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THE CRIMINALS series

There’s something about a multi-part crime movie, particularly a Shaw Brothers crime movie, that compels

Undoubtedly the most inventive and unorthodox film to emerge from the 1960s Mondo movie cycle

Just what the title says.

What follows are the type of little-known films that tend to comprise my “Look Back in Bedlam” listings, of which this is the 1982 entry

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

This hefty 527 page book is either a standout example of gonzo scholarship or an extended manifestation of unfiltered insanity

A slim but reasonably satisfying mini-memoir by Linnea Quigley, the most prominent of the 1980s and ‘90s scream queens

A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum

Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply

This hour long atrocity dramatizes the fire and brimstone preachings of Estus W. Pirkle, a Baptist minister, by the veteran sleazemeister Ron Ormond