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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
An 83 minute, Baltimore-lensed 2013 video project made to play like a VHS recording of a fictitious 1987 Halloween TV special
HITCHER IN THE DARK
Gender-swapped Italian rip-offs can be fun, but this HITCHER-inspired Umberto Lenzi thriller isn’t.
PIECES
If limb chopping and head-loppings were enough to make for a quality product then PIECES would be a masterpiece, but they aren’t and it’s not
MILL OF THE STONE WOMEN
A striking but largely unmoving film that premiered around the same time as (and was vastly overshadowed by) Mario Bava’s classic BLACK SUNDAY
PIGGY
Cinema du Brute, which has given us CARRIE, EVILSPEAK and MAY, gets a 2022 airing in PIGGY, a slickly made Spanish import
THE UNEASY
A surreal novella of a type that only England’s Eibonvale Press seems equipped to turn out
ARE SNAKES NECESSARY?
This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)
THE OK DOLL
The idea of a man in love with a doll is hardly a novel one, but in this screenplay England’s Peter Greenaway creates a uniquely witty and perverse take on man-doll love
ANIARA
The one and only science fiction epic poem, originally published in Swedish and reissued in English by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
DOORWAYS TO THE DEADEYE
This is the first novel by Eric J. Guignard, of 2018’s excellent short story collection THAT WHICH GROWS WILD
SUPERNATURAL
This slim hardback consists largely of full-color photographs of dolls, created by the noted still photographer (and evident doll enthusiast) Lindsay Brice
Horror Movies & Bootleg Videos Part 3: DVDr’s, Cremaster and an Updated Video Distributor List
Might it be possible that DVD bootlegs are actually preferable to legitimate factory releases?
Horror Movies & Bootleg Videos Part 1: Not Exactly a Match Made in Heaven but a Match Nonetheless
The chances are, if you’re a horror movie fan then you own some bootlegged videos. You know what I’m talking about.
Horror Movies & Bootleg Videos Part 2: To Trade or Not To Trade
For true horror movie fans, bootleg videos aren’t merely a diversion but a necessity.
Looking Back on Some Bad Influences
Here you’ll find a slew of wild, goofy, unpredictable and absolutely first rate reading.
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.