Roland Topor in English
France’s Roland Topor (1938-1997) was a veritable genius of perverse and surreal literature
Horror Movie Mash-Ups
The genesis of the following piece occurred upon seeing PREDATOR for the first time. That was back in 1987, and I, naïve though I was back then, couldn’t help but flash back to two then-recent hits: RAMBO from 1985 and the following year’s ALIENS
The Novels of Michael Blodgett
If you know of the late Michael Blodgett (1939-2007) it’s most likely as a beefcake actor, yet in my view Blodgett’s most enduring work was done in the three unjustly forgotten novels he published in the late seventies and early eighties
Graphic Novels: 20 Off-The-Beaten-Track Selections
What twenty selections have in common is that, simply, all are well worth your time to read and/or track down
CEMETERY MAN
An interesting item from director Dario Argento disciple Michele Soavi, who seems to have at last come into his own
WICKED CITY (1987)
A seminal anime feature, notable for its one-of-a-kind mix of sex and mutation, compelling NIGHT WATCH-like narrative and myriad of impossible-to-forget images
WICKED
Extremely stylish and refined nineties sleaze, headlined by then up-and-coming starlet Julia Stiles
THE WHIP AND THE BODY
One of the strangest and most interesting films made by Mario Bava, a film featuring ahead-of-its-time perversity and the type of visual brilliance for which Bava is renowned
MACABRE
This gruesome and depraved yet subtle, atmospheric Italian horror fest was the directorial debut of Lamberto Bava, son of the legendary “Father of Italian horror” Mario Bava
VAMP
VAMP, from 1986, is a sexy vampire comedy that predated similarly themed films like THE LOST BOYS and FROM DUSK TILL DAWN