Tough Films For The Rough Crowd

Annual traditions can be a mixed bag—sometimes begrudging obligations, and other times a rewarding return to something beloved. For the past ten years, L.A.-based trailer editor Sleepy Skunk has released a mashup of trailers from that year. Using a mixture of dialogue, music, soundscapes, and selections that cross geography and genre, he is able to both remind viewers of the initial excitement of seeing these images while recontextualizing them into a broader tableau with recurring motifs and themes. It’s a perfect love letter to cinema and all of the emotions that can be attached to even the smallest snippet of film.

    Director Jared Cohn (Little Dead Rotting Hood, The Horde) marinades the screen with suspense this June with Death Pool from MTI Home Video. Randy Wayne (Hellraiser: Judgement) gives an electric performance in  a sexy, spine-chilling fusion of American Psycho and Maniac,  premiering on DVD and VOD June 20. Sara Malakul Lane (Kickboxer: Vengeance),…

  RLJ Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to the thriller THE LIMEHOUSE GOLEM.  Based on the novel “Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem” by Peter Ackroyd, the film was written by the acclaimed writer Jane Goldman (Kingsmen, The Woman in Black), directed by Juan Carlos Medina (Painless) and produced by Stephen Woolley (Their Finest, Interview with a Vampire), Joanna Laurie (Hyena)…

    High Octane Pictures will offer THE ANSWER, an exhilarating new sci-fi thriller from Iqbal Ahmed, this July.     Premiering on VOD 7/11, THE ANSWER tells of an introverted young man who — after an attack — must follow clues left by his dead parents in order to figure out who…

      This is gonna sting a little. From Wild Eye Releasing comes the ultimate buzz kill TSUNAMBEE, premiering on VOD 6/13! After a catastrophe strikes Los Angeles, survivors face an even greater threat, thousands of giant killer bees, ushering in the end of the world! Writer/Director Milko Davis’s…

    A couple’s romantic camping trip becomes a desperate fight for survival in this ultra-raw, unhinged kill ride. In need of a break from the pressures of their life in the city, Sam (Harriet Dyer) and Ian (Ian Meadows) head to a remote beach for a weekend getaway. When…

  ROGUE WARRIOR: ROBOT FIGHTER is in theaters June 2 and will hit Blu-Ray on June 6.       AARON”S BLOOD is in theaters June 2 and will be available On Demand and in Digital HD on June 6.     SEOUL STATION, the animated prequel to TRAIN TO…

  The trailer for THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER implies that Oz Perkins has another trick up his sleeve. Originally released as FEBRUARY in the festival market, THE BLACKCOAT’S DAUGHTER follows a girl portrayed by Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper herself) who is left behind at school during break. It’s during this time she…

  Just when it seems like the last of the micro-budgeted, shot-on-VHS genre epics of years gone by have been dusted off and given a shiny new home video release, Severin Films and Intervision Pictures go spelunking in the darkest cable access corners of Canuxploitation and emerge with PHOBE: THE…

An intriguing horror film had its premiere on Saturday, August 27th at FrightFest in London. THE UNKINDNESS OF RAVENS was the highest funded British horror film backed on Kickstarter, raising just over £44,000 (roughly $57,600). If this NSFW trailer is any indication, all the money is up there on the…

While DC’s cinematic output has been a mixed bag, with some fans considering them to be the absolute worst of the big budget superhero trend, their animated division has been putting out some quality straight-to-DVD movies. If the trailer for BATMAN: RETURN OF THE CAPED CRUSADERS is any indication, it looks like it…

    Generally speaking, this isn’t the sort of film we cover on a site with a name like ours, but that’s never stopped me before. LOVING is the newest movie from Southern-born writer-director Jeff Nichols, and that’s all you need to know, really. Jeff Nichols is only 37 and…

JAWS celebrated its 40th birthday last year, and like any loyal fan, I revisited the classic for another round of blissful, munching mayhem on the shores of Amity Island. Viewing it for the umpteenth time, it struck me how similar Steven Spielberg’s shark epic is in tone and structure to Jack…

    When I reviewed THE LORDS OF SALEM, I was pretty thorough. My argument was essentially that Rob Zombie hasn’t made a capital-G great horror movie yet, but that I believe he has it in him. Is 31 going to be the one? I do know I like what I…

    Well this is unexpected. THE WOODS has been on my radar for a while, since it’s made by Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the director-writer team who were behind the classic-on-arrival YOU’RE NEXT and THE GUEST, so whatever they did next together or individually was going to be highly anticipated….

    WARCRAFT is the upcoming movie from director Duncan Jones, who made MOON and SOURCE CODE, which means his next movie should be of great interest to anybody who likes interesting movies. This one is based on a popular computer game, one I confess I don’t know much about. Sam…

      Guys, I’m not gonna clutter this beautiful eye-garden up too much with words. THE NEON DEMON is the new Nicolas Winding Refn movie. He’s back in a Los Angeles setting for this one. Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks are in the cast. Not much more detail needed,…

        When I wrote about 2014’s DELIVER US FROM EVIL, I had this to say: “The climactic exorcism sequence is something fresh and exciting, robust and over-the-top, a tour-de-force on the part of director Scott Derrickson and the biggest thing that’s making me intrigued to see what he’ll do with…

  UPDATED! THE NEW TRAILER LOOKS EVEN BETTER…       Sometimes I’m the easiest sell in the world. While I still haven’t made time to see six out of the eight films nominated for Best Picture last year, you can bet good money I will make time to see THE…

  Everyone here at Daily Grindhouse would happily recommmend you rush to see filmmaker Jeremy Saulnier‘s previous features, MURDER PARTY and BLUE RUIN. The latter film in particular made a big impression on many critics and movie-goers in 2014, when it made many best-of-the-year lists. This morning, A24 released the trailer for…

    Anna Biller is a genius, period. Her 2007 debut feature film, VIVA, was a brilliant mimicry of late 1960s/early 1970s erotic films. Its most well-known reference points are probably Russ Meyer’s BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS and Radley Metzger’s CAMILLE 2000, and if you saw VIVA without…

    That’s a nice take on the Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album cover. I guess it’s a Meow The Jewels kind of thing. Anyway this is a cult-movie website, not a hip-hop blog, so I’ll try to keep my references straight. KEANU is the first Key & Peele movie, which…

    Entertainment Weekly is offering an exclusive trailer for THE INVITATION, the latest film from Karyn Kusama (JENNIFER’S BODY), which is being released by Drafthouse Films. Those of us around here who haven’t seen it yet can’t wait, and you may have that problem too after you read Sabina Stent’s eloquent festival…

  You already know STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS opens tonight. Well in more important news, Entertainment Weekly has posted a teaser trailer for the upcoming Sundance series Hap & Leonard. This is my STAR WARS.     There’s no writer whose work I follow closer than Joe R. Lansdale, and there…