2025: A Look Back in Bedlam

• The End?
• The State of Hollywood: The Long View
• The Quentin Issue
• The Sydney Issue
• The Literary Scene
• Showbiz Memoirs
• Blu-Rays: The Comeback
• Favorite Discoveries, Literary and Cinematic
• Remembering Those Who’ve Passed On

Here it is, the latest edition of A Look Back in Bedlam.  Highlighted are notable Bedlam Files worthy happenings in the worlds of film and literature, capped by brief takes on my favorite 2025 discoveries from years past and an exhaustive listing of important figures who passed in ‘25. (NIGHT GALLERY cast members, it seems, exited at an unusually high rate.)

See Also: 2025: BEDLAM IN PRINT
2025: THE YEAR IN BEDLAM

My take on 2025 overall?  Frankly, it was probably the sorriest year I’ve experienced since I began doing these “Look Backs” 17 years ago, although there were some bright spots.

The End?

Doomsday predictions have run riot on the internet since its earliest days and they certainly didn’t slow down in 2025.  I’ve lost track of all the rapture countdowns and breakdown-of-civilization forecasts (the year 2024, as you may recall, was widely prophesized to be The End), but in 2025 those things took a backseat to the new Harbinger of Doom: A.I.

Everybody is scared of A.I., which is apparently on track to destroy the entertainment industry and human civilization on the whole.  Depending on who you ask, this apocalypse is set to occur in five or three years (while according to some predictions the takeover of humanity should have already occurred).  I’m finding myself flashing back to the 1980s, when computers were widely predicted to wipe out the human race by the end of the millennium…yet the millennium is now over and somehow we’re still here.

It’s a fact that all the anti-A.I. hysteria has proven quite beneficial to the media gatekeepers, who’ve used it as a convenient distraction.  A.I. has in fact already been employed in algorithm-based filmmaking, predictive box office software and, it’s been rumored, screenplays (with the generic dialogue and cliched narratives of modern cinema evidencing a definite A.I. tinge).

In summation, I have no idea what’s going to happen with A.I.  I do, however, believe Hollywood would be better off fixing its current problems, A.I.-related and otherwise, before fretting about a robot apocalypse.

The State of Hollywood: The Long View

Don’t believe all the fake reports about Hollywood being “stronger than ever.”  Right now, in fact, is very likely the end for Hollywood and theatrical exhibition on the whole, with 2025 having contained more mega-bombs than any other year in recent memory.  And no, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH isn’t going to single-handedly turn things around: 1) It’s not quite the overwhelming success many are making it out to be, and 2) One success won’t negate all the year’s costly flops.

The reasons for this sorry state?  I’ll take the long view, as Hollywood’s current issues were quite accurately forecast back in 1991, in the infamous Katzenberg Memo.  Written by ex-Disney head Jeffrey Katzenberg, said memo (intended as a rallying cry for Disney employees) offered up highly prescient proclamations like “It seems that, like lemmings, we are all racing faster and faster into the sea, each of us trying to outrun and outspend and out-earn the other in a mad sprint toward the mirage of making the next blockbuster” and “If we should ever become bureaucratic, we will then make the kinds of movies that bureaucracies make—boring ones” (modern day Hollywood, I should add, is very bureaucratic).

Furthermore, “when times get tough I have no doubt that people will still want to escape to the movies, but they’ll want it for the historic cost of a loaf of bread.”  That, obviously, is a bit of wisdom Hollywood has completely ignored.

Going back even farther, there was the 1980 essay “Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers” by Pauline Kael, who likewise provided a dire, and quite prescient, warning about where the business was heading.  “If for the last couple of years Hollywood couldn’t seem to do anything right,” Kael proclaimed, “it isn’t that it was just a stretch of bad luck—it’s the result of recent developments within the industry. And in all probability it will get worse, not better.”  The major problem: “The studios no longer make movies primarily to attract and please moviegoers; they make movies in such a way as to get as much as possible from the prearranged and anticipated deals.”

That, I’m afraid, essentially sums it up.

The Quentin Issue

Quentin Tarantino, it seems, is on the fast track to becoming the gen-x George R.R. Martin.  Consider: it’s been seven years since Tarantino’s last directorial outing, and all he’s really done in the ensuing stretch is run his mouth, causing great upset in ‘25 with his takes on actor Paul Dano and others.  That’s not an especially terrible thing, mind you; Tarantino is always an entertaining presence, regardless of whether you agree with his blather or not, and if he wants to spend the remainder of his career shooting the shit he’s certainly earned the right to do so.

The problem is that, given the current sorry state of the industry, Tarantino’s brand of auteur-driven commercialism is needed now more than ever.  In 2025 the closest approximations of that brand were ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER by Paul Thomas Anderson and AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH by James Cameron; the fact that both films were so ridiculously overrated proves there’s a real hunger for visionary crowd pleasers, i.e. precisely the type of film Tarantino makes—and the longer he waits to do so, the chances that there will still be an industry capable of supporting his ambitions steadily decrease.

The Sydney Issue

To think: I was sure the Sydney Sweeney craze would die down in 2025. The media, I was certain, couldn’t possibly remain obsessed with a marginally pretty 5’3” actress with zero notable roles…yet that obsession has persisted, and to an even greater degree than before.

Not even the introduction of the much remarked-upon A.I. generated actress Tilly Norwood was able to dislodge Sydney’s hold on the public consciousness.  Surely you recall the hubbub over those silly jeans ads she headlined over the summer (a hubbub that continues to simmer), or all the ire about the many unsuccessful movies she graced in 2025.

Until a few weeks ago it seemed as if those flops may have weakened Sweeney’s Hollywood standing, but then her latest film THE HOUSEMAID was released last month to enormous success, and equilibrium was restored.  To quote myself: “Sydney Sweeney is undoubtedly going to be with us for a very, very long time.”

The Literary Scene

Regarding the books of 2025, I have a good news, bad news take.  On the good side, there were a great deal of mainstream publications that interested me; an unusual situation, to be sure (having zero interest in romantasy and “cozy” horror, there’s generally not much for me in today’s literary scene), but an encouraging one.  The problem?  That many of 2025’s most interesting publications, including KING SORROW by Joe Hill, THE SHARDS by Brett Easton Ellis and TOM’S CROSSING by Mark Z. Danielewski, clocked in at over 500 pages (1,200 in the case of TOM’S CROSSING), and who has time to read all that?  Certainly not me.

Showbiz Memoirs

The other major points of interest in the publishing world were showbiz memoirs, which in 2025 reached some kind of plateau.  It didn’t seem to matter if the authors were still alive, as evidenced by INSOMNIA from the Band’s late Robbie Robertson (1943-2023), who dished about his friendship with Martin Scorsese, and THE BIGGER PICTURE by Jon Landau (1960-2024), who wrote about his very charmed Hollywood existence, which included producing TITANIC and the AVATAR films.

Notable first person recountings by people who are still alive included THE UNCOOL by Cameron Crowe, who provided a long-in-coming remembrance of his tenure as a ROLLING STONE correspondent in the 1970s; SCENE by Abel Ferrara, a blunt accounting of the author’s rocky directorial career and near-fatal heroin addiction; and FUTURE BOY by Michael J. Fox, who dishes about the making of BACK TO THE FUTURE.

Promising 2025 memoirs I didn’t get to included OZZY & ME from Stephen Rea (who details his friendship with the recently deceased Ozzy Osbourne), VAGABOND by Tim Curry, WE DID OK, KID by Anthony Hopkins, THE BOOK OF SHEEN by Charlie Sheen and REFLECTIONS: ON CINEMATOGRAPHY by Roger Deakins.  I doubt I’ll get around to reading any of them before writing my forthcoming BEDLAM IN PRINT overview, but those books are of interest.

Blu-Rays: The Comeback?

Another positive development in a very bleak year was the resurgence of the supposedly moribund Blu-Ray format.  Indeed, there were so many worthwhile Blu-Ray releases in 2025 I found myself flashing back to the early 2010s, when the format was at its height.

Thanks to outfits like Criterion, Kino Lorber, Vinegar Syndrome and Radiance, we got newly minted digitizations of classics like NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER, MAD FOXES, THE WOMAN CHASER, RAMPAGE, SORCERER, PERFORMANCE, THE CAT, MALPERTUIS, THE KILLER, HARD BOILED, A BULLET IN THE HEAD, THE BIG HEAT, PEKING OPERA BLUES, THEMROC…and the list goes on.

Favorite Discoveries, Literary and Cinematic

AND IT WILL ECHO [I EKHOM OTZOVYOTSYA]

Soviet made sci-fi that blends live action and animation in a never-completed, but quite provocative and intriguing, mini-feature

AND IT WILL ECHO (1987)

THE BOY WHO KICKED PIGS

A blast of highly British-centric funny-horrific nastiness from author Tom Baker. This book’s publication date, it so happens, was the year of the Columbine massacre, which it unwittingly forecasts.

COUNTDOWN CANADA

Called “Canada’s own WAR OF THE WORLDS,” this 1970 mock-doc convincingly envisions the once-unthinkable possibility of Canada being annexed by the US.

COUNTDOWN CANADA (1970) Full Film

THE HOUSE THAT GROANED

A graphic novel whose weirdness quotient is confirmed by a back cover blurb from Nicolas Roeg, and a narrative that leans quite heavily into the perverse and psychosexual.

SALT, SALIVA, SPERM AND SWEAT

The title tells the “story” of this very odd, and very gross, 47 minute mini-feature from Australia’s Philip Brophy (BODY MELT).

THE TOUCH

A most interesting mix of mystery and supernatural apprehension from post-Glasnost Russia, whose sociological upheavals are fully reflected in this deeply odd and unsettled 1992 film.

THE TRIAL [PROCES]

A Polish TV adaptation of Kafka’s THE TRIAL, scripted by Bruno Schultz and co-directed by Agnieszka Holland.  No, it won’t ever displace Orson Wells’ TRIAL, but with such a pedigree how could this pic not be worthwhile?

Remembering Those Who’ve Passed On

AKI ALEONG (1934-2025) Actor: THE OUTER LIMITS (TV), AIRWOLF (TV), V (TV), STREET HAWK (TV), WAR OF THE WORLDS (TV), JUGULAR WINE, BABYLON 5 (TV), THE CABLE GUY

LONI ANDERSON (1945-2025) Actor: THE INVISIBLE MAN (TV), PARTNERS IN CRIME (TV), THE INCREDIBLE HULK (TV), AMAZING STORIES (TV), SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (TV)

GEORGE ARMITAGE (1942-2025) Screenwriter/Director: GAS-S-S-S, DARKTOWN STRUTTERS, MIAMI BLUES

NIKE ARRIGHI (1944-2025) Actor: THE PRISONER (TV), THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, WOMEN IN LOVE, COUNTESS DRACULA, THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK

PAMELA BACH (1962-2025) Actor: KNIGHT RIDER (TV), APPOINTMENT WITH FEAR, SOME NUDITY REQUIRED, BAYWATCH NIGHTS (TV)

JOE DON BAKER (1936-2025) Actor: WELCOME HOME SOLDIER BOYS, THE PACK, WACKO, LEONARD PART 6, CAPE FEAR (1991), CONGO, MARS ATTACKS!

JOSH BECKER (1958-2025) Screenwriter/Director/Actor/Author: THOU SHALT NOT KILL…EXCEPT, LUNATICS: A LOVE STORY, MOSQUITO, ALIEN APOCALYPSE, GOING HOLLYWOOD

JEFF BAENA (1977-2025) Screenwriter/Director: I HEART HUCKABEES, LIFE AFTER BETH

BRIGITTE BARDOT (1934-2025) Actor: SPIRITS OF THE DEAD,

Brigitte BardotCHRISTOPHER BENJAMIN (1834-2025) Actor: THE PRISONER (TV), DOCTOR WHO (TV), JACK THE RIPPER (TV), THE PLAGUE DOGS

ROBERT BENTON (1932-2025) Screenwriter/Director: SUPERMAN (1978), STILL OF THE NIGHT, THE HOUSE ON CARROLL STREET

BERTRAND BLIER (1939-2025) Screenwriter/Director/Novelist: GOING PLACES, CALMOS, BUFFET FROID, MENAGE

PIERRE BORDAGE (1955-2025) Novelist: THE WARRIORS OF SILENCE

JACKIE BURCH (1951-2025) Casting Director: WEIRD SCIENCE, FRIGHT NIGHT, PROJECT X, PREDATOR, THE RUNNING MAN, DICK TRACY, PREDATOR 2, UNLAWFUL ENTRY, JUDGE DREDD, END OF DAYS

BOB BURNS III (1935-2025) Actor/Historian/Archivist: INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN, THE LEMON GROVE KIDS MEET THE MONSTERS, RAT PFINK A BOO BOO, KING KONG (2005), THE LOVELY BONES

RUTH BUZZI (1936-2025) Actor: NIGHT GALLERY (TV), THE LOST SAUCER (TV), THE BEING, SURF II, THE MUNSTERS TODAY (TV)

GREG CANNOM (1951-2025) Special Effects Artist: THE FURY, IT LIVES AGAIN, THE HOWLING, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, MICHAEL JACKSON’S THRILLER, DREAMSCAPE, COCOON, AMAZING STORIES (TV), VAMP, THE LOST BOYS, CYBORG, TALES FROM THE CRYPT (TV), FLATLINERS, THE EXORCIST III, STAR TREK IV: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, ALIEN 3, BATMAN RETURNS, BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, THE SHADOW, THE MASK, THE PUPPET MASTERS, THINNER, BLADE, IDLE HANDS, LITTLE NICKY, HANNIBAL, MONKEY BONE, THE SINGING DETECTIVE, THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL, THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE

CLAUDIA CARDINALE (1938-2025) Actor: THE FACTS OF MURDER, 8½, THE DAY OF THE OWL

RENATO CASARO (1935-2025) Poster Designer: THE BIBLE…IN THE BEGINNING, SOLARIS (1972), FLASH GORDON, BLOW OUT, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, TENEBRAE, DUNE (1984), FLESH AND BLOOD, RED SONJA, OPERA, THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, TOTAL RECALL

CHRISTIAN DE CHALONGE (1937-2025) Screenwriter/Director: THE WEDDING RING, MALEVIL, DOCTOR PETIOT

RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN (1934-2025)

Actor: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), THE MUSIC LOVERS, THE TOWERING INFERNO, THE LAST WAVE, THE SWARM, MURDER BY PHONE, KING SOLOMON’S MINES (1985), ALLAN QUARTERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (TV), NIGHTMARE CINEMA

SOULEYMANE CISSE (1940-2025) Director: YEELEN

BARBARA CLEGG (1926-2025) Screenwriter: DOCTOR WHO (TV)

PAULINE COLLINS (1940-2025) Actor: SECRETS OF A WINDMILL GIRL, TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (TV), DOCTOR WHO (TV)

GIUSEPPE COLOMBO (1948-2025) Producer: THE BEEKEEPER (1986), THE STENDHAL SYNDROME, WAX MASK, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1998)

MARA CORDAY (1930-2025) Actor: TARANTULA, THE GIANT CLAW, THE BLACK SCORPION

PETER DAVID (1956-2025) Comics Writer: THE INCREDIBLE HULK, STAR TREK, FALLEN ANGEL

EMILIE DEQUENNE (1981-2025) Actor: ROSETTA, BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF, THE PACK

LESLIE DILLEY (1941-2025) Art Director/Production Designer: STAR WARS, SUPERMAN, ALIEN, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, THE ABYSS, EXORCIST III, DEEP IMPACT

FRANCES DOEL (1942-2025) Screenwriter/Producer: DEATHSPORT, STARSHIP TROOPERS, RAPTOR, DINOCROC, SUPERGATOR, DINOSHARK

SAMANTHA EGGAR (1939-2025)

Actor: THE COLLECTOR, THE LADY IN THE CAR WITH GLASSES AND A GUN, THE DEAD ARE ALIVE, A NAME FOR EVIL, THE UNCANNY, WELCOME TO BLOOD CITY, THE BROOD, THE EXTERMINATOR, DEMONOID, DARKROOM (TV), CURTAINS, TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (TV), ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV), THE ASTRONAUT’S WIFE

MARC ESTRIN (1939-2025) Novelist: INSECT DREAMS

JULES FEIFFER (1929-2025) Cartoonist/Screenwriter/Playwright: LITTLE MURDERS, POPEYE

JAMES FOLEY (1953-2025) Director: AT CLOSE RANGE, AFTER DARK MY SWEET, TWIN PEAKS (TV), FEAR, HANNIBAL (TV)

FREDERICK FORSYTH (1938-2025) Novelist: THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, THE DOGS OF WAR

SHIHO FUJIMURA (1939-2025) Actor: THE WHALE GOD, RETURN OF DAIMAJIN, THE SNOW WOMAN, GEMINI, INJU: BEAST IN THE SHADOW

ED GALE (1963-2025) Actor: HOWARD THE DUCK, SPACEBALLS, CHILD’S PLAY, CHOPPER CHICKS IN ZOMBIETOWN, CHILD’S PLAY 2, FRIDAY THE THIRTEETH: THE SERIES (TV), BILL & TED’S BOGUS JOURNEY, WEIRD SCIENCE (TV), BRIDE OF CHUCKY, THE MUNSTERS’ SCARY LITTLE CHRISTMAS, SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (TV), THE POLAR EXPRESS

GIL GERARD (1943-2025) Actor: MAN ON A SWING, AIRPORT 77, BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25^TH CENTURY (TV), STAR TREK NEW VOYAGES: PHASE II (TV), TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE (TV)

BRUCE GLOVER (1932-2025) Actor/Screenwriter: WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR, FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER, CHINATOWN, HUNTER’S BLOOD, GHOST TOWN, HIDER IN THE HOUSE, POPCORN, WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON, NIGHT OF THE SCARECROW, GHOST WORLD, IT IS FINE! EVERYTHING IS FINE, NO! YOU’RE WRONG, OR: SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE

TERENCE M. GREEN (1947-2025) Novelist: BARKING DOGS, CHILDREN OF THE RAINBOW, BLUE LIMBO

ADAM GREENBURG (1937-2025) Cinematographer: THE PASSOVER PLOT, 10 TO MIDNIGHT, THE TERMINATOR, ONCE BITTEN, THE LADIES CLUB, NEAR DARK, SPELLBINDER, ALIEN NATION, GHOST (1990), TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY, TOYS, NORTH, SPHERE, SNAKES ON A PLANE

GRAHAM GREENE (1952-2025) Actor: CLEARCUT, NORTH, SHATTERED IMAGE, THE GREEN MILE, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, WINTER’S TALE

PETER GREENE (1965-2025) Actor: CLEAN, SHAVEN, JUDGMENT NIGHT, THE MASK, PULP FICTION, BANG, THE RICH MAN’S WIFE, H.G. WELLS’ WAR OF THE WORLDS (TV), THE CONTINENTAL: FROM THE WORLD OF JOHN WICK (TV)

GENE HACKMAN (1930-2025)

Actor: LILITH, THE HUNTING PARTY, PRIME CUT, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE CONVERSATION, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, SUPERMAN (1978), SUPERMAN II, EUREKA, TWO OF A KIND, SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE, ANOTHER WOMAN, NARROW MARGIN, UNFORGIVEN, THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, EXTREME MEASURES

JOE HALE (1925-2025) Animator/Producer: THE BLACK HOLE, THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, THE BLACK CAULDRON

WINGS HAUSER (1947-2025) Actor: WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN, VICE SQUAD, MUTANT, TERROR IN THE AISLES, THE WIND, THE CARPENTER, STREET ASYLUM, FREDDY’S NIGHTMARES (TV), BEASTMASTER 2: THROUGH THE PORTAL OF TIME, WATCHERS 3, TALES FROM THE HOOD

ROB HOUWER (1937-2025) Producer: O.K., TURKISH DELIGHT, THE 4TH MAN

KATHLEEN HUGHES (1928-2025) Actor: IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, CULT OF THE COBRA, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), REVENGE (1990)

JIMMY HUNT (1939-2025) Actor: PITFALL, SORRY WRONG NUMBER, SHADOW ON THE WALL, INVADERS FROM MARS (1953), INVADERS FROM MARS (1986)

HORST JACKSON (1935-2025) Actor: CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER, ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN

STANLEY R. JAFFE (1940-2025) Producer: I START COUNTING, FIRSTBORN, FATAL ATTRACTION, SCHOOL TIES

HENRY JAGLOM (1938-2025) Actor/Director: PSYCH-OUT, THE LAST MOVIE, A SAFE PLACE, TRACKS

PETER JASON (1944-2025) Actor: THE INCREDIBLE HULK (TV), MOMMIE DEAREST, TRICK OR TREATS, ANGEL, DREAMSCAPE, IMPULSE, AMAZING STORIES (TV), PRINCE OF DARKNESS, ALIEN NATION, THEY LIVE, FROM THE DEAD OF NIGHT, JOHNNY HANDSOME, ARACHNOPHOBIA, QUANTUM LEAP (TV), BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TV), BODY BAGS, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995), CONGO, MORTAL KOMBAT, RAGE (1995), ESCAPE FROM L.A., DANTE’S PEAK, MURDER ONE: DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER (TV), THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES (TV), BATMAN BEYOND (TV), GHOSTS OF MARS, ADAPTATION, CARNIVALE (TV), ALIEN APOCALYPSE, JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM

JONATHAN KAPLAN (1947-2025) Director: THE SLAMS, OVER THE EDGE, PROJECT X, UNLAWFUL ENTRY

TCHEKY KARYO (1953-2025) Actor: NOSTRADAMUS, CRYING FREEMAN, DOBERMANN, HABITAT, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, ARABIAN NIGHTS (TV), THE CORE, RENEGADE

NICKY KATT (1970-2025) Actor: V (TV), GREMLINS, THE ‘BURBS, MARTIANS GO HOME, DAZED AND CONFUSED, THE DOOM GENERATION, STRANGE DAYS, THE BABYSITTER, BATMAN & ROBIN, PHANTOMS, WAKING LIFE, INSOMNIA, RIDING THE BULLET, SIN CITY, GRINDHOUSE, THE DARK KNIGHT

DIANE KEATON (1946-2025)

Actor/Director: NIGHT GALLERY (TV), SLEEPER, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, HEAVEN, TWIN PEAKS (TV)

UDO KIER (1944-2025) Actor: MARK OF THE DEVIL, FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, BLOOD FOR DRACULA, SPERMULA, SUSPIRIA (1977), DOCTOR JEKYLL AND HIS WOMEN, SEDUCTION: THE CRUEL WOMAN, EPIDEMIC, MEDEA (1988), THE KINGDOM (TV), JOHNNY MNEMONIC, BARB WIRE, ARMAGEDDON, BLADE, ICE, MODERN VAMPIRES, END OF DAYS, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE, MEGIDDO: THE OMEGA CODE 2, FEARDOTCOM, THE BATMAN (TV), DRACULA 3000, MASTERS OF HORROR (TV), BLOODRAYNE, GRINDHOUSE, HALLOWEEN (2007), MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE?, KEYHOLE, MELANCHOLIA, THE THEATRE BIZARRE, THE LORDS OF SALEM, THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, DOWNSIZING, THE PAINTED BIRD

VAL KILMER (1959-2025) Actor: WILLOW, THE DOORS, BATMAN FOREVER, THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1996), THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, RED PLANET, MINDHUNTERS, TWIXT

SALLY KIRKLAND (1941-2025) Actor: COMING APART, FUTZ, THE NOAH, DEATH SCREAM, THE INCREDIBLE HULK (TV), SUPERTRAIN (TV), THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN, PAINT IT BLACK, TWO EVIL EYES, REVENGE (1990), THE HAUNTED (1991), THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER (TV), THE PLAYER, THE HUNGER (TV), BRAVE NEW WORLD (1998)

TED KOTCHEFF (1931-2025) Director: WAKE IN FRIGHT, SPLIT IMAGE, WEEKEND AT BERNIE’S

DIANE LADD (1935-2025) Actor: SOMETHING WILD (1961), THE WILD ANGELS, THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER, EMBRYO, GUYANA TRAGEDY, SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES, FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), BLACK WIDOW, WILD AT HEART, A KISS BEFORE DYING, CARNOSAUR, COLD LAZARUS, KINGDOM HOSPITAL (TV), INLAND EMPIRE, DEADTIME STORIES (TV)

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA (1936-2025) Novelist: THE WAR OF THE END OF THE WORLD, THE FEAST OF THE GOAT

JUNE LOCKHART (1925-2025) Actor: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938), SHE-WOLF OF LONDON, SCIENCE FICTION THEATER (TV), THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (TV), LOST IN SPACE (TV), DARKROOM (TV), BUTTERFLY, DEADLY GAMES, STRANGE INVADERS, AMAZING STORIES (TV), TROLL, C.H.U.D. II: BUD THE C.H.U.D., BABYLON 5 (TV), LOST IN SPACE, DETERRENCE

BRUCE LOGAN (1946-2025) Special Effects Artist/Cinematographer/Second Unit Director: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, STAR WARS, TRON, FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS

BARRY B. LONGYEAR (1942-2025) Novelist: CIRCUS WORLD, ELEPHANT SONG, SEA OF GLASS

DAVID LYNCH (1946-2025) Screenwriter/Director: ERASERHEAD, THE ELEPHANT MAN, DUNE (1984), BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS (TV), WILD AT HEART, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, LOST HIGHWAY, THE STRAIGHT STORY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, INLAND EMPIRE, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (TV)

MICHAEL MADSEN (1957-2025)

Actor: WARGAMES, THE DOORS, RESERVOIR DOGS, SPECIES, SPECIES II, THE PRICE OF AIR, KILL BILL, RENEGADE, SIN CITY, BLOODRAYNE, TOOTH AND NAIL, HELL RIDE, HOUSE (2008), THE HATEFUL EIGHT, ONCE UPON A TIME…IN HOLLYWOOD, BATMAN: DYING IS EASY

PATTY MALONEY (1936-2025) Actor: DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (1973), FAR OUT SPACE NUTS (1975), THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978), THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL (TV), BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25^th CENTURY (TV), THE ICE PIRATES, AMAZING STORIES (TV), OUT OF THIS WORLD (1987), THE ADDAMS FAMILY, STAR TREK: VOYAGER (TV), THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES (TV)

JEAN MARSH (1934-2025) Actor: THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV), FRENZY, DARK PLACES, THE CHANGELING, GOLIATH AWAITS (TV), RETURN TO OZ, TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (TV), WILLOW, DOCTOR WHO (TV), FATHERLAND

LEA MASSARI (1933-2025) Actor: L’AVVENTURA, I WANT HIM DEAD, AND HOPE TO DIE

PENELOPE MILFORD (1948-2025) Actor: MAIDSTONE, MAN ON A SWING, VALENTINO, BLOOD LINK, THE GOLDEN SEAL, THE BURNING BED, THE HITCHHIKER (TV), HEATHERS, NORMAL LIFE, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER PART II

ALEXANDER MITTA (1933-2025) Director: AIR CREW, THE STORY OF VOYAGES

CHRIS MOORE (1947-2025) Book Cover Illustrator: WAR OF THE WORLDS, THE STARS MY DESTINATION, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?

TATSUYA NAKADAI (1932-2025) Actor: KWAIDAN, SWORD OF DOOM, THE FACE OF ANOTHER, PORTRAIT OF HELL, BALLADONNA OF SADNESS, BLUE CHRISTMAS, RAN, THE WICKED CITY (1992)

CHRIS NEWMAN (1940-2025) Sound Engineer: THE EXORCIST, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

MARCEL OPHULS (1927-2025) Director: THE SORROW AND THE PITY

OZZY OSBOURNE (1948-2025)

Actor: TRICK OR TREAT, LITTLE NICKY, GHOSTBUSTERS (2016)

PETER PEARSON (1938-2025) Director: PAPERBACK HERO

MARK PEPLOE (1943-2025) Screenwriter/Director: THE PIED PIPER, THE PASSENGER, THE SHELTERING SKY, AFRAID OF THE DARK, LITTLE BUDDHA

JEAN-LOUP PHILIPPE (1934-2025) Actor: LIPS OF BLOOD, KILLING CAR, THE HOUSE OF THE CLOCKS

FELICE PICANO (1944-2025) Novelist: EYES, THE MESMERIST, THE LURE

JOAN PLOWRIGHT (1929-2025) Actor: MOBY DICK, EQUUS, BRITANNIA HOSPITAL, BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE, DROWNING BY NUMBERS, I LOVE YOU TO DEATH, LAST ACTION HERO, DINOSAUR

AMOS POE (1949-2025) Director: THE BLANK GENERATION, UNMADE BEDS, THE FOREIGNER, ALPHABET CITY

EUSEBIO PONCELA (1945-2025) Actor: CANNIBAL MAN, A HOUSE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES, ARREBATO, MATADOR, INTACTO

ROSA VON PRAUNHEIM (1942-2025) Director: HORROR VACUI, ANITA: DANCES OF VICE

LORNA RAVER (1943-2025) Actor: FREEWAY (1996), DRAG ME TO HELL, THE CALLER

ROBERT REDFORD (1936-2025) Actor/Director: MOMENT OF FEAR (TV), ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV), THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (TV), THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, ALL IS LOST

ROB REINER (1947-2025)

Actor/Director: BATMAN (TV), WHERE’S POPPA?, STAND BY ME, THE PRINCESS BRIDE, THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN, MISERY, NORTH, THE MAJESTIC

CLIVE REVILL (1930-2025) Actor: THE HEADLESS GHOST, BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, WIZARDS AND WARRIORS (TV), DRAGON’S LAIR (TV), THE TRANSFORMERS (TV), THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV), ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (TV), BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (TV), BABYLON 5 (TV)

REBEKAH DEL RIO (1967-2025) Singer/Actress: MULHOLLAND DRIVE, RABBITS (TV), SOUTHLAND TALES, TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN (TV)

TOM ROBBINS (1932-2025) Novelist: ANOTHER ROADSIDE ATTRACTION, STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER

TONY ROBERTS (1939-2025) Actor: NIGHT GALLERY (TV), THE MILLION DOLLAR DUCK, THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE, AMITYVILLE 3-D, POPCORN, SWITCH

SERGIO SALVATI (1934-2025) Cinematographer: FOUR OF THE APOCALYPSE, THE PSYCHIC, ZOMBIE, CONTRABAND, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE BLACK CAT (1981), THE BEYOND, THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY, 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS

PRUNELLA SCALES (1932-2025) Actor: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL, CONSUMING PASSIONS, WOLF (1994)

LALO SCHIFRIN (1932-2025) Composer: DARK INTRUDER, THE BEGUILED (1971), THX 1138, PLANET OF THE APES (TV), ROLLERCOASTER, THE AMITYVILLE HORROR, AMITYVILLE II: THE POSSESSION

MASAHIRO SHINODA (1931-2025) Director: SILENCE (1971), DEMON POND (1979)

L.J. SMITH (1958-2025) Novelist: SECRET VAMPIRE, DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS, SPELLBINDER, DARK ANGEL, THE CHOSEN, SOULMATE, HUNTRESS, BLACK DAWN, WITCHLIGHT, STRANGE FATE

MARTIN CRUZ SMITH (1942-2025) Novelist: NIGHTWING

VLADIMIR SMUTNY (1942-2025) Cinematographer: KOOKY, VIY (2014), THE PAINTED BIRD

GERARD SOETEMAN (1936-2025) Screenwriter: TURKISH DELIGHT, SPETTERS, THE FOUTH MAN, FLESH & BLOOD

SCOTT SPIEGEL (1957-2025) Actor/Screenwriter/Director: WITHIN THE WOODS, THOU SHALT NOT KILL…EXCEPT, EVIL DEAD II, THE DEAD NEXT DOOR, INTRUDER, ROBOT NINJA, DARKMAN, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2: TEXAS BLOOD MONEY, SPIDER-MAN 2, 2001 MANIACS, DRAG ME TO HELL, HOSTEL: PART III, DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS

TERENCE STAMP (1938-2025)

Actor: THE COLLECTOR, HU-MAN, SUPERMAN (1978), SUPERMAN II, THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, LINK, ALIEN NATION, MINDBENDER, THE HUNGER (TV), STAR WARS EPISODE 1: THE PHANTOM MENACE, RED PLANET, HIS DARK MATERIALS (TV), THE HAUNTED MANSION, WANTED, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, SMALLVILLE (TV), MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN, LAST NIGHT IN SOHO

TOM STOPPARD (1937-2025) Playwright/Screenwriter/Director: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD, DESPAIR, BRAZIL, EMPIRE OF THE SUN

DREW STRUZAN (1947-2025) Poster Artist: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS, FOOD OF THE GODS, SQUIRM, STAR WARS, THE CANNONBALL RUN, BLADE RUNNER, E.T.: THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, THE THING, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, BACK TO THE FUTURE, BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

JEANNOT SZWARC (1937-2025) Director: NIGHT GALLERY (TV), BUG (1975), JAWS 2, SOMEWHERE IN TIME, SUPERGIRL, SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE

LEE TAMAHORI (1950-2025) Director: THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER (TV), THE EDGE, ALONG CAME A SPIDER, NEXT

PAUL THOMAS (1949-2025) Actor/Director: DRACULA SUCKS, THE NEW DEVIL IN MISS JONES

MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG (1985-2025) Actor: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (TV), TRUTH OR SCARE (TV), MYSTERIOUS SKIN, BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006), DC SHOWCASE: JONAH HEX, THE SCRIBBLER, SLEEPY HOLLOW (TV)

SHOJI UDEA (1938-2025) Cinematographer: ESPY, RAN, DREAMS

JOHN VARLEY (1947-2025) Novelist/Screenwriter: THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION, MILLENNIUM, MAMMOTH

JOSEPH WAMBAUGH (1937-2025) Novelist: THE ONION FIELD, ECHOES IN THE DARKNESS, THE BLOODING

MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER (1970-2025) Actor: STRIPPERELLA (TV), DEXTER (TV), AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW (TV)

PETER WATKINS (1935-2025) Director: CULLODEN, THE WAR GAME, PRIVILEGE, THE GLADIATORS, PUNISHMENT PARK, THE TRAP, THE SEVENTIES PEOPLE

GEORGE WENDT (1948-2025)

Actor: SOMEWHERE IN TIME, JEKYLL AND HYDE…TOGETHER AGAIN, AIRPLANE II: THE SEQUEL, DREAMSCAPE, HOUSE (1985), THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV), TALES FROM THE CRYPT (TV), SPACE TRUCKERS, KING OF THE ANTS, EDMOND, MASTERS OF HORROR (TV), VFW

GENE WINFIELD (1927-2025) Automotive Customizer: BEWITCHED (TV), BATMAN (TV), STAR TREK (TV), THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., SLEEPER, BLADE RUNNER, THE LAST STARFIGHTER, TRANCERS, ROBOCOP

DANIEL WOODRELL (1953-2025) Novelist: WINTER’S BONE, TOMATO RED

CHELSEA QUINN YARBRO (1942-2025) Novelist: CAUTIONARY TALES, DEAD & BURIED, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA, THE PALACE, BLOOD GAMES, NOMADS, A MORTAL GLAMOUR, FLAME IN BYZANTIUM

HARRIS YULIN (1937-2025) Actor: MAIDSTONE, END OF THE ROAD, THE LEGEND OF HILLBILLY JOHN, WONDER WOMAN (TV), SCARFACE (1983), THE BELIEVERS, BAD DREAMS, ANOTHER WOMAN, GHOSTBUSTERS II, NARROW MARGIN, FINAL ANALYSIS, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, MULTIPLICITY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER (TV), THE X-FILES (TV), PERFUME, FUR: AN IMAGINARY PORTRAIT OF DIANE ARBUS, MY SOUL TO TAKE