Funereal Expectorations.

My review of the remake of I Spit On Your Grave at the Film Ink blog.

State of Things 10

The latest publication from Strange Attractor is The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology a book of essays on cinema edited by Virginie Selavy, the volume includes my piece on the film Human Centipede. The publication is due to be released on 16th May. Check it out. This essay also formed the basis of a paper given at a recent conference in San Antonio.

The Revelation Perth International Film Festival starts on 14th July, once I again I have curated the event. I'll post a link once the programme is formally announced.

No Wave Cinema

Looking through Youtube clips recently I discovered that somebody has posted some films by Beth and Scott B, including the excellent Letters To Dad (1979), an exceptional study of power and obedience drawn from letters written to Jim Jones.

Decadent Literature.

The Decadent Literature events for 2011 start this Sunday. Full details can be found here, the first event focuses on underground comics, with future events planned on fetishism, magickal eroticism etc.