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THIS WEEK: Visitor Q (2001), A Lonely Cow Weeps At Dawn (2003), The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future (2022)

People often accuse us of not "listening" to our "audience" so we're finally rolling out …

THIS WEEK: Urban Legend (1998), Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000), and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)

Nothing gets the 90s nostalgia juices flowing like watching Jared Leto with a terrible haircut pa…

THIS WEEK: Hanging Heart (1989), Moonstalker (1989), and Dead Girls (1990)

We dive back into Vinegar Syndrome's Homegrown Horrors. What awaits within? A slasher without any gore, a hard rocking horror…

THIS WEEK: Long Arm of the Law (1984), Long Arm of the Law: Part 2 (1987), Long Arm of the Law: Part 3 (1989), Long Arm of the Law: Part 4 (1990)

Before John Woo's stylish action flicks dominated the …

THIS WEEK: Wild Things (1998), Wild Things 2 (2004), Wild Things: Diamonds in the Rough (2005), Wild Things: Foursome (2010)

Every red blooded film fanatic knows the original Wild Things is a pulpy sl…

THIS WEEK: Saltburn (2023) and Chick Flick (2023)

In 2023 we were blessed with a film from one of contemporary cinema's most extraordinary new voices. Oh, and Emerald Fennell made a movie about Barry …

THIS WEEK: The Boogey Man (1980), Boogeyman (2005), The Boogeyman (2023)

A boogeyman (or bogeyman if you're a little freak who can't spell) is a placeholder term for every faceless generic monster liv…

THIS WEEK: Hard Boiled (1992), Just Heroes AKA Hard Boiled 2 (1989), and The Last Blood AKA Hard Boiled 2 AKA Hard Boiled 3 (1991)

If you make the greatest action film of all time before leaving Hong …

THIS WEEK: New Year's Evil (1980), Bloody New Year (1987)

We're true cinephiles around here so our New Year's resolution is to watch more late career Norman J. Warren flicks while simultaneously becom…

THIS WEEK: Christmas Evil (1980) and Blood Beat (1983)

We tried our best to find some things you could watch with the whole family this holiday season. Gather 'round the Yule log and enjoy the classic…

THIS WEEK: The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974), The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976), Embodiment of Evil (2008)

We wrap up our coverage of the incomparable Zé do Caixão with the final Cof…

THIS WEEK: Awakening of the Beast (1970), The End of Man (1971), When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972)

Our Coffin Joe retrospective takes a wild swerve into LSD fueled meta-fiction freakouts and we take a …

THIS WEEK: At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964), The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968), This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

In 1964, Brazillian filmmaker José Mojica Marins introduced the wo…

THIS WEEK: Taboo (1980), Taboo II (1982), Taboo III (1984), Taboo IV: The Younger Generation (1985), Taboo V (1986)

We're celebrating Thanksgiving like any good red-blooded American should: By watchin…

THIS WEEK: Salon Kitty AKA Madam Kitty (1976), All Ladies Do It (1992), Cheeky (2000)

We're crankin' our nut knob higher this week and checking out the films of brilliant butt enthusiast and Italian a…

THIS WEEK: Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), and Supervixens (1975)

We finally got to fulfill our lifelong dream of covering our favorite army combat cameram…

THIS WEEK: Emanuelle in America (1977), Star Of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979), Bitter Moon (1992)

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THIS WEEK: Hellraiser (1987), Nightbreed (1990), Lord of Illusions (1995)

Clive Barker is a British author, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his contributions to the horror and dark fantasy genr…

THIS WEEK: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988), Nightmare Sisters (1988), Leeches! (2003)

Shawn Glinis has never seen a single David DeCoteau movie about shirtless hunks taking showers.…

THIS WEEK: Blood Bath (1966), The Velvet Vampire (1971)

Shawntober continues with Roger Corman protégé and criminally underrated New Hollywood auteur, Stephanie Rothman.

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