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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER
A change of pace for the UK’s Hammer Films that still feels quite archaic
THE COLLECTOR
Two recently deceased talents, Terence Stamp and Samatha Eggar, has their breakthrough roles in this film
ORGY OF THE DEAD (Film)
From Ed Wood, a charmingly archaic sexploitation outrage that was apparently conceived as a loose sequel to PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
BURNING PARADISE
For me, this “gothic hell prison movie” will always be the most satisfying film directed by Hong Kong’s late Ringo Lam (1955-2018)
POKOL INFERNO
Dante’s Inferno, adapted as a much weirder-than-average Hungarian TV movie from the 70s
THE RED VIRGIN
A surreal take on the story of Hildegart Rodriguez, a young woman who in early Twentieth Century Spain was raised to become a genius by her domineering mother
TICK TOWN
If lines like “The decisive blast slammed into the monster’s face, which at near point-blank range exploded in a grisly splatter of tick goo” resonate with you (as they do me) then TICK TOWN is the book to read
THE HAPPY MAN
One of the great modern horror novels, a compelling and profoundly unsettling piece of work that explores untold depths of depravity in 166 well-packed pages
PHANTOM
A vivid and pronounced scare-show, but with an elusive, poetic air
EVIL ANGELS
A pitiless investigation into the farthest reaches of uncontained passion, adapted for the screen in 1992 by Roman Polanski
OMNI’S SCREEN FLIGHTS/SCREEN FANTASIES
For years this was the best book about science fiction onscreen, a title it lost only because it’s now 40 years old
PURE: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS OF MARILYN CHAMBERS
The late Marilyn Chambers, was one of the most noteworthy performers to emerge from 1970s porn cinema, and this book provides a worthy epitaph
VIDEOSYNCRATIC
A book that provides a potent blast of nostalgia for those who remember the video rental era, while showing younger readers precisely what they missed
CANNIBAL ERROR: ANTI-FILM PROPAGANDA AND THE “VIDEO NASTIES” PANIC OF THE 1980s
One of the key textual resources on the “video nasties” scare that swept England in the 1980s
HITS, FLOPS, AND OTHER ILLUSIONS
In which a high-profile film director and TV producer recounts his “Fortysomething Years in Hollywood”
David Lynch By the Decade
A look back at David Lynch’s fifty-plus year career in film, decade by decade
2024: The Year in Bedlam
Let’s face it: the movies of 2024 by and large sucked
2024: A Look Back in Bedlam
A look back at all things Bedlam
Christmas TV Specials for the Irreparably Brain Damaged: The Japanese Editon
Holiday TV specials from the Land of the Rising Sun
Remembering That Which is Better Forgotten: THE CANNONBALL RUN
One of the great curiosities of late Twentieth Century American cinema was the monster success of THE CANNONBALL RUN in 1981