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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
SOLDIER BLUE
Perhaps the most infamous of the many revisionist westerns churned out by Hollywood in the early seventies
THE ENCHANTMENT
This altogether odd 1989 thriller hails from Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan’s onetime cinematic sultan of noir
THE SHUTTERED ROOM
Few people seem to remember this British made H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1967, and I say that’s for the best
RING: KANZENBAN
The true inception of the phenomenally popular RING film cycle was this Japanese TV movie from 1995
LUX ÆTERNA
This bizarre concoction is pure Gaspar Noé: an intense psychodrama marked by technical bravura and a highly experimental thrust
THE MD: A HORROR STORY
I’ve long assumed the fault was with me and not the book, but rereading it all these years later my reaction was essentially the same: I still find the first part brilliant and the last far less so.
LUNAR PARK
In which literary darling Bret Easton Ellis, who previously roiled the horror community with AMERICAN PSYCHO, takes another swipe at the scary stuff.
THE LUCID DREAMING
In this lively 86-page novella the world is destroyed by a plague that causes people to dream while awake; seeing as how this is a horror story, a lot of killing and insanity are sure to ensue.
LOVE SONG
LOVE SONG is part of the pornographic cycle penned by the famous sci-fi author Philip Jose Farmer, and easily the best of the bunch.
THE LOST TRAVELLER
For those of you who like your horror tinged with undiluted surrealism, this hallucinatory account of a lost man is the book for you–or at least, it’s a book for you.
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On the (Mis)Fortunes of THE ROAD
In recent weeks a standout 2009 film was released on DVD: THE ROAD
French Horror Essentials
In the world of French cinema, when it comes to horror the pickings are mighty slim. That may seem difficult to fathom in the wake of the recent Gallic horror movie boom, but French film has throughout the decades been synonymous with refinement and sophistication....
The BOOKS OF BLOOD at 30
It was sometime in 1986 that a certain horror-obsessed pre-teen—me, to be exact—came across a paperback entitled VOLUME ONE OF CLIVE BARKER’S BOOKS OF BLOOD
On THE NINTH CONFIGURATION
If you are not nutty now, you may be after reading this
Hidden Messages and Annoying Commentators
The finding and decoding of subtext, or metamessages, is a longstanding hallmark of horror criticism