The Dregs
One of the unfortunate realities of being a movie buff, especially a bad movie buff, is running into—or better yet, stepping in—“films” like those listed below
A “Lost” Film Found
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE,a French made adaptation of three stories by Ambrose Bierce, is quite simply one of the great unknown masterpieces of world cinema
ZOMBIE
This graphic novel adaptation of Lucio Fulci’s iconic 1979 film ZOMBIE follows THE BEYOND, a previous graphic novel rendering of a Fulci classic by scripter Stephen Romano—and the results, thankfully, are far stronger
NIGHT OF THE CREEPS
Eighties cheese about slug-like things burrowing into people’s bodies and turning ‘em into zombies that in the intervening years has developed a sizeable cult following. Why? I’ve no idea!
NEITHER THE SEA NOR THE SAND
I’ll give this undead romance a verdict of Okay. The film is appealingly offbeat, but as romance it’s pretty inert and only sporadically effective as horror
2010: Bedlam in Print
2010? It was a mediocre year for movies but for books it was a little better
2009: Bedlam in Print
To those who claim the horror story/novel is dead—or the horror novel is worn out, or fiction in general is dead, or whatever—I’ve got this to say: you haven’t been paying attention
2008: Bedlam in Print
Here it is: my third annual look back at the year’s literary output
2006: Bedlam in Print
Welcome to the first installment of my year-end overview of the year in horror fiction
2005: The Year in Bedlam
The following encompasses my picks for the year’s best and worst horror films released in the US in 2005