2023: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s noteworthy film releases
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
A book that purports to be a biography of the title character, who’s also known as Satan, Lucifer, Adversary and many other names
WEEPING IN RAMAH
Evangelical fiction whose publishers clearly had outsized hopes
THE OMEGA PROJECT
This paperback original is not one of the rapture fiction genre’s better entries
Remembering that Which is Better Forgotten: 666 and 1000
An example of “Prophecy Fiction” describing the events of the rapture and resulting tribulation period, 666 was not the “first” book of its kind, but it was a trailblazer
THE BURNING HELL
This hour long atrocity dramatizes the fire and brimstone preachings of Estus W. Pirkle, a Baptist minister, by the veteran sleazemeister Ron Ormond
SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX
An evangelical film with a difference, which is to say that unlike most such films SIX-HUNDRED & SIXTY SIX, hailing from 1972, is almost good
HEAVEN CAN HELP
An uber-rarity that for years has been near the top of the want lists of quite a few film collectors (this one included), HEAVEN CAN HELP was made by the late LA based, Iranian born trash movie auteur Tony Zarindast (1934-2016)
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
ESCAPE FROM HELL
Evangelical silliness about a subject that if you ask me should be more widely covered in Christian cinema: Hell