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The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing

You won’t find much of Washington Irving’s 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in this 1999 film, but you will find plenty of Tim Burton

Two books and four docs about the one and only Terry Gilliam

A highly skilled, if somewhat bland, Stephen King adaptation

A now-obscure Finnish made documentary from 1995 about the one and only Maila Nurmi, a.k.a. Vampira

Stalking and harrassment, Bollywood style.

A product of the Hong Kong “Ghostly Romance” subgenre, and a decent one

A film whose reception has then and now centered entirely on the nudity displayed by its star Alyssa Milano

The first in-depth critical study of SOV horror, written by an author who really appreciates this stuff

On August 7, 2023, film director extraordinaire William Friedkin, a.k.a. Hurricane Billy, passed away. Here’s my ranking of his 20 features.