived
THE DOORS
RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS
FEAR (1996)
A slick and simple thriller that (mostly) works
HARDCORE
A strong film that could have been much better
THE JUDAS PROJECT
Although mostly forgotten these days, THE JUDAS PROJECT, which asked “What if Jesus Christ came for the first time in 1993?,” was very likely the most ambitious evangelical film of the 1990s
HORROR MOVIE
The field of horror movie themed horror novels is a crowded one in which HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tramblay ranks as mid
A HELL OF A WOMAN
A hell of a book!
THE ARTIFICIAL KID
The book that, together with the John Shirley potboilers TRANSMANIACON (1979) and CITY COME A-WALKIN’ (1980), served as the true prototype for what by the end of the 1980s was known as cyberpunk
NIGHT OF DELUSIONS
A 1970s era Philip K. Dick wannabe, and one of the better examples
THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT
A singularly deranged masterpiece, offered up for the time in uncut English language form
HOLLYWOOD GOTHIC: THE TANGLED WEB OF DRACULA FROM NOVEL TO STAGE TO SCREEN
An ambitious undertaking: an examination of Bram Stoker’s immortal DRACULA and its bumpy road to pop culture immortality
MASTER OF HORROR: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF MICK GARRIS
This long-in-coming biography is as thorough a portrait of Mick Garris as anyone could desire
BLOOD, SWEAT AND CHROME–THE WILD AND TRUE STORY OF MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
Is it worth reading? If you have any interest whatsoever in MAD MAX: FURY ROAD the answer is a resounding yes.
FANTASIA OF COLOR IN EARLY CINEMA
A wholly unique and eye-popping pictorially oriented look at the silent movie era with a most unexpected emphasis: color.
THE LINNEA QUIGLEY BIO & CHAINSAW BOOK
My exploration of the literary output of Linnea Quigley continues with this, her first publication
Video Store Memories
Video store nostalgia is all the rage right now, so here I’ll provide some more
Ten Eccentric Films for Easter
Note that the title says films for, and not about, Easter, as it isn’t an especially cinema-friendly holiday
THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS: Anatomy of a Non-Publication
Exploring one of the most famous non-publications of our time
VIC, BLOOD, AND HARLAN
About the strange yet wondrous tales of Vic, a teenage punk, and his telepathic dog Blood, who subsist in a post-nuclear wasteland.
“I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” at 56
Examaning science fiction’s darkest story