THE HILLS HAVE EYES
A true horror classic, this early Wes Craven film shows that once upon a time he was one of the fastest, meanest, most relentless filmmakers in or out of the horror genre
HEX
A prime example of what critic/novelist Kim Newman termed a “Weird Hippie Shit” movie, an early seventies production about bikers and witches
THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE
Definitely one of the most unique killer bug movies ever, an insect documentary done up as an apocalyptic thriller that manages to locate the best worlds of both
FAREWELL JOHNNY
This film is often classified as the first South African cult movie, an insane asylum-set satire that remains an arrestingly bizarre spectacle
LA TIA ALEJANDRA
A horror outing from Mexico’s Arturo Ripstein; it’s strikingly weird, but otherwise has little to recommend
DIABEL
The Polish expatriate filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is one of the cinema’s most insane filmmakers, and this is one of his wildest films
INSIDE THE WICKER MAN
For anyone with even a passing interest in the 1973 English horror classic THE WICKER MAN this book is a must, being an unusually erudite and well written account of the film’s making and reception
ROMAN
Roman Polanski is one of the world’s greatest and most notorious filmmakers. His stated intent in writing this autobiography was to clear his name, yet it left me with more questions than I had going in
STAY OUT OF THE SHOWER
Those wanting an overview of the “shocker” movies that followed Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO could certainly do worse than read this book
SHOCK VALUE
The subtitle says it all: “How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror”