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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves

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THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT

Possibly the farthest the screen has ever taken the ARABIAN NIGHTS story-within-a-story motif, this distinctly literary exercise is not a film for the uncommitted viewer

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SANTA’S SLAY

This Canadian-lensed Christmas-themed splatter comedy from 2005 clearly wanted to be the BAD SANTA of its day…but wasn’t

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SANTA SANGRE

A truly amazing 1989 film by Alejandro Jodorowsky–bold, violent, surreal and completely irresistible, it’s one of the decade’s finest films

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SANTA CLAUS

Santa versus Satan?  That’s the premise of this “classic” Mexican kid flick from 1959, a colorful and totally bizarre take on Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick

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THE SANDMAN 1996

Those familiar with the no-budget auteur Bookwalter’s work won’t be surprised to hear that the shot-on-video SANDMAN isn’t very good…but then, it’s not all that bad, either

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Z FOR ZACHARIAH

I know many of you read this ostensible young adult novel in your teens. I missed out on that experience, but having finally gotten around to doing so I can fully understand why Z FOR ZACHARIAH is so iconic

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XELUCHA AND OTHERS

A collection that proves the old truism that what seems innovative to one generation is insufferable to another—well, M.P. Shiel’s work isn’t insufferable, but it’s certainly irritating.

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X,Y

Michael Blumlein is one of the most individual genre writers on the scene, and X,Y is one of his signature works

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UNPLEASANT TALES

Having read Brendan Connell’s recent collection METROPHILIAS, I figured I had a good idea of what to expect from Mr. Connell. Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong

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UNHOLY TRINITY

From the late lamented Scream/Press (arguably the premiere independent horror publisher of the 1980s) comes this hardcover omnibus of three early novels by Robert Bloch

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