RATS–NIGHT OF TERROR
Italian trashola from 1983 that sees sleaze maven Bruno Mattei, a.k.a. Vincent Dawn, take on the popular post-nuke genre with a dash of WILLARD (in the form of mutant rats)
THE CORMORANT
A very good, chilly and disquieting BBC telefilm, adapted from the popular novel by Stephen Gregory and starring a young Ralph Fiennes
THE JAWS 2 LOG
This lively report about the making of JAWS 2 is far from the best book of its type, but it is a fascinating and instructive read
NIGHT OF THE LEPUS
Yes, this is the one and only KILLER RABBIT movie! Need I say more?
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
WE3
This short but undeniably resonant graphic novel, scripted by ARKHAM ASYLUM and KID ETERNITY’S demented Grant Morrison, is essentially a warped variant on THE PLAGUE DOGS
THE MAKING OF HITCHCOCK’S THE BIRDS
This book is most certainly, as a cover blurb proclaims, “The Definitive Production History of THE BIRDS”
LEWD LIZARD
This film is by no means the best of the Hong Kong horror flicks of the seventies and eighties, but it is definitely the most offensive
THE SNAKE ORCHARDS
This relic from the “nasties” school of horror writing will always be important in my life due to the fact that back in the eighties it was one of the first grown-up horror novels I read. I was drawn, as I recall, by that eye-catching cover image, which remains quite striking
PLAY LITTLE VICTIMS
In tried-and-true ANIMAL FARM fashion, this provocative novella relates a metaphoric fable of the animal world with more than a hint of the satiric nastiness of Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”