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A Visit to Jean Rollin’s Grave.
Earlier this month, I visited Paris for the first time in many years, and naturally I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit the resting place of one of my favourite filmmakers, the great Jean...
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Krimi Casebook: Das Verrätertor / ‘Traitor’s Gate’ (Freddie Francis, 1964)
BLOGGER’S NOTE: It was actually a complete coincidence that I had this post, which discusses the intricacies of a curious Anglo-German co-production, scheduled to appear on the day of the UK referendum...
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Psychedelic Sci-Fi Round-up: The Uncertain Midnight by Edmund Cooper...
Cover illustration unaccredited.Well, it seems I blew my stash of ‘British apocalypse’ paperback posts a few months early. If I’d read the runes a bit more accurately, maybe I could have saved a few of...
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Psychedelic Sci-Fi Round-up: Nightmare Blue by Gardner Dozois & George Alec...
Cover illustration by Justin Todd.I don’t really have a lot to say about this one. Sounds like one of the counter-culture influences early ‘70s sci-fi novels that could either be genius or utterly...
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Psychedelic Sci-Fi Round-up: In The Kingdom of the Beasts by Brian M....
Yes folks, after his novel ‘To Challenge Chaos’ appeared in our last Psychdelic Sci-Fi Round Up, young Brian Stableford is back to bamboozle us again with more headache-inducing, order/chaos themed...
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Psychedelic Sci-Fi round-up: New Writings in SF # 18 edited by John...
Whilst the sublimely trippy (unaccredited) artwork on this anthology is more than worthy of a place in my Psychedelic Sci-Fi Hall of Fame, I’m afraid I must confess that it initially jumped out at me...
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Lovecraft On Film: The Shuttered Room (David Greene, 1967)
When I instigated this blog’s on-going survey of “Lovecraftian cinema” last year, I realised of course that most of the films we’d be looking at would, at best, bear a pretty marginal relationship to...
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Lovecraft on Film Appendum: Vintage Derleth.
It stands to reason that paperback editions of the Derleth “collaborations” are less sought after, and thus less pricey and more common, than older paperbacks of genuine Lovecraft. As such, the oldest...
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Nikkatsu Trailer Theatre #4: THE PASSION AND POWER OF A MAN’S WORLD WITH...
Although it is not a film that’s received a great deal of love from English language critics, I nonetheless enjoyed Toshio Masuda’s ‘Red Pier’ (otherwise known as ‘Red Quay’ or ‘Red Harbour’, 1958) a...
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Exploito All’Italiana:Introduction.
"Delivery for Breakfast In the Ruins..."When life hits hard, geo-political certainties crumble and potential movie-watching time is compressed into aggressively fenced off, sub-ninety minute blocks...
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Exploito All’Italiana: Hitch-Hike(Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1977)
(Original Title: ‘Autostop Rosso Sangue’.)You know this one of course. An Italian-shot / American-set three-hander in which Franco Nero plays a boorish Italian journalist and Corinne Clery his...
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Exploito All’Italiana: Zombi Holocaust (Marino Girolami, 1981)
(In the absence of any decent scans of an original Italian poster, let’s enjoy this splendid effort from Thailand.)When it comes to the “rip off” aesthetic that increasingly dominated Italian genre...
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Exploito All’Italiana: Blastfighter (Lamberto Bava, 1984)
At some point in this review thread, we had to turn our gaze toward that prodigal son of the Italian exploitation business, Lamberto Bava, and what better place to start than here, as a Commandoed up...
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Random Paperbacks: Flesh by Philip Jose Farmer (Beacon, 1960)
We’ve showcased the way-out artwork that often graced the covers of Philip Jose Farmer’s novels on a number of occasions in the past, but…. this one takes the cake.I’m not sure Gerald McConnell’s...
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Faro Pulp Haul, Part #1: Portugal.
The great thing about collecting pulp crime paperbacks is that, wherever you go in the world, you can find previously unknown local variants, usually unwanted and selling for peanuts.Just over a year...
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Faro Pulp Haul, Part #2:Germany.
Following on from our previous post, here are some German language crime pulps I picked up whilst in Faro last year.(KriminalRoman / Ullstein Bucher, 1969)Originally published in English, 1966.No...
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Faro Pulp Haul, Part #2:Germany.
Following on from our previous post, here are some German language crime pulps I picked up whilst in Faro last year.(KriminalRoman / Ullstein Bucher, 1969)Originally published in Englishin1966.No...
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Deathblog:Herschell Gordon Lewis (1929-2016)
Whilst I can’t really claim to be a die-hard fan (I haven’t actually sat down and watched one of his pictures in years), Herschell Gordon Lewis is such a cornerstone of horror cinema and ‘outsider’...
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The Great Jess Franco Location Tour, Part # 1: Calpe.
Whilst visiting friends and attending a music event on Valencia’s Costa Blanca in Southern Spain this September, I naturally made sure that we put a day aside to pay a visit to the town of Calpe[Calp...
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October Shorts: A Pre-Halloween Horror Round-up.
Every year, when October rolls around, I survey the movie bloggers and film forums undertaking “31 films in 31 days” pre-Halloween countdowns and so forth, and feel a profound sense of envy as I...
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