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Reviews & Commentary by Adam Groves
DIVA IN THE NETHERWORLD
From Japan, an enormously self-aware, quasi-comedic low budget swirl of monsters and mayhem
SILENT RAGE
Chuck Norris, karate and zombies—a film that should be much better than it is
CONGO
A 1995 release that deserves to be ranked with exotic camp-fests like COBRA WOMAN (1944) and SHEENA (1984)
LEGACY
“A rich woman deteriorates mentally” is the plot summary provided by the imdb about this film, and those five words do indeed adequately sum it up.
JOHN’S NOT MAD
The first and best documentary about Scotland’s John Davidson, the world’s most (in)famous sufferer of Tourette’s Syndrome
FANTASTIC ORGY
An anthology from early 1920s Germany, of note for its title story, about a pre-METROPOLIS robot woman
DARKENING ISLAND
A long out-of-print SF novel that’s attained newfound popularity in the 2020s. Why? Its premise, involving a future England overtaken by foreign refugees, now has a resonance it didn’t possess back in 1972
THE REVENGE OF FANTOMAS
The surrealists hugely revered the Fantomas books, and they must have especially liked this one
PROFESSOR DOWELL’S HEAD
A Soviet sci fi lark from the 1920s, a far simpler time when authors tended to run riot with coincidence and weird science in pursuit of a good story
CHRONOLYSIS
Disorienting is the word for this very Phil Dickian excercise in reality displacement
SALUTING THE BLOOD OF HEROES: BEHIND THE APOCALYPTIC FILM
The Second book by author Danny Stewart, who’s quickly establishing himself as one of the preeminent chroniclers of underappreciated science fiction cinema from the eighties and nineties
OMNI’S SCREEN FLIGHTS/SCREEN FANTASIES
For years this was the best book about science fiction onscreen, a title it lost only because it’s now 40 years old
PURE: THE SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS OF MARILYN CHAMBERS
The late Marilyn Chambers, was one of the most noteworthy performers to emerge from 1970s porn cinema, and this book provides a worthy epitaph
VIDEOSYNCRATIC
A book that provides a potent blast of nostalgia for those who remember the video rental era, while showing younger readers precisely what they missed
CANNIBAL ERROR: ANTI-FILM PROPAGANDA AND THE “VIDEO NASTIES” PANIC OF THE 1980s
One of the key textual resources on the “video nasties” scare that swept England in the 1980s
2024: Bedlam in Print
Another year, another underwhelming showing from the mainstream publishing industry
David Lynch By the Decade
A look back at David Lynch’s fifty-plus year career in film, decade by decade
2024: The Year in Bedlam
Let’s face it: the movies of 2024 by and large sucked
2024: A Look Back in Bedlam
A look back at all things Bedlam
Christmas TV Specials for the Irreparably Brain Damaged: The Japanese Editon
Holiday TV specials from the Land of the Rising Sun