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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES
The debut feature by the Austrian performance artist Valie Export was this avant-garde take on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
NEMESIS
This 1992 sci-fier is often proclaimed the best film made by the late Albert Pyun, and that assessment may well be accurate
DARKMAN
Sam Raimi’s fourth feature as a director was this nutty superhero pastiche, released in August 1990
5-25-77
An overlong and uneven but heartfelt and reality-centered period piece that’s only partially about STAR WARS
TOYS
An allegedly kid-friendly fantasia that works best as a grown-up spectacle viewed with appropriate chemical enhancement
MONSIEUR DE PHOCAS
A key text of the Decadent Movement of the late 19th Century
THE NIGHT
From France, a fearsome 1970s-era creation that’s outrageous, overwrought, disorienting and downright psychotic by turns
RAW DOG
RAW DOG was released with lurid cover art highlighting the story’s more exploitable elements, but the novel is far richer and more thoughtful than it might seem
TOMIE (Graphic Novel)
An oft-filmed landmark in the field of horror manga that offers an unflattering glimpse into some of the uglier corners of Japan’s national psyche
SIEGE
This novel, a best seller in its day, is a must-read for fans of old school black uprising scenarios of the type written by scribes like Sam Greenlee and Leroi Jones
RAISING HELL: KEN RUSSELL AND THE UNMAKING OF THE DEVILS
In my view this is one of the very few essential movie making-of books, seeing as how it tells the story of one of the standout films of the 1970s: Ken Russell’s delirious 1971 masterpiece THE DEVILS
RAISING GOOSEBUMPS FOR FUN AND PROFIT
This “Brief Guide, for Beginners, to the How’s and Why’s of Horror” was written by T.E.D. Klein, horror author extraordinaire (of THE CEREMONIES and DARK GODS) and former editor of The Twilight Zone magazine
MY FRIEND DAHMER
This graphic novel evocation of the teenage years of one of world’s most notorious serial killers is a profoundly disturbing account of real life psychosis
MRS. WAKEMAN VS. THE ANTICHRIST
A book that offers irrefutable proof that truth really is stranger than fiction
MORBID CURIOSITY CURES THE BLUES
I’m not familiar with the zine MORBID CURIOSITY, consisting of confessions by real people, but after reading this varied, unpredictable, mind-expanding assortment of 41 articles culled from the mag, I fully understand its allure
A Trump Era Reading List
As I’m sure most of you are aware, dystopian fiction is quite hot right now
Bill Paxton: 1955-2017
This morning, on February 26, 2017, it was announced that the great Bill Paxton had died
Horror’s Most Sacred Cows…Slaughtered!
Nosferatu and Frankenstein are classics. But there’s an inescapable fact that few are willing to acknowledge: neither movie is very good.
The Gore Boom—Is It A Bust?
Gore is back.
Tracking the Fortunes of the New Friday the 13th
It’s the week of February 13, 2009 and the hotly promoted FRIDAY THE 13th remake has opened number one at the U.S. box office.