80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

MY ADVENTURE WITH SHEENA, QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE: THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE SHEENA

This entertaining memoir offers further proof that even the lousiest movies have interesting histories

The Cinerama Dome, LA’s greatest and most unique movie theater, is now closed.

Just what the title says.

A double dose of early 1980s Italo-sploitation, blending an account of crazy Vietnam veterans on the loose with cannibal movie nastiness

One of the most talented and uninhibited actors of our age. That is all.

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

One of the sickest surprises of December 2020 was the release of this graphic novel, which breaks new ground in splatterific excess

The director-novelist: it’s a rare combination, but it does exist

A little known American independent feature from 1982 that stands as one of the screen’s better depictions of the late 1960s

What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry