THE EYES OF THE CAT
When contemplating this horrific graphic novel I find that several terms invariably recur, namely bizarre, dreamlike, enigmatic and surreal
LUX ÆTERNA
This bizarre concoction is pure Gaspar Noé: an intense psychodrama marked by technical bravura and a highly experimental thrust
SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE LAST SEVEN DAYS
Another 1970s era dispatch from the Weird Porno category
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS
A most unlikely offering from writer-director Charlie Kaufman
VALI
A now obscure hour long “trance film” from 1965 about the late Vali Myers (1930-2003)
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point
THE MAN WHO MURDERED HIS MUSE
The always-eclectic Eibonvale Press is, unsurprisingly, the source for this pleasingly eccentric horror novella
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
LUCIO FULCI’S THE GATES OF HELL
I’ve been interested in this comic series, adapted from Lucio Fulci’s anti-classic CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, ever since first hearing about it in the late nineties