Fiction
A novel that’s best known today as an alleged inspiration on H.P. Lovecraft’s “Thing on the Doorstep,” AN EXCHANGE OF SOULS also anticipates Michael Blumlein’s horrific gender-swap classic X,Y in its account of a mad doctor who becomes trapped in his fiancée’s body after a soul-switching experiment goes wrong.
Commentary
Of the many authors to emerge from the horror boom of the 1970s, the late Ken Greenhall remains one of the most unfairly neglected–and also one of the most mysterious
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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.
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Here we come to perhaps the most famous and revered horror movie of our time–indeed maybe of all time
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A lame ballet-centered horror flick that was mercifully forgotten until the release of BLACK SWAN, with which it shares quite a few similarities
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A superb 1977 horror movie, the last to be directed by the late, great Mario Bava. A textbook example of how to build mood, tension and, yes, shock on a limited budget, it remains one of the best films of its kind
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Some people call KILLDOZER a misunderstood masterpiece of horrific science fiction and others an unintentional chortle fest. I simply think it’s a bad movie
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Another case of a “lost” film that’s become an extremely sought-after item among horror buffs but, now that it’s finally been unearthed, turns out to be a disappointment
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Surely one of the oddest big studio products of all time: an EXORCIST prequel released as two separate films
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From Germany, a strikingly filmed fact-based account of possible demonic possession, driven by a superb performance by newcomer Sandra Hiller