FACE
Highbrow nastiness from 1985, presented in a newly revised edition
THE SUBSTANCE
Body horror and Hollywood: a true match made in Hell.
THE COFFEE TABLE
2024’s major shock-fest, containing all the things that make Spanish horror great
TRANSFORMATION
Heavy reading this novel isn’t, but in terms of sheer grossness it’s a standout.
LYCHEE LIGHT CLUB
A manga one-shot involving perversion and psychosis amid a group of middle schoolers. It’s much better than you might expect.
THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND SINS
Fifteen stories: energetic and focused to a fault, and exhibiting an unnerving willingness to gaze unblinkingly into the darkest depths of madness, mutilation and sexual deviance
THE FUNGUS
London is destroyed yet again in this 1980s example of “Nasties” horror writing
RITUAL
There are some ingeniously nasty elements in this 1988 horrorfest, yet also some misconceived ones, all packed into a vastly overblown framework
ORIGINAL SINS
90s SOV insanity that’s much better than most
INFINITY POOL
The best film yet made by Brandon Cronenberg, but it’s still not quite there