Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers
The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist
ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT
Anyone doubting that the early 1990s were a golden age for cinema need only view DAZED AND CONFUSED, or read this oral history
JOHN FRANKENHEIMER: A CONVERSATION WITH CHARLES CHAMPLIN
A lively film-related biography structured entirely as a long conversation
MADE MEN
You simply cannot go wrong with this book, which explores Martin Scorsese’s GOODFELLAS
GEOFF MURPHY: A LIFE ON FILM
An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s
Zombie Media in the 1990s
By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film
Alan Parker: 1944-2020
I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31
CRONOS
A bold and ingenious variation on vampire mythology, this was the stunning feature film debut of Mexico’s Guillermo Del Toro, a filmmaker who should really Need No Introduction
CUBE: INSIDE THE MAKING OF A CULT FILM CLASSIC
An excellent idea for a book if you ask me: a behind-the-scenes look at Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction-horror classic CUBE, one of the most interesting low-budgeters to emerge from the nineties
R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning