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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
VICE SQUAD
A 1982 film that remains a standout in the trashy thriller category
HOUSE OF WHIPCORD
British exploition maestro Peter Walker’s take on the women in prison genre, filtered through his favorite premise: young women menaced by elderly psychopaths in a secluded setting
BATTLE GIRL: THE LIVING DEAD IN TOKYO BAY
A solid example of Asian Trash Cinema that’s unusually heavy on the trash
THE TRAP DOOR
Arguably the most interesting of the late 1970s-early 80s no wave films of Beth B and Scott B
DIVA IN THE NETHERWORLD
From Japan, an enormously self-aware, quasi-comedic low budget swirl of monsters and mayhem
CLUE
A novelization by Michael McDowell that gives CLUE (1985) far more class than it deserves
GILDED NEEDLES
A scrupulously researched, fitfully horrific depiction of New York City in the late 19th Century.
FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE
The most notorious of Clive Barker’s pre-BOOKS OF BLOOD plays
WHITE SPAWN
A novella-length take on the maestro’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth,” WHITE SPAWN offers most everything one could want in a neo-Lovecraftian account
NAKED IN HER COFFIN
Necrophilia, voodoo and zombies in a smut novel that, I’m afraid, isn’t very good at all
THE MAKING OF QUENTIN TARANTINO’S ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD
A deep dive into the creation of Quentin Tarantino’s most recent film
INSOMNIA
In which The Band’s late Robbie Robertson dishes on his drug taking days with Martin Scorsese
THE VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE
A terrifically entertaining Hollywood memoir by novelist/screenwriter/director Nicholas Meyer
SILENT TRIGGER: SHOOTING THE FILM
A passionate celebration of SILENT TRIGGER (1996), a straight to video thriller that’s received very little attention
SCENE
The long-in-coming memoir by Abel Ferrara, who after Martin Scorsese can be dubbed the ultimate New York filmmaker
On THE STATE OF THINGS, STRANGER THAN PARADISE and THE TERRITORY
In answer to the query “What do Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch, Roger Corman, Raul Ruiz, Jon Jost, the district of Sintra and the city of Lisbon have in common?”
2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
2025: A Look Back in Bedlam
2025 in review: The good, the bad and the many noteworthy deaths!
The Bad Christmas Movie
Christmas movies are eternally revered, but in recent years a (relatively) new format has gained in popularity: the Bad Christmas movie