THE KILLER
The apotheosis of the British author/philosopher Colin Wilson’s crime fiction was THE KILLER, presented by the UK’s Savoy Books in its most complete version
THE GLASS CAGE
An “unconventional detective story” by the inimitable Colin Wilson
BUFFET FROID
A very bizarre 1979 comedy by France’s Bertrand Blier that functions as a film noir parody, a cautionary essay on contemporary dehumanization and an unfiltered blast of surreal invention
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
SQUAREWORLD
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
NAME ABOVE TITLE
A Portuguese made “Giallo Serial Killer Fever Dream”
EYES OF LAURA MARS
One of the foremost examples of American made giallo, but not without its faults
William Friedkin’s Films, Ranked
On August 7, 2023, film director extraordinaire William Friedkin, a.k.a. Hurricane Billy, passed away. Here’s my ranking of his 20 features.
A WOMAN KILLS
One of the more interesting unknown films of the sixties was this 1968 feature by France’s Jean-Denis Bonan
LOVE KILLS
The wild and outrageous inverse of Shane Stevens’ seminal serial killer classic BY REASON OF INSANITY