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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
STARMAN
Sci fi romance from John Carpenter
NO BLADE OF GRASS
Societal breakdown, depicted by matinee idol turned sometime director Cornel Wilde
THE LITTLE MERMAID (1976)
Arguably the finest-ever live action filming of Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairy tale.
THE CABLE GUY
Among the more interesting (as opposed to good) 1990s Hollywood comedies was this attempt at complexity from director Ben Stiller and star Jim Carrey
GOKE, BODY SNATCHER FROM HELL
Think FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in an irresistible 1968 horror-fest from Japan’s Shochiku studios
THE BLUE PERIL
It took a century for this 1910 French classic to be translated into English, and the wait was nearly worth it
THE NEO-DECADENT COOKBOOK
As the back cover inquires, “Have you ever sautéed geometrical sex or eaten fate from the breasts of Minerva?”
BLACK BUTTERFLIES
Restraint is something you won’t find much of in a John Shirley story, and that’s particularly true here
THE COMING SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE U.S.A.
Of the many black uprising fantasies that appeared in the late 1960s and early 70s this is the most expansive and outrageous of the lot
PLAN B
A posthumously published novel by the late Chester Himes that like most posthumously published novels has a number of problems
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.
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
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