DARK DREAMS: AN OBSESSIVE LOOK AT ROMANO SCAVOLINI’S NIGHTMARE
A book that is indeed quite obsessive in its probe of this 1981 anti-classic
THE CORPSE GRINDERS
A vintage splatterthon whose appeal I don’t get
JOYRIDE
The word for this splatterific book is fun—dumb fun, yes, but fun, nonetheless
SEVEN COFFINS FOR THE KILLER
The final novel by the late James Williamson, writing as James Havoc, who offers up a full blast of splatterific nastiness in a wild west milieu
CANNIBAL WORLDS
A knowledgeable and wide-ranging tome that more than delivers on its promise of being the most comprehensive tome on Italian cannibal cinema of the 1970s and 80s
ORGAN
Mutiliation, mutation and spilled bodily fluids aplenty: a 1990s Asian cult classic!
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND
A lesser film by Belgium’s Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, who specialize in uniquely tripped-out takes on European genre cinema from years past
FACELESS
This is said to be one of the better films directed by the late Jess Franco
THE LONG WALK
This was the second, and most interesting, of several Stephen King novels published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym
COLD FRONT
A recently republished 1980s horror novel that’s strong, descriptive and thoroughly Canadian