Disciples of the 36th Chamber
No film production company on the planet is responsible for turning out more great kung fu movies than Hong Kong’s Shaw Brothers Studios. Their list of classic titles includes such movies as The One-Armed Swordsman, King Boxer and Five Deadly Venoms. To this day, one of Shaw Brothers greatest films is The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (a.k.a. Master Killer, a.k.a. [...]
Episode 8: “White Lines”
Kurt, David, and Heather buckle in for a smashed metal and burnt rubber edition of Missing Reel, as they examine the existential Car Chase pictures of the Grindhouse era.
Episode 7: “We’ve Got Spirit!”
This time around Kurt, David, and Heather challenge the oncoming cold of Winter with one of the hottest genres that grindhouse ever spawned – the Cheerleader movie!
Top 10 Charles Bronson Movies
Today marks the birthday of one of the greatest tough guys in the history of film, Charles Buchinsky, better known to the world as Charles Bronson. Although Bronson died in 2003 at the age of 81, he left behind a legacy of classic two-fisted, square-jawed asskickery, the likes of which we will probably never see again. In honor of Bronson’s [...]
Willie Dynamite
If there were ever a blaxploitation movie that could be mistaken for a Greek tragedy, it would have to be Willie Dynamite– an epic tale of the rise and fall of a super-pimp. Roscoe Orman stars as Willie Dynamite, a cold-blooded pimp who runs a stable of fine ho’s out of a New York City hotel. The number one pimp [...]
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Back in the early days of home video, when studios were much slower to release new movies, and video tapes were usually rented at grocery stores, there was a glut of exploitation titles to choose from. These were all flicks that had come out in decades earlier, and many of them were released on video under alternate titles. This is [...]
Ed Gein was the real-life blueprint of the mother’s-corpse-tending, suit-of-women’s-skin-wearing, mutilating cannibal killer. And as such, writers and directors of the grindhouse era did everything they could to twist his story in to one classic film after another. Kurt, David and Heather examine three!
Monsters are supposed to be scary, not sexy. But every now and then a monster comes along, and no matter how scary it may be, it’s kind of sexy (in a twisted, perverse sort of way). Sure, the fiendish creatures want to eat your flesh, drink your blood and swallow your soul, and ultimately they must be destroyed to ensure [...]
DEATH RIDES A HORSE – 1967 director: Giulio Petroni; starring: Lee Van Cleef, John Phillip Law With the exception of Clint Eastwood, no American actor is more closely associated with spaghetti westerns than Lee Van Cleef. Already established as a character actor in both film and television westerns, Van Cleef would have likely spent his entire career as a supporting [...]
There was a massive surge in horror movies in the late 1970s and the early 80, starting largely with original versions of The Hills Have Eyes, Halloween and Friday the 13th, which set much of the tone for the direction the genre would take for decades to come. There came in the wake of success enjoyed by these movies a [...]
