2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
FEMALE PSYCHO WARD!!!
Behold: emerging from the smut book underground of the 1960s, the “latest sellout” by the prolific trash-meister Con Sellers, a novel its publishers predicted was “going to make headlines from one end of the country to the other!”
SMILE
Overrated!
Halloween Movies: My Top 20
My 20 favorite Halloween movies (no, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS and HOCUS POCUS aren’t on it)
PIECES
If limb chopping and head-loppings were enough to make for a quality product then PIECES would be a masterpiece, but they aren’t and it’s not
COSMOS
“One of the strangest films that I’ve ever seen in my life…and incidentally, I made it.” –Andrzej Zulawski
ESME, MY LOVE
A powerful two-character indie that combines superbly rendered imagery with innovative sound design
BEYOND THE THRESHOLD
The most morbid and sensationalistic funeral home expose you’re ever likely to encounter, written by an actual funeral director
BEAR
A highly literary “Canadian classic” about a woman schtupping a bear.
Herman Melville, Leos Carax and the Ambiguities
On Herman Melville’s wildest novel and Leos Carax’s equally outre film adaptation