SUMMER OF SAM
From Spike Lee, a wildly overbaked yet vital account of the seventies-era “Son of Sam” killings. The film has much to say about the effects of fear and paranoia, none of it comforting
STOKER
This, the first-ever English language film by South Korea’s Chanwook Park (of SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE and OLDBOY fame), is an outrageously stylish and fascinating work
THE SKIN I LIVE IN
A rare attempt at genre filmmaking by Spain’s Pedro Almodovar, who provides a visually ravishing exercise in Cronenbergian horror
THE SIXTH SENSE
Arguably the key horror movie of the nineties, and the film most responsible for lifting the genre out of the doldrums in which it languished for most of that decade
GODS AND MONSTERS
This isn’t a horror picture, but it is ideal for fans of the genre, being a biopic of FRANKENSTEIN director James Whale done in daring and unprecedented fashion
TWO EVIL EYES
A dream project for longtime horror buffs, or so it seemed, this two-parter teamed George Romero and Dario Argento, each delivering an hour-long adaptation of an Edgar Allen Poe story
TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE
This big budget anthology film seems destined to be known primarily for the offscreen catastrophe that occurred during filming
DAVID CRONENBERG: INTERVIEWS WITH SERGE GRUNBERG
A book of interviews with the inimitable David Cronenberg, very similar to the Chris Rodley edited CRONENBERG ON CRONENBERG
KINO DELIRIUM
This is one of the very few books devoted to Maddin and his films, and a must-read volume for fans
KILLER INSTINCT
In the category of books about moviemaking this one for me ranks among the top of the heap