BLIND BEAST VS. KILLER DWARF
The unfortunate final feature of Japan’s Teruo Ishii. A shot on video no-budgeter, it’s an uninspired and amateurish product not befitting one of Japan’s most prominent cult auteurs
THE BLIND BEAST (Film)
A wildly fetishistic, claustrophobic Japanese production made in 1968, THE BLIND BEAST (a.k.a. MOJU) is profoundly bizarre
HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN
Like many cult movie buffs the world over, I’ve been curious about this long-banned Japanese film for years. It’s inevitable, I guess, that I was disappointed
2013: Bedlam in Print
Here we have the latest (admittedly quite belayed) installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s horror-minded publications
2009: Bedlam in Print
To those who claim the horror story/novel is dead—or the horror novel is worn out, or fiction in general is dead, or whatever—I’ve got this to say: you haven’t been paying attention
2008: Bedlam in Print
Here it is: my third annual look back at the year’s literary output
THE STRANGE TALE OF PANORAMA ISLAND
Very likely the magnum opus of Japan’s ero-guro master Suehiro Maruo (of MR. ARAHSI’S AMAZING FREAK SHOW, ULTRA-GASH INFERNO and many other sickies), this an absolutely stunning manga adapted from Edogawa Rampo’s 1926 novella