About the author

Some monster kids never grow up ...

Friends, welcome to this collection of cult film reviews. This website has been around since the early 2000s, and has somehow survived the growth and change of the online world over the years. I've never quite had the heart to decommission it, and watch it fade into the ether. If you managed to stumble into my little den of darkness amongst the masses of content out there, I hope you enjoy my take on offbeat cinema!

A love of 'cult' movies, of one sort or another, has always been with me. One of my earliest film experiences was James Whale's classic "Frankenstein", with it's gorgeous sets, black and white photography and sublime acting by Boris Karloff. Watching it was a transformative experience. As a typical ‘monster kid’ back then, I couldn't get enough of Universal horror classics, the Hammer pantheon, and every other horror and science fiction gem imaginable, from any country willing to make them. Drawing and writing horror and science-fiction stories were also passions indulged.

In my teens, I was given Danny Peary's "Cult Movies" book, which opened up my mind to what could be considered "must-see". Every sort of genre you could conceive of, was covered in the series of three books that followed. From obvious classics to adult film, to biker epics, blaxploitation gems and z-grade, bottom-of-the-bill programmers. Yet, they all had superior entertainment value about them, and demanded to be viewed! I was hooked on 'cult cinema' in general.

As time passed, books like "Immoral Tales" by Pete Tombs, clued me in on films that had been made in Europe in a bygone era. The sex, horror and sleaze pouring forth from Europe in the sixties and seventies, from the likes of Jesus Franco and Jean Rollin, also joined the ever-growing must-view list. What wonders did I behold, when finally viewing these treasures! Alongside these revelations were the joys of the Japanese and Hong Kong cinema of the bizarre. The concept of cult cinema in my mind no longer had geographic borders, and every country's offerings could be explored.

As the nineties progressed, a funny little phenomenon called the internet really took hold. And what better medium to write for than a dedicated website, where the instant you finish your little essay, you can enable the whole online community to read it? The years went by, and the writing urge has waxed and waned with the requirements of daily life. One particular benefit of maintaining a collection like this, is coming into contact with dear friends that I still correspond with.

One thing I've always been self conscious about until recently, was the antiquated web code I used way back in the day. Now, I'm grateful for a little technical assist from AI to bring the site structure up to modern standards, and hopefully get cracking again on some writing. There's a bottomless well of wonderful weirdness to draw from, and an old ghoul like me needs to keep that ageing brain working.

I hope you're enjoying both your own journey through film, and spending a little time in my dusty little corner of the online world. Above all else …

Do have a pleasant evening.

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