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.
When a woman races through a jungle for no apparent reason and then knocks herself out via a low hanging branch, you have to know that you are in for a damn good time of general awfulness at the movies. This is confirmed later when giant crabs invade and start roaring ...
Stud alert! Stud alert! If you are hot, young, and hung then come on in! That’s the party call in this sex comedy that stars Lisa Hartman, Russell Todd, Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal and Lynn-Holly Johnson. Critics might have panned this Spring Break-themed comedy, as outrageous ...
“She’s down. Send in the ambulance.” Writer/Director Larry Cohen, you know him as the dedicated B-Movie auteur of horror and such science fiction films like Q: The Winged Serpent and It’s Alive, can always be counted on to deliver the b-movie madness. He’s simply ...
Sending a scared coed flying through a bathroom door, the scaly giant-sized son of a bitch at the center of this monster flick really has it in for girls in shower stalls. Honestly, with crisp POV shots and attacking camera movements that show piercing bites on naked legs, the ...
It begins with a flat tire. A woman alone. She’s stranded on a lonesome highway. There’s a biker approaching and, after a lift into the woods, his demands are more than she’s prepared to give. He won’t be the end of her, though. What follows is a desperate run for freedom ...
“Cut off my hand or you die!” screams one affected member of this cast when faced with the consequences of the devil’s left hand. It is only one line of dialogue out of any other such scripted nonsense that receives a loud guffaw from the audience. This b-grade flick, full of firewalking ...
I never would have thought that talking to a wig could be so damn enthralling. It turns out, in this heavily misogynistic film that got considerably lighter in tone once cinematographer Don Jones was tasked to salvage the original director’s bizarre work, that wigs – no matter ...
It is, of course, the thriller in which Karl Malden (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pollyanna, and One-Eyed Jacks) goes for the giallo. That’s right, even the former spokesman of American Express Travelers Checks sought solace in writer/director Dario Argento’s ...
Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler) and James Hoyt (Scott Speedman) are in for one hell of a fright night in writer/director Bryan Bertino’s stunning debut, The Strangers. Had these unfortunate victims not been home at the time that three sadistic killers came a-knocking then nothing ...
One does not need much of an explanation when a spray of bullets is delivering his or her message straight out of a deafening M60 in the humid jungle. That message is often heard loud and clear. And, in The Last Hunter (the first Euro-sleaze-and-cheese flick to tackle ...
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