Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

  As I begin writing this, it has been roughly seven hours since news broke of George A. Romero’s passing. I try not to mourn the deaths of filmmakers, actors, writers, and other artists I admire. Instead, I try to celebrate their achievements, reflect on what they meant to cinema…

  Title: LOVE CAMP 7 Other Titles: NAZI LOVE CAMP 7 Year: 1969 Director: Lee Frost (as R.L. Frost) Cast:  Bob Cresse, Maria Lease, Kathy Williams     Nasties: Boobs Full-frontal nudity Nude flagellation Sexual assault Rape Cunnilingus (implied) Bondage Wine opener to the throat Bottle to the face  …

    Back in the early 2000s, I was one of those people eating up the J-horror craze that swept US theaters. Of course, I wanted to feel educated in the subgenre, so I would often rent the original versions prior to the remakes (which is something I still do)….

    Many of our Daily Grindhouse writers have paid tribute to iconic director George A. Romero this week, so I wanted to take some time in this column to do the same.  There’s little doubt that the world of the horror film wouldn’t be the same today without Romero’s…

      By the ‘nineties, the zombie subgenre was already overflowing in abundance, meaning THE BONEYARD needed to set itself apart from the other films. To make matters even worse, the film is set in a single location, which NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) had pioneered (and damn…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

          One of the most influential filmmakers in my moviegoing life was and still is Wes Craven. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET was probably the first horror movie I ever saw, and I have been a huge fan of that franchise ever since. SCREAM was released…

    I love a good redemption-gone-wrong film, where the post-bad guy is trying to turn his life around and be a normal part of society. These types of films can be action packed, brutal, and in some cases, quite gory. Now, if you add in a revenge subplot, you…

    Another legend in filmmaking has left us, with George A. Romero dying over the weekend due to lung cancer. The auteur was 77 and has been working in some capacity in the arts for over 50 years. It’s almost impossible to overstate the impact that Romero had, not…

You may not know that assistant editor Mike Vanderbilt played for over a decade in Chicago based, power pop outfit, The Romeros. The band broke up earlier this year, but it seemed appropriate that he and lead guitarist Bob Sylvester share their thoughts on their band’s namesake.   Bob Sylvester-Lead…

  Dougie Jones…   We’re more than halfway through the new series and we still don’t have our Agent Cooper back. I still think the rest of his missing consciousness is circling through the electrical circuits just waiting for him to shock himself back into himself. At least Dougie Jones…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

  I’ve got to say goodbye to George Romero and it’s going to take a few. He popped into my life at various intervals, even in person once. It’s not a long story, and hopefully not a boring one. So, stick with me and we’ll see it though together.  …

  “Morgana Muses is a force of nature that creates beautiful documents of sexual exploration through short film, documentary and experimental formats.” — Erica Lust.     This is a great story, inspiring and exciting. Please check out the official synopsis:   MORGANA is an artistic character portrait of a troubled 50 year…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

      Ten short (from where I’m sitting, anyway) years ago John Ridley was far from a household name in the entertainment industry, yet alone an Oscar winner. That was well before 12 YEARS A SLAVE and American Crime, though, and now it’s a different story. A different world. Or is it?…

    This year Fantasia, North America’s biggest and most influential genre film festival, celebrates its 21st birthday as it runs from July 13th to August 2nd. As every year, Fantasia is bringing dozens of high-profile genre films from all over the world to Montreal for the better part of…

In the first volume of GRINDHOUSE GROOVES, assistant editor Mike Vanderbilt A.V CLUB news editor Katie Rife take a listen to the RESERVOIR DOGS soundtrack. Click here to listen! Released in 1992, this collection of songs (and excerpts of dialogue) was a touchstone for many a young cinephile. After diving…

      While the rest of the world (or so we’re told) was busy soaking in the profound cultural rot that is Game Of Thrones this evening, I was busily thinking about a theory I’ve seen bandied about in recent days — we’ll call it the “Grand Unifying Theory Of…

THE DAILY RUNDOWN is a quick look at just a few of the cool screenings and film events happening around the U.S. every day. It is not intended to be an exhaustive, comprehensive list, but a sampling of the terrific genre cinema available to check out at your local art…

    Sifting through the veritable mountain of tributes that have been flooding the internet since the announcement that the film world lost one of its truly great auteurs today, it seems to me that almost all of them miss a vital point : sure, the man, myth, and legend that…

  We’re more than halfway through the calendar year, and while like its predecessor, 2017 has proved to be incredibly fucking strange for humanity in general and America in particular, it’s been a strong year for movies — already! We’re not even at the end-of-year prestige stuff yet. Here are…

        Mathieu Ratthe is the writer, star, and director of THE GRACEFIELD INCIDENT, a unique found footage movie about invading creatures that has the twist that the protagonist is outfitted with a prosthetic eye. For a film shot under budget and time constraints, THE GRACEFIELD INCIDENT boasts…