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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ELVES
Ludicrous straight-to-video anti-Christmas trash from the eighties! ELVES is popular with bad movie buffs, but don’t expect much
EL TOPO
EL TOPO is the most famous film ever made by the incomparable Alejandro Jodorowsky, an early-seventies counterculture mainstay that retains much of its off-kilter brilliance
EL NOMINADO
Yet another take on the reality TV craze, EL NOMINADO is disturbing because it seems quite plausible in terms of its setting (an enclosed space deep underground) and outcome (a contestant goes violently insane). Too bad the film just isn’t very good
EL AMOR BRUJO
Flamenco dancing takes center stage in this musical extravaganza from Spain’s Carlos Saura. All told it’s an impressively stylized work that interweaves authentic Gypsy folklore with song, dance and a fairly potent ghost story
EBOLA SYNDROME
We all knew this was coming: a completely over-the-top horror-exploitation movie about the Ebola virus!
THE SCARLET GOSPELS
Now that THE SCARLET GOSPELS is finally here two things are immediately apparent: 1) at 361 pages it’s far from the 1,000-plus page masterpiece I’ve heard portended, and 2) it’s not exactly the “epic summation” of Barker’s work that was promised
THE SAVAGE WOMEN
This long out of print paperback is an outrageous chunk of seventies-sploitation that must be read to be believed
SAVAGE SNOW
Here’s something I’d never have expected, a disaster thriller from the eighties paperback market that actually turned out to be good—damn good
SATYR
There are some good things here, but they’re overshadowed by the not-so-good stuff
SANTA’S TWIN
Koontz’s ambitions here weren’t exactly modest: the front cover flap promises a “contemporary masterpiece that is destined to take its place beside THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS as a perennial Yuletide favorite.”
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