2024: The Year in Bedlam
Let’s face it: the movies of 2024 by and large sucked
THE COFFEE TABLE
2024’s major shock-fest, containing all the things that make Spanish horror great
THE STRANGERS
A vastly overpraised novel, but one that imparts a powerful sense of near-otherworldly strangeness
PIGGY
Cinema du Brute, which has given us CARRIE, EVILSPEAK and MAY, gets a 2022 airing in PIGGY, a slickly made Spanish import
TWO
A Spanish made Netflixer about a man and a woman who awaken in a strange room with their stomachs stitched together
AMIGO
A two-hander featuring a real-life Spanish comic team going slowly bonkers
SOY LEYENDA
This 1967 adaptation of I AM LEGEND is interesting enough to at least warrant some attention
THE PLATFORM
This Spanish language science fiction mindbender is very much in the tradition of Vincenzo Natali’s CUBE
1986: The Year in Bedlam
Fact: anyone who says the eighties were a “golden age” for film is wrong, wrong, wrong, as the year 1986 proves quite amply
2019: The Year in Bedlam
What is there to say about 2019? A lot, albeit not on the movie screens