THE GREAT ALLIGATOR
It certainly wasn’t a bad idea: an Italian made JAWS rip-off, crossed with the jungle-set exploitation movie model popular in late 1970s Italy
HUMANIMALITY
A self-proclaimed “hybrid monster of a book that interrogates humanity’s troubled relationship with its animality, & so its relation to animals, the earth, and ultimately the cosmos”
SILVER BULLET
This 1985 release can lay claim to being among the absolute dumbest Stephen King movies
UNDER PARIS
There are worse ways to waste 104 minutes.
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
THE BARN OF FEAR
An underground comix anthology about homicidal animals. At least one of its parts is strong.
DR. RENAULT’S SECRET
Forgotten, but worthwhile, horrors from 1942
NAGIN
The most iconic Bollywood snake movie of them all.
THE SHARK IS ROARING: THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE
One of the lesser BearManor movie making-of books, although the major problem is mostly with the mediocre movie it profiles