EATING RAOUL
This is the most famous movie directed by the late Paul Bartel, a highly successful indie black comedy about sex, murder and cannibalism
OFFSPRING
The fourth film adaptation of the work of Jack Ketchum, 2009’s OFFSPRING is, like the other three (THE LOST, THE GIRL NEXT DOOR and RED), not bad
PARENTS
This eighties curio was advertised and possibly intended as a black comedy along the lines of EATING RAOUL, but it’s actually closer to ERASERHEAD in tone
THE FOLKS AT RED WOLF INN
A cannibal-themed comedy-horror movie originally released in 1972, predating similar films such as MOTEL HELL and PARENTS
LUMINOUS MOSS
A Japanese made depiction of wartime cannibalism that’s reasonably striking with its restrained yet startlingly graphic approach
2014: Bedlam in Print
2014 was an above-average year for books in my view. Quite a few terrific titles turned up from both established and debuting authors, with a few, I’m certain, that will go on to become classics
DUMPLINGS
You probably know this film in truncated form as part one of the THREE…EXTREMES anthology. At its full 90-minute length the film has a real sense of style, not to mention a fair amount of gut-level grotesquerie
RAW MEAT
This subway tunnel-set shocker is one of the most respected British horror films of the seventies, and the acclaim is largely justified
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER
Arguably the masterpiece of England’s Peter Greenaway, an unrestrained blast of grossness and bad behavior that was and remains a repellant yet undeniably beautiful mutant of a movie