TV Flashback: THE REZ
Here’s a program that will probably not be of interest to much of my readership, yet it is one of my favorites
MALEFICIUM
An oddity from Quebec that warrants a recommendation, if for no other reason than the fact that it’s so insanely inventive
A MAZE OF DEATH
If any of the late Philip K. Dick’s novels can be classified as horror-related, A MAZE OF DEATH can. It’s not one of his better works but is worth a look, as virtually anything by PKD is superior to most everything else on the bookshelves.
Directed By Clive Barker
Remember Clive Barker? You know, the onetime “future of horror?”
VIDEODROME
Yes, this is a movie novelization, and yes, it does suffer from quite a few of the pratfalls afflicting most such books
THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM
Here was have what may be the most widely discussed yet least read genre study of all time.
CONSUMED
CONSUMED is the better-late-than-never debut novel 71-year-old David Cronenberg. It has a thoroughly unique and individual voice that falls somewhere between those of William Gibson and Don DeLillo in its concentration on technological minutiae and elegant perversity. It’s also fully in keeping with the obsessions and subject matter of Cronenberg’s films.
Horror Cinema in the Summer of 1986
Right now we find ourselves in the midst of an important movie related thirty-year anniversary: the summer of 1986. No, that period was not, as some are claiming, “the Best Summer Movie Season Ever,” but it was seminal for popular filmmaking.
The Two Davids
David Cronenberg and David Lynch: two visually gifted, unabashedly idiosyncratic filmmakers, both drawn to bizarre and grotesque subject matter
SHIVERS
The first feature by David Cronenberg, 1975’s SHIVERS pretty much set the stage for what was to come from “Dave Deprave.”