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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

An example of the “nasties” model popular in the seventies, fused with the age-old psychological horror trope

Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984

From Austria, an interesting 2007 film that pairs a trippy psycho-thriller plot with a dystopian setting

The first-ever Icelandic horror feature, dealing equally potently with Icelandic folklore and old fashioned madness and murder

Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers

This irresistibly pulpy psycho-thriller is the first novel by film legend Brian De Palma (co-written with girlfriend Susan Lehman)

More 1970s TV movie madness, this one of note because it was Christmas themed

In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film

The word for this quasi-satirical brainwashing thriller is dated