John Lennon opened the caustic and cleansing “Plastic Ono Band” with the library sound effect of a solitary church bell. The early minutes of Jess Franco’s Dracula, Prisoner Of Frankenstein utilize…
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“Lesson number one: A Dragon must learn to endure pain.” “Go to hell.” “This is hell, Dragon. Welcome.” A Dragon, which is a fancy way of saying a guy in a…
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As a kid, I spent a lot of time with my first cousins. They farted in my face, trashed my Millennium Falcon, and let their friends fart in my face. But…
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Droid begins with a shot of stars zooming in space, which can only mean one thing: an opening text crawl à la Star Wars: “In the beginning, the Dominants left Earth,…
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I often wonder what Gary Whitson is like. Is he a genius? Is he a basement dweller? Is he a resourceful, low-budget filmmaker who found his crazy, mixed-up niche in our…
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This movie is about a guy with a mustache. His name is Master. He watches naked people on computer screens through the magic of a “remote camera.” The camera is controlled…
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In his book Mr. Know-It-All, John Waters claims that in order to be successful in life, “You need two people to think your work is good, yourself and somebody else (not…
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This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. ALF is a sitcom from the 1980s about an alien named ALF…
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Sleeping has never been so much fun. You can take that statement all the way to the bank. Or the desert. In the barren void of Terlingua, Texas, times turn to…
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Mothers. Everyone has at least one. Of course, not all moms are good—there’s a spectrum. On one end, there’s Joan Crawford from Mommie Dearest and on the other end, there’s Carol…
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You’ve got to fight for your rites. Reverb flutters from the coattails of Dracula, Prisoner Of Frankenstein and there lies The Rites Of Frankenstein. A direct-yet-indirect follow up to the supreme…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. I once ate a slice of concession stand pizza before playing a little league game. This was third grade, maybe fourth. A…
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Charles Pierce has made muddy footprints on the back porch scary again. Beginning with 1974’s untouchable The Legend Of Boggy Creek, continuing with 1976’s marred masterwork The Town That Dreaded Sundown,…
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Cats. You either love them or love them. Evil Cat begins like all the best stories: An unearthing of a mysterious tomb at a construction site and a rancid smell in…
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This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. A skater named Todd Cook gets some major air off of a…
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To answer your question, no, there is no The Executioner, Part I. You can look if you want, but you won’t find it. Because it doesn’t exist. There are a lot…
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If you have a mouth, then you love Doritos. And since you love Doritos, you know that they’ve got some EXTREME flavors. There’s “Ranched Dipped Hot Wings” and “Chili Heatwave” and…
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There’s a career trajectory for teen stars that feels familiar at this point: A popular family sitcom finally ends long past its expiration date, and its young stars clamor for the…
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In Essential Deren, experimental filmmaker Maya Deren said that the essence of her work was to, “externalize an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external world.”…
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“The Shoes Of Nude Murder Victim Are Still Missing!” That’s a newspaper headline from The Fat Black Pussycat. I should mention that this particular scene appears only in the outtakes. The…