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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
One of the standout roles of the late Diane Keaton was in this dark 1977 drama, which Stephen King called one of the scariest films of all time
MY SCIENCE PROJECT
A 1985 Disney product that partook, clumsily, of the year’s popular teens-and-SF movie model
PAYCHECK
Further proof that Hollywood is incapable of doing justice to the work of Philip K. Dick
DEVIL DOLL
This 1964 cheapie is, I feel, the finest evil ventriloquist doll movie on the market
INVASION U.S.A.
Quite simply the ultimate Chuck Norris movie
GILDED NEEDLES
A scrupulously researched, fitfully horrific depiction of New York City in the late 19th Century.
FRANKENSTEIN IN LOVE
The most notorious of Clive Barker’s pre-BOOKS OF BLOOD plays
WHITE SPAWN
A novella-length take on the maestro’s “Shadow Over Innsmouth,” WHITE SPAWN offers most everything one could want in a neo-Lovecraftian account
NAKED IN HER COFFIN
Necrophilia, voodoo and zombies in a smut novel that, I’m afraid, isn’t very good at all
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
The basis for BLADE RUNNER (1982), and one of Dick’s most famous novels
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”
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL
The long-in-coming memoir by the German filmmaker and sometime actor Werner Herzog
On DOGRA MAGRA
“Whoever reads this book will become insane at least once”
Confessions of A Recovering Oscar Viewer
Here’s an embarrassing admission: until recently I was an Oscar nerd
George Armitage: 1942-2025
On February 15, 2025, one of America’s most individual, and least known, filmmakers left us
On SLEAZOID EXPRESS
Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation of anything of its particular type.”
Werner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS EVENTS
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”