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.
This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy horror film. Know that first. Panic is; however, quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...
Mutant cats, sabertooth rats, and gold lamé outfits! Nothing good can ever come from an evil that’s been buried for over 2000 years. That, my friends, is something that you can take to the bank. But what if that ancient horror found its way into a Blaxploitation martial arts flick?...
Always pay your cab drivers, kids. That’s one lesson to take from watching Code Red’s Blu-ray release of The Apartment on the 13th Floor, a psychological horror film about a slaughterhouse worker who loses his shit one night and just snaps. Eventually, he finds it ...
She’s smart. She’s sexy. She’s new in town and she’s all sorts of sweet sixteen. She also likes making it with boys on sacred Native American burial grounds in the desert. What a way to get your rocks off, honey! The bad thing for the boys, though, is that they have a ...
Anarchy and hedonism! The Romantic writers, according to this fictionalized account of the creation of Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidari's The Vampyre, were a bunch of cock-gobbling druggies. This is probably true. And, as the sex is as rampant as the wild visual ...
Class of 1999 is, of course, the film that reveals the truth behind the magic of Pam Grier's glorious breasts. The scene, happening in a school hallway after she takes down two gang leaders on their motorbikes with one swift motion, is both awe inspiring and cringeworthy ...
Disfigurement! Death! Dastardly charges of electricity! So this is why the lights went out last night, by golly! This is why scientists – no matter how large or small their egos are – should NEVER experiment on themselves. ...
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time just might save your life. Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) has an axe to grind. If he has to do it against the skulls of the two bikers who kick dust and sand up into his makeshift tent while he sleeps ...
All we wanted was a bigger and healthier tomato, what we got was a ripe parody that paved the way for such comedy classics like Airplane! and all the other beloved and relatively tasteless gag-filled comedies that populated the scene at the time of its release ...
Half-man, half-sea serpent; all thrashing rubber! Filmmaker Harry Essex is at it once again. Yes, the writer of Creature from the Black Lagoon and It Came from Outer Space is once again striking fear into the hearts of ecologists with his stock footage-padded warning about ...