Weird and Wonderful Christmas Cinema from Around the World
A much-needed addendum to a previous essay, with an overview of weird holiday-themed films emerging from around the world
CHRISTMAS CRUELTY!
As of 2020 this no-budgeter is very likely the nastiest Christmas-themed horror movie ever made
THE CELL at 20
On THE CELL (2000) and the effects, pro and con, of controversy
Brian De Palma’s Films, Ranked
Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers
DOCTOR PETIOT
A 1990 French period piece that stars the veteran actor Michel Serrault (1928-2007) and was made, brilliantly, by Christian de Chalonge
Dutch Horror Essentials
Continuing with my “Essentials” horror surveys (see here, here, here and here for the others) we arrive at the Netherlands, which isn’t exactly a hotbed for horror fare
TEN MONOLOGUES FROM THE LIVES OF THE SERIAL KILLERS
A 1994 “documentary” about serial killers that mixes actual confessions by mass murderers with fictional works by J.G. Ballard, Roberta Lannes and Henry Rollins
1987: The Year in Bedlam
In the 1980s movie-verse 1987 was something of an anomaly, being an authentically good year for film
1989: The Year in Bedlam
Here, in the latest edition of my Year in Bedlam film listings, we leave the nineties behind and enter the eighties, which many claim was the worst decade in cinema history
Fifty Years of Manson-sploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family