STORY OF THE EYE
Those of you who read this short novel as the “erotic classic” it’s commonly classified as may be disappointed, if not totally bewildered
SYLVOW
The environmental catastrophe genre gets an unforgettable overhaul in Douglas Thompson’s SYLVOW, which reads like an acid trip retooling of John Skipp and Craig Spector’s THE BRIDGE with hints of J.G. Ballard at his most extreme
Edgar Allan Poe at 200
In the field of horror one name stands above all others: Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809-October 7, 1849)
Addio Carmelo
On March 16, 2002, the Italian writer/actor/filmmaker Carmelo Bene passed away
Surrealism in Collage: The Novels of Max Ernst
Max Ernst was one of the most famous of the original surrealists, and his supreme masterworks are the collage novels THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN, A LITTLE GIRL DREAMS OF TAKING THE VEIL and A WEEK OF KINDNESS
Japanese Cyber-Horror
Japanese Cyberpunk: for those familiar with the films of Shinya Tsukamoto and Shozin Fukui, those words have a very particular connotation, promising an unflinching exploration of the darkest extremes of technology and madness
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
REGISTRY OF DEATH
Some seriously freaky shit, this, an oddly repellant and disturbing graphic novel
THE WHITE LAMA
Here we have further proof that the Chilean writer/filmmaker Alexandro (or Alejandro) Jodorowsky is one of most magnificently brain-fried geniuses alive