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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

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

This short film is simply too ambitious for its budget (which was quite scant) and runtime (13 minutes), but I do recommend it

This 1967 adaptation of I AM LEGEND is interesting enough to at least warrant some attention

A 50 minute zombie-fest from 2012 that sets new standards for cinematic outrage

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

Richard Stanley is one of the most interesting genre filmmakers on the scene, and also one of the least prolific

With the advent of 2020 the disease movie has taken on an entirely new resonance

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

A twelve minute animated amazement from 1981 that remains shockingly little known