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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE FARMER
A revenge-themed grindhouse item from 1977 that appears to have had Important Cinema aspirations
TOPOR AND ME
The only film ever directed by the Dutch actress/artist Sylvia Kristel, and a skilled enough piece of work to make one regret that she didn’t helm anything else
CAT’S EYE
A three-parter from the eighties, scripted by Stephen King, that should be better.
DEEP WATER
Patricia Highsmith’s novels don’t generally make for good movies, and that rule holds true with the 2022 Hulu production DEEP WATER
THE YIN AND THE YANG OF MR. GO
“The beam really works. Who will it strike next time? Perhaps it could even be you!”
THE VEGETARIAN
Definitely a unique creation: a Kafkaesque horror story, a naturalistic family saga and a brutal critique of social norms in South Korea
TENDERNESS
A disappointment from Robert Cormier (1925-2000), the greatest young adult novelist of the last century
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL
No, this isn’t a novelization of Luis Bunuel’s 1962 film EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR, but, rather, the screenplay for it
ROACH
A pretty typical product of the upscale smut outfit Essex House, which made quite a mark on the adult fiction market of the late 1960s
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Here we have a novel that might be termed the thinking man’s MISERY
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Ranking the Rankings 2: Horror Film
What follows is the second of my Ranking the Rankings pieces.
Scary Facts About Halloween
The word “Scary” might seem redundant when describing Halloween, but I don’t think so
Found on YouTube
Who’d have thought that some of my most sought-after films would turn up on YouTube?
Settling for Less
It’s an unfortunate fact that horror movies, like any other, are prone to cuts and mutilation that reach far outside the screen
2013: A Look Back in HORROR
What follows is the latest installment of my annual “Look Back in Horror” overview of the previous year’s horror related happenings in the worlds of film and literature.