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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
TOKYO BLOOD
A 33-minute four parter by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, returning to form after a nine-year gap.
THE ‘BURBS
I know many of you love this film. I don’t!
FEAR AND DESIRE
Yes, this was the first feature film made by 22-year-old Stanley Kubrick, and not exactly a monumental debut
THE ERL-KING
Goethe’s classic poem, adapted for film in 1931–painfully minimalistic, but worth a watch
THE EMBALMER
A tricky film, this: a cunning and perverse thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study
NINE HORRORS AND A DREAM
The spirit of WEIRD TALES illuminates this slim collection of stories by Joseph Payne Brennan
MARDI GRAS MASSACRE
In which the 1978 Southern-fried slasher of that title gets the Brad Carter novelization treatment
THE MYSTERY OF WOOLVERINE WOO-BAIT
The fact that this is the only solo comic book by the fringe culture legend Joe Coleman renders THE MYSTERY OF WOOLVERINE WOOL-BAIT a must read
THE FUNHOUSE
From Dean Koontz, a movie novelization that’s not one of his better books
TAPPING THE SOURCE
The debut novel of Kem Nunn, and the premiere example of “surf noir”
WILLEFORD
This, unfortunately, is the closest thing that exists to a biography of the late Charles Willeford
HOW TO WRITE PORNO NOVELS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
A book that reads best as an enjoyable flashback to a more sexually frank era
NIGHT OF THE GRIZZLIES
This factual account of a double bear attack in the summer of 1967 was a groundbreaker in its day
ROOM TO DREAM
Far and away the most comprehensive David Lynch biography to date
THE STRANGE VOYAGE OF DONALD CROWHURST
Ronald Crowhurst was a deeply obsessive man, so it’s appropriate that this book about his doomed 1969 voyage is an extremely eccentric and obsessive piece of work in its own right
On CITY ZERO and VERNANDA
Here we’re going back to a very particular time and place: the Soviet Union, circa 1988
Joe Kane: 1947-2020
In an age filled with self-anointed “B-movie historians” the now-deceased Joe Kane remains one of the very few writers who can truly be said to have earned that designation
On THE WHITE HOTEL
THE WHITE HOTEL is one of the few examples of literary fiction that can truly be said to have just about everything
The Halloween Issue
Here we’re going to explore the phenomenon of the Halloween issue
Funnybook Flashback: FLINCH
It’s impossible not to be struck by the range of artwork and subject matter of this Vertigo horror comics anthology