THE CANNON FILM GUIDE Volume 1 (1980-84)
This hefty 527 page book is either a standout example of gonzo scholarship or an extended manifestation of unfiltered insanity
I’M SCREAMING AS FAST AS I CAN: MY LIFE IN B-MOVIES
A slim but reasonably satisfying mini-memoir by Linnea Quigley, the most prominent of the 1980s and ‘90s scream queens
TURNING JAPANESE
A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum
1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
THE BURNING HELL
This hour long atrocity dramatizes the fire and brimstone preachings of Estus W. Pirkle, a Baptist minister, by the veteran sleazemeister Ron Ormond
Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family
THE HIPPY CULT MURDERS
It’s no secret that following the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders a host of “Mansonsploitation” films, songs and books invaded our lives
THE MANSON MASSACRE
The most notorious of the “Manson-sploitation” movies, an unabashedly exploitive sixty nine minute spectacle that purports to dramatize the August 1969 killings of Sharon Tate and her companions
Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
The Rutger Hauer saga was a curious one
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles