BADass SINema Unearthed - Where we dig up blu-rays of the wild, weird, and wonderfully wicked world of classic grindhouse cinema. Celebrates 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.
About twenty minutes into The Mephisto Waltz all hell breaks loose when a costume party literally goes to the dogs. With a human mask securely fastened to its head, a black dog strolls into the room. Don’t adjust the picture. Yes, even the canines are into the devil’s work ...
Being the obstinate fool that I am, I have had many run-ins with local law enforcers. I just can’t help myself. Most of them – mustached or not – have been surprisingly accommodating, using zip ties instead of handcuffs and so on. Of course, there’s always that asshole ...
“Sometimes I dare death to try to catch me. Grab me. Ya know what I mean,” confesses a stuntman named B.J. (James Stacy). B.J., who lost his arm and leg on the left side of his body (along with his wife) after an unfortunate car crash, is just one of the many interesting ...
In which the real monsters are revealed to be us, brothers and sisters. Welcome to Hell, motherfuckers! My friends and I often have conversations about the horror movies released during the 1990s and what is so painfully wrong with most of them. And then we get to ...
Holy shit! Tree roots from Hell!! Edited together in such a way to kill any sense of forward momentum, the sheer lunacy of Contamination .7 (also released as The Crawlers, Troll 3, and almost any other title imaginable) makes this release from Scream Factory ...
“I’m the red queen. She’s the black queen,” chants Kitty’s sister, Evelyn. The two siblings have grown up raised by their grandfather. The family mansion has been their playground, but the two sisters have always been fighting. His stories have often revolved around ...
Some men should never remarry. Alan Cunningham (Anthony Steffen, Django the Bastard), a milk-obsessed lover of ginger-haired strippers, is one of those poor, unfortunate bastards. Don’t boo hoo him. He’s lost his shit a long time ago. Plus, in this insane tale of lace ...
Originally paired at the drive-in with 1,000 Convicts and a Woman, director Martin Scorsese scored a significant victory for producer Roger Corman with Boxcar Bertha, his take on the Great Depression’s many ravages upon the downtrodden. Yes, even the great Martin ...
When Vincent Price takes to the stage, fans of the Horror genre had best take notice. His delivery is both campy and intoxicatingly brilliant. There is no doubt in my mind that his classicisms of stage acting would have won over any hard-hearted critic. His presence is ...
For the longest time, the Halloween franchise has been “the toppermost of the poppermost” for me. Nothing was more frightening than the bogeyman that Michael Myers was made to be. Well, that was then and people, as they are wont to do, can change their minds ...