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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ROAD GAMES
A standout Ozploitation flick from 1981, with Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis in a stealthy and suspenseful truckbound varient on REAR WINDOW
THE CORPSE GRINDERS
A vintage splatterthon whose appeal I don’t get
THE BRIDE!
I wanted to like this mega-flop, but have to admit there’s a reason for its non-success
THIS MAN MUST DIE
One of the finest-ever films directed by the late Claude Chabrol, a most unique and distinct revenge thriller
SLEEPWALKERS
The first wholly original screenplay written by Stephen King and, frankly, a pretty lousy movie
PIRANESI
A surreal fantasy that I found overrated
THE BRIDGE
One of the bleakest, nastiest, most despairing dystopian novels of the 1970s, written, ironically enough, by a devout Christian
MONUMENTAL
A taut and cinematic blast of old school horror
RESUME WITH MONSTERS
Comedic horror about a working drudge and his encounters with Lovecraft’s monsters, who are looking to take over the world, starting with the copy shop where he works—yes, RESUME WITH MONSTERS is that kind of book
RENE’S FLESH
A bizarre, Kafka-esque parable of a young man’s adverse relationship to his own flesh
ECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
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
R.I.P. Nelvana
This week we bid adieu to Nelvana, the Toronto-based animation outfit
HELL HOUSE LLC, Critics and Creative Campaigns
All about the recent furor over the marketing of HELL HOUSE LLC: LINEAGE, with info on Tom Laughlin, David Lynch and James Cameron
Terence Stamp: 1938-2025
There was nobody else quite like the recently deceased Terence Stamp
R. I. P. Howard Stern
No, Howard Stern is not dead, but he might as well be
WHORE vs. SHOWGIRLS
Here’s a pairing that hasn’t been made too often, but it’s a valid one: WHORE, a low budgeter from 1991, and SHOWGIRLS, an expensive tentpole release from 1995