David Lynch By the Decade
A look back at David Lynch's fifty-plus year career in film, decade by decade
View Article2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
View ArticleUGLY MUG No. 8
The latest entry in House of Harley’s “Industrial Strength Comics Compendium” that, in the words of underground comics legend Ed Pinsent, is “laced with heavy doses of insanity, wonder, and escapades...
View ArticleWerner Herzog, Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Nobuhiko Obayashi and MOMENTOUS...
It certainly seemed like a good idea: a Russian American co-production in which six world class directors partook in “the gigantic cinematic canvas of historical change in Russia,”
View ArticleTHE MAN FROM THE GREAT NORTH
A beautifully designed English rendering of a graphic novel that’s considered a classic in its original Italian language form
View ArticleSAX ROHMER’S DOPE
Yet another vital release from IDW that despite some enthusiastic notices did a fast fade
View ArticleECCO: THE STORY OF A FAKE MAN ON 42ND STREET
This is actually the final issue of the initial iteration of SLEAZOID EXPRESS, which took the form of a nonfiction novella by that publication’s editors Bill Landis and Jimmy McDonough
View ArticleOn SLEAZOID EXPRESS
Of the “Big Three” horror/exploitation film review zines, which included PSYCHOTRONIC and GORE GAZETTE, SLEAZOID EXPRESS tends to be the most acclaimed, and apparently boasted “The largest circulation...
View ArticleTHE LAST SPARK OF HOPE
Apocalyptic sci-fi that looks good despite being a short film conflated to feature length
View ArticleINFRA-MAN
This 1975 Hong Kong outrage is a classic of sorts, and a prime example of accidental surrealism
View ArticleTHE MANITOU
The first and most famous novel by the ultra-prolific UK horrormeister Graham Masterton
View ArticleIMPRESSIONS OF AFRICA
Raymond Roussel may well be the strangest writer of all time and this 1910 novel offers ample proof of that claim
View ArticleLOCUS SOLUS
The materpiece of France's Raymond Roussel, and one of the most astonishing displays of unfettered imagination I've ever experienced
View ArticlePOLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE
A lousy movie, yes, but one that actually improves upon its predecessor in many respects.
View ArticlePOLTERGEIST III
The Second sequel to POLTERGEIST, and about on par with the first, which is to say a mixed bag: bombastic, cynical and plain dumb, but with some affecting elements
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