Film Obsessive Review and Interview

The website Film Obsessive has published a review of my book Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust. Here’s an excerpt of the review by Jay Rohr:

Wardinski does an excellent job of summarizing this strange history of Cannibal Holocaust—much of which sounds like a horror story in and of itself and may have played a part in spawning the subgenre focused on cursed films like Demons (1985), John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns (2005), Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2018), and Porno (2019). But summarizing the road to infamy is only part of what makes Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust interesting. . . .

It’s refreshing to read a work like this that’s meant to be accessible rather than showcase the writer’s personal vocabulary. That’s because part of the primary purpose behind Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust is the invitation to regard horror more highly. Wardinski does a great job of showing how the genre, despite commercial success, has always been disregarded as something reprehensible. With this book there’s a hope it’ll invite others to more seriously read into films like Cannibal Holocaust.

Rohr also interviewed me about Dissecting Cannibal Holocaust. You can read the interview at Film Obsessive or watch the video embedded below: