BADass SINema Unearthed - Where we dive into the wild, weird, and wonderfully wicked world of classic grindhouse cinema. We celebrate the raw energy and unapologetic style of vintage exploitation films — from the slick swagger of Blaxploitation and the lurid allure of sexploitation to the gnarly thrills of monster mayhem and cosmic horror.
Bubba Ho-Tep and I have finally made up. I get it. I finally get why the movie absolutely works and why my punk-ass comments when it was originally released were so naïve. To borrow a line from Gatsby's Nick ...
The suit is purple. The horse is named Hero. But the legend that is The Phantom never dies. If modern superhero movies are all about trauma, collapsing multiverses, sky lasers, and heroes growling like they haven’t slept since ...
Andy Milligan didn’t direct movies so much as drag his personal demons into a cramped apartment, dump fake blood on everybody, and let the camera roll. Legacy of Blood might be the purest expression of that diseased little ...
And it comes right at you! Exploding from the screen and absolutely thrilling in its rendering, It Came From Outer Space, with an eerie performance from Russell Johnson (This Island Earth, Attack of the Crab Monsters ...
If you go into Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Expecting some kind of campy, kitschy curio you can watch with a half-smirk... Yeah, you're going to get run over. And in the best way possible. This thing doesn't build to anything ...
Some movies are made. Others are unleashed—like a tiger in a go-go cage hopped up on amphetamines and bad intentions. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is the latter: a studio picture that feels like it escaped ...
Drop filmmaker Andy Milligan into polite conversation and watch the room curdle. Say his name in the wrong company and—yeah—you might get dunked in the River Jordan or handed off to Father Merrin for a quick ...
Inside Jack Potter there’s a hero trying to get out! Innerspace hit theaters on July 1, 1987, and I wore it out that summer as a fat 12-year-old. I went back more than once. Couldn’t help it. The movie felt alive—loud ...
There’s a certain breed of film that doesn’t just ride the coattails of a blockbuster—it clings to them like a half-feral stowaway, gnawing through the luggage and emerging somewhere deep in the jungle with a machete ...
Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow remains an absolute joy ride through pure imagination. It is - by design - retro in feeling, high on nostalgia, pulpy in its comic book fantasy, and - thanks to Shout! Factory - now hitting its stride on home video thanks to this 4K treatment. It seems the times ...
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