HEX
A prime example of what critic/novelist Kim Newman termed a “Weird Hippie Shit” movie, an early seventies production about bikers and witches
FREAK OUT
No budget British comedy-horror from 2005. It’s utterly ludicrous, trashy and obnoxious—and also pretty damn funny!
ULTIMATE PORNO: THE MAKING OF SEX COLOSSAL
In the field of movie making-of books, ULTIMATE PORNO is one of the most obscure there is, yet also one of the few worth reading
TWISTED SISTERS
A singularly pervy British made exploiter from trash movie auteur Wolfgang Büld. It’s engaging, with plenty of over-the-top gore and sex, and even somewhat artistic
THE TURNER DIARIES
Here we have one of the most hateful, ignorant and insanely wrong-headed books of all time
SKETCHING EVIL
My preference for weirdness and transgression is well known, but in an effort at broadening my horizons I decided to give a paperback original called SKETCHING EVIL a try
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”
SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
Don’t get too excited about this book, as it’s not the proper novelization of the 1964 abomination SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS that I was hoping for
HOWARD THE DUCK: The Greatest Movie Ever Made?
A confession: I love HOWARD THE DUCK