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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
STOP!
One of the most famous “lost” films of the late Twentieth Century was this never-released counterculture drama from the late Bill Gunn
DESERTERS
If you’re willing to put up with an abundance of low budget distraction you’ll find this to be one of the most interesting Canadian films of the 1980s
THE FALLS
An astonishing tapestry that’s comedic, alarming and poetic by turns, THE FALLS was the first feature by Peter Greenaway, who went for broke in a panoramic 194 minute epic
DONKEY SKIN
A fairy tale adaptation from 1970 that despite a creepy incest angle emerges as a justified classic
COLOR OF NIGHT
I wish I could report that COLOR OF NIGHT, the final film directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Richard Rush, was a superior example of the erotic thriller format, but I’m afraid that’s not the cas
THE FOG
Impossible though it might seem to believe nowadays, this British horror fest was once considered the height of shock
THE EXERCISER
The 1970s parody novel is a format that deserves at least a glance. Case in point: THE EXERCISER
THE VISITOR
A killer rat themed paperback original with an edge
HELLSTROM’S HIVE
There are some good ideas in this, a post-DUNE Frank Herbert science fiction novel bearing a concept that evidently obsessed him: human-insect hybridization
BIG GURL
What the Hell were Thom Metzger and Richard P. Scott thinking when they created this near-indescribably nutty concoction?
YOU’RE NOT DEAD UNTIL YOU’RE FORGOTTEN
For horror/exploitation aficionados this is one of the standout publications of 2014
CUT! HORROR WRITERS ON HORROR FILM
Here we have a severely mixed bag of nonfiction pieces about horror film, all written by horror novelists
THE CONNOISSEUR’S GUIDE TO THE CONTEMPORARY HORROR FILM
This 64-page horror movie review compilation is notable as (in its original self-published 1983 edition) the first-ever book by the late Chas. Balun
CINEMA MACABRE
Getting a bunch of novelists to write horror movie commentary is frankly a pretty dodgy proposition
CINEMA FUTURA
A companion-piece to CINEMA MACABRE, by a variety of popular authors, each contributing a write-up on a favored horror movie. The similarly formatted CINEMA FUTURA’S essays are focused on the cinema of science fiction
Remembering that which is Better Forgotten: NOT A LOVE STORY and THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE
Here I’m going look at 1981’s NOT A LOVE STORY: A FILM ABOUT PORNOGRAPHY, one of the most infamous documentaries of its time, and 1984’s THE MASCULINE MYSTIQUE, which is considerably less well known
2018: Bedlam in Print
The books of 2018? There’s really not much to say, outside my usual observation that the really good stuff often lurks outside the mainstream
2018: A Look Back in Bedlam
Here it is, my latest Look Back in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s happenings that are of particular interest to this site
A Grab-Bag of Holiday Badness!
My Christmas posts are among the most consistently popular on this site, so here’s another
1994: The Year in Bedlam
1994 was the year of PULP FICTION and HOOP DREAMS; here I’ll be concentrating here on thirty lesser-known films, which provide a plethora of genre-spanning quality cinema!