THE TESTIMONY OF RANDOLPH CARTER
This 53-minute video production from the late eighties is notable as one of the first of a type of film that has become extremely popular in recent years: an amateur H.P. Lovecraft adaptation
THE DREAM-QUEST OF UNKNOWN KADATH
A primitive but impressive animated rendering of H.P. Lovecraft’s surreal novel THE DREAM-QUEST OF UKNOWN KADATH that captures the dreamy ambiance of the text with uncanny fidelity
THE DUNWICH HORROR
A dumber-than-average H.P. Lovecraft adaptation from 1970, courtesy of American International Pictures, who naturally attempted to juice up Lovecraft’s writing with late sixties psychadelia and gratuitous sex appeal
DAGON
This H.P. Lovecraft adaptation by Stuart Gordon didn’t look particularly promising, but I’m pleased to say I quite enjoyed it
THE CURSE (1987)
This undistinguished 1987 grue fest is of interest for one reason: the name “Louis Fulci,” credited as Associate Producer—actually Italy’s Lucio Fulci
NECRONOMICON
An H.P. Lovecraft inspired anthology film. It’s far from great, but does contain a wealth of stunningly grotesque imagery
FROM BEYOND
Director Stuart Gordon’s follow-up to his legendary debut RE-ANIMATOR was this wet, wild and wonderful exercise in B-movie delirium
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005
2002: The Year in Bedlam
Once again the year is over and it’s time for my annual look back at the year in horror
SUPERNATURAL HORROR IN LITERATURE
From one of the foremost horror scribes of all time comes perhaps the finest, most concise recounting of the genre I’ve ever encountered