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
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not
CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC
“A gay boy’s acid trip,” and an impossible to forget musical fiasco!
DOOMED LOVE
No-wave weirdness!
SAVAGES (1972)
The very definition of a Cult Film: odd, esoteric and appreciated by only a select few
UGLY MUG 6
The latest edition of House of Harley Studio’s UGLY MUG, presenting adult oriented artwork from the world’s foremost underground cartoonists
MIGRATING FORMS
Probably the most memorable film yet made by James Fotopoulos, whose career-long debt to David Lynch’s ERASERHEAD is most evident in MIGRATING FORMS
THESE LONG TEETH OF THE NIGHT
A retrospective collection of standout short stories spanning the career of Alexander Zelenyj, a modern master of all things weird, macabre and wonderful