1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
LUCIO FULCI’S THE GATES OF HELL
I’ve been interested in this comic series, adapted from Lucio Fulci’s anti-classic CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, ever since first hearing about it in the late nineties
2019: Bedlam in Print
Concluding my 2019 overviews is this, the latest edition of Bedlam in Print, exploring the noteworthy publications of the previous twelve months
MASHA AND VITYA’S NEW YEAR’S ADVENTURES
Russian fairy tale kid movie weirdness in the grand tradition!
THE PREMISES OF OTTO GAST
An impressively wrought exercise in surreal delirium that has yet to receive its proper due
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
On EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
There’s nothing else quite like EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH
THE SPIRIT GALLERY
A 1995 feature that was apparently conceived as “THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY in reverse,” which fails to convey the sheer bizarrie of this sustained hallucination of a movie
A TOPIARY
Here we have what has fast become one of the most fabled unfilmed screenplays: a 245 page science fiction themed oddity from Shane Carruth, of PRIMER (2004) and UPSTREAM COLOR (2013)
THE STAR ROVER
This was the second-to-last novel published by Jack London in his lifetime, and unquestionably one of his most unique works