2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
YOU’VE GOT RED ON YOU: HOW SHAUN OF THE DEAD WAS BROUGHT TO LIFE
The making of SHAUN OF THE DEAD is covered with admirable thoroughness in this beautifully designed book
I WAS FLESH GORDON
FLESH GORDON is a film whose behind-the-scenes drama was arguably more compelling than what ended up onscreen, as proven by this book
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Film 2021)
The second film to be adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s classic novel was this ambitious production by the inimitable Guillermo Del Toro
TWO
A Spanish made Netflixer about a man and a woman who awaken in a strange room with their stomachs stitched together
I AM NOT ASHAMED
This shouldn’t be taken as a definitive biographical resource, but as an unabashedly sensationalistic Old Hollywood expose it’s pretty damn compelling
2020 in Review: News, Passings, Discoveries
Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well
Remembering That Which Is Better Forgotten: SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE
A Christmas movie that falls firmly in the “miss” category that is, conversely, one of the most ambitious of them all
KIRK CAMERON’S SAVING CHRISTMAS
It takes some doing to make a film that ranks with bad Christmas movie classics like SANTA CLAUS, but this 2014 production handily accomplishes that feat
SANTA’S CHRISTMAS ELF (NAMED CALVIN)
I’d long believed SANTA AND THE ICE CREAM BUNNY was the absolute cheapest Christmas movie in existence. Turns out I was wrong, as SANTA’S CHRISTMAS ELF (NAMED CALVIN) is even cheaper