HORRIBLE AND FASCINATING–JOHN BOORMAN’S EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
A gripping exploration of the making of “one of the most unintentionally silly films ever released by a major studio.”
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
The DUNEiverse and Its Discontents
DUNE: the novels, films and everything else
CONCLUSIONS
Director John Boorman provided an elegantly drafted memoir back in 2003, and with CONCLUSIONS he completes it
The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
1973’s THE EXORCIST remains one of the most successful and enduring horror movies of all time yet, Hollywood being as it is, multiple sequels were an inevitability.
EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
A true bad movie classic! A nominal sequel to THE EXORCIST, this is a staggeringly ambitious, globe-spanning vision of ancient evil and redemption that’s also colossally misguided.
Debunking Some Stupid Sayings
The horror genre, like any other, is host to a number of ideas perceived by many to be Gospel. I’m debunking them.