70’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

LASERBLAST: The Comic

Fact: the no-budget Charles Band movie LASERBLAST (1978) sucks. This comic book adaptation, however, is somewhat interesting

The first and only biography of the late Richard Donner

It’s a rare novel that contains a perfect opening sentence, but this one, in the line “We’re real fuckheads,” does

Yes, this is the now-famous “lost” 1973 film by the late George A. Romero

There’s something about a multi-part crime movie, particularly a Shaw Brothers crime movie, that compels

This is far from the ideal account of the life of the late Jan-Michael Vincent, but it is (as of 2021) the only one

One of the quirkiest of all seventies-sploitation films was MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH

This is one actor you simply will not mistake for anyone else

The WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART of the Blaxploitation film cycle, a thinly fictionalized expose of the filming of THE MACK (1973)

Here, in the early days of 2021, is the latest edition of my annual Bedlam in Print overview