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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
NAGIN
The most iconic Bollywood snake movie of them all.
THE CORE
Definitely one for the too-stupid-to-be-ignored category
INFINITY POOL
The best film yet made by Brandon Cronenberg, but it’s still not quite there
MAMA
Fairy-tale musical fantasy, like a kid-friendly MARAT/SADE or perhaps a grown-up H.R. PUFNSTUF
DONOVAN’S BRAIN
This is by no means the best brain-in-a-tank movie ever made, but it is the best known
CHASING THE BOOGEYMAN
The first solo novel by Richard Chizmar was this unique account of crime and detection, which blends autobiography and crime fiction
BOTTOMFEEDER
A stand-out graphic novel from Eibon Press and the team of scripter Stephen Romano and artist Pat Carbajal
LASERBLAST: The Comic
Fact: the no-budget Charles Band movie LASERBLAST (1978) sucks. This comic book adaptation, however, is somewhat interesting
THE MATILDA MURDER HUNTER
This was the tenth novel by Harry Stephen Keeler, and the second longest
GOING PLACES
It’s a rare novel that contains a perfect opening sentence, but this one, in the line “We’re real fuckheads,” does
THE OVERLOOK FILM ENCYCLOPEDIA: HORROR
One of the unfortunate things about web sites like the one you’re currently logged onto is that they’ve largely overshadowed books like this one
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
THE HORROR…THE HORROR
The passing of Rick Hautala in March of 2013 was a great loss to the horror field, but he left behind nearly 30 interesting novels, and also this frank and instructive memoir
GOING HOLLYWOOD
This book, written by the director of LUNATICS: A LOVE STORY and ALIEN APOCALYPSE, is required reading for anyone considering a filmmaking career
GHOSTLY TALES OF ROUTE 66: ARKANSAS TO ARIZONA
Here’s one for you history buffs: a collection of fact based ghost stories from various parts of the legendary Route 66
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
Books about the Grand Guignol
The fabled Grand Guignol Theatre in Paris was and continues to be a source of endless fascination
On EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
There’s nothing else quite like EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
A Tale of Two Terminators
Here I’ll focus on the sole element relating to THE TERMINATOR that hasn’t already been picked over and/or argued about to death: the two novelizations it inspired
What’s in My Halloween Bag…
What follows is a more-or-less random selection of Halloween-themed ephemera