IN MY SKIN
The year 2003 saw more than its share of nasty films, but I feel confident in naming the French import IN MY SKIN as the year’s all-around nastiest film
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
One of the most notorious flops of the nineties, an overly expensive, under-conceived Tim Burton-esque concoction from writer/director Dan Aykroyd
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)
This, as you may recall, was the gross-out spectacle of 2010
THE TROOP
2014 got off to a roaring start with this downright ferocious exercise in no-frills horror
TERATOLOGIST
Here’s a true match made in Hell: Edward Lee and Wrath James White, the current sultans of literary mayhem
SUPER FETUS
After TEENAGE TIMEBERWOLVES, this novella gets my vote for the sickest publication of 2009
SWAN LAKE
This story reportedly pissed off a lot of people when it was first published in an anthology. Even the author, in a newly written afterward, acknowledges readers may want “to kick his ass for writing this story”
CHRISTMAS ON CRACK
This anti-Christmas anthology hails from the Bizarro crew, and delivers exactly what you might expect: a lot of XXX-rated, black humored weirdness, rendered in prose that’s on the level of a high school creative writing assignment
PORTRAIT OF AN ENGLISHMAN IN HIS CHATEAU
A profoundly vile piece of work that I’ve long wanted to read. L’ANGLAIS DECRIT DANS LE CHATEAU FERME was initially published in Paris (under the pseudonym Pierre Morion) back in 1953, and then banned for over 25 years
THE ROOM
There are so many things wrong with THE ROOM, the first (and thankfully only) novel by Canadian author Michael Grey, that it’s difficult to know where to start the criticism