Commentary
Essay Index
- TV Flashback: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
- On KIN-DZA-DZA!
- H.P. Lovecraft and Colin Wilson: A Match Made in Kadath
- TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
- John Carpenter, Halloween Maestro
- BUBBA HO-TEP at 20
- Documenting Terry Gilliam
- THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST at 35
- TV Flashback: DARK DREAMERS
- William Friedkin’s Films, Ranked
- Barbie, Movie Star?
- FLICKER vs, ANCIENT IMAGES
- Cult Fiction 3: XXX Fiction
- Cult Fiction 2: Movie Novelizations
- Cult Fiction 1: Horror
- Kenneth Anger: 1927-2023
- John Morghen: 1954-2023
- Video Store Memories
- Ten Eccentric Films for Easter
- THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS: Anatomy of a Non-Publication
- Vic, Blood and Harlan
- “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” at 56
- AU HASARD BALTHAZAR vs. EO
- On SWEET SWEETBACK’S BAADASSSSS SONG
- 2022: Bedlam in Print
- 2022: The Year in Bedlam
- 2022: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Ruggero Deodato: 1939-2022
- On HOME ALONE
- TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
- Albert Pyun: 1953-2022
- Halloween Movies: My Top 20
- EYES WITHOUT A FACE vs. THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS
- On Michael Heneke and Emotional Glaciation
- Marilyn Monroe Biopics
- Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE and THE TOURIST
- Peter Straub: 1943-2022
- More Illustrated Oddments
- 1982—The Greatest Summer Movie Season Ever?
- Four Films Called ELDORADO
- On WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP
- On LES VAMPIRES
- Ray Liotta and The Slide
- On CRIMES OF THE FUTURE and The Tyranny of Exposition
- Thoughts on the Cannes Film Festival (From One Who’s Never Been There)
- Herman Melville, Leos Carax and the Ambiguities
- Fred Ward: 1942-2022
- On THE SWIMMER
- Anime, Insanity and a Cursed Dress
- TV Flashback: TÉLÉCHAT
- NOSFERATU at 100
- TV Flashback: MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION
- Sergei Paradjanov and Yuri Ilyenko: A Ukrainian Rhapsody
- Ivan Reitman: 1946-2022
- Performer Profile: Bridget Fonda
- TV Flashback: MANUEL ON THE ISLAND OF WONDERS
- 2021: Bedlam in Print
- 2021: The Year in Bedlam
- 2021: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Remembering That Which Is Better Forgotten: SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE
- Pendulous Wood
- YO HO HO vs. THE FALL
- TV Flashback: TODD AND THE BOOK OF PURE EVIL
- TV Flashback: THE HORROR HALL OF FAME
- The Duneiverse and Its Discontents
- LISZTOMANIA, Ken Russell, Genius and Madness
- TV Flashback: THE BOY WITH TWO HEADS
- 9/11 and The Media
- Funnybook Flashback: The Grant Morrison DOOM PATROL
- 1980: The Year in Bedlam
- AMERICAN ME vs. BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT
- TV Flashback: THE STARLOST
- Harry Stephen Keeler in the Ramble House
- THE CRIMINALS series
- Performer Profile: Larry B. Scott
- On THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
- The Dollar Babies
- The Cinerama Dome: A Personal History
- Performer Profile: Elina Löwensohn
- 1981: The Year in Bedlam
- CRUST and THE CALAMARI WRESTLER
- Remembering That Which Is Better Forgotten: NEWSIES and SWING KIDS
- Performer Profile: Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Racial Apocalypse Novels: Science Fiction or Prophetic Fact?
- Performer Profile: Eddie Deezen
- On DARK FORCES
- 2020: Bedlam in Print
- 2020: The Year in Bedlam
- 2020: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers
- Weird and Wonderful Christmas Cinema from Around the World
- 1982: The Year in Bedlam
- TV Flashback: MAX HEADROOM
- On CITY ZERO and VERNANDA
- Joe Kane: 1947-2020
- On THE WHITE HOTEL
- The Halloween Issue
- Funnybook Flashback: FLINCH
- THE CELL at 20
- TV Flashback: ARABELA
- Exotic Dancers the the Devil in the Swinging Sixties
- Blood Letters and Trashy Movies in the South Sea
- 1983: The Year in Bedlam
- On FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART
- L’ENFER and the Fascination for the Unfinished
- Zombie Media in the 1990s
- Alan Parker: 1944-2020
- 1984: The Year in Bedlam
- HOUSE OF LEAVES at 20
- R.I.P. Joel Schumacher
- Misspent 1980s-era TV watching: Six Examples
- RED HEDZ, SZMONHFU and JANE’S GAME
- The Films of Richard Stanley
- E-Books, Astrologers, Ocean Parks, Buried Treasure and SURVIVOR
- 1985: The Year in Bedlam
- On TIGER KING and Lucky Documentarians
- Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
- Disease Movies: An Informal History
- Stuart Gordon: 1947-2020
- TV Flashback: AMERICAN CHRONICLES
- 1986: The Year in Bedlam
- TV Flashback: AMAZING STORIES
- Remembering that Which is Better Forgotten: 666 and 1000
- More Thoughts on Movie Titles
- Dutch Horror Essentials
- 2019: Bedlam in Print
- 2019: The Year in Bedlam
- The 2010s
- 2019: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Christmas TV Specials for the Irreparably Brain Damaged
- More on Hallmark Channel Movies
- 1987: The Year in Bedlam
- Books about the Grand Guignol
- On EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
- A Tale of Two Terminators
- What’s in My Halloween Bag…
- Robert Forster: 1941-2019
- 1988: The Year in Bedlam
- Sid Haig: 1939-2019
- TV Flashback: AN AMERICAN FAMILY
- TV Flashback: MANIAC (2015)
- TV Flashback: HOT SEAT WITH WALLY GEORGE
- 1989: The Year in Bedlam
- Fifty Years of Mansonsploitation
- Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
- 1990: The Year in Bedlam
- More Topps Trading Card Madness
- Dennis Etchison: 1943-2019
- TV Flashback: LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
- 1991: The Year in Bedlam
- 1992: The Year in Bedlam
- Larry Cohen: 1936-2019
- Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
- 1993: The Year in Bedlam
- Ed Wood at the Carnival
- Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
- 2018: Bedlam in Print
- 2018: A Look Back in Bedlam
- 2018: The Year in Bedlam
- A Grab-Bag of Holiday Badness!
- 1994: The Year in Bedlam
- Nicolas Roeg: 1928-2018
- William Goldman: 1931-2018
- More Scary Kid Lit
- Funnybook Flashback: FROM BEYONDE, DOGHEAD and THE BIOLOGIC SHOW
- The Taiwanese Inferno
- BLADE RUNER—Novel, Treatment and Movie(s)
- The Complete Memoirs of Charles Willeford
- 1995: The Year in Bedlam
- 1996: The Year in Bedlam
- Kid Movies in the Summer of 1985
- Hallmark Channel Summer Nights Movies
- Exploring THE NIGHT LAND
- Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
- Chris Hardwick and the Dark Side of Nerd Culture
- 1997: The Year in Bedlam
- On THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES
- Paul Schrader’s Films, Ranked
- TV Flashback: ONE TO GROW ON
- 1998: The Year in Bedlam
- 1999: The Year in Bedlam
- Hallmark Channel Spring Fever Movies
- 2000: The Year in Bedlam
- Remembering Rick Sullivan and the GORE GAZETTE
- Remembering That Which is Better Forgotten: HOT DOG…THE MOVIE and HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE
- Jack Ketchum: 1946-2018
- 2017: Bedlam in Print
- 2017: The Year in Bedlam
- 2017: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Hallmark Channel Christmas Movies
- Funnybook Flashback: XOMBI
- Ranking The Rankings: The “Best” Canadian Films
- On THE INTERFACE SERIES
- Cult Films in Search of A Cult
- Books You Should Be Reading
- TV Flashback: HARLAN ELLISON’S WATCHING
- The Good and the Bad of WILD PALMS
- Thoughts on TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN
- Tobe Hooper: 1943-2017
- TV Flashback: THE NECESSARY MINUTE OF MONSIEUR CYCLOPEDE
- A “Monster Memory” of THE BLACK HOLE
- George A. Romero: 1940-2017
- Comic-Con Questions and Claims
- On HIGH SCHOOL FROM HELL
- Foreign Novels in Translation: My Twelve Most Wanted
- TV Flashback: THE REZ
- Four Films Called ADAM
- DEMON SEED–Novel, Movie and Rewrite
- The Curious Case of Jonathan Demme
- Remembering That Which is Better Forgotten: ILL-GOTTEN GAINS and CLAUDE’S CRIB
- On GHOST IN THE SHELL, Whitewashing and the Way Things Are
- No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
- TV Flashback: IJON TICHY, RAUMPILOT
- A Trump Era Reading List
- Bill Paxton: 1955-2017
- I’LL DO ANYTHING, With Songs and Without
- 2016: Bedlam in Print
- 2016: The Year in Bedlam
- 2016: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Yuletide Horror Fiction
- TV Flashback: LES ROIS MAUDITS
- THE WALKING DEAD: Censorship and the State of Horror Media
- Five Books Called Halloween
- The Horror and Fantasy Cinema of Juraj Herz
- Short Hair, Beautiful Guts, Slave Girls and Vampire Loins!
- Wolfgang and Fiona
- Floating Dragon, It and The Talisman–A Trilogy?
- Histoires Extraordinaires
- TV Flashback: I Giochi del Diavolo
- The Brain Plant Tetralogy
- Horror Cinema in the Summer of 1986
- The Horror Cinema of Walter Hugo Khouri
- South African Horror Essentials
- In Defense of Sequels: The Sequel
- 1990s Serial Killer Cinema
- On Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- J.G. Ballard and the Progeny of High-Rise
- Film Versus Digital–Which is Better?
- Illustrated Oddments
- The Comics of 1986: Then and Now
- Ten More Essential Unreleased-in-the-U.S. Horror Films
- 2015: Bedlam in Print
- 2015: The Year in Bedlam
- 2015: A Look Back in Bedlam
- Krampus in Fiction and Film
- Roland Topor in English
- Hidden Messages and Annoying Commentators
- French Horror: An Appreciation
- The Big Screen
- Chas. Balun and “Piece O’ Mind”
- Real Life Horror
- On Nightmare Alley
- The Axolotl in Fiction and Film
- On the “Late” Jerome Boivin
- The New Beverly Cinema: A Personal History
- Horror Movie Behind-the-Scenes Docs
- Fine Writing, Poor Packaging: The Novels of Ken Greenhall
- Five Reasons Wes Craven was the Most Important Horror Filmmaker of his Generation
- Gaspar Noe and the Butcher
- On The Duchess of Avila
- Jurassic World and the Summer Movie Doldrums
- Psycho at 55
- Of Love and Cockroaches
- The Novels of H.G. Lewis
- Jaws at 40
- The Bootleg Video Scene: A Requiem
- TV Flashback: Neverwhere
- The H Word
- The Modern Horror Movie: A Diagnosis
- The Cleveland Kidnapping: Two Memoirs
- Killing Kids
- On Chris Cunningham
- Eighties Nuke Movies
- Scary Kid Lit 2: The Cormier Effect
- Scary Kid Lit 1: Fairy Tales
- The Tangled Lineage of Belphegor
- Better Than Fifty Shades of Grey
- On Film Threat Video
- 2014: Bedlam in Print
- 2014: A Look Back in Horror
- The Books of Blood at 30
- Who’s Afraid of Chris Elliott?
- Horror Graphic Novels: 20 Off-the-Beaten-Track Selections
- R.I.P. Glen A. Larson
- Horror in the Workplace: 1990-94
- My Idea of Fun
- Creation Books: 1989-2014
- Fight Club at 15
- More on Holy Indies
- From the Grindhouse to the Arthouse
- Further Thoughts on Fangoria
- R.I.P. Graham Joyce
- The Two Davids
- In Defense of Sequels
- The Dregs
- Titles
- On The Tin Drum
- Comic-Con 2014
- On Writing, Monster Dogs, Chocolate Eggs, a Change of Face and a Slice of Life!
- On Cutting Moments
- The Movies of 1984
- On The Ninth Configuration
- R.I.P. H.R. Giger
- The Horror Films of Janusz Majewski
- Moviegoing Memories
- On Dark Romances and Early 90s SOV Horror
- Horror and Schizophrenia
- 2004: A Look Back
- My Favorite Year: 1994
- On Persona
- 2013: Bedlam in Print
- 2013: A Look Back in Horror
- Splatter, Maggoty Muppets and Heavenly Creatures: The Early Films of Peter Jackson
- Settling for Less
- Found on YouTube
- A Tribute to Danny Elfman
- Scary Facts About Halloween
- Ranking the Rankings 2: Horror Film
- Ranking the Rankings 1: Horror Fiction
- Haunted California
- Nutzoid Horror Fiction
- Grindhouse Nostalgia: Myth and Reality
- The State of the Midnight Movie Circa 2013
- The Summer 2013 Movie Season
- Topps Trading Card Madness
- Comic-Con 2013
- Richard Matheson: 1926-2013
- Iain Banks: 1954-2013
- Notes on the Downfall of M. Night Shyamalan
- Remembering the Zebra Books Horror Line
- 1000 Airplanes on the Roof at 25
- The NC-17 Rating: A Good Idea Squandered
- The Fantasy Five-Foot Bookshelf Pro and Con
- The Dark Side of John Hughes
- Jurassic Park at 20
- On the Death of Roger Ebert, and Why he Should be Celebrated by Horror Fans
- Claude Seignolle in English
- The Movie Violence Blame Game
- Remembering Chas Balun
- The Marquis de Sade on Film
- Blockbuster Video: What A Disaster!
- 2012: Bedlam in Print
- 2012: A Look Back in Horror
- 1987: It was Quite A Year
- Apocalypse Culture at 25
- A Less-than-Admiring Take on the Films of Rafael Corkidi
- Marc Behm in English
- Ten Films that Should be Cult Classics
- Out of Control In Oz: The Novels of Kenneth Cook
- (More) Things that Annoy Me About the Horror-Sphere
- An Infernal Trio of Dark Fiction
- Exploring The Pit
- Tony Scott is Dead
- Mrs. God vs. Mrs. God
- Movie Theater Set Horror Movies: the Top Six
- Comic-Con 2012
- The Novels of Michael Blodgett
- The Cinema of Homage
- Remembering The Mann: 1981-2012
- Polish Horror Essentials
- Russian Horror Essentials
- French Horror Essentials
- Dante, the Inferno, and A TV Dante: The Inferno
- Unreleased in the U.S.A.
- A Dirge for Some Dead Dot-Coms
- Art, Exploitation and the Cannon Group
- Looking Back on Barrel Entertainment
- The Top 10 Unreleased-in-the-U.S. Foreign Horror Films
- Fantazius Mallare and The Kingdom of Evil
- 2011: Bedlam in Print
- A Look Back in Horror: 2011
- Me: A Schizophrenic Self-Interview
- Ken Russell has Died
- Remembering Scream/Press
- I was a Halloween Monster
- The Jack Martin Books
- All About The Thing
- Zombies vs. Cannibals
- Jerzy Kosinski and The Painted Bird
- A Progress Report on the “New” Fangoria
- Raul Ruiz and Horror
- More Bad Influences
- The 2011 San Diego Comic-Con
- Zoran Zivkovic and Kurodahan Press
- Thoughts on Batman (1989) and its Offspring
- The Apocalypse Quartet of Konstantin Lopushansky
- Two Decades of Extreme Cinema
- The May, 2011 L.A. Weekend of Horrors
- The Undying Horror of the Refrigerator!
- The Pledge of Our Discontent
- Horror Cinema’s Next Big Thing?
- The At the Mountains of Madness Movie that Wasn’t
- The Brave turns 20
- The Many Faces of The Face that Must Die
- 2010: Bedlam in Print
- A Look Back in Horror: 2010
- Rare Exports: Three Christmas Tales
- The Strange Saga of the Exorcist Sequels
- Zombies in Film and Fiction
- Debunking Some More Stupid Sayings
- Horror Movie Trailers: My Favorites
- The October, 2010 L.A. Weekend of Horrors II
- Analyzing Hatchet II‘s (Non)Release
- R.I.P. Claude Chabrol
- 2010: The Worst Summer Movie Season Ever?
- Ten Nights of Dreams–From Text to Film
- If I Did It and “The Killer”
- The 2010 San Diego Comic-Con
- Joe R. Lansdale, Timothy Truman and Jonah Hex
- The Cremaster Cycle
- On the (Mis)Fortunes of The Road
- The May, 2010 L.A. Weekend of Horrors
- Horror Movie Mash-Ups
- The Ten Most Overrated Horror Movies
- Andrei Tarkovsky: Horrormeister?
- The Red Book of Carl Jung
- 2009: Bedlam in Print
- 2009: A Look Back in Bedlam
- The (Stephen) King and I
- A “Lost” Film Found
- The Ring Books
- Directed by Clive Barker
- The Master and Margarita–The Miniseries
- The Movies of Summer ’09
- Jennifer Slept Here
- The State of the Comic-Con
- The Blair Witch Project–10 Years Later
- Natural Born Killers at 15
- Some “Neglected Classics” of the Future
- Howard the Duck: The Greatest Movie Ever Made?
- The Spirit, Batman and the Decline of Frank Miller
- Fangoria’s April, 2009 Weekend of Horrors
- A Dissenting View on the DC/Humanoids “Fiasco”
- Dracula in Pictures
- More on Watchmen
- Watchmen!
- Tracking the Fortunes of the New Friday The 13th
- Edgar Allan Poe at 200
- Ray Dennis Steckler has Passed
- 2008: Bedlam in Print
- 2008: A Look Back in Horror
- Scary Facts about Christmas
- Remembering Forrest J. Ackerman and Bettie Page
- Looking Back on Some Bad Influences
- Two Books (and One Film) by Ladislav Fuks
- Four Essential Books by Michael Blumlein
- On Working for Free
- R.I.P. Michael Crichton
- The Strange Case of the Dueling Klaus Kinski Memoirs
- Leaks, Penanggalans and Krasues, Oh My!
- Surrealism in collage: The Novels of Max Ernst
- Fangoria’s April, 2008 Weekend of Horrors
- Grappling with The Mist
- On Reality, Fiction and Madness: The Novels of Dennis Potter
- Cloverfield versus Diary of the Dead
- Japanese Cyber-Horror!
- 2007: Bedlam in Print
- Alice in Euroland
- The Twisted Fiction of David J. Skal
- Where Have All the Projectionists Gone???
- On “Holy Indies” and Armageddon!
- The Strangest Book in the World!
- The Shortcomings of Literary Horror
- Fangoria’s May 2007 Weekend of Horrors
- Emmanuel Carrere in English
- The Jack and Susan Books
- The Reaping and Grindhouse: A Tale of Two Flops
- Remembering Bob Clark
- 2006: Bedlam in Print
- American Psycho: Fifteen Years Later
- The Spawn of El Mariachi
- Fangoria’s June 2006 Weekend of Horrors
- Scattered Thoughts on Imported DVDs and Theatrical Distribution
- “Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything:” The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
- Cache & Night of the Living Dead: Mutually Exclusive or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
- Christmas and Horror: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together!
- The Fifty Best Horror Movies of All Time: A Personal Selection
- Addio Carmelo
- The Ten Best Unreleased Horror Movies: 1993-2003
- The Gore Boom: Is It A Bust?
- Books on Horror Movie Makers: An overview
- Some Thoughts on the Summer of ’03
- Horror Movies and Bootleg Videos Part 3: DVDr’s, Cremaster and An Updated Video Distributor List
- Horror’s Most Sacred Cows…Slaughtered!
- Insanity, Satan Worship, Mind Control and Mass Murder: The (Later) Films of Philip Yordan
- R.I.P. Video Archives
- A Real Shooting In A Real Movie Theater: Another True Life Horror Story
- The Layperson’s Guide to Modern Living: A True Tale of Terror
- These Movies DID Play At A Theater Near You…But You Didn’t See ‘Em!
- 2002: The Year in Bedlam