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Grindhouse Classics : “The Gruesome Twosome”
Ask most people what their favorite Herschell Gordon Lewis flick is, and the common answers you’re likely to hear will be either Blood Feast, 2,000 Maniacs, or The Gore-Gore Girls, with the occasional...
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Grindhouse Classics : “Blood Feast”
Tell me, friends, have you ever had — AN EGYPTIAN FEAST? It doesn’t matter how you answer that question, the important thing is in how you ask it. You’ve gotta get all bug-eyed, swerve your neck...
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Grindhouse Classics : “The Gore Gore Girls”
Just when you thought the coast was clear, I’m back with more Herschell Gordon Lewis! Between this little haphazard Lewis retrospective Lisa Marie Bowman and I are indulging in, and her exhaustively...
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Grindhouse Classics : “She Freak”
Okay, so it’s not Herschell Gordon Lewis — but 1967′s She Freak is pretty close, at least in terms of style and tone (if not gore content — the only blood on display here is in a very brief...
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Burn “The Wicker Tree”
Honestly, friends, sometimes a person just doesn’t even know where to begin. I suppose I could individually list the catalogue of atrocities that make up writer-director Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Tree,...
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Tag It And Bag It : “Toe Tags”
A few weeks back, Lisa Marie blamed/credited me for the fact that she even watched, let alone reviewed, director/star/editor/cinematographer Darla Enlow’s 2003 shot-on-video, direct-to-DVD 68-minute...
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The SPM Trilogy Revisited : “The Slumber Party Massacre”
Ah, the folly of youth. When we’re young, we’re so determined to prove we can “make it on our own” that we’ll turn our backs on opportunities that might serve us better in the long run just because...
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The SPM Trilogy Revisited : “Slumber Party Massacre II”
By 1987, I’m not sure that anyone was expecting Roger Corman to trot out a sequel to The Slumber Party Massacre. Sure, the movie had gained something of a cult following thanks to the VHS rental market...
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The SPM Trilogy Revisited : “Slumber Party Massacre III”
What the heck, let’s wrap this up, shall we? While the appearance of Slumber Party II may have surprised some being that it came five years after the original, it’s safe to say that when Roger Corman...
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Grindhouse Classics : “The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher”
Sometimes, it’s almost impossible to know where to begin. Watching cult auteur Ray Dennis Steckler’s less-than-no-budget/dual-slasher mash-up The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher feels...
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“The Las Vegas Serial Killer” Goes Back To A Dry Well
As we painstakingly established around these parts a few days back, The Hollywood Strangler Meets The Skid Row Slasher was not exactly Ray Dennis Steckler’s finer hour (okay, hour and ten minutes)....
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“Alienator” : Fred Olen Ray Gives “The Terminator” A Sex Change
Give Fred Olen Ray credit — the guy’s a survivor. While his name has never been attached to a genuine B-movie classic — although Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers definitely has its fans — he’s found a way to...
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Enough With The “Bates Motel” Stuff Around Here, How About Some “Mayhem Motel” ?
Don’t get me wrong, folks — by and large I kinda like Bates Motel, and I certainly enjoy reading Lisa Marie’s write-ups on each episode here on TSSL, but let’s not kid ourselves —- that show is a soap...
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Grindhouse Classics : “Pick-Up”
One word that doesn’t usually (if ever) come to mind when you’re talking about the drive-in fare churned out by Crown International Pictures in the 1970s is weird. Yeah, okay, fair enough — I suppose...
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Halloween Horrors 2013 : “Carrie” (1976)
Over at my “main” site — http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com , for those who don’t know, don’t care, either, or both — I’ve been doing what every other goddamn movie blog in the universe does in the...
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Halloween Horrors 2013 : “Self Storage”
Sometimes even a movie with very little to recommend for it still has — well, something to recommend for it. Such is the case with this year’s direct-to-video, shot-on-HD indie horror effort Self...
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Netflix Halloween 2014 : “You’re Next”
Okay, so here’s the deal : over at my “main” site — http://trashfilmguru.wordpress.com , for those up you not aware — I’m spending the month of October looking at various horror flicks currently...
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Late To The Party : “Ouija”
I was thinking of sub-titling this review “What To Expect When You’re Expecting Nothing,” or something equally less-than-clever, but it just seemed too damn obvious — I mean, how many of us were...
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