Cult Fiction 1: Horror
Until just a few years ago one of the major plusses of collecting horror fiction was that it was incredibly easy, and inexpensive, to acquire. Not anymore!
STARSHIP TROOPERS
A would-be blockbuster from 1998 that saw director Paul Verhoeven and much of the crew of ROBOCOP (1987) trying to recapture the elusive magic of that classic
2021: The Year in Bedlam
The latest edition of my Year in Bedlam overview of the movie releases of the previous twelve months
HELLSTROM’S HIVE
There are some good ideas in this, a post-DUNE Frank Herbert science fiction novel bearing a concept that evidently obsessed him: human-insect hybridization
THE SWARM
Yet another so-so Netflix movie, although this one has some impressive things
WORMS
An example of the “nasties” model popular in the seventies, fused with the age-old psychological horror trope
JAN-MICHAEL VINCENT: EDGE OF GREATNESS
This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
A JOURNEY IN THE PHANTASMAGORICAL GARDEN OF APPARITIO ALBINUS
In the category of Raymond Roussel/H.P. Lovecraft/Clark Ashton Smith inspired oddities this quasi-graphic novel definitely stands out