HOLLYWOOD GOTHIC: THE TANGLED WEB OF DRACULA FROM NOVEL TO STAGE TO SCREEN
An ambitious undertaking: an examination of Bram Stoker’s immortal DRACULA and its bumpy road to pop culture immortality
THE BAT WOMAN
“Prepare for Shlock and Awe”…? That first adjective is accurate, but the second not at all.
2021: Bedlam in Print
The latest installment of my annual overview of the previous year’s Bedlam Files-friendly publications
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
Sometimes accidental brilliance is the most irresistible sort.
FANGS
The Egyptian ROCKY HORROR!
THE SHIP OF MONSTERS
Mexican made lunacy with a difference: it’s a sci fi-western-vampire movie!
ROVERS
An action-oriented vampire odyssey that’s equal parts Bram Stoker and Sam Peckinpah
THE VAMPIRES OF ALFAMA
A most interesting and unprecedented addition to vampire lore from the French filmmaker and sometime novelist Pierre Kast
SOY LEYENDA
This 1967 adaptation of I AM LEGEND is interesting enough to at least warrant some attention
R.I.P Joel Schumacher
For those of us who came of age in the 1980s, the name Joel Schumacher, a film director who died on June 22 at age 80, has great meaning