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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
NO TEARS IN HELL
A film often feels like a callback to the torture porn era, despite a prestigious veneer that places it on an elevated, but still extremely horrific, plane.
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025)
This, the latest cinematic iteration of H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898), has already attained legendary status—and not because it’s good
AMANITA PESTILENS
This eco-horror tinged psychodrama had the distinction of being the first Canadian live-action feature to be filmed in color
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920)
A silent classic that Ican lay claim to being the definitive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella
THE LAST SEDUCTION
An interesting take on the femme fatale trope, with a true performance for the ages by Linda Fiorentino
TRAPPED
I maintain that the Edmund Plante authored 1987 horror-fest TRANSFORMATION is a rotgut classic. TRAPPED, Plante’s similarly oriented 1989 follow-up, is not.
TRANSFORMATION
Heavy reading this novel isn’t, but in terms of sheer grossness it’s a standout.
THE KILLER
The apotheosis of the British author/philosopher Colin Wilson’s crime fiction was THE KILLER, presented by the UK’s Savoy Books in its most complete version
BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN
The never-made BEETLEJUICE sequel, which exists only as an undated 126-page screenplay
HORROR MOVIE
The field of horror movie themed horror novels is a crowded one in which HORROR MOVIE by Paul Tramblay ranks as mid
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
THE DIRECTOR SHOULD’VE SHOT YOU
A book about movie novelizations–I can’t see how it could possibly NOT be a must-read
BARLOWE’S INFERNO
A vision of Hell that in originality, ingenuity and inspiration rivals the classics
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
Albert Pyun: 1953-2022
There was simply no one else like the Hawaiian-bred Albert Pyun, one of the most irrepressible directors working in any genre
Reconsidering Nineties Flops
There’s something about the movie flops of the 1990s
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