9/30/55
A unique movie novelization from one of the top novelizers of the 1970s and 80s
Cult Fiction 2: Movie Novelizations
Movie Novelizations: the good, the bad and the hard to find!
MARDI GRAS MASSACRE
In which the 1978 Southern-fried slasher of that title gets the Brad Carter novelization treatment
THE FUNHOUSE
From Dean Koontz, a movie novelization that’s not one of his better books
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
NOSFERATU at 100
March, 2022 marked a most auspicious anniversary: the centennial of NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
THE DIRECTOR SHOULD’VE SHOT YOU
A book about movie novelizations–I can’t see how it could possibly NOT be a must-read
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
This, the premiere work of prose fiction by Quentin Tarantino, is in many respects just like his films
BLACK CHRISTMAS
It’s probably wrong to criticize this book overmuch, as novelizations are by nature an extremely hasty and disreputable form of literature. It’s true that occasionally a novelization will transcend its limitations, but this one doesn’t.