SKIN
The object of this glossy large format paperback, from scream quenn Linnea Quigley, was to spoof Madonna’s SEX
BLASTED
This 1995 play will be probably be viewed as beyond the pale nowadays, but the skill with which it was put together is undeniable
SHOOTING MIDNIGHT COWBOY
It’s taken 52 years, but we now have a thorough account of MIDNIGHT COWBOY’S making and reception
1981: The Year in Bedlam
Just what the title says.
2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
MANIAC
One of the sickest surprises of December 2020 was the release of this graphic novel, which breaks new ground in splatterific excess
SODOM AND GOMORRAH: THE LAST SEVEN DAYS
Another 1970s era dispatch from the Weird Porno category
THE NIGHT
From France, a fearsome 1970s-era creation that’s outrageous, overwrought, disorienting and downright psychotic by turns
RAW DOG
RAW DOG was released with lurid cover art highlighting the story’s more exploitable elements, but the novel is far richer and more thoughtful than it might seem
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point