My first non-fiction film book, SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE: FROM STATEN ISLAND TO TIMES SQUARE & ALL THE SLEAZE BETWEEN will be released in December, 2019 by Headpress Publishing. Full details can be read on their official site: Suburban Grindhouse
SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE MEMORIES was the name of a column I wrote for the CINEMA KNIFE FIGHT website from 2010-2018 (when they shut down). This book, shortened to SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE, collects all of my columns, many which were updated, and a host of new material includes interviews with directors Frank Hennenlotter, Elijah Drenner, Peaches Christ, and stars Carmine Capobianco and Lydia Cornell (who gives one of the only interviews she has done about her 1982 film, Blood Tide). The book is half memoir, half film reviews, filled with classic ads for each film as they appeared in local NYC newspapers.
Early reviews:
"There was a time not long ago when I figured that I’d never have to read another book of movie reviews again. I’d been there and done that–I thought I’d seen (and read) it all! Well, I was wrong. Boy, was I ever wrong. Nick Cato’s Suburban Grindhouse is, quite frankly, one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Funny, in your face, and most important of all, informative, SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE is a rare treat, indeed. And– like my favorite movies–I look forward to visiting it again and again."- John Szpunar, author of Xeroxferox and Blood Sucking Freak: The Life and Films of the Incredible Joel M. Reed

"No movie is an experience in and of itself. There’s a big difference between seeing Texas Chainsaw Massacre on a nice, shiny DVD in your living room and seeing it the way God intended–in a theater full of filth, cigarette butts, broken bottles and used syringes. In SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE, Nick Cato becomes the Marcel Proust of trash cinema, resurrecting memories of the kinds of late, lamented, Mom and Pop fleapits in which seeing an anti-social movie with your buddies was a gloriously anti-social act. He writes about the total experience of seeing exploitation movies, and each entry in SUBURBAN GRINDHOUSE is a bite into a memory-packed Madeleine full of delicious sleaze."- Michael Marano, MediaDrome movie columnist for Cemetery Dance, horror writer, creator of the Mad Prof. Mike's Headbanger Movie Reviews on the Public Radio Satellite System show Movie Magazine International

Nick Cato’s desire for sex, blood, and filth fleshes out the lesser-known neighborhood venues where lone pervs would anonymously gather to get their collective rocks off. An essential addition to the grindhouse scholar’s shelf, Cato’s roadmap to cinematic depravity relights those long-dimmed and demolished dingy marquees, comforting us with the gentle solace and reminiscence of what can only be experienced in the darkest shadows of the cinema.- Shade Rupe, author of Dark Stars Rising


More news to follow...