Alan Parker: 1944-2020
I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31
RAW DOG
RAW DOG was released with lurid cover art highlighting the story’s more exploitable elements, but the novel is far richer and more thoughtful than it might seem
AFRO-6
Fans of “Kill Whitey” fiction of the 1960s and 70s will note that the premise of this 1969 novel is nearly identical to that of SIEGE by Edwin Corley
RED RANGE
This graphic novel, initially published in 1999, would appear to be the wild card among Joe Lansdale’s comic work
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: ILL-GOTTEN GAINS and CLAUDE’S CRIB
What do ILL-GOTTEN GAINS, a little-seen black and white indie, and CLAUDE’S CRIB, a short-lived USA Network sitcom, have in common?
AMERICAN GOTHIC
The utterly distinctive photographic artwork of Carlos Batts, as presented in this book, falls somewhere between the harsh naturalism of Weegee and the horrific surrealism of J.K. Potter. Over the past 15 or so years Batts has provided illustrations for numerous album covers, magazines and comics…
THE BORROWER
With this horror-sci fi gorefest, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER director John McNaughton proved he was not a one-trick pony, delivering a gross, funny and imaginative B-movie that plays like a darker, grittier variation on the eighties flick THE HIDDEN
SOUL VENGEANCE
This “blaxploitation” movie is infamous for a one-minute scene near the end involving a homicidal penis…which is indeed an eye-opener, but the rest of the film is pretty crappy
GOODBYE UNCLE TOM
Get ready, because this is quite simply the most hackle-raising, mind-blowing, screamingly offensive exploitation movie of all time!
IN YOUR FACE!
One of the more notable “blaxploitation” horror flicks from the seventies, a ludicrous yet politically charged, disarmingly earnest variant on the Frankenstein mythos