Interpretating de Sade in the age of ruin. WILLIAM BURNS on why the ‘banned’ book 120 Days of Sodom is more relevant than ever.| Headpress
DAVID KEREKES walks with monsters on the first leg of a major exhibition about serial murder and its detection.| Headpress
A small sampling of the images and related content in CHRIS ALEXANDER’s book of cinema memoir, reviews and interviews, Art! Trash! Terror!| Headpress
JENNIFER WALLIS reviews Alexander Kattke’s Flowers Blooming Fire and looks back on her own relationship with transgressive fiction.| Headpress
The author revisits a used bookshop with a hole in its floor and is compelled by the music he finds to travel to Exeter.| Headpress
Is The Godsend (1980) about an evil child or parental anxieties? JENNIFER WALLIS investigates.| Headpress
A prelude to Jon Dear’s much anticipated Headpress book, No Diggin’ Here, on the history of the BBC’s Ghost Stories for Christmas.| Headpress
Filmmaker Richard Baylor talks about the counterculture and distribution network of the 1990s, death row, Ipswich, and the ‘video nasties’.| Headpress
RICHARD BAYLOR is a British underground filmmaker of the 1990s. DAVID KEREKES looks at a new collection of the films and the DIY era that shaped them.| Headpress
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A Viewing Guide to the Pandemic is a film-lover’s lockdown exploration of the history of contagion as depicted in cinema and TV drama.| Headpress
RICHARD SCHEIB looks at Elia Kazan’s 1950 Panic in the Streets as the first film specifically about a viral epidemic.| Headpress