Bizarro slasher or Christian scare film? Wait. Don’t run away! If I’m going to get to the bottom of this, I’ll need all the help I can get. This is a…
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Joseph A. Ziemba
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Narrator: “The Deadbeat Drive-In. A place where you’re always welcome — no one will bother you.” Dr. Wolf Von Frank: “Get that electricity…uh…set up. Get that antenna set up! I’m not…
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You’ve got one minute. One minute to scour the caverns of your brain, in search of the greatest example of successful, zero-budget, strange filmmaking enthusiasm that ever dared to load a…
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David “The Rock” Nelson flails around in a Tor Johnson mask and enters a Chicago library like a hurricane. Inside, he terrorizes the employees, who are assembling an art exhibit. The…
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Outside of the Music Box Theatre in Chicago, Janet Lynn (aka Miss Werewolf) looks into the camera and says: “I bet people think we’re nuts around here.” David “The Rock” Nelson…
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“Caution! May strip touchy critics of their dignity!” So states the cover collage emblazed on David Nelson’s Miss Werewolf video. Good thing I’m not a touchy critic. If I was, I’d…
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After his most gratuitous display of on-camera food devouring I’ve ever witnessed, David “The Rock” Nelson provides a disclaimer: “I don’t really eat like that, it’s just for comedy.” Well, that’s…
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I love being caught off guard. Chances are slim, but every once in awhile, an unheard-of film jumps up and slaps me in the face. Hello, Hands of Blood. Movies like…
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It was my birthday. I was walking along the sidewalk on the north side of Chicago and noticed a creaky old indie video store off the beaten path. A sign in…
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Among the moldy cardboard and layers of dust in the back corner of your attic lies a box of mysterious old Super 8 reels, all shot way before you were born…
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Although I’ve never indulged in the title-drug itself, if I had, I’m sure all of my adventures whilst under the influence would occur in black and white, accompanied by a free…
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“Our newly released ‘Orgy Of The Dead’ will be a pleasant surprise; it was filmed using a widescreen process and exciting color. It could well become a classic in its field.”…
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Ed Wood himself had absolutely nothing to do with “Ed Wood’s Devil Girls.” It’s just a very interesting Wood-obsessed experiment. Imagine the tendencies of Wood’s style of filmmaking, just multiplied and…
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The Godfather of Gore and the Stepdad of Strange. That’s Hershell Gordon Lewis, a man who revolutionized the motion picture industry before become a very successful figure in the world of…
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Summer is here! It’s time to surf!! AND DIE!!! Richard just graduated from college. He works with his father Otto at a science lab. After a car accident paralyzes his friend’s…
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Have you ever asked yourself, “Wow, I wonder if it’s possible to create the perfect woman all by myself from scratch?” No? Me either! But this double feature presents two weirdos…
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Herschell Gordon Lewis was the first filmmaker on earth to show audiences what happens when a tongue is ripped out of a face. So he’s basically a great humanitarian. From Boin-n-g…
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By 1967, Herschell Gordon Lewis had cemented his reputation as a guts-squishing, scalp-splitting, tongue-ripping exploitation pioneer. From Blood Feast to A Taste Of Blood, Lewis practically trademarked the art of the…
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The cup of sleaze doth runneth over . . . welcome to The Psychic! In 1967, Herschell Gordon Lewis was hired by the ESP-obsessed script writer James Hurley to direct Something…