2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
FRANKENSTEIN ISLAND
Yes, this film is pretty awful, but I’m sure you’ve figured that out already
STIGMA
A shockingly low-key grindhouse feature, starring a debuting Philip Michael Thomas
On SLEAZOID EXPRESS
Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation of anything of its particular type.”
ECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
QUENTIN TARANTINO: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
A graphic novel biography of Quentin Tarantino that is, as the front cover makes clear, “Unofficial and Unauthorized”
THE PASSIONS OF CAROL
The one and only XXX take-off of A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE BIG DOLL HOUSE
Among women in prison movies THE BIG DOLL HOUSE is one of the biggies
LITTLE SISTERS
Much weirder-than-average pornographic lunacy from the 1970s
VHS VIDEO COVER ART
The British-centric follow-up to 2011’s All-American VHS cover art compilation PORTABLE GRINDHOUSE