WITHIN THE WOODS
The genesis of THE EVIL DEAD was contained in this 8mm short from 1979, made by a young Sam Raimi and his friends Bruce Campbell, Scott Spiegel and Ted Raimi
THE NIGHT BOAT
It’s far from the best of Robert R. McCammon’s early horror novels, but THE NIGHT BOAT has, at the very least, an irresistible premise involving a sunken Nazi submarine harboring flesh eating zombies
NARCO SATANICO
Mexi-madness containing all the things one might expect from a south-of-the-border trash fest, starting with the Big Three: sex, nudity and gore
THE BRIDE!
I wanted to like this mega-flop, but have to admit there’s a reason for its non-success
BATTLE GIRL: THE LIVING DEAD IN TOKYO BAY
A solid example of Asian Trash Cinema that’s unusually heavy on the trash
SILENT RAGE
Chuck Norris, karate and zombies—a film that should be much better than it is
2025: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2025, ranked by moi
A VIEWING GUIDE TO THE PANDEMIC: DEPICTIONS OF PLAGUE AND PANDEMIC ON FILM AND TV
A nifty book-length study (the first, if I’m not mistaken) of disease/pandemic movies
LOCUS SOLUS
The materpiece of France’s Raymond Roussel, and one of the most astonishing displays of unfettered imagination I’ve ever experienced
NIGHT OF THE COMET
“Valley girls at the end of the world” was the pitch by writer-director Thom Eberhardt for this low budgeter from 1984