Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

      For the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, there were several legacy screenings of some of the most important and influential films to come out of the festival over its tenure. One of these films was the 2004 indie-horror masterwork, SAW. Before the screening, I…

  DINNER WITH LEATHERFACE opens with friends and colleagues of Gunnar Hansen discussing meals they shared. As someone who not only enjoys watching documentaries about films I love, but who is also fascinated by how food connects us both in real life and in storytelling, this immediately grabbed me.  Fans of…

    Step back into a time when your local video store was the best place to go. Think about how expensive buying a movie was, how cheap a rental was, and how the internet was not a thing you could easily use. Enter WE KILL FOR LOVE, the documentary…

  On the heels of his review of the film DAD & STEP-DAD, Daily Grindhouse new blood and cohost of Butcher Bordello of Blood podcast, Zach Butcher, sat down with director Tynan DeLong, and the titular Dad (Colin Burgess) and Step-Dad (Anthony Oberbeck) to talk about their creative friendship, the…

  Good morrow. The explosion of folk horror has helped us realize just how fertile history has been for the genre. After watching THE WITCH or THE NIGHTINGALE, I could never read a textbook the same way again. It stands to reason, though. Go back to Colonial Times and you…

  In the new film HERD from Dark Sky Films, director Steven Pierce pulls off the remarkable feat of making a zombie film feel fresh. Even more notable is the fact that it’s not even the zombies that make it feel that way. Rather, HERD’s fairly typical, gross, meandering walkers…

                    For many horror film fans (myself included), it takes a lot for a movie to really unsettle or scare. However, horror video games resonate and terrify on a whole other level. Due to their interactive nature, these games engage physically,…

  In director Alex Herron’s new film LEAVE, a young woman named Hunter sets out on an international journey to find answers to the swirl of questions that have encompassed her entire life. Left in a cemetery as a baby, wrapped in a blanket covered in satanic symbols, the motivation…

  The new film WINNIE THE POOH: BLOOD AND HONEY is a dark and bloody good time, and fully aware of what it is. Though named after the iconic fictional bear created by English author A.A. Milne in the 1920s, the similarities end there. This is not the beloved Pooh…

  After making a huge splash with his fake trailer of HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN for GRINDHOUSE, Jason Eisener soon rose to genre prominence when he made that short into a terrific feature with Rutger Hauer. Eisener has worked on entries in the V/H/S series, THE ABCs OF DEATH, produced…

This year’s Fantasia International Film Festival presented many impressive and thought-provoking films from an inspiring array of young talent. One such film was Avalon Fast’s dreamy, lo-fi enigma, HONEYCOMB. Shot in Fast’s British Columbia backyard with her teenage friends’ immense support and help, HONEYCOMB plays out like a feminine twist…

    Movie log lines simply don’t get much better than Mickey Reece’s. For his 2020 festival darling CLIMATE OF THE HUNTER, it was all about two sisters lusting after a man who might be a vampire. For ARROWS OF OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE (2019), a man endows his son with a…

    There’s something incredibly admirable about a film that lays it all out there with its title. Case in point: PSYCHO STORM CHASER. Directed by Buz Wallick, this new addition to the Lifetime horror lineup is exactly what you think it is, in the absolute best way.    When…

      When it comes to skateboarding, few can challenge the impact, notoriety, and widespread fame of Tony Hawk. Having served up countless, mind-melting tricks and stunts over his decades-spanning career, Hawk’s influence on the sport overall is unquestionable. Therefore, the surprise that he was becoming the sole subject…

    Few writers navigate the layered complexities of childhood better than Stephen King. Never afraid to venture into the darkness, King’s bold willingness to explore youth from all angles is a beloved, recurring thread that runs throughout his prolific career. Therefore, when he recently tweeted about writer/director Eskil Vogt’s…

  There’s something truly special about the bevy of holiday horror films that ride in on the crisp December winter air each year. Just like homemade eggnog that is both dangerous and delicious at the same time, these films descend into our living rooms delivering cheer and terror in equal…

  Director Richard Bates, Jr. makes weird movies for weird people. From EXCISION to TONE DEAF, they’re beautiful, gross, and all about trying to find yourself in a world where you feel like you don’t belong. In his latest film, KING KNIGHT, which premiered as part of this year’s Fantasia…

  “I am afraid there is only one person in the world who could make a good film about my prints; me.”     The first opening image of moving across a woman’s leg seems to take much longer than it actually should, increasing the sensation of ‘infinity.’ The sound…

The worlds of S. Craig Zahler are inhabited by the likes of wraiths, jackals, cannibal troglodytes, and hardboiled cops. Knights-errant traverse metaphorical and physical hellscapes, where violence only begets more violence. And under an all-encompassing cloud of dread, the universe churns toward its inescapable and apocalyptic conclusion, as punishment and…

  This year we have more time to kill — so to speak — than usual. As such, we’ve evolved in various ways, especially in the virtual storytelling realm. In the vein of the radio shows of the ’30s and ’40s, we now have the lion’s choice of storytellers. One…

    Do you like sex, violence, and exorcisms? Close this tab if you don’t, because Murder Vibes From the Monster Dimension! goes all-in with all three. After making the fantastic and fun video for Metallica’s Spit Out the Bone, Phil Mucci’s moving from short-form to really long-form with a…

      “These days, studios are very afraid of anything that’s new.”   One of my most surreal film experiences was watching RE-ANIMATOR with my grandmother. I was just a stupid kid, but whenever I visited, she’d let me rent any damn thing I wanted. Grandma wasn’t crazy about…

After a stint on Blip.TV, Cecil Trachenburg moved his channel over to YouTube. Called Good Bad Flicks, it provides multiple looks at various genre films that are undiscovered gems, forgotten oddities, or unfairly maligned by most. With over 680 videos, 288,000+ followers on YouTube, and over 69 million views (nice)—Mr. Trachenburg is a well-known figure in the world of eclipsed exploitation and genre cinema. We recently spoke with Mr. Trachenburg about his channel, some of his favorite overlooked films, and 2020 TEXAS GLADIATORS.

While writer and director Richard Stanley has been busy in many creative endevaors throughout the years, his latest film, the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation COLOR OUT OF SPACE, is his first return to narrative filmmaking since his segment in the anthology horror film THE THEATRE BIZARRE in 2011. While his trials…