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Tag Archives: exploitation
The perversions of Peter Cottontail!
Director Dustin Mills has brought us z-grade, direct-to-video crap like Bath Salt Zombies, Night of the Tentacles, and Zombie A-Hole. But he may have outdone himself with Easter Casket, in which a psycho Peter Cottontail plans to take revenge on … Continue reading
Sweatshop – you can almost taste the sleaze and gore
Indie flick Sweatshop spits at the concept of a tight script, making it one wacky, sleazy, disgusting, bizarro experience. A bunch of punk rockers are preparing for a rave at an empty warehouse in which resides a big butcher wearing … Continue reading
The horror of Joe D’Amato
A man who makes nasty horror films and hardcore porn is okay by me. No. I’ve not seen any of Joe D’Amato’s porn (I think it’s all straight stuff), but I will talk about his heinous horror flicks! BEYOND THE … Continue reading
Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!
It’s another one for the holiday horror page, and with a title like Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!, I didn’t even need to come up with a clever headline for this blog. This 2006 film walks a fine line between grindhouse/exploitation … Continue reading
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Tagged Easter Bunny Kill Kill, exploitation, slashers
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Adam Chaplin – an Italian splatter hunk paints the screen red
The kind of uber-gory graphic novel insanity your parents wouldn’t let you read as a kid comes to life in the Italian film Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger. It’s written by, directed by, and stars muscle hunk Emanuele De Santi as … Continue reading
I Heart U has a whole lot of hearts…and blood
Sometimes, two psychos find each other…and don’t even know it! That’s the premise of indie campy gorefest I Heart U. B-movie veterans Raine Brown and Billy Garberina play the noticeably mismatched and fairly boring married couple who would be much … Continue reading
80s exploitation double D double feature!
Any indie filmmakers out there looking to create low-budget trash cinema? Here’s an 80s double feature to motivate you. HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS (1988) Linnea Quigley, Michelle Bauer, Gunnar “Leatherface” Hansen, and Jay Richardson are quite the cast. And with a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 80s, exploitation, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Reform School Girls
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A couple of schlock anthologies for trash lovers
With schlock flix, you never really know what you’re going to get, but you also sort of know exactly what you’re going to get. Between the anthology films Trashology and Theatre of the Deranged, there’s sure to be something to … Continue reading
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Tagged exploitation, gay horror, horror anthology, Theatre of the Deranged, Trashology
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Zombies, psycho killers, rapists, gory STDs…it’s gotta be an Astron-6 sampler
Astron-6 is the film team that brought us the exploitation flick Father’s Day and the wacky, cheesy sci-fi trip Manborg. These 5 guys—Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Adam Brooks (daddy bear yummy), Jeremy Gillespie, and Steven Kostanski—are the kings of homages … Continue reading
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Tagged Astron-6, exploitation, gay horror, grindhouse, horror anthology, Zombies
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