2020: The Year in Bedlam
2020 was a hell of a year
PURPLE HAZE
A little known American independent feature from 1982 that stands as one of the screen’s better depictions of the late 1960s
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap
Zombie Media in the 1990s
By the advent of the nineties the zombie floodgates, contrary to what you might have heard, were wide open in fiction, and certainly film
SPLIT
SPLIT is simply one of the world’s great unknown science fiction films
SHE DIES TOMORROW
A horrific mood piece by actress/director Amy Seimetz
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984
CUBE: INSIDE THE MAKING OF A CULT FILM CLASSIC
An excellent idea for a book if you ask me: a behind-the-scenes look at Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 science fiction-horror classic CUBE, one of the most interesting low-budgeters to emerge from the nineties
CAPONE
A “harrowing and true untold story” (as this film’s ad copy eagerly states) of Al Capone? Not exactly
1985: The Year in Bedlam
It makes sense that, in what is universally acknowledged as the worst-ever decade for film, the midpoint of that decade marks its low point