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 theatre is damned! Sorry, Aronofsky, you aren’t as unique as was once thought. Étoile reveals all the reasons why. With Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” at its center, Étoile – a rather enigmatic movie concerning ghosts, satanic possessions, and ballerinas – provides ...
It begins on a beach. A woman is laughing. She’s seeing all the muscles on display; the men hulking out in their shorts on the beach. Lots of ogling is going on. And she starts to laugh. She sees them working out and then she sees them with blood spurting out of fresh ...
Chi-Town. Karate. Chuck Norris. And a killer soundtrack from David Michael Frank. Is there anything – and this includes the synthesized score – that Code of Silence doesn’t get right? It is both character driven and intense, filling each scene with violence and ...
Because safe is a state of mind. The first warning happens right in front of the Pompidou Centre when a tourist’s camera, while he is recording his thoughts on one of the best-known sights in Paris, is stolen by an unidentified male. Hauling ass through a crowded...
The movie begins with a lightning strike and then another. A cascade of rain pounds against the backs and heads of a team of hikers who take shelter in a cave while the storm rages on. It is there they meet the bearded narrator of One Million B.C.; an anthropologist ...
“I feel like I am stuck inside a low budget horror film,” says Carmine Capobianco as he stares into the camera. He’s right, of course, he is stuck inside a low budget horror film and it is a glorious sight indeed to behold. Disconnected might not make a whole lot of sense ...
“I shot a cop . . . so what!” Good citizenship. Self-restraint. Politeness. Loyalty. These four words of social graces are written on a chalkboard that four girls pass by during the pre-credits scene in Ed Wood’s penned cult classic, The Violent Years. They are four words that ...
Otherwise known as the world as metaphor. When you talk about originality in cinema, you best not forget to mention filmmaker Slava Tsukerman. Tsukerman, a soviet born artist who moved to New York City in 1973, created something unique with the release of 1982’s cult classic ...
Not all alien encounters will be friendly. That’s the assertion made in The Dark, a wildly uneven production that is underlined by a super paranoid-causing soundtrack featuring the spookiest use of marimbas to date AND haunting voices that repeatedly whisper and hiss ...
Deep in the Louisiana swamps, a strange man tackles a woman – who just stepped out of said swamp – to the ground. She is killed, marked with a hex symbol, and hung upside down from a cypress tree by her feet. She is then drained of her blood with a slash to her neck ...
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