There are certain elements we’ve all come to expect from low-budget, DIY action films: amateur karate, workout montages, bad haircuts, amped up dialogue delivered in a strong regional accent, a foot…
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Short films are like Hi-Chews — bite-size flavor explosions that should be savored before moving onto the next one, and the one after that. Given the bottomless well of compelling shorts…
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My beloved friends, come gather around me and a few well-heeled Miss Asia contestants so I can tell you a little story about a curse. It’s a special curse—a blood curse.…
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At one point during Into the Black, a roundhouse kick is intercut with a close-up of someone cracking a can of Stroh’s beer. It feels so nice to be back in…
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Geek Maggot Bingo begins with a quote: “If you cut a face lengthwise, urinate on it and trample on it with straw sandals, it is said the skin will come off.…
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Not since Ogroff have children been dismembered with such spectacular gusto as in The Curse of Kazuo Umezu. But that tracks. Kazuo Umezu’s The Drifting Classroom is my favorite horror manga…
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1974: The Possession of Altair proves once again that every horror movie would be better if it was shot on Super 8 film. Somewhere in Mexico, Altair and Manuel celebrate their…
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Book Now Shot for $2000 on video by “James Dillinger” (aka author James Robert Baker) and produced by Los Angeles art collective EZTV, Blonde Death is a savage blast of underground…
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Book Now Closing the gap between dreams and reality, Fabio Salerno’s films are the missing link between Dario Argento and George & Mike Kuchar. Deep Night—the first feature-length horror film from…
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Book Now Closing the gap between dreams and reality, Fabio Salerno’s films are the missing link between Dario Argento and George & Mike Kuchar. The Other Dimension—Salerno’s accomplished horror anthology—delves into…
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The Godfather is considered to be one of the most influential and greatest films blah blah blah it’s 175 minutes long. And sure, it doesn’t actually feel 175 minutes long. Maybe…
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Hey! We made it! You made it! We’ve reached the end of 2022, which for us—and hopefully you—was a year full of cinematic discoveries beamed directly from other worlds. Bleeding Skull…
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All About Mighty Lady isn’t the Dolly Parton biopic that we’ve all been waiting for. But it’s something just as delightful. After a miniature Death Star flies over Earth, the superhero…
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Short films are like Hi-Chews — bite-size flavor explosions that should be savored before moving onto the next one, and the one after that. Given the bottomless well of compelling shorts…
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Citizen Kane. Psycho. Jaws. Star Wars. No doubt, America has made major contributions to film. But perhaps the most iconic hallmark of American cinema is the archetype of a death-hungry maniac…
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During the opening minutes of this movie, a narrator says: “Due to a rare embryonic mutation, two infants were joined as one flesh and came into this world as freaks.” I…
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The Japanese toy powerhouse known as Bandai has made billions off of the Power Rangers alone, but there are far more to its holdings. The company also carries toy licenses for…
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In an interview on the Blu-ray of The Shining, filmmaker Ernest Dickerson said: “The best horror movies are the ones that follow you home.” I love that quote. It’s so simple…
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“What you’re about to see is a reality check . . . a warning of the coming danger of what our culture is facing.” So what are we facing, exactly? Drug…
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AGFA + Bleeding Skull was a collaboration with our friends at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) from 2018-22. Purchase the Fuck the Devil Special Edition Blu-ray here. Exploding out of the…