THE DELEGATION
One of the most ambitious TV movies of the 1970s, a West German-French-Italian coproduction, filmed in French and English, that explored the then-trendy topic of UFOs
BANNED FROM BROADCAST: SAIKO! THE LARGE FAMILY
What this altogether fascinating found footage horror movie from Japan proves is that the land of the rising sun was and is the epicenter of the format
SORGOI PRAKOV
Found footage horror that’s different from, and superior to, most other examples
TROLLHUNTER
This 2010 Norwegian import offers an impressive example of budget-lite ingenuity, and boasts some jaw-dropping special effects
SURVIVOR TYPE
The 2012 film adaptation of Stephen King’s most outrageous story
U.F.O. ABDUCTION
This SOV mini-epic was one of the first-ever found footage horror films
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
TV Flashback: LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
2019 marked the 20th anniversary of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, but I say it’s time for a look back even further, to that film’s true progenitor: the French TV program LES DOCUMENTS INTERDITS
THE MOVIE ORGY
The first “feature film” by Joe Dante was this mind-roasting four and a half hour found footage collage that was without precedent in 1968, and remains an eye-opener
1995: The Year in Bedlam
Some great films premiered in 1995, including Michael Mann’s HEAT, Todd Haynes’s SAFE and Mike Figgis’s LEAVING LAS VEGAS