Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Tiny Tim is kneeling at an altar, weeping, and covered in clown make-up. He’s sweaty. I’ve been waiting my whole life for…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. We all know that if you have sex, you’re headed straight to hell. We all know that if you defile the Bible,…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Nice people making a nice video about a psychopath that kills a child (and a chihuahua) with a barbecue utensil fashioned as…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. In the early 1980s, my parents installed a beer tap in our wood-paneled basement. The reason? My dad wanted to liven up…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Suffer, little children. The El Griego Show is on the air. There are two sides to every human. Sometimes, there are two…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. “Caution: Viewing may cause severe damage to your brain cells.” Shot on one-inch video tape in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village, 555 hit the…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. A woman has puked. Her son has puked. His boss, his girlfriend, her kitchen cabinets, and a washing machine have puked. I…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. There are many ways to rock. However, if you are unable to master rock’s most formidable weapon, the Cat Scream, there is…
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AGFA + Bleeding Skull! is a collaboration with our friends at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Purchase the Ninja Zombie Special Edition DVD here. Black vest. No shirt. No fear. NO RULES!!…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Never underestimate the power of a Samurai-induced orgasm. Blood Beat is an experimental semi-slasher that takes place during the Christmas season. Christmas…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. A surgeon wears a dish rag over his face. Rubber bands hold it in place. He wipes blood on a patient’s hairy…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. First, I want you to know that I recently waded in the Pacific Ocean for the first time. Second, I want you…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. If there is any justice in this world, Renee Harmon is now sitting on a cloud next to God. Writer-producer-actor Harmon had…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. School is out! Summer is here! Three months of non-stop partying begins tonight! Linda’s throwing a slumber party. Her friends Chris and Tracy…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Somebody had to bring abortions and slashers together. I’m glad Nick Millard was the one to do it. Successful filmmaking is about cutting…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. An analyst once surmised that my lifelong obsession with trash-horror films was simply a substitute for confronting the “horrific” hurdles in my life.…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Everybody knows that Ted Prior is capable of ripping a man’s arm off with his bare hands. Then, using that arm to beat…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. I’ve never snorted cocaine. But I’ve seen Bright Lights, Big City. That pretty much makes me an expert. Therefore, I suspect that a…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Alicia works in a video store. Her apartment is decorated with a poster for the film Neighbors and a novelty bust of Groucho…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey! On the seventh day, God rested. On the eighth day, Jess Franco made a slasher. It was a very good week. In December…
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AGFA + Bleeding Skull! is a collaboration with our friends at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Purchase The Soultangler Special Edition DVD here. If Re-Animator was shot on Long Island for…
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The Jungle Trap Original Motion Picture Score was released by Death Waltz Records to coincide with the Bleeding Skull! Video release of the movie. Purchase the LP here. Purchase the digital version here.…
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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 Jungle Trap limited edition VHS/DVD was the seventh and…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. A poor man’s George Plimpton introduces Splatter: Architects Of Fear: “It is the year two thousand and two. The world has been…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Skate or die. I mean it. Twisted Issues is the debut film from underground art-barf filmmaker Charles Pinion. It has a killer…
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Originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey. You love VFW heavy metal. You love hand puppets. And of course, you love the shit out of genital violence. Yet, you…
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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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Lots of exciting stuff has happened during Bleeding Skull’s history. From the release of our first book, Bleeding Skull! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey, to the screening of The Last Slumber Party…
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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…