Bizarre | The Bedlam Files

FANTASTIC PLANET

After THE YELLOW SUBMARINE this is the premiere example of feature-length psychedelic animation

An avant-garde film in the guise of a music video compilation of a type that was once ubiquitous on VHS

A dialogue-free depiction of an otherworldly hellscape, peopled almost entirely with stop motion creatures

The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications

One of the most unlikely cult classics of our time: a failed TV pilot reconfigured as a 2001 feature film

This was the second film adaptation of Suehiro Maruo’s 1984 ero guro manga, published in English as MR. ARASHI’S AMAZING FREAK SHOW

This is a big deal: the premiere English translation of the only novel by Italy’s late Carmelo Bene

LISZTOMANIA is not a widely admired film, but I say it deserves a reappraisal

Here’s proof of something I’ve long believed: children’s programming is the weirdest that exists

Not his best work, but certainly among his most representative