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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
ONE DECEMBER NIGHT
Or: the Bruce Campbell Hallmark Movie
TITANE
The major shock film of 2021 was this bizarre exercise in body horror from France’s Julia Ducournau
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
One of the most unlikely cult classics of our time: a failed TV pilot reconfigured as a 2001 feature film
THE STORY OF REBECCA
This featurette from 1964 can lay claim to being the first-ever cinematic transposition of Jan Potocki’s THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA
MIDORI: THE CAMELLIA GIRL
This was the second film adaptation of Suehiro Maruo’s 1984 ero guro manga, published in English as MR. ARASHI’S AMAZING FREAK SHOW
DOG EAT DOG
Quite simply one of the greatest crime/noir novels of the nineties, and perhaps of all time
THE SECRET SERVICE
One has to admire a novel as perversely uncommercial as THE SECRET SERVICE
FLOATING DRAGON
This sprawling novel was intended as a “temporary farewell” to the supernatural fare with which author Peter Straub had made his fortune
AVENTINE
A most interesting science fiction pastiche, consisting of stories set in and around an interplanetary resort called Aventine.
MALEFICIUM
An oddity from Quebec that warrants a recommendation, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s so insanely inventive
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Five Reasons Wes Craven was the Most Important Horror Filmmaker of his Generation
The shocking death of Wesley Earl Craven on August 30, 2015 has led me to conduct a serious reappraisal of his place in the horror firmament.
Horror Movie Behind-the-Scenes Docs
In the realm of horror cinema good making-of films, like those of any other movie category, are few and far between
On the “Late” Jerome Boivin
Continuing with my takes on cinematic underachievers, we come to France’s Jerome Boivin.
The Axolotl in Fiction and Film
The Axolotl, or Mexican salamander, is one of the world’s strangest creatures
Real Life Horror
The documentary WELCOME TO LEITH, directed by Michael Beach Nichols and Christopher K. Walker, may well be the finest “horror” movie of 2015