No-Budget Sci-Fi Cinema: Ten Good Examples
Low budget and science fiction might seem mutually exclusive terms, but I believe the following ten films prove otherwise
THE SECRET SERVICE
One has to admire a novel as perversely uncommercial as THE SECRET SERVICE
TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN
Here we have a true American oddity with a history as nutty as what ended up on screen.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
One of the freakier seventies porno features, a particularly odd and striking piece of cinematic dementia.
YEELEN
The alleged masterpiece of Souleymane Cisse, 1987’s YEELEN (BRIGHTNESS) has been called the “greatest African film ever made.”
2016: A Look Back in Bedlam
Here we have The Bedlam Files’ first-ever “Look Back,” covering the previous year’s noteworthy happenings in the world of cult/horror film and literature.
AVENTINE
A most interesting science fiction pastiche, consisting of stories set in and around an interplanetary resort called Aventine.
2016: The Year in Bedlam
Welcome to the first installment of my “Year in Bedlam” end-of-the-year movie rankings.
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (Book)
A novelization–although a more accurate description would be a novel based on themes from THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS.
Oak-Mot
The overhauled OAK-MOT is, in Glover’s own words, “a story of epic proportions involving pride and prejudice.” It’s also confounding, perverse and demented as fuck.