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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ZEIRAM
An inexplicably popular example of Japanese Tokusatsu (live action special effects based cinema) that I say is mid
RETURN TO BABYLON
The world’s most famous “Haunted Film,” with ghosts alleged to have been directly involved in its production
THE WORLD OF DARKNESS
An example of a failed 1970s TV pilot that went on to become a cause celebre among horror fans
LOOKER
1981 SF from writer/director Michael Crichton that deserves points for its prophetic concepts—but that’s ALL it deserves points for
THE BARN OF THE NAKED DEAD
A 1973 grindhouse product, of note primarily because it was directed by future arthouse auteur Alan Rudolph
SUPERGIRL
This is about what you would expect quality-wise from a novelization of what was (until the 1987 release of SUPERMAN 4: THE QUEST FOR PEACE) the worst of the SUPERMAN movies
SEVEN COFFINS FOR THE KILLER
The final novel by the late James Williamson, writing as James Havoc, who offers up a full blast of splatterific nastiness in a wild west milieu
DREAMS OF THE RAREBIT FIEND
The legendary early-1900s comic strip by Windsor McCay, which I found authentically dreamlike
THE SOULSUCKER
A long out-of-print paperback, involving blood drinking alien spiders, that really isn’t very good at all
THE WILD
Whitley Strieber once called this his “breakthrough” novel and then decided it wasn’t all that; in truth it falls somewhnere in between those poles
PERFORMANCE—THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC
In which the UK’s Jay Glennie once again works his magic in a gorgeously designed movie making-of book
GREAT BALLS OF FIRE! AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SEX IN SCIENCE FICTION
Supposedly a history of sex in science fiction, but actually a history of sex in science fiction art
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
The Disconcertingly Familiar Horrors of PENPAL
All about what is arguably the most impacting work of fiction to emerge from Reddit.com
Harlan Ellison: The Redemption Arc
About how, in defiance of my expectations, the late Harlan Ellison is becoming a posthumous success story
Remembering That Which Is Better Forgotten: THE REAL CANCUN
An inaugural entry in the reality film genre, which sought to do for feature filmmaking what reality TV did for television
FRANKENSTEIN INVERTED
Eight interesting FRANKENSTEIN films that I say are worth your time
Dan Simmons: 1948-2026
There was no more talented or dependable modern writer than the recently deceased Dan Simmons