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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
VROOOM VROOM VROOOOM
Very likely the most interesting post-1980 film made by the late Melvin Van Peebles
SKINAMARINK
A superbly evocative and unnerving horror-fest that’s also boring as shit
THE MUMMY (1932)
A rarity: a golden age horror film that almost holds up
CRY FOR ME, BILLY
One of the more obscure entries in the revisionist western craze of the 1970s, this quasi-art film (given new life by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary) hails from 1972
THREE O’CLOCK HIGH
A John Hughes wannabe that’s almost good
MELTDOWN
John Carpenter has described this never-made script as “kind of HALLOWEEN in a nuclear power plant,” and that does indeed sum it up
THE INFLUENCE
A novel that often reads like a Ramsey Campbell Greatest Hits package
THE FURY
Yet another example of a book that seems fated to be known more for the movie made from it than the text itself
BILLY MAJESTIC’S HUMPTY DUMPTY
B-movie delirium and pictorial audacity unite in this altogether unique concoction
ABOMINATIONS
A rare English translation of the comics of Belgium’s renowned Hermann
THE TEARS OF EROS
This heavily illustrated philosophical primer on the influence of death in the sacred and sexual was the final work of Georges Bataille, and a fitting testament to a man obsessed throughout his life with the link between ecstasy and horror
PSYCHO: BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE CLASSIC THRILLER
This is by no means the first book about the making of Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, but it is very likely the most definitive
POLANSKI
The fifth major biography of world-renowned filmmaker Roman Polanski, and, I feel, the best
PLATES OF MEMORY
This beautifully designed art book is as powerful a testimonial to the work of Poland’s Marian Kolodziej (1921-2009), a Holocaust survivor and renowned stage designer, as anyone could possibly desire
BEYOND HORROR HOLOCAUST: A DEEPER SHADE OF RED
The final book by one of my favorite horror movie commentators
TOBE HOOPER: 1943-2017
Here we bid farewell to the brilliant, and frustratingly erratic, Tobe Hooper
TV Flashback: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE
Here we have what may well be the oddest TV show of all time: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE
A “Monster Memory” of THE BLACK HOLE
I remember very little of the 70s or its movies, but for one isolated example: THE BLACK HOLE, a pivotal film in my life
GEORGE A. ROMERO: 1940-2017
That George A. Romero, who died on July 16, 2017, was one of the most important horror moviemakers of his generation, and indeed of all time, goes without saying
Comic-Con Questions and Claims
Comic-Con, held in July of every year, invariably captures the interest of every media outlet in the land, and it is, quite simply, the premiere event of its kind