2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO
In which Edgar Wright does Dario Argento, with London’s Soho district standing in for Turin in DEEP RED and Munich in SUSPIRIA
FEAR
This is the long awaited autobiography by Dario Argento, and (for once) it doesn’t disappoint
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
The 2010s
Apologies for the brutal honesty, but regarding the 2010s I have this to say: What a lousy decade for entertainment!
2018: The Year in Bedlam
Welcome to the 2018 edition of my annual Year in Bedlam THE BEST movie round-up
THE CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
Fun zombie gore madness from the one and only Lucio Fulci!
MACABRE
This gruesome and depraved yet subtle, atmospheric Italian horror fest was the directorial debut of Lamberto Bava, son of the legendary “Father of Italian horror” Mario Bava
A BLADE IN THE DARK
Lamberto Bava appears to have been channeling his mentors Mario Bava and Dario Argento (both of whom he previously worked for as an assistant director) in this unremarkable 1983 giallo
THE SECT
This horror opus from Italy’s Michele Soavi is long winded, incoherent and overly derivative of the films of its producer and co-writer Dario Argento, but excels nonetheless in arrestingly grotesque, hallucinatory imagery