80’s Cinema | The Bedlam Files

Horror Novels by Horror Moviemakers

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

Here we’re going back to a very particular time and place: the Soviet Union, circa 1988

A lively film-related biography structured entirely as a long conversation

This altogether odd 1989 thriller hails from Shunichi Nagasaki, Japan’s onetime cinematic sultan of noir

W haunted house movie that woefully lacks the complexity and craftsmanship of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s later films

On December 19, 1978 the so-called “Blood Letter from Nanhai” made its bow in the Taiwanese Central Daily News

An engaging memoir, and certainly one of most interesting and underrated film books of the 2010s

If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap