Splatter, Maggoty Muppets and Heavenly Creatures: The Early Films of Peter Jackson
With the LORD OF THE RINGS films now ensconced in the “classic” cinema pantheon, I’d say it’s an opportune time to take a look at the output of their director
The Novels of Michael Blodgett
If you know of the late Michael Blodgett (1939-2007) it’s most likely as a beefcake actor, yet in my view Blodgett’s most enduring work was done in the three unjustly forgotten novels he published in the late seventies and early eighties
The Novels of H.G. Lewis
The late H.G. Lewis was the writer and director of the 1960s-era gorefests BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS! and COLOR ME BLOOD RED, which comprise a loose-knit trilogy. Lewis also wrote novelizations of the three films
CONTAMINATION
Fun, hyper-gory Italian trash!
COLOR ME BLOOD RED
The third, and least, entry in writer-director Herschell Gordon Lewis and producer David F. Friedman’s fabled gore trilogy
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
Fun zombie gore madness from the one and only Lucio Fulci!
CHERRY FALLS
A vindictive psycho is stalking virgin teens in 1999’s CHERRY FALLS, one of the best late-nineties SCREAM wannabes
CENTURION
This bloody historical epic, the most ambitious film made by the British horrormeister Neil Marshall, is too shallow and ham-fisted for its own good
CASTLE FREAK
In early 1995 CASTLE FREAK was the most anticipated horror movie on the scene. Did it deliver? In a word: no
CANNIBAL MAN
A solid, if pretentious, 1971 psycho thriller from Spain