2023: Bedlam in Print
Looking back over last year’s books!
NAKED THEATER AND UNCENSORED HORROR
The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing
Stuart Gordon: 1947-2020
You may not know the name Stuart Gordon, but the chances are good that if you’re a fan of post-1980 horror cinema then you’re a Stuart Gordon fan
Deliver Me From Eva
Contrary to what you might have heard, this recently interred pulp relic is not a very good book, much less the “neglected classic” some have proclaimed it, but it is engagingly nutty. A fast moving and often (intentionally?) funny account of medical madness in a creepy California mansion, DELIVER ME FROM EVA reads like a transcription of a Stuart Gordon movie set within a 1940s-era pulp fiction framework.
CASTLE FREAK
In early 1995 CASTLE FREAK was the most anticipated horror movie on the scene. Did it deliver? In a word: no
STUCK
Based on a real-life incident in which a man was hit by a woman with her car and ended up stuck in the windshield for the next two days, STUCK is darkly funny, gory and horrific
DOLLS
This isn’t one of Stuart Gordon’s better films, but it does contain some very enjoyable moving doll effects
DAGON
This H.P. Lovecraft adaptation by Stuart Gordon didn’t look particularly promising, but I’m pleased to say I quite enjoyed it
FROM BEYOND
Director Stuart Gordon’s follow-up to his legendary debut RE-ANIMATOR was this wet, wild and wonderful exercise in B-movie delirium
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005