Perhaps the ultimate Freak Movie, this beyond-bizarre German phantasmagoria features human oddities of every conceivable assortment (some natural born, others created by prosthetic FX) in a surreal cavalcade the likes of which you won’t see anywhere else
Here we have the latest (admittedly quite belayed) installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s horror-minded publications
A horror outing from Mexico’s Arturo Ripstein; it’s strikingly weird, but otherwise has little to recommend
One of several autobiographical volumes written by the Chilean-born, Paris-based writer/filmmaker/spiritual guru Alejandro Jodorowsky
A profoundly insane reminiscence adequately summed up by its own ungainly subtitle: “The memoirs of Bob Hope’s and Henry Kissinger’s mind-controlled slave…Used as a presidential sex toy and personal computer”
This beautifully designed art book is as powerful a testimonial to the work of Poland’s Marian Kolodziej (1921-2009), a Holocaust survivor and renowned stage designer, as anyone could possibly desire
If you are not nutty now, you may be after reading this
2010? It was a mediocre year for movies but for books it was a little better
Here it is: my third annual look back at the year’s literary output
What follows are my fifty favorite horror movies of all time