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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
MR. INDIA
The first and only INVISIBLE MAN inspired science fiction themed musical melodrama
WONKA: THE SCANDAL THAT ROCKED BRITAIN
The definitive documentary account of the Glasgow, Scotland based WILLY’S CHOCOLATE EXPERIENCE fiasco
VAMPYRES
An almost-classic of British horror from 1974
CRUSH (1992)
A product of the nineties indie film scene, when dark and twisted were in and commercial considerations were very much out
DROP DEAD FRED
A nineties chick flick crossed with HARVEY and an undertone of genuine psychological unrest
THE MEN IN THE JUNGLE
A nasty ‘Nam allegory by sci fi legend Norman Spinrad
COLD FRONT
A recently republished 1980s horror novel that’s strong, descriptive and thoroughly Canadian
SKIN
The third and most widely praised of Kathe Koja’s grunge-era horror novels, resissued in a snazzy new edition
THE AWAKENING
Imaginative and ambitious vampire fiction by John Russo
MR. TURTLE
A weird one: a cyborg turtle, constructed as an instrument of war, headlines a Japanese import that functions as a bizarre speculative narrative, a philosophical fable and a surreal mind-tugger
ECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
QUENTIN TARANTINO: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
A graphic novel biography of Quentin Tarantino that is, as the front cover makes clear, “Unofficial and Unauthorized”
UWE BOLL RAW
Exactly what you’d expect from a filmmaker who’s often called the modern day Ed Wood: grammatically suspect, often uproarious and downright pissy
THE FUTURE WAS NOW: MADMEN, MAVERICKS, AND THE EPIC SCI-FI SUMMER OF 1982
About mainstream science fiction cinema in the summer of 1982, a pivotal time for those of us who lived through it
FEVER YEAR: THE KILLER FLU OF 1918
A powerful graphic novel depiction of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918-19
Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
George Armitage: 1942-2025
On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us
On SLEAZOID EXPRESS
Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation of anything of its particular type.”
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry