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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A film that was quite controversial upon its initial release in 1971 and remains a topic of enormous contention
THE OSCAR
The worst movie of all time? Quite possibly!
X
A film that’s quite typical of Ti West’s filmography at its best and worst
SLAXX
The one and only killer pants movie
ESME, MY LOVE
A powerful two-character indie that combines superbly rendered imagery with innovative sound design
LAST CASE AT A BAGGAGE AUCTION
This is the third major work I’ve read by Eric J. Guignard, following the collection THAT WHICH GROWS WILD and the novel DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE, and it exhibits all the attributes I’ve come to expect
THE ORPHEUS PROCESS
Another worthwhile dispatch from the Dell Abyss line of horror paperbacks that flourished in the early 1990s
THE LIVING DEAD
Clocking in at nearly 700 densely packed pages, THE LIVING DEAD seeks to be nothing less than the zombie novel to end all zombie novels
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (1980) / Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone’s reverence for THE DEMOLISHED MAN is evident in this, one of the most famous unfilmed screenplays in existence
THE DEMOLISHED MAN (late 1970s) / Brian De Palma
This undated late 1970s screenplay is one of several never-filmed takes on Alfred Bester’s 1951 science fiction masterpiece THE DEMOLISHED
SHOCK VALUE
The subtitle says it all: “How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror”
SCREEN VIOLENCE
Violence in cinema was a hot issue back in 1996, as evinced in this British anthology of passionate essays on the subject
SCREAMS AND NIGHTMARES: THE FILMS OF WES CRAVEN
Fans of Wes Craven can rejoice, as this hardcover overview of his life and films is about as good as can be expected, despite being over two decades out of date
HORROR PANEGYRIC
A well-written overview of the Savoy published Lord Horror novels, HORROR PANEGYRIC deserves credit simply for the fact that it’s currently the only existing book-lengthy study of these important works
HORRIPILATIONS: THE ART OF J.K. POTTER
HORRIPILATIONS was the first-ever book devoted to the surreal art of J.K. Potter, and if you ask me it was long overdue
2017: Bedlam in Print
Assembling a best-books-of-the-year list is always a dicey proposition. Quite simply, nobody can be expected to track down and read every worthwhile book printed over the course of the previous year…
2017: The Year in Bedlam
What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly
2017: A Look Back in Bedlam
Here we have the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam end-of-the-year overview of topics that are of particular interest to this site–and Bedlam, it turns out, was indeed the word for 2017
Hallmark Channel Christmas Movies
Hallmark Channel Christmas movies: over the past decade such films have become mainstays on the Hallmark Channel cable network
Funnybook Flashback: XOMBI
The nineties were a banner era for weird media, comic books in particular