THE OK DOLL
The idea of a man in love with a doll is hardly a novel one, but in this screenplay England’s Peter Greenaway creates a uniquely witty and perverse take on man-doll love
NIGHT ON THE TOWN
A twelve minute animated amazement from 1981 that remains shockingly little known
2019: A Look Back in Bedlam
Welcome to the latest edition of my Look Back in Bedlam overview of the previous year’s noteworthy happenings in the world of Bedlam Files-friendly media
TO BE TWENTY
This Italian oddity is among the most notorious grindhouse productions due solely to its final ten minutes
DEFIANCE
THE DEFIANCE OF GOOD was one of the better films to emerge from the golden age of porn, and this novelization was written by the famed porn novelist and poet Michael Perkins
YOUNG WITCHES BOOK TWO: LONDON BABYLON
This is a sequel to the adults-only comic saga YOUNG WITCHES by Francisco Solano and Barriero, but LONDON BABYLON deserves to be read as a standalone
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
AMPUTEE LOVE
I’m not sure what to make of this, one of the absolute nuttiest underground comics in existence
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America