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
CUT! HORROR WRITERS ON HORROR FILM
Here we have a severely mixed bag of nonfiction pieces about horror film, all written by horror novelists
CANNIBAL: THE MOST SICKENING CONSUMER GUIDE EVER!
A fast, user-friendly overview of the Italian cannibal film cycle
IN MY SKIN
The year 2003 saw more than its share of nasty films, but I feel confident in naming the French import IN MY SKIN as the year’s all-around nastiest film
NIGHTMARE CITY
A trashier-than-average Italian zombie mash from the notorious Umberto Lenzi!