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.
Proving there is still some mojo left in the bottle for the Re-Animator series (or maybe it was just a desire to get the gang back together), director Brian Yuzna and star Jeffrey Combs as Dr. Herbert West return, some 13 years later, to the series that put schlock back on ...
Because dreamers can also be healers. Otherworldy. That is one word that best describes the stark black-and-white opening of The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. In it, we are thrust into a world that is both disturbing and deadly ...
In what has to be one of the most startling introductions ever put to film, Village of the Damned begins with a series of shots in which it appears all the adults in Midwich have collapsed. There are groceries scattered throughout the streets. Common items discarded and ...
James Cameron's first movie as a director isn’t very good. Even by B-movie standards Piranha II: The Spawning leaves much to be desired. The film, being a sequel to Roger Corman and Joe Dante’s successful flick, should have been wilder, funnier, and a bit more on point in ...
Poor Barbara. Barbara. Barbara. Barbara. They truly are coming to get you, Barbara. In what might go down as one of the most gruesome (and serious) horror deaths of the early 2000s, this poor woman is strung up nude and slashed repeatedly as she is lowered ...
To the sea! To the sea! It is what Tom Burlinson commands as windsurfer Stewart “PC” Simpson in director Vincent Monton’s romantic comedy, Windrider. This Australian film is as fun as the buggy Simpson drives to work. I don’t know what it is about Australia’s ...
Always a smoke. Never a light. Except this time is different: Enter the Devil is a diamond in the rough of cheap and greasy drive-in flicks. It is to be experienced and marveled at as a stunning example of effective and shocking regional thrillers. And it still works ...
“What have you done to Judy?!” It begins with a godawful cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and it ends with the world’s longest (and highly preventable) head-on collision as Judy LaRue (Penthouse's own Patty Mullen) and her fiancee are ...
Big hair. Shoulder pads. Casual sex. And Andrew Dice Clay. Anyone else miss the 1980s? I mean, who’d have thought the words “safe” and “sex” would ever appear in the same sentence? ...
This movie is proof that downed US F-111 bombers and curious little boys do not mix. Make no mistake about it, the MVD Rewind Collection absolutely saves this film from its VHS dustbin obscurity. The cover art – featuring a “Be Kind Rewind” sticker on the front – is all sorts ...