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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Yes, this is it: the G-rated Disney movie by David Lynch
ERASERHEAD
One of the world’s premiere examples of abstract filmmaking
THE GRANDMOTHER
A crucial entry in the filmography of the young David Lynch
DON’T LOOK AT ME: DAVID LYNCH
This 1989 French TV profile is one of the more fascinating documentaries on the late David Lynch
THE BLOB (1988)
Here’s a rare case in which a horror movie remake actually surpasses its source
THE COMMITTED MEN
The apocalypse-themed first novel by England’s enormously gifted M. John Harrison, who in more recent years has all-but disowned it
FUTURE WITHOUT FUTURE
A collection of six science fiction stories from an uncommonly skilled wordsmith and surrealist
DIONYSOS SPEED
A visionary concoction that can be categorized as surrealist poetry or avant-garde science fiction
LOT LIZARDS
Truck stop dwelling vampires, courtesy of the sorely missed Ray Garton
THE LOST STRADIVARIUS
An early entry in the music-based horror fiction trope that included Algernon Blackwood’s “Human Chord” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “Music of Erich Zann”
GLAMOUR GHOUL: THE PASSIONS AND PAIN OF THE REAL VAMPIRA, MAILA NURMI
This isn’t the first book about Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira, but it is very likely the best
LAID BARE
In which true crime author John Gilmore lays bare his early years as an actor, and his dealings with the soon-to-be-famous
YOURS CRUELLY, ELVIRA: MEMOIRS OF THE MISTRESS OF THE DARK
Everyone loves Elvira, whose life story is told quite well in these pages
NOT BAD FOR A HUMAN
The life story of the one and only Lance Henriksen
BIG BAD JOHN: THE JOHN MILIUS INTERVIEWS
A book of interviews with the famous screenwriter/director John Milius
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
EYES WITHOUT A FACE vs. THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS
In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version
On Michael Haneke and Emotional Glaciation
A thematic trilogy that marked the emergence of a unique and vital auteur, and exerted a rather sizeable impact on European cinema as a whole
Marilyn Monroe Biopics
The release of BLONDE caps a long line of films about the late Norma Jeane Baker, a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe
Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE, and THE TOURIST
I feel that had these scripts been filmed the face of cinema may well have been transformed irrevocably