CANNIBAL WORLDS
A knowledgeable and wide-ranging tome that more than delivers on its promise of being the most comprehensive tome on Italian cannibal cinema of the 1970s and 80s
Obfuscation and Misunderstanding in the Film Adaptations of Philip K. Dick
About the film adaptations of Philip K. Dick, arguably the least understood SF writer of our time
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!
Regarding TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN!, two names come immediately to mind: Pedro Almodovar, who wrote and directed the film, and Harvey Weinstein, who shepherded its May 1990 US release
THE THING EXPANDED
A five hour-plus documentary on John Carpenter’s THE THING (1982) that can viewed as the definitive resource on that classic film.
HOLLYWOOD ANIMAL
This 700-plus page memoir by a Hollywood insider was to the aughts what Julia Phillips’ notorious YOU’LL NEVER EAT LUNCH IN THIS TOWN AGAIN (1991) was to the previous decade
BACKTRACK
A 1989 directorial effort by the late Dennis Hopper that isn’t bad
VICE SQUAD
A 1982 film that remains a standout in the trashy thriller category
THE TRAP DOOR
Arguably the most interesting of the late 1970s-early 80s no wave films of Beth B and Scott B
DIVA IN THE NETHERWORLD
From Japan, an enormously self-aware, quasi-comedic low budget swirl of monsters and mayhem
SILENT RAGE
Chuck Norris, karate and zombies—a film that should be much better than it is