TRAIL OF BLOOD
I’ve long been curious about this film, a no-budget SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff, which never received much of a release
THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN
I’ll say one thing for this half-baked historical saga: it had GREAT poster art picturing a hooded figure’s upper torso silhouetted over a small Southern town, a singularly haunting image that promises everything this tawdry film fails to deliver
THE TODD KILLINGS
Surely one the major feel-bad movies of the Twentieth Century, THE TODD KILLINGS can be called the anti-BREAKFAST CLUB
TARGETS
One of the most stunning horror films of the 1960s, and one of the finest movies ever directed by Peter Bogdonovich
RIVER’S EDGE
A good film, but overrated, RIVER’S EDGE, loosely based on a true story, is one of the most popular of the teens-from-Hell films of the eighties, and features quite a few then-upcoming stars
GHOSTLY TALES OF ROUTE 66: ARKANSAS TO ARIZONA
Here’s one for you history buffs: a collection of fact based ghost stories from various parts of the legendary Route 66
THE DEATHMAKER
This is one of the nastiest, most unflinching depictions of madness and murder you’ll ever experience, despite the fact that THE DEATHMAKER doesn’t contain a single act of onscreen violence
DAS EXPERIMENT
A powerful and fascinating piece of work, and one of the absolute finest films of 2002
EXQUISITE CORPSE: SURREALISM AND THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
The so-called Black Dahlia murder of 1947 continues to inspire all manner of speculation. EXQUISITE CORPSE, a profusely illustrated coffee table hardcover, is the latest in a long line of lengthy analyses on the still-unsolved crime
THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY
This eminently readable slice of history alternates the accounts of Daniel Burnham, the director of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Herman Mudgett, a.k.a. H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who haunted the event