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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
A WOMAN KILLS
One of the more interesting unknown films of the sixties was this 1968 feature by France’s Jean-Denis Bonan
SADNESS OF THE ANTHROPOPHAGI
A short film from 1966 that serves as an interesting precursor to SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM
THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
Another impeccably visualized, violent and sexy thriller by Italy’s late Mario Bava
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM
Another horror movie that doesn’t call itself horror
HITCH-HIKE
A standout entry in the filmography of David Hess
COOL WORLD
In the lexicon of unmade, or rather ill-served, screenplays, COOL WORLD deserves a place of honor
DANILOV THE VIOLINIST
A singularly bizarre supernatural fantasy from the Soviet Union
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
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
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
TV Flashback: THE REZ
Here’s a program that will probably not be of interest to much of my readership, yet it is one of my favorites
Four Films Called ADAM
ADAM: a good title, I’d say, and one in which, needless to add, I have a more-than-passing interest
DEMON SEED–Novel, Movie and Rewrite
DEMON SEED began life as a 1973 paperback original, written by a young Dean Koontz, that was adapted into a 1977 movie and heavily revised in ’97
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?