“A serial killer with a taste for blood as told by homicide detective Lieutenant Ray Biondi… here is the actual story of the all-out effort to stop murderer Richard Chase—a psychotic killer so depraved, he drank his victims’ blood.”

Publisher: Titan
Paperback: 256 pages
Illustrated

Movie-by-movie “reference book for the casual viewer and the committed fan alike,” with listings of anime films and made-for-video works released since 1983, arranged by year and by title. It features all the lusty production details Japanamaniacs adore: plot summaries, credits, key personnel, star ratings, year of release, etc. GR

Publisher: Titan
Paperback: 288 pages
Illustrated

From Britain comes this appreciation of the cinematic extremes and margins, much like the Psychotronic and Re/Search books but without the requisite countersnobbism and wholesale rejection of so-called art film. Appropriately, the articles range from incredulous evocations of the worst of the worst, to devoted exhumations of the unjustly overlooked and/or trivialized. Would-be auteurs such as Pete Walker, and maligned genres such as soft-core Gothic, Sexy Nature, and Splatter Western are treated to respectful, and often exuberant, analysis. A piece on the oeuvre of arty smut-peddler Walerian Borowczyk signals a welcome change of pace, however, as does the career overview of Eyes Without a Face director Georges Franju. Between further exegesis of such standard non-standard fare as The House of Whipchord, Django and the films of Danish naturalist and hard-core animal lover Bodil, the reader is treated to a fetishistic paean to the joys of the filmic apparatus by George Kuchar, a poignant tribute to London’s premier cult-movie showcase the Scala, and a countdown of one viewer’s top cinematic gross-outs entitled “Insidious Little Globs.” All of which somehow adds up to a workable definition of whatever it is that makes film so compelling. JT

Publisher: Titan
Paperback: 128 pages
Illustrated