THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
Arguably the masterpiece of England’s Peter Greenaway, an unrestrained blast of grossness and bad behavior that was and remains a repellant yet undeniably beautiful mutant of a movie
CONQUEST
This 1983 production is one of the last worthy films made by Lucio Fulci, and undoubtedly the strangest of the many sword-and-sorcery programmers that littered the early 1980s
COME AND SEE
This shattering, impressionistic Russian epic can be viewed as an unforgiving expose of Nazi atrocities that makes SCHINDLER’S LIST look like LASSIE COME HOME
COMBAT SHOCK
COMBAT SHOCK isn’t mentioned in many film books, yet it’s one of the seminal independent films of the 1980s
THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION
This isn’t the greatest memoir by a film director I’ve ever read, but it is essential
YOU’RE NOT DEAD UNTIL YOU’RE FORGOTTEN
For horror/exploitation aficionados this is one of the standout publications of 2014
THE CONNOISSEUR’S GUIDE TO THE CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM
This 64-page horror movie review compilation is notable as (in its original self-published 1983 edition) the first-ever book by the late Chas. Balun
CANNIBAL: THE MOST SICKENING CONSUMER GUIDE EVER!
A fast, user-friendly overview of the Italian cannibal film cycle
BLADE RUNNERS, DEER HUNTERS, AND BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF
A likeable and enjoyable memoir by Michael Deeley, a prolific British movie producer whose films have nearly all attained cult status
INVADERS FROM MARS
A Tobe Hooper film from the mid eighties, when he was trying to mount a worthy successor to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE