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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
CHRISTMAS ON MARS
A self-proclaimed “Fantastic Film Freakout Featuring The Flaming Lips.”
THE WOLF MAN
This 1941 classic is not merely the most famous werewolf movie ever made, but also the source for much modern-day werewolf lore
ZACHARIAH
This, the world’s “First Electric Western,” hails from 1971
THE GOLDEN KEY
With all the newfound interest in PINOCCHIO, I say it’s a good time to revisit one of its most unique variants: the 1939 Soviet children’s fantasy THE GOLDEN KEY
SAVAGES (1972)
The very definition of a Cult Film: odd, esoteric and appreciated by only a select few
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
THE TALE OF WILLY’S RATS
In which Mick Farren went the write-what-you-know route, charting the misadventures of a UK rock group closely patterned on Farren’s own band the Deviants
IMPOSSIBLY FUNKY: A CASHIERS DU CINEMART COLLECTION
For true film nerds this collection is a must, as it is for just about anyone with an interest in Quentin Tarantino, Crispin Glover, DEATH GAME, GREMLINS, the novels of David Goodis and Charles Willeford and the LONE WOLF AND CUB films
ROMANCING THE VAMPIRE–FROM PAST TO PRESENT
This large format hardcover is David J. Skal’s latest vampire-themed tome, and doesn’t contain much info that his other books didn’t already cover
REX MILLER: THE COMPLETE REVELATIONS
A spirited 100-page look at the life and fiction of the late Rex Miller, one of the most distinctive horror/mystery specialists of the eighties and nineties
REEL TERROR
I’ll give this volume, in which author David Konow attempts to chronicle the entire 100-plus year history of horror cinema, points for ambition
RAT-CATCHING
A book published in 1896 that appears to have been a dull-as-dirt educational treatise (on the capture and disposal of plague-carrying rodents), twisted by the demented Crispin Glover into an exercise in surreal distortion
The Curious Case of Jonathan Demme
The untimely demise of film director Jonathan Demme on April 26, 2017 has inspired a number of obituaries. All, unsurprisingly, have been downright orgasmic about his accomplishments.
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: ILL-GOTTEN GAINS and CLAUDE’S CRIB
What do ILL-GOTTEN GAINS, a little-seen black and white indie, and CLAUDE’S CRIB, a short-lived USA Network sitcom, have in common?
On GHOST IN THE SHELL, Whitewashing and the Way Things Are
The big movie-related controversy right now? The alleged “whitewashing” of the currently-in-release high-profiler GHOST IN THE SHELL
No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
Low budget and science fiction might seem mutually exclusive terms, but I believe the following ten films prove otherwise
TV Flashback: IJON TICHY, RAUMPILOT
It’s a fact that in certain situations a low budget can be a virtue