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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
EXPLORERS
In the summer of 1985, when it seemed like every movie release involved teenagers engaged in elaborate adventure/sci fi scenarios, EXPLORERS was the odd film out
FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND
Yes, this film is pretty awful, but I’m sure you’ve figured that out already
THE LOST WORLD (1925)
The grandaddy of monster mash cinema!
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
Mindless, nonsensical and dopey are adjectives that adequately describe this Roger Corman production, but it’s also so much damn fun that, frankly, who cares about any of those things?
DISNEY’S SNOW WHITE
The biggest flop of all time?
A HELL OF A WOMAN
A hell of a book!
THE ARTIFICIAL KID
The book that, together with the John Shirley potboilers TRANSMANIACON (1979) and CITY COME A-WALKIN’ (1980), served as the true prototype for what by the end of the 1980s was known as cyberpunk
NIGHT OF DELUSIONS
A 1970s era Philip K. Dick wannabe, and one of the better examples
THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT
A singularly deranged masterpiece, offered up for the time in uncut English language form
BLIND VOICES
A “breathtakingly good” horror-fantasy novel? I beg to differ!
YOU’RE THE DIRECTOR…YOU FIGURE IT OUT
The first and only biography of the late Richard Donner
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
A book that purports to be a biography of the title character, who’s also known as Satan, Lucifer, Adversary and many other names
SKIN
The object of this glossy large format paperback, from scream quenn Linnea Quigley, was to spoof Madonna’s SEX
MR. KNOW-IT-ALL: THE TARNISHED WISDOM OF A FILTH ELDER
John Waters is a filmmaker I’ve always found more entertaining than the films he makes
JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT: EDGE OF GREATNESS
This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one
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
Peter Straub: 1943-2022
If you’re a reader of horror fiction the chances are better-than-average that you’re at least partially familiar with the writings of Peter Straub
More Illustrated Oddments
Here we have a new batch of Illustrated Oddments, books that deserve some ink on this site, even if I can’t justify writing full reviews.