THE NIGHT
From France, a fearsome 1970s-era creation that’s outrageous, overwrought, disorienting and downright psychotic by turns
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
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
Remembering that Which is Better Forgotten: 666 and 1000
An example of “Prophecy Fiction” describing the events of the rapture and resulting tribulation period, 666 was not the “first” book of its kind, but it was a trailblazer
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
DRAG
An admitted calling card project that received an enthusiastic blurb from Stephen King, who proclaimed 1993’s DRAG “the best short horror film I’ve seen in twenty years.”
SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX
An evangelical film with a difference, which is to say that unlike most such films SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX, hailing from 1972, is almost good
THE WANDERING EARTH
Here we have China’s attempt at Hollywood-styled blockbuster moviemaking: an unapologetically loud, unharmonious science fiction themed epic that prizes aggressive escapism above all else
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
ROBOPOCALYPSE
I didn’t think much of this inexplicably popular take on one of science fiction’s widely utilized clichés