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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
THE LOST WORLD (1925)
The grandaddy of monster mash cinema!
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
Mindless, nonsensical and dopey are adjectives that adequately describe this Roger Corman production, but it’s also so much damn fun that, frankly, who cares about any of those things?
DISNEY’S SNOW WHITE
The biggest flop of all time?
SATURDAY THE 14th
My first-ever horror movie viewed on a big screen, which explains why I like this film as much as I do
SOLARBABIES
I’ll confess I was hoping this 1986 “LITTLE RASCALS of the future” bummer would improve with age. It hasn’t.
COMBAT SHOCK (Novelization)
A unique entry in Severin’s grindhouse novelization line: a 40-years-after-the-fact novelization of Buddy Giovinazzo’s notorious 1984 no-budgeter COMBAT SHOCK, written by the filmmaker himself
THE BOY WHO KICKED PIGS
A self-proclaimed “grotesque masterpiece” about just what the title promises
FACE
A literary shocker from 1985 that still shocks
BEHIND THE SHADOWS
A hugely enjoyable collection that offers up a full blast of media infused gen-X oriented horror
THE EXOPOTAMIA MANUSCRIPT
A novella that is, frankly, a mess. It is, however, a mighty fascinating mess packed with literary allusions, autobiographical shading and a highly picturesque scope
THE SHARK IS ROARING: THE STORY OF JAWS: THE REVENGE
One of the lesser BearManor movie making-of books, although the major problem is mostly with the mediocre movie it profiles
HORRIBLE AND FASCINATING–JOHN BOORMAN’S EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC
A gripping exploration of the making of “one of the most unintentionally silly films ever released by a major studio.”
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE MYSELF
Here’s something that’s been a long time coming: a fully authorized biography of the late African American actor/comedian/filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST AND THE SAVAGE CINEMA OF RUGGERO DEODATO
The only English language book dedicated solely to the recently deceased Ruggero Deodato.
JOHN KOBAL PRESENTS THE TOP 100 MOVIES
Exactly what the title promises: a listing of the 100 “best” movies ever, put together by the Canadian author and archivist John Kobal
2023: Bedlam in Print
Looking back over last year’s books!
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
2023: A Look Back in Bedlam
Welcome to the latest edition of my Look Back in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-worthy happenings
TV Flashback: A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
The Christmas ghost story is a British tradition that found its ideal screen capture in the BBC’s A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not