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
THE BOX FROM JAPAN
This is it: the magnum opus of the late Harry Stephen Keeler, the world’s most bizarre mystery novelist
1990: The year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest installment of my Look Back in Bedlam at the year’s more obscure and underappreciated films, we arrive at 1990
1991: The Year in Bedlam
1991 wasn’t an especially auspicious year for movies, but it was a formative one for this (once) young cineaste
AMPUTEE LOVE
I’m not sure what to make of this, one of the absolute nuttiest underground comics in existence
A HISTORY OF UNDERGROUND COMICS
The first and very likely best history of underground “comix” in America
Funnybook Flashback: SKULL COMICS
Looking back at the underground comix of the early 1970s, one finds that horror, unsurprisingly, was a popular topic
1993: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over 1993, I’ve found it was quite an auspicious year for movies
WINTER BROTHERS
A visual wonder from Denmark, although, as is often the case with visually evocative European films, the storytelling leaves something to be desired
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
The spirit of Dario Argento, spiced with more than a hint of the anything-goes vibe of Nobuhiko Obayashi’s HAUSU, is evident in this British made, Italian language oddity from 2018