R.I.P. H.R. Giger
The death of Swiss artist Hans Rüdi Giger on May 12, 2014 was an incalculable loss to the horror field, the art world and all lovers of the fantastique
THE SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY
One of several autobiographical volumes written by the Chilean-born, Paris-based writer/filmmaker/spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky
2010: Bedlam in Print
2010? It was a mediocre year for movies but for books it was a little better
2008: Bedlam in Print
Here it is: my third annual look back at the year’s literary output
2007: Bedlam in Print
2007 is over. A good year? For horror literature I’d say yes, it was
The Fifty Best Horror Movies of All Time: A Personal Selection
What follows are my fifty favorite horror movies of all time
SON OF THE GUN
SON OF THE GUN is among the absolute finest of Jodorowsky’s comic work
A Dissenting View on the Humanoids/DC “Fiasco”
In 2004 Humanoids made the controversial decision to partner with DC Comics to produce new editions of several of its more popular comics
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
THE WHITE LAMA
Here we have further proof that the Chilean writer/filmmaker Alexandro (or Alejandro) Jodorowsky is one of most magnificently brain-fried geniuses alive