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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
CANNIBAL APOCALYPSE
A double dose of early 1980s Italo-sploitation, blending an account of crazy Vietnam veterans on the loose with cannibal movie nastiness
MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH
One of the quirkiest of all seventies-sploitation films was MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH
THE MEDIUM
A partially successful 1951 release that gives filmed opera a good name
DREAMING OF PARADISE
Another example of questionable kid movie madness from the eighties, a post-apocalyptic themed cartoon
SON OF INGAGI
An ersatz 1940 sequel to the infamous exploitation atrocity INGAGI that’s of note because it was allegedly the first all-African American horror film
MIDNIGHT MOVIE
The RING inspired narrative could admittedly be a bit stronger–and scarier–overall, but the novel is never less than readable and inviting, driven by Hooper’s hard-bitten, quintessentially Texan worldview.
MIDNIGHT
A pretty standard Dean Koontz programmer with all the elements that marked his eighties-era novels: an absurdly virtuous hero, a sappy romance, a happy ending and a highly preachy, self-righteous air.
METROPHILIAS
A subtly deranged, obliquely beautiful oddity. The thirty six stories in this short and pointed compendium of urban neurosis span the globe and the centuries, with each set in and named after a different city.
THE METAMORPHOSIS
You likely know the story of this German novella whether you’ve actually read it or not: the overworked, anxiety-prone Gregor Samsa awakens one morning to find himself transformed into a giant beetle (not a cockroach as is commonly claimed).
MERKABAH RIDER: TALES OF A HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER
This is the first of Edward M. Erdelac’s MERKABAH RIDER series of weird westerns.
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Topps Trading Card Madness
Surely you know Topps, the 75-year-old chewing gum company famed for its card and sticker sets
On NIGHTMARE ALLEY
NIGHTMARE ALLEY by William Lindsay Gresham is one of the bleakest, most relentless American novels of all time
Scary Kid Lit 2: The Cormier Effect
Fact: the most widely “challenged” (read: banned) books in the U.S. are young adult novels
2014: Bedlam in Print
2014 was an above-average year for books in my view. Quite a few terrific titles turned up from both established and debuting authors, with a few, I’m certain, that will go on to become classics
1000 AIRPLANES ON THE ROOF at 25
A multi-media stage drama that’s been described as “part Freud, part Kafka and part Steven Spielberg,”