RUBY
One of the last notable films made by the late Curtis Harrington, RUBY is an eccentric EXORCIST wannabe starring Piper Laurie
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
This 1977 film showcases the work of four great artists: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote the immortal poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Gustave Dore, who provided the still-unsurpassed illustrations to the text; Orson Welles, who reads the poem in his inimitable baritone; and filmmaker Larry Jordan, who integrated all these elements
RAW MEAT
This subway tunnel-set shocker is one of the most respected British horror films of the seventies, and the acclaim is largely justified
THE RAT SAVIOR
From Yugoslavia, a weird and wonderful morality play about rat people haunting a small town
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
PHALLIC FRENZY: KEN RUSSELL AND HIS FILMS
This isn’t the first book about the English cinema’s premiere enfant terrible Ken Russell, but it is very likely the best
DEMON POND (1979)
A little known stunner by Japan’s Masahiro Shinoda, whose visual brilliance, audacity and fecund imagination are put to excellent use in this spectacular Kabuki-styled fantasy
DEATHDREAM
A young soldier returns home from Vietnam as a zombie with an insatiable addiction to blood in DEATHDREAM, a bonafide seventies cult classic
DEATH RACE 2000
One of the most popular films ever made by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, and also one of the most overtly political