Exploitation

Starring Charles Pieper, Jessica Bailey Directed by Josh Schneider

From the producers of horror films H.G. Lewis’ The Uh-Oh! Show, Brainjacked, and Filthy comes Cult Movie Mania, a website whose mission is to inform and educate about the world of cult cinema in an outrageous, entertaining way and strive to bring cult and exploitation culture back in the forefront of modern day cinema.

Before he started plying his trade on the popular TV series "Twilight Zone" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour", back in 1957 director Joseph M. Newman cast macho men Peter Graves and Chuck Connors in a little known (nowadays anyway) exploitation type flick entitled Death in Small Doses. Leave it to Trembles to put it on our radar! Synopsis:

Mark Hartley's documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed!, the first detailed examination and celebration of Filipino genre filmmaking, got a very warm reception when it played at this year's Fantastic Fest. Was that crazy Canuck Trembles equally impressed? Read on for his take on the film. Synopsis:

South Africa might not be the first place you think of when it comes to rough and tough grindhouse flicks, but it's the home of a classic that's finally hitting DVD thanks to Synapse Films: Christopher Rowley's 1978 Death of a Snowman, aka Soul Patrol and Black Trash. From the Press Release:

Indie filmmaker Jeff Chitty is hard at work doing post-production on his upcoming feature, The Taking of Savannah, but that's not stopping him from launching a few other ventures: exploitation/cult film download site Digital Grindhouse Retro and hardcore horror/splatterpunk short story download site Macabro Xtreme Publishing. Here are the details:

Reviewed by Scott A. Johnson

I miss the Uwe Boll that made bad video game movies we could at the very least laugh at. I much prefer that Uwe Boll to the morose Uwe Boll who now mostly makes movies that wallow in human misery - prison rape, Vietnam savagery, Columbine-style massacres, African genocide - and now he's making a movie called Auschwitz graphically detailing the horrors that went on in that most notorious of Nazi concentration camps.

Ever wanted to try your hand at coming up with a fake trailer that shows people how it's really done? If so, then you should be interested in this new contest that just landed in our inbox in which three lucky winners will have their trailers play before the Dallas premiere of I Spit on Your Grave. Here are the details from the folks at Texas Frightmare Weekend, one of the contest sponsors:

Reviewed by MattFini Starring Jesse Vint, June Chadwick, Dawn Dunlap Directed by Allan Holzman Distributed by Shout! Factory

If you can't get to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival to catch the highly anticipated documentary American Grindhouse, don't fret! You might have to wait a little bit longer to catch Elijah Drenner's promising feature, but it'll be making its way into the confines of your living room soon enough!

The name Duke Mitchell may not be recognizable to a lot of our readers, but fans of exploitation have probably heard of his first film as a writer/director, 1974’s Massacre Mafia Style, aka The Executioner. The next year he started filming a follow-up, then called Kiss the Ring, later given the awesome title of Gone with the Pope; however, Mitchell died before finishing the flick. Enter Grindhouse Releasing, which has undertaken a painstaking restoration.

Reviewed by MattFini Starring Orson Welles, Little Oral Annie Produced by Stephen Romano Distributed by Bloody Earth Films

The name Bill Landis might not be instantly recognizable to some of us, but for fans of exploitation cinema, he was truly an icon. So it is with much sadness that we pass on the news that Bill suffered a fatal heart attack yesterday.

All right, trying something a bit different here. Each week for countless years I’ve given you guys a full list of DVD releases hitting shelves, complete with my own descriptions of the film and links to buy 'em. The problem is that it’s a helluva lot of work and now that the Halloween season is upon us, my time is even more limited than before.