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
YOU’RE NOT DEAD UNTIL YOU’RE FORGOTTEN
For horror/exploitation aficionados this is one of the standout publications of 2014
Remembering the Zebra Books Horror Line
If you were a horror fan in the 1980s and early-to-mid 90s you probably remember Zebra Books
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP
More eighties trashola from Roger Corman, with plenty of gore, slime, cheesy sea monsters, gratuitous T&A and one of the cinema’s better mutant birth scenes
THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)
This, as you may recall, was the gross-out spectacle of 2010
VIOLETS OF DAWN
Here’s a rarity: a backwoods horror novel by Asian Cult Cinema editor/Video Search of Miami founder Thomas Weisser, his first and only work of fiction
HIP POCKET SLEAZE
The vintage adult paperback community is a small one to be sure, but for those of us who are into such things John Harrison’s HIP POCKET SLEAZE is an essential acquisition
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 SUCKING PIT
This novel has the distinction of being one of the most widely criticized yet least read books of all time