RAT MAN
This Italian slasher movie sucks, but is notable for the title character, an undersized mutant played by Nelson de la Rosa, a.k.a. the World’s Smallest Man
SPLATTER MOVIES
Apparently the most authoritative overview of the splatter movie phenomenon ever published—or so I’ve been told
DEATH RACE 2000
One of the most popular films ever made by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures, and also one of the most overtly political
DEATH GAME
A happily married man unwisely lets two hot chicks into his house, only to have them turn into psycho bitches from Hell the next day in DEATH GAME, one of the most hopelessly inept yet curiously stylish and unnerving psychofilms ever made
DEAD BOYZ CANT FLY
Those in the mood for gratuitous violence will be amply rewarded by this early-nineties over-the-topper
THE DARK SIDE OF LOVE
The Italian sex film is an industry in itself. Here’s one of the genre’s more interesting entries, from Salvatore Sempari, one of its key directors
CRASH! (1977)
Not to be confused with the similarly titled David Cronenberg or Paul Haggis films, this is an early effort by the irrepressible Charles Band, who attempted to mix occult horror and car chases (a bit like THE CAR crossed with THE EXORCIST)
CONQUEST
This 1983 production is one of the last worthy films made by Lucio Fulci, and undoubtedly the strangest of the many sword-and-sorcery programmers that littered the early 1980s
CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT
This lunatic late sixties obscurity, a hippified take on THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, is hardly a buried treasure. It is fun, though, an unforgettably whacked-out wallow in gore and sleaze!
JACK HILL: THE EXPLOITATION AND BLAXPLOITATION MASTER, FILM BY FILM
The first and thus far only book about Jack Hill, arguably the greatest exploitation movie director of the grindhouse era