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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
TERROR ABOVE THE SUNSET STRIP
This 22-minute jaw-dropper can be termed the AI movie to end all AI movies
OLDBOY
After twenty years this film remains an astonishing sensory assault
SOME CALL IT LOVING
The altogether bizarre second feature directed by James B. Harris, Stanley Kubrick’s former producing partner
PRIVATE PROPERTY
A “Terrible and disgusting” (so claimed JFK) 1960 indie? Perhaps, but it’s also a good one.
MACISTE IN HELL
A monument of silent era Italian cinema, and one of the screen’s most indelible depictions of Hell
THE NANNY
Sexy, suspenseful, ominous and gripping: this is a nifty thriller with a well sustained tone of rising apprehension and a convincing depiction of parental angst
UGLY MUG 6
The latest edition of House of Harley Studio’s UGLY MUG, presenting adult oriented artwork from the world’s foremost underground cartoonists
THESE LONG TEETH OF THE NIGHT
A retrospective collection of standout short stories spanning the career of Alexander Zelenyj, a modern master of all things weird, macabre and wonderful
LIERS IN WAIT
A bizarre novel that freely partakes of mystery, horror, erotica and science fiction. The mixture is, to say the least, uneasy
PORK PIE HAT
A novella that united two of the late Peter Straub’s major passions: jazz and horror, contained in an engaging Halloween tale
CITY OF THE BROKEN DOLLS
A strange collection of grainy black and white photos, mostly of injured Japanese women
TOBE HOOPER’S SALEM’S LOT: STUDIES IN THE HORROR FILM
Another, and extremely good, entry in Centipede Press’s “Studies in the Horror Film” series
A GUIDE FOR THE UNDEHEMORRHOIDED
It’s an unfortunate fact that some of the most memorable books written by the late Charles Willeford also happen to be among the most elusive
70s MONSTER MEMORIES
Unquestionably one of the standout books of 2016, and also, unfortunately, one of the scarcest
REFLECTIONS FROM A CINEMATIC CESSPOOL
A must-own for films nerds everywhere, this is a joint memoir by the notorious Kuchar brothers
Zombie Media in the 1990s
By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
HOUSE OF LEAVES at 20
In the modern horror pantheon there are a handful of books so revered their publications have been touted as Major Events. HOUSE OF LEAVES by Mark Z. Danielewski deserves a place in that pantheon.
R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning