60’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESS

The second feature directed by France’s late Alain-Robbe Grillet was this 1967 lark that took the Euro crime thriller model for quite a ride

One of the more interesting unknown films of the sixties was this 1968 feature by France’s Jean-Denis Bonan

A short film from 1966 that serves as an interesting precursor to SALO, OR 120 DAYS OF SODOM

Another impeccably visualized, violent and sexy thriller by Italy’s late Mario Bava

This book, in which the veteran writer/editor Chris Alexander explores Corman’s 1960-64 cycle of Edgar Allan Poe inspired films, is long overdue

Think FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in an irresistible 1968 horror-fest from Japan’s Shochiku studios

No other filmmaker has become as synonymous with Underground Film as the recently deceased Kenneth Anger

In which I make the heretical confession that I prefer the Americanized recut of EYES WITHOUT A FACE to the original version

A striking but largely unmoving film that premiered around the same time as (and was vastly overshadowed by) Mario Bava’s classic BLACK SUNDAY

The worst movie of all time? Quite possibly!