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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE OLD HOUSE, PASSING
Experimental mood-based horror from underground film legend Larry Jordan
THE BIG DOLL HOUSE
Among women in prison movies THE BIG DOLL HOUSE is one of the biggies
A DAY IN THE CITY
Dadist subversion in the form of a satirical quasi-documentary portrait of Stockholm, circa 1956
LITTLE SISTERS
Much weirder-than-average pornographic lunacy from the 1970s
SUPERBMAN: THE OTHER MOVIE
The cinema of spoofery had one of its highpoints in this 1981 dismantling of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
THE LONG TOMORROW AND OTHER SCIENCE FICTION STORIES
Overall this book ranks far from the top in the Moebius hierarchy, yet contains one absolutely indispensable portion: the Dan O’Bannon scripted title story
BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS
The vision on display in this graphic novel is a dark and unsettling one marked by blood, slime and decay
AFFAIRS OF A CARDIOVASCULAR NATURE
A collection about which the cliché “expect the unexpected” fits quite well
HEAD-TO-TOE PORTRAIT OF SUZANNE
An unspeakably demented concoction that could only have been dreamed up by France’s late Roland Topor
ON THE VERGE
A macabre anthology from France’s Maurice Sandoz that pivots on madness
THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM
Here was have what may be the most widely discussed yet least read genre study of all time.
AMERICAN GOTHIC
The utterly distinctive photographic artwork of Carlos Batts, as presented in this book, falls somewhere between the harsh naturalism of Weegee and the horrific surrealism of J.K. Potter. Over the past 15 or so years Batts has provided illustrations for numerous album covers, magazines and comics…
THE AMAZING HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS
THE AMAZING HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS by Daniel Krogh, is the first book devoted to H. G. Lewis, widely hailed as the Godfather of Gore. His flicks include such 1960s and 70s-era anti-classics as BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!…
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
More Thoughts on Movie Titles
The big movie-related issue right now? That would be the disappointing February 2019 opening of the SUICIDE SQUAD spin-off BIRDS OF PREY, for which Warner Bros. had (unrealistically) high expectations
Dutch Horror Essentials
Continuing with my “Essentials” horror surveys (see here, here, here and here for the others) we arrive at the Netherlands, which isn’t exactly a hotbed for horror fare
2019: Bedlam in Print
Concluding my 2019 overviews is this, the latest edition of Bedlam in Print, exploring the noteworthy publications of the previous twelve months
2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens
The 2010s
Apologies for the brutal honesty, but regarding the 2010s I have this to say: What a lousy decade for entertainment!