THE LOVED ONE
“The Motion Picture with Something to Offend Everyone”…?
THE BED SITTING ROOM
In which the UK’s new wave science fiction scene came (briefly) to Hollywood, courtesy of director Richard Lester
MOTHER JOAN OF THE ANGELS
One of the great nunsploitation epics, a stylish, artistic and deeply unnerving depiction of faith and evil
On THE SWIMMER
“DEATH OF A SALESMAN in swimming trunks” is how Burt Lancaster described his 1968 starring vehicle THE SWIMMER
THE WAR GAME
A profoundly shattering, staunchly reality-based look at the effects of a possible nuclear war on Great Britain
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
FUN IN BALLOONLAND
There simply aren’t enough bad things to say about this holiday atrocity from 1965
THE STORY OF REBECCA
This featurette from 1964 can lay claim to being the first-ever cinematic transposition of Jan Potocki’s THE MANUSCRIPT FOUND IN SARAGOSSA
THE SHIP OF MONSTERS
Mexican made lunacy with a difference: it’s a sci fi-western-vampire movie!
PARIS CHAMPAGNE
Undoubtedly the most inventive and unorthodox film to emerge from the 1960s Mondo movie cycle