JACK HILL: THE EXPLOITATION AND BLAXPLOITATION MASTER, FILM BY FILM
The first and thus far only book about Jack Hill, arguably the greatest exploitation movie director of the grindhouse era
THE FRIEDKIN CONNECTION
This isn’t the greatest memoir by a film director I’ve ever read, but it is essential
IT’S ALIVE
The first entry of the IT’S ALIVE trilogy, and the most popular film by writer-producer-director Larry Cohen
I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE
The most notorious rape-revenge movie of the seventies, if not of all time
THE ISLE
A stunning horror film from Korea. Stylish, erotic, and often hellaciously grotesque, it plays like a deranged collaboration between Andrei Tarkovsky and Dario Argento
ISLAND OF LOST SOULS
To fully appreciate this film one has to cast one’s mind back to 1932, when ISLAND OF LOST SOULS shocked audiences worldwide
THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996)
This 1996 film has been largely forgotten, but it was one of the most notorious flops of its decade
IRREVERSIBLE
An extraordinary piece of “shock art.” It seems curiously appropriate that, in the midst of the rabidly anti-French sentiment that saturated the US in the early 00s, this is the major French movie we got
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
When dealing with a five decade multi-film phenomenon, it pays to go back to where it all started
INVADERS FROM MARS
A Tobe Hooper film from the mid eighties, when he was trying to mount a worthy successor to THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE