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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
LOVE ME DEADLY
Necrophilia meets mass murder in one of the sickest early-seventies exploiters
PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE
A great deal of dumb fun, but those in search of the true worst movie ever made are advised to keep looking
VAMPIRA AND ME
Filmmaker R.H. Greene didn’t make things easy on himself when crafting this film, a documentary about Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira
PREY
Five guys on a forest jaunt and an unseen shooter: that about sums up this no-frills German Netflixer from 2021
AMIGO
A two-hander featuring a real-life Spanish comic team going slowly bonkers
OPEN SEASON
Here’s a perfect case study in how a bad movie adaptation can tarnish the reputation of a really good book.
OPEN GRAVE
Another fine volume of old school horror stories by Jeani Rector, following her terrific debut collection AFTER DARK (2006).
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE
This story might have worked, but only with a more invigorating treatment.
ONE FOR THE ROAD
One of the more memorable entries in King’s collection NIGHT SHIFT.
OLYMPUS
This is kinda fun, a whiz-bang graphic novel about a bunch of goofball college students on a research project in the Aegean Sea.
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Ten More Essential Unreleased-in-the-U.S. Horror Films
Here I have another round-up of worthwhile international horror films that have yet to be distributed (outside the festival circuit) in the United States.
Illustrated Oddments
Q: What is an Illustrated Oddment? A: It’s a book that in its gorgeous strangeness and fascination deserves some ink on this site, even if I (for whatever reason) can’t really justify writing a full review
Film Versus Digital–Which is Better?
Here we’re confronted with an issue that increasingly demands we take a side. Remember last December, when Quentin Tarantino’s HATEFUL EIGHT was released to great fanfare in a 70mm roadshow version? You may also recall the pontificating by Tarantino about the primacy of celluloid over digital cinema.
J.G. Ballard and the Progeny of HIGH-RISE
In the distinguished lexicon of England’s J.G. Ballard (1930-2009) his 1975 novel HIGH-RISE looms large. A notably brutal yet staunchly intellectual thriller set in a London-based residential high rise whose tenants devolve into lawlessness and savagery,
On ANOMALIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE
ANOMALIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE by George M. Gould and Walter L. Pyle is easily the most famous and widely read medical text of all time, and with good reason.