2022: The Year in Bedlam
The latest installment of my annual Year in Bedlam overview
On Michael Haneke and Emotional Glaciation
A thematic trilogy that marked the emergence of a unique and vital auteur, and exerted a rather sizeable impact on European cinema as a whole
FUNNY GAMES
An American remake of the 1997 Austrian film of the same name, FUNNY GAMES is harsh, disquieting, gripping, self-indulgent and ultimately pointless
THE MOOR’S HEAD
A somewhat uneven but undeniably affecting work from Austria that depicts a seemingly contented man’s descent into hallucination, paranoia and, finally, total insanity
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005
2004: The Year in Bedlam
2004: it’s been quite a year
2002: The Year in Bedlam
Once again the year is over and it’s time for my annual look back at the year in horror
CACHE and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: Mutually Exclusive or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Exploring the real differences between art and exploitation cinema–which, as it turns out, are pretty slim
A Progress Report on 2002’s Horror Movies
Mainstream movie wise, 2002 hasn’t been all that distinguished a year thus far, but horror movie wise it’s actually been better than average