Why celebrate Halloween when you can celebrate Hauntedween? Filmed on 16mm in Kentucky and Tennessee, Hauntedween is the only slasher in history to combine Little Richard impressions, “Foot Locker SLAM FEST!” t-shirts,…
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Joseph A. Ziemba
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Bleeding Skull! Video was a collaboration with our friends at Mondo, the art boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse, that existed from 2014-17. The Soultangler limited edition VHS was the second Bleeding…
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Some movies have training montages of shirtless men using exercise machines. But only one movie has a training montage of shirtless men using each other as exercise machines. DEATH RUN! Nuclear…
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Sixty minutes into Wendigo, two men paddle down a river in a canoe. This is not surprising. Because up until this point, most of the movie is made up of people…
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In the 1940 short From Nurse To Worse, The Three Stooges perfected one of their finest recurring gags. A waiter exits a kitchen, carrying a full plate of food. The Stooges,…
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Bleeding Skull! Video was a collaboration with our friends at Mondo, the art boutique of the Alamo Drafthouse, that existed from 2014-17. The Cards of Death limited edition VHS was the…
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In 1988, L’Trimm released a Top 40 rap single called “Cars That Go Boom.” It told the story of how Bunny D and Lady Tigra from L’Trimm were really into cars…
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In Louis Malle’s Elevator To The Gallows, there’s a scene of Jeanne Moreau walking down a Paris street at night. The depth of field blurs the background, so that Moreau’s face…
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A few years ago, my parents invited me to a Paul McCartney concert. I was skeptical. But my dad’s excitement was infectious. It made me happy to see him so happy.…
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As Tales Of A Salesman begins, we see smoke and abstract colors. A voice channels Oliver Hardy: “Hello out there! I’m a poltergeist, sent down here to help salesmen! I’m the…
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If you are a person who likes movies, Run Coyote Run is a conflict of interest. Renee Harmon and James Bryan had a hand in some of the most remarkably defective…
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“Please give a big, warm welcome to the men behind Black Devil Doll From Hell and Tales From The Quadead Zone — Chester and Keefe Turner!” The beyond-sold-out crowd at Cinefamily…
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For many years, it was rumored that Turkish people were incapable of making boring movies. DEBUNKED! Süper adam Istanbul’da is a giallo-gangster-super-hero movie from the director of The Dead Don’t Talk.…
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The description on the back of the VHS box reads: “A bloody film of suspense and passion in the style of Friday The 13th.” Noche Infernal is not in the style…
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“Giallo” is slang for “stylish Italian slasher.” Giallo movies are a lot like cannibal movies. They’re repetitive, simplistic, and defined by over-the-top sleaze. If you watch enough of them, they become…
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Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey was published by Headpress in September, 2013. The book is out of print and will not be reprinted. From the back cover: This is the…
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I’ve never cared for Freddy Krueger’s outfit. In fact, I’ve always felt that Freddy would have been more imposing if he wore a white dress shirt and stonewash jeans. I’m not…
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Nine seconds of this movie are presented “In Magicmation.” The other 75 minutes are not. You do the math. I like cobwebs. I’m into cemeteries. I also think it’s neat when…
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After seeing The Dead Don’t Talk, it’s obvious that Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra was misused in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The piece sounds much better accompanying three Turkish men while they…
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You can make a successful statement through research, planning, and communication. You can also make a successful statement through bottomless karate. The last line of decipherable dialogue in The Black Alley…