2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
TEEN WOLF
Lackluster eighties comedy stuff, patterned on I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF
TV Flashback: KINGDOM HOSPITAL
Stephen King adapts THE KINGDOM, and not very well
TOYS
An allegedly kid-friendly fantasia that works best as a grown-up spectacle viewed with appropriate chemical enhancement
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
WNUF HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
An 83 minute, Baltimore-lensed 2013 video project made to play like a VHS recording of a fictitious 1987 Halloween TV special
BAD BIOLOGY
A supremely immature “Godawful Love Story” from Frank Henenlotter
BRAIN DEAD
Fact: Roger Corman did manage to turn out some interesting films in the 1990s, with the superbly tippy BRAIN DEAD near the top of the list
THE MUNSTERS
The latest in a long line of unasked-for Hollywood reboots is Rob Zombie’s 2022 take on the classic TV sitcom THE MUNSTERS
THE DICE MAN
This novel, about a man who makes decisions according to a roll of the dice, is said to have inspired many people around the world to live in just that manner