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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
SORGOI PRAKOV
Found footage horror that’s different from, and superior to, most other examples
HIDEOUS!
I think we’re justified in desiring a bit more from this Full Moon production than the derivative quasi-comedy we’re given.
LET ME GO (THE RIGHT WAY)
From Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Stephen King’s son and Sean Penn’s son–Hollywood meritocracy at its best!
GOD IS MY WITNESS
For many US film buffs this 1992 action-romance-musical epic was our introduction to Bollywood–and what an introduction it was!
ESCAPE FROM L.A.
The nineties-centric sequel to ESCAPE FOM NEW YORK
BRAINSTORM
A YA novel that has a number of agreeable elements, but is done in by a simplistic treatment.
THE SPECIALIST
Here we have the fictional equivalent of those Nazi-sploitation movies prevalent in the 1970s
THE LIONESS
A threefer: a historical drama, a bodice ripper and a supernatural thriller
TYLER’S THIRD ACT
A corrosive and (mostly) dead-on satire of the entertainment world by a man who knows it all too well
OUT OF TIME
This uber-rarity is, as of 2021, the sole English language collection by George Langelaan (1908-1972)
WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES
This heavily illustrated volume is the first-ever English language book devoted to the making and reception of Benjamin Christensen’s 1922 classic HAXAN
WHO’S WHO IN HORROR AND FANTASY FICTION
This mini-encyclopedia is fairly obscure, but remains one of my favorite genre resources
WES CRAVEN’S LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT: THE MAKING OF A CULT CLASSIC
A solid, readable account of the making and reception of the original LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT as told to author David Szulkin
WAR EAGLES: THE UNMAKING OF AN EPIC
The “Greatest movie never made?” Not quite, but the 1939 production WAR EAGLES is an intriguing piece of film history
DREAM SPECTRES: EXTREME UKIYO-E
A lively, user-friendly study of ukiyo-e (“images from the floating world”) woodblock printed art from 18th and 19th Century Japan
TV Flashback: HOT SEAT WITH WALLY GEORGE
Here we have the grand-daddy of so-called combat television: the So Cal based HOT SEAT WITH WALLY GEORGE
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family
Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
The Rutger Hauer saga was a curious one
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990