THE RAPE AFTER
One of the wildest Hong Kong horror fests from the eighties, which believe you me is saying A LOT!
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
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
DER TODESKING
An authentically post-modern horror film from Germany’s wildest wild man Jorg Buttgereit
DEMONS
Nothing too deep here: A Pastaland eighties classic with movie theater patrons getting turned into flesh eating demons
DEMON LOVER DIARY
This is quite simply the most corrosive “Making-of” movie ever made
THE DEMON IS ON THE ISAND
Medium-strength French horror from the eighties that’s rather trashy and overwrought, but not entirely unaffecting
DEJA VU
An interesting Yugoslavian thriller that uses the traditional first-person psychofilm framework to make political points
DEATH WARMED UP
From New Zealand, a no-budget gorefest of a type that has become fairly common in recent years but wasn’t back in 1983
DEADLY SPAWN
A 3 A.M. movie for sure, but definitely an above average specimen, this is a no-budget monster mash from the early eighties that mixes gore and laughs in the manner of BASKET CASE and THE EVIL DEAD