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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
PARIS CHAMPAGNE
Undoubtedly the most inventive and unorthodox film to emerge from the 1960s Mondo movie cycle
THE STRANGE THING ABOUT THE JOHNSONS
Some people claim there’s an important statement about sexual abuse to be found in this sickie from 2011. I don’t agree!
STOWAWAY
A most unexpected Netflix sensation from 2021
SURVIVOR TYPE
The 2012 film adaptation of Stephen King’s most outrageous story
JAKOB’S WIFE
This film won’t be remembered as the best work of either Barbara Crampton or Larry Fessenden, but it is memorable
MONSTROCITY
Jeffrey Thomas is one of the most original authors on the scene, and the Bram Stoker award-nominated MONSTROCITY is one of his key works.
A MONSTER CALLS
Understand: this children’s novel, which won several prestigious awards and sports a wealth of orgasmic blurbs, isn’t a bad book, just an annoying one.
A MONSTER AT CHRISTMAS
Here’s an illustrated Christmas tale we can all enjoy, an extended 44-page poem about a little boy terrorized by toothy monsters that emerge from his closet on Christmas Eve.
MOM KILLS KIDS AND SELF
That title tells the story of this odd and troubling late seventies artifact, a somewhat experimental, psychologically based account of grief and madness.
MOJU: THE BLIND BEAST (Novel)
I was predisposed to like this short novel, and like it I did—a lot.
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1990s Serial Killer Cinema
In the 1990s the serial killer was the ideal horror movie subject
The NC-17 Rating: A Good Idea Squandered
In theory it was a good idea: an NC-17 movie rating, instituted in 1990 to replace the X rating
Iain Banks: 1954-2013
RIP
Of Love and Cockroaches
In 1989-90 three accounts appeared—specifically one film, TWILIGHT OF THE COCKROACHES, and two novels, THE COCKROACHES OF STAY MORE by Donald Harrington and UNNATURAL SELECTION by Daniel Evan Weiss—with roughly identical stories of intelligent cockroaches whose existence is threatened by the romantic wiles of the roaches’ human overseer
The Dark Side of John Hughes
John Hughes and NATIONAL LAMPOON, a true match made in Hell!