NIGHT OF DELUSIONS
A 1970s era Philip K. Dick wannabe, and one of the better examples
THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT
A singularly deranged masterpiece, offered up for the time in uncut English language form
THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD
A film that in most particulars would appear to qualify for Profoundly Weird status, but which in the filmography of its director, Canada’s Guy Maddin, doesn’t seem too strange at all
MIDORI-KO
The magnum opus of Japanese dementoid Keita Kurosaka
DEUS IRAE
In science fiction terms this book marked a true dream collaboration, it being the first and only novel by Philip K. Dick and Roger Zelazny
PHRA ROT-MERI
Another example of an Eastern made film that was a commercial blockbuster in its native land but to Western eyes seems downright Jorodowsky-esque
SURVIVING LIFE
A standout effort from the incomparable Jan Svankmajer
2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
FULLY DRESSED AND IN HIS RIGHT MIND
Certainly one of the most unusual novels to emerge from the 1930s hard-boiled school
THE STRANGERS
A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness