THE ROOST
This indie horror fest went largely unseen during its brief 2005 theatrical release, but is finding an appreciative audience on DVD
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
DEATHDREAM
A young soldier returns home from Vietnam as a zombie with an insatiable addiction to blood in DEATHDREAM, a bonafide seventies cult classic
THE DEAD PIT
I got a mild kick out of this film, an insane asylum-set zombie fest from the eighties
THE DEAD NEXT DOOR
This no-budget eighties zombie epic isn’t much from a technical standpoint but has a real low-rent charm, and enough creative bloodletting to fill a dozen mainstream gorefests
DAY OF THE DEAD
To many horror fans DAY OF THE DEAD, the third in George Romero’s “Dead” saga, is a genre masterpiece. Not me!
DARK SOULS
This 2010 Norwegian chiller looks and often feels like a run-of-the-mill slasher, but branches out in some weird and provocative directions
CANNIBAL: THE MOST SICKENING CONSUMER GUIDE EVER!
A fast, user-friendly overview of the Italian cannibal film cycle
THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES
The magnum opus of the late Ray Dennis Steckler, who lavished his largest-ever budget—a whopping $38,000—on this screwball horror-musical from 1963
NIGHTMARE CITY
A trashier-than-average Italian zombie mash from the notorious Umberto Lenzi!