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.
Schlocky science fiction gets gutted in writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s Deep Space! Now on blu-ray thanks to Scorpion Releasing, this campy cult classic sees Charles Napier, the steely-eyed character actor who formed a career out of playing pissed-off military figures, as a Los Angeles ...
Because the gangster of love don’t need no fried chicken! Starring Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier, director Ernest Dickerson’s Bones is an incredibly tight updated take on blaxploitation flicks by way of horror. The mashing of genres works to create a film that has gone on to earn a sizable cult following ...
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
Because who doesn’t like a practical joke?! “On a clear day you can see the Kennedys.” That line of dialogue is one of the many clever lines in this cult classic from 1986. April Fool’s Day, directed by Fred Walton and written by Danilo Bach, is an undeniable masterpiece of mood and mayhem ...
Cigarettes out and zippers up! Tarantino’s main influence for Death Proof arrives on blu-ray thanks to Code Red and, yes, it features full frontal nudity from The Hoff, a seriously sexy dance number in a soda shop, and a lot of high school teens giving their all for the school. ...
Talk about 1970s television star power! Everyone - from Kinky Friedman to Ruth Buzzi - is stocking the shelves at Record City. The familiar faces keep turning up in this store! ...
Tucked far enough away from civilization, the bleak desert that surrounds the ranch at the center of this independently made feature from 1955 makes for some unsettling moments. There’s nothing around the ranch except sand and mountains in the distance. Its remote location is already changing the ...
No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...
It doesn’t take Night Key very long to kick into high gear. Boris Karloff, starring as an inventor of a bank alarm who gets pissed that he’s not getting the money or the credit for his invention, finds himself in over his head with a group of gangsters who want to get rich quick. With nowhere to turn to ...
What happens when like-minded British and Hong Kong film producers get together to make a cheapo-depot sex film? They ride the success of Alien, amp up the sex, and make one of the strangest exploitation films of the early 1980s. Inseminoid is a horror film like few others. Thanks to ...
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