2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
Sometimes accidental brilliance is the most irresistible sort.
FANGS
The Egyptian ROCKY HORROR!
THE SHIP OF MONSTERS
Mexican made lunacy with a difference: it’s a sci fi-western-vampire movie!
ROVERS
An action-oriented vampire odyssey that’s equal parts Bram Stoker and Sam Peckinpah
THE VAMPIRES OF ALFAMA
A most interesting and unprecedented addition to vampire lore from the French filmmaker and sometime novelist Pierre Kast
SOY LEYENDA
This 1967 adaptation of I AM LEGEND is interesting enough to at least warrant some attention
R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning
VIRGINTOOTH
You have to admire a writer who thinks big. Case in point: Mark Ivanhoe, author of VIRGINTOOTH, about vampires who can fly, shapeshift and alter the fabric of reality at will
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste