Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
Stuart Gordon: 1947-2020
You may not know the name Stuart Gordon, but the chances are good that if you’re a fan of post-1980 horror cinema then you’re a Stuart Gordon fan
TURNING JAPANESE
A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum
CONCLUSIONS
Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it
RIDLEY SCOTT: A BIOGRAPHY
A book about the prolific British filmmaker Ridley Scott that isn’t what I’d call revelatory
BARRY SONNENFELD, CALL YOUR MOTHER: MEMOIRS OF A NEUROTIC FILMMAKER
Barry Sonnenfeld is a cinematographer-turned-director whose defining trait, it seems, is self-deprecation.
THE DAY OF THE BEAST
A Christmas movie we can all get behind!
DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
JOHN McTIERNAN: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ACTION MOVIE ICON
Few directors have had a more dramatic career trajectory than John McTiernan
THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie