Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Chester Novell Turner, where in the world were you? Here’s an infallible theory. Shot on video (SOV) horror films in the 1980s were…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Before the opening credits of Carnage, a groom shoots his bride in the face with a pistol. Then, he shoots himself. Andy…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Truffaut. Godard. Malle. Rohmer. Ogroff. If you’re sharp, you’ve determined that we’re speaking French. And, if you’re even sharper, you’ve recognized five…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. At seventeen, I bought a four-track cassette recorder. My dream was to write and record songs in the style of Nirvana and…
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We’re not going to lie — 2016 was a giant dumpster fire. We lost Prince, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Gene Wilder, Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Ted V. Mikels, and the godfather…
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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 Heavy Metal Massacre limited edition VHS was the…
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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 Blonde Death limited edition VHS/DVD was the sixth Bleeding…
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I walked into the Austin-Bergstrom airport with my VHS copy of The Last Slumber Party. I’m pretty sure that this is the first time that sentence has been written. A few…
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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 Scary Tales limited edition VHS/DVD was the fifth Bleeding…
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I like change. I like it when I’m challenged to grow and adapt to whatever path life takes. Change helps us to focus and make things better. We learn from it.…
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What happens to dreams when they’re forgotten? Do they just fade away into the cold, dark corners of your psyche? Do they disappear silently, without so much a word or a…
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The most important thing to know about Witchtrap is that it’s not the sequel to Witchboard. There’s a screen that explains this right before the opening credits on the original VHS.…
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Fifth grade was merciless and cruel. Because of budget cuts, there were nearly 40 kids in my class. Someone was always getting spit on or bitten or sucker punched. Half the…
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A smooth-talking skirt-chaser. A beautiful woman. A jealous ex. Fractured lives. Extortion. Revenge. You can find all of this in Don Giovanni, one of the many operas about a womanizing asshole.…
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If there’s one thing we want to say here at Bleeding Skull! it is this: Thank you. Thank you from the depths of our hearts, which will hopefully be pulled out…
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Imagine you’re in Naples, a picturesque city along the cerulean Mediterranean Sea, a charming Old World city that dates back to the Bronze Age. There are centuries-old palazzos, piazzas, and villas…
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I’ve never understood Led Zeppelin. Their songs are all one-riff bro-jams that last three minutes longer than they need to. But I just saw Turkish Batman and Robin wipe out a…
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The tagline on the VHS cover of Omega Cop says it all: “The year is 1999. John Travis is the toughest cop alive …He is the only cop alive!” Indeed, the…
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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 Night Feeder limited edition VHS/DVD was the fourth…
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This is a film by Doris Wishman. This means you are in for less of a film, and more of a surreal experience marked by wooden dialogue, unappetizing sex scenes, shots…