2025: The Year in Bedlam
Looking back over the film releases of 2025
INFRA-MAN
This 1975 Hong Kong outrage is a classic of sorts, and a prime example of accidental surrealism
LADY EXTERMINATOR
Shaw Brothers action movie madness!
THE CRIMINALS series
There’s something about a multi-part crime movie, particularly a Shaw Brothers crime movie, that compels
1982: The Year in Bedlam
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
1983: The Year in Bedlam
If this year proves anything it’s that the rosy view of the eighties that has taken hold is complete bullcrap
THE BOXER’S OMEN
Quite simply: you’ll have a difficult time finding such a mind-roasting mélange of rapid-fire insanity anywhere in or outside Hong Kong
BLACK MAGIC (1975)
Of the many Hong Kong horror pictures made by the Shaw Brothers during the seventies, BLACK MAGIC is far from the best, even if it is the best known
SEEDING OF A GHOST
If you can get past this film’s lousy opening minutes you’ll experience one of the wildest of all Hong Kong horror movies—and considering the unfettered nature of most such films, that’s no faint praise