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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE SADIST WITH RED TEETH
Belgian trash about a guy who thinks he’s a vampire. Don’t expect much.
SQUAREWORLD
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
THE UNITED FAMILY AWAITS THE VISIT OF HALLEWYN
The first feature by Argentina’s Miguel Bejo, a figure who deserves to be ranked with cinematic provocateurs like Jodorowsky and Arrabal
HAUNTED SAMURAI
This 1970 Nikkatsu release is allegedly “the most gory ninja film of its era”
THE GARDENER
1970s horticultural horror that features the legendary male sex symbol Joe Dallesandro in his first non-Andy Warhol affiliated film
OUR LADY OF THE TURKS
This is a big deal: the premiere English translation of the only novel by Italy’s late Carmelo Bene
THE FOG
Impossible though it might seem to believe nowadays, this British horror fest was once considered the height of shock
THE EXERCISER
The 1970s parody novel is a format that deserves at least a glance. Case in point: THE EXERCISER
THE VISITOR
A killer rat themed paperback original with an edge
HELLSTROM’S HIVE
There are some good ideas in this, a post-DUNE Frank Herbert science fiction novel bearing a concept that evidently obsessed him: human-insect hybridization
KINO DELIRIUM
This is one of the very few books devoted to Maddin and his films, and a must-read volume for fans
A KIM JONG-IL PRODUCTION
Here’s a real-life account that is in fact stranger than fiction: the 1978 kidnapping of the veteran South Korean film director Shin Sang-Ok and his actress ex-wife Choi Eun-Hee by Kim Jong-Il
KILLER INSTINCT
In the category of books about moviemaking this one for me ranks among the top of the heap
THE JAWS 2 LOG
This lively report about the making of JAWS 2 is far from the best book of its type, but it is a fascinating and instructive read
THE JAWS LOG
THE JAWS LOG is not, as the back cover wrongfully claims, the “only book” about the making of JAWS, but it is the best
TV Flashback: LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
2019 marked the 20th anniversary of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, but I say it’s time for a look back even further, to that film’s true progenitor: the French TV program LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
Larry Cohen: 1936-2019
My take on the late screenwriter, producer and director Larry Cohen is a complicated one
Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
Looking back at the underground comix of the early 1970s, one finds that horror, unsurprisingly, was a popular topic