LOFT
Like director Eckhart Schmidt’s earlier film TRANCE, LOFT is steeped in 1980s new wave culture, which can be taken as a good or bad thing depending on one’s point of view
KUSO
2017’s gross-out movie of note, a freeform exercise in sub-Cronenbergian excess with a satiric thrust and overall fixation on bodily secretion
QUIN’S SHANGHAI CIRCUS
This novel is ostensibly about a man attempting to find his parents in WWII-era Shanghai, but its true concerns are far more dense and kaleidoscopic
The Gore Boom—Is It A Bust?
Gore is back.
Tracking the Fortunes of the New Friday the 13th
It’s the week of February 13, 2009 and the hotly promoted FRIDAY THE 13th remake has opened number one at the U.S. box office.
2016: The Year in Bedlam
Welcome to the first installment of my “Year in Bedlam” end-of-the-year movie rankings.
Looking Back on Some Bad Influences
Here you’ll find a slew of wild, goofy, unpredictable and absolutely first rate reading.
The Subjugated Beast
Mega List of Everything View by Topic60s Cinema 70s Cinema 80s Cinema 90's Cinema Adults only Aliens Anthology Apocalyptic Arthouse Bizarre British Horror Canadian Horror Cannibalism Cult TV Dark Comedy Dark Eroticism Directors Dream Logic Evil Animals French...NINTH & HELL STREET
NINTH & HELL STREET isn’t the goriest novel I’ve ever read, but it outdoes most splatterpunk fiction in sheer nastiness
THE LONG LAST CALL
THE LONG LAST CALL apparently began life as a screenplay to be directed by Skipp himself. He apparently couldn’t find financing for the film, however, so Skipp refashioned the material into a novel. As such it works beautifully.