THE MARK
For sleaze fans this is a title of special interest, a hilariously overwrought Greek sexploitater from 1977
DEMON SEED–Novel, Movie and Rewrite
DEMON SEED began life as a 1973 paperback original, written by a young Dean Koontz, that was adapted into a 1977 movie and heavily revised in ’97
PANIC IN HIGH SCHOOL
Before ELEPHANT and LESSON OF THE EVIL there was PANIC IN HIGH SCHOOL, a 1978 film co-directed by Japan’s Sogo Ishii, who was just 19 years old
WESTWORLD (Book)
Contrary to how it might appear, this long out of print paperback is not a novelization of the 1973 flick WESTWORLD
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
One of the freakier seventies porno features, a particularly odd and striking piece of cinematic dementia.
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.
THE HOWLING (Book)
Gary Brandner keeps things simple with his tight, focused account of Karyn, a young woman recovering from a vicious rape. She travels with her husband to a secluded California village which turns out to be infested with werewolves
The Ten Most Overrated Horror Movies
The horror movie genre, like any other, contains more than its share of overpraised clunkers
ANARCHY AND ALCHEMY: THE FILMS OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
A long-overdue volume, and in my view an essential one, a thorough study of the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, arguably the premiere wild man of the cinema.
HALLOWEEN
One of the most iconic horror films of all time, and the most famous ever made by John Carpenter.