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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE BUTCHER BOY
The brief acting career of the late Sinéad O’Connor reached its apex in this rancid little film from Ireland’s Neil Jordan
SLITHIS
Certainly the only monster movie ever made whose critter emerges from the canals of Venice Beach, CA
TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS
The second feature directed by France’s late Alain-Robbe Grillet was this 1967 lark that took the Euro crime thriller model for quite a ride
A WOMAN KILLS
One of the more interesting unknown films of the sixties was this 1968 feature by France’s Jean-Denis Bonan
SADNESS OF THE ANTHROPOPHAGI
A short film from 1966 that serves as an interesting precursor to SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM
SHELTER
A paperback original that can be viewed as the trashy down-market inverse of ON THE BEACH
MAD SHADOWS
A much-lauded novel that offers a potent reminder that a great deal of renowned Canadian fiction tends toward the macabre
RED SPIDER, WHITE WEB
Here we have what is undoubtedly the most widely discussed yet least read book of the cyberpunk cycle
PIG TALES
The cover and description make this novel seem like a light-hearted satire, which it isn’t
RED GRASS
A novel as puzzling and bizarre as nearly any I’ve read, filled with enigmas I’m told will come clear on subsequent readings
BOOK OF SOULS
This short nonfiction collection was by Jack Ketchum—who is now, tragically, the late Jack Ketchum, a fact that renders BOOK OF SOULS even more poignant than it was initially
MILLER AND MAX
An absolute must for MAD MAX fans, a sort-of biography of Australian filmmaker George Miller and his signature creation
PAPERBACKS FROM HELL: THE TWISTED HISTORY OF ’70s AND ’80s HORROR FICTION
Now here’s a subject I know a bit about: paperback horror novels of the so-called “horror boom” of the 1970s and 80s
A LIT FUSE: THE PROVOCATIVE LIFE OF HARLAN ELLISON
An excellent book about an individual who really should need no introduction
CITY OF THE BROKEN DOLLS
A strange collection of grainy black and white photos, mostly of injured Japanese women
RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
It’s been said of TOMIE that there is “nothing in Western horror literature, cinema and comics quite like it.” Not unless you take into account the 1989 novella RED HEDZ, revised as SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
The Films of Richard Stanley
Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific
E-Books, Astrologers, Ocean Parks, Buried Treasure and SURVIVOR
The decline of print media is a subject that in the post-Coronavirus era has taken on a new relevance
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point
On TIGER KING and Lucky Documentarians
A bonafide phenomenon, TIGER KING enjoyed a 25 day ranking as Netflix’s number one show, and the reasons for its popularity aren’t difficult to figure out