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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HIDEOUS!
I think we’re justified in desiring a bit more from this Full Moon production than the derivative quasi-comedy we’re given.
LET ME GO (THE RIGHT WAY)
From Steven Spielberg’s daughter, Stephen King’s son and Sean Penn’s son–Hollywood meritocracy at its best!
GOD IS MY WITNESS
For many US film buffs this 1992 action-romance-musical epic was our introduction to Bollywood–and what an introduction it was!
ESCAPE FROM L.A.
The nineties-centric sequel to ESCAPE FOM NEW YORK
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
One of the most notorious Hollywood flops of the seventies, and indeed of all time
POMEGRANATE AND THE DEVOURING INSECTS
Two previously untranslated stories by Edogawa Ranpo, Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe, make up this 84 page e-text
THE SPIDER MAN
Another late-in-coming translation of the work of Edogawa Ranpo, a novel that’s brainy and grotesque in equal measure, and never less than fully absorbing
ASH WEDNESDAY
A strange and eerie tale set in a sleepy town besieged by the spirits of everyone who ever died there
THE EYES OF THE CAT
When contemplating this horrific graphic novel I find that several terms invariably recur, namely bizarre, dreamlike, enigmatic and surreal
PREY
Among unmade John Carpenter screenplays PREY, a 98 page script hailing from the mid-1970s, is about average
UNUTTERABLE HORROR
This two-volume study has already attained iconic status, and may well go on to become the premiere resource for devotees of supernatural fiction
ULTRAVIOLENT MOVIES
The subject of ultraviolet cinema is a compelling one, especially for horror fans, and this 1996 publication profiles many of the ultraviolent movies that have been released since the late 1960s. Yet the book ultimately falls far short for a variety of reasons
ULTIMATE PORNO: THE MAKING OF SEX COLOSSAL
In the field of movie making-of books, ULTIMATE PORNO is one of the most obscure there is, yet also one of the few worth reading
THEY CAME FROM WITHIN: A HISTORY OF CANADIAN HORROR CINEMA
This well researched and eminently readable overview is the closest thing there is to a bible on Canadian horror cinema, a subject that isn’t discussed much
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES…THE TRUTH HAS SET ME FREE!
A profoundly insane reminiscence adequately summed up by its own ungainly subtitle: “The memoirs of Bob Hope’s and Henry Kissinger’s mind-controlled slave…Used as a presidential sex toy and personal computer”
Cult Films In Search of A Cult
Having written about the subject for the past 20 years, I can discern what marks out cult films, and the following, I believe, are all prime candidates
Books You Should Be Reading
Many will disagree, but I say it’s a fact that my book reviews have in many cases helped inspire cults
TV Flashback: HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING
HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING was initially broadcast as part of the Sci-Fi Channel’s SCI-FI BUZZ series during the years 1993 to ‘96
The Good and the Bad of WILD PALMS
A 1993 miniseries that was never as weird or revolutionary as the “psychedelic dossier filled with borrowed moonlight from a floating world” it purported to be
Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
By now TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, the Showtime shepherded follow-up to 1990-91’s TWIN PEAKS, has been analyzed from every conceivable standpoint