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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
HOLIDAYS
A product of the horror anthology craze of the 2010s that isn’t as terrible as many claim
DEATH WISH CLUB
Exploitation, gender confusion, suicide games and true love—a bad movie classic!
HWY: AN AMERICAN PASTORAL
A film made by the late Jim Morrison that’s best viewed as exactly what it was: a preview for bigger and better things that unfortunately never arrived
THE DOORS
RIP Val Kilmer (1959-2025), who gave the performance of his life in THE DOORS
FEAR (1996)
A slick and simple thriller that (mostly) works
WALKERS (G Brandner)
A Gary Brandner novel that matches up with most other Gary Brandner novels is passable
THE TORTURE GARDEN
I can sum up the essence of this fin-de-siecle classic in two words: Ecstatic Delirium
THE DOLL WHO ATE HIS MOTHER
The first novel by Ramsey Campbell, and a mixed bag
THRILLING MURDER COMICS
An underground comic in which S. Clay Wilson, R. Crumb, Kim Deitch and others turned away from their standard choice of subject matter—sex and drugs—to focus on a new taboo: murder
BITCH
A sexier, druggier variant on THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR
CUBE: INSIDE THE MAKING OF A CULT FILM CLASSIC
An excellent idea for a book if you ask me: a behind-the-scenes look at Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction-horror classic CUBE, one of the most interesting low-budgeters to emerge from the nineties
THE BROOD (Book)
This hefty study of David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD is, quite simply, the most thorough and wide-ranging textual analysis of a horror movie ever written
ROBOCOP: THE DEFINITIVE HISTORY
That title is somewhat misleading, as this is not the “definitive” history of ROBOCOP (1987) and its offshoots
ERASERHEAD, THE DAVID LYNCH FILES: VOLUME 1
For fans of ERASERHEAD, and the output of Mr. Lynch, I feel confident in proclaiming this book an absolute must-read
DUNE, THE DAVID LYNCH FILES: VOLUME 2
This, the second of Kenneth George Godwin’s DAVID LYNCH FILES, focuses on Lynch’s 1984 filming of Frank Herbert’s science fiction classic DUNE
Ivan Reitman: 1946-2022
Say what you will about Ivan Reitman, but he knew how to make movies
Performer Profile: Bridget Fonda
A reclusive figure nowadays, back in the nineties Bridget was one of the brightest stars on the scene, and scion of one of Hollywood’s most prestigious dynasties
TV Flashback: MANUEL ON THE ISLAND OF WONDERS
A “children’s film” that’s less-than-childish in its orientation
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
2021: The Year in Bedlam
The latest edition of my Year in Bedlam overview of the movie releases of the previous twelve months