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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HAATHI MERE SAATHI
The supposed “Most Unusual Film Ever Produced in India,” and certainly one of the top elephant movies of all time
EDEN AND AFTER
A wildly experimental, albeit extremely bloody and erotic, art film that was quite popular with mainstream audiences in France
BRAZIL
An unmatched, albeit dated, display of unruly genius from 1985
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE
Sci-fi comedy with some provocative concepts and an unfocused narrative
ORGAN
Mutiliation, mutation and spilled bodily fluids aplenty: a 1990s Asian cult classic!
MOUNT ANALOGUE
A “Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing” that inspired the Alejandro Jodorowsky feature THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)
THE POLLUTERS
A product of the upscale smut outfit Brandon House that reads like a watered-down template for Charles Platt’s THE GAS
THE PRESENCE
An ambitious monster-fest with all the trimmings: gore, slime, muted political commentary and Lovecraftian overtones, with the overall emphasis on grade-B fun
FANTASTIC ORGY
An anthology from early 1920s Germany, of note for its title story, about a pre-METROPOLIS robot woman
DARKENING ISLAND
A long out-of-print SF novel that’s attained newfound popularity in the 2020s. Why? Its premise, involving a future England overtaken by foreign refugees, now has a resonance it didn’t possess back in 1972
QUENTIN TARANTINO: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
A graphic novel biography of Quentin Tarantino that is, as the front cover makes clear, “Unofficial and Unauthorized”
UWE BOLL RAW
Exactly what you’d expect from a filmmaker who’s often called the modern day Ed Wood: grammatically suspect, often uproarious and downright pissy
THE FUTURE WAS NOW: MADMEN, MAVERICKS, AND THE EPIC SCI-FI SUMMER OF 1982
About mainstream science fiction cinema in the summer of 1982, a pivotal time for those of us who lived through it
FEVER YEAR: THE KILLER FLU OF 1918
A powerful graphic novel depiction of the so-called Spanish Flu of 1918-19
HANNS HEINZ EWERS: THE STORY OF HIS DEVELOPMENT
Here Joe E. Bandel, who specializes in translating early 20th century European literature, turned his attention to a little-known German language biography of Hanns Heinz Ewers (1871-1943)
Faust on Acid
The Faust legend reconfigured as avant-garde science fiction? It’s an approach that, in European hands, works far better than you might expect
Still More Thoughts on Movie Titles
THUNDERBOLTS, THE NEW AVENGERS and modern movie titles: the news isn’t good
PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE vs. MAN OF FLOWERS
Two classsic films, one of which just turned 40 and the other 42, that have more in common than you might think
R.I.P. Kurodahan Press
Too bad
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”