THE SERPENT’S EGG
A mislabelled horror film from Ingmar Bergman, his biggest folly and his greatest financial success.
2020 in Review: News, Passings, Discoveries
Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well
1980: The Year in Bedlam
In this Year in Bedlam overview, highlighting 30 lesser-known and/or underappreciated film releases, I’ll be exploring 1980
THE DOLL
A most confounding 1962 masterwork about a man’s doomed love for a mannequin
2020: A Look Back in Bedlam
Bedlam was indeed the word for 2020 and (as of January 10) 2021 as well
Disease Movies: An Informal History
With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance
On PERSONA
Ingmar Bergman’s PERSONA: not a true “horror” film perhaps, but certainly one of the cinema’s most potent explorations of fear, apprehension and discontent
HOUR OF THE WOLF
An Ingmar Bergman horror movie! THE HOUR OF THE WOLF was largely dismissed by critics, and truth be told it is quite dumb
FROM THE LIFE OF THE MARIONETTES
A German language psychothriller from the legendary Ingmar Bergman that pivots on the disturbed psyche of a murderer