2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
A lovingly mounted, highly reverential take on Mary Shelley’s immortal 1818 novel, this FRANKENSTEIN (2025) was directed by Guillermo del Toro, who has apparently been wanting to make it for decades
2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
NIGHTMARE ALLEY (Film 2021)
The second film to be adapted from William Lindsay Gresham’s classic novel was this ambitious production by the inimitable Guillermo Del Toro
BARLOWE’S INFERNO
A vision of Hell that in originality, ingenuity and inspiration rivals the classics
PINOCCHIO
This 2019 film sought to adapt Carlo Collodi’s immortal ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO in its original un-Disneyfied form
CRONOS
A bold and ingenious variation on vampire mythology, this was the stunning feature film debut of Mexico’s Guillermo Del Toro, a filmmaker who should really Need No Introduction
2017: The Year in Bedlam
What follows is the latest installment of the Year in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s best and worst movies, according to yours-truly
The AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS Movie That Wasn’t
That title refers to Guillermo del Toro’s proposed adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS.