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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
SUPER MARIO BROS.
The first-ever video game inspired movie, and (no joke) one of the most ambitious big studio releases of the 1990s
MOROZKO
The only Russian fairy tale film of the 1920s, and the premiere example of Soviet-made folk horror
ALEX JOSEPH AND HIS WIVES
The very definition of a curio: a 1977 quasi-documentary by the late schlockmeister Ted V. Mikels about a notorious real-life polygamist
DOOMED LOVE
No-wave weirdness!
SORGOI PRAKOV
Found footage horror that’s different from, and superior to, most other examples
THE VAMPIRES OF ALFAMA
A most interesting and unprecedented addition to vampire lore from the French filmmaker and sometime novelist Pierre Kast
THE COFFIN THINGS
Michael Avallone (1924-99) was one of the most prolific hacks of the latter half of the Twentieth Century, and this is one of his better novels.
MANIAC
One of the sickest surprises of December 2020 was the release of this graphic novel, which breaks new ground in splatterific excess
COOL WORLD
In the lexicon of unmade, or rather ill-served, screenplays, COOL WORLD deserves a place of honor
DANILOV THE VIOLINIST
A singularly bizarre supernatural fantasy from the Soviet Union
HAUNTED HEART
A decent but ultimately superfluous biography of the one and only Stephen King
H.R. GIGER’S NECRONOMICON
One of several large format hardcovers covering H.R. Giger, the Swiss surrealist whose paintings have irrevocably changed the course of fantastic art
GODS IN SPANDEX
A sequel to the well received seventies-sploitation anthology GODS IN POLYESTER. GODS IN SPANDEX is a similarly formatted compilation that focuses on obscure exploitation films from the 1980s
GODS IN POLYESTER
One of the greatest (and most difficult to locate) film books of the ‘00s was this massive collection of first-person recollections by participants in the horror-exploitation movie scene of the 1970s
THE GHASTLY ONE
This book, one of the more fascinating and unorthodox moviemaker bios I’ve read, has already garnered praise from seemingly every media outlet in the universe. I’ll be adding to that praise.
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
Ranking The Rankings: The “Best” Canadian Films
It’s been claimed that a third of the world’s most depressing films emerge from Canada and, having viewed many a Canadian film, I believe it
On THE INTERFACE SERIES
Here’s something interesting: a horror-science fiction “novel” related entirely in the form of Reddit posts