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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
FACELESS
This is said to be one of the better films directed by the late Jess Franco
SALT, SALIVA, SPERM AND SWEAT
The title tells the “story” of this very odd, and very gross, mini-feature from Australia’s Philip Brophy
COME TRUE
Canadian horror, executive produced by CUBE’s Vincenzo Natali, that offers up some strikingly stylish visuals
MAUSOLEUM
Plenty stupid, but a reasonably entertaining time-passer
THE TOUCH
A horror-themed relic from what has been called “the most dark and surreal time of Russian history”: the early 1990s
SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART
Not a bad novel by any means, but SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is overlong and not entirely satisfying
VAMPIRES: STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL
This anthology contains four tales of the supernatural, written by Leo Tolstoy’s cousin Alexis
A DOG’S HEAD
A sui generis example of big-hearted fantasy spiced with unsentimental magic realism
COYOTE
COYOTE may be an extended hallucination or an eccentric first-person crime saga; either way, it’s a deeply chilly and upsetting book
SICK
A promising but not entirely successful horror novel that debuted at the wrong time
BARLOWE’S INFERNO
A vision of Hell that in originality, ingenuity and inspiration rivals the classics
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
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
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