BEYOND THE THRESHOLD
The most morbid and sensationalistic funeral home expose you’re ever likely to encounter, written by an actual funeral director
THE END OF ALICE
The fascination with deviance that suffused 1990s fiction gave us first person studies of serial killing (AMERICAN PSYCHO), homicidal foot fetishism (FOOTSUCKER) and, with THE END OF ALICE, pedophilia.
On CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and The Tyranny of Exposition
In June 2022 CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, the first feature in eight years to be directed by David Cronenberg—and the first in 21 years to emerge from an original Cronenberg screenplay—was released
MULTIPLE MANIACS
The second feature by John Waters, and in many respects his key film
THE BURNING BUDDHA MAN
Cut-out animation, H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie and Buddhism—an irresistible combination, I say
CYCLOPS
Japanese grue from 1987 that’s better than BIOTHERAPY.
BIOTHERAPY
Japanese grue from 1986. See CYCLOPS instead.
2021: The Year in Bedlam
The latest edition of my Year in Bedlam overview of the movie releases of the previous twelve months
TWO
A Spanish made Netflixer about a man and a woman who awaken in a strange room with their stomachs stitched together
PIG TALES
The cover and description make this novel seem like a light-hearted satire, which it isn’t