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Welcome to the Grindhouse: Malibu High / Trip with the Teacher

By Andrew Haworth • Aug 20th, 2008 • Category: Bloody Stumps, DVD Reviews

How’s this for a fun double feature? A high school student sleeps her way to the top of the faculty, becomes an assassin and goes on a killing spree. Still intrigued? How about a busload of schoolgirls on a road trip straight to hell?



Welcome to the Grindhouse: The Teacher / Pick-Up

By Andrew Haworth • Aug 13th, 2008 • Category: Bloody Stumps

This double dollop of low-budget sleaze from trash movie clearinghouse Crown International is one of the best offerings in BCI/Eclipse’s “Welcome to the Grindhouse” series of DVDs.



Filth, flesh, COPKILLERS!

By Andrew Haworth • Feb 13th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

A pair of dirtbags steal a cache of cocaine and head for the border, leaving a trail of bodies behind them in the long, savage trip that is COPKILLERS. This grimy 1973 masterpiece is about as linear and predictable as it gets, but it’s a heck of a lot of fun too.



If you are thinking of buying this movie … DON’T!

By Andrew Haworth • Feb 5th, 2008 • Category: Rants and Raves

Homage to real grindhouse, or an annoying knock-off of PLANET TERROR? You decide.



Booby Trap, “a one-take production”

By Andrew Haworth • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Roundtable Reviews

This week our Roundtable Reviewers discuss the 1970 grindhouse/exploitation film BOOBY TRAP, a sleazy journey into the mind of an ex-marine intent on destroying humanity by planting land mines at an outdoor rock concert.



Welcome to the Grindhouse: Superchick / Hustler Squad

By Andrew Haworth • Dec 30th, 2007 • Category: DVD Reviews

The pairing of jaunty romantic nudie flick SUPERCHICK with the gritty-but-flawed war film HUSTLER SQUAD is one of the more unbalanced offerings in the WELCOME TO THE GRINDHOUSE series from BCI/Eclipse.



Welcome to the Grindhouse: Black Candles / Evil Eye

By Andrew Haworth • Dec 28th, 2007 • Category: DVD Reviews

As one of the first releases in their expanding WELCOME TO THE GRINDHOUSE series, BCI/Eclipse’s double-feature BLACK CANDLES and EVIL EYE is a journey into the lurid nether regions of Euro-horror.



Welcome to the Grindhouse: Prime Evil / Don’t Answer the Phone

By Andrew Haworth • Dec 5th, 2007 • Category: DVD Reviews

The prospect of watching two films from trash-movie clearinghouse Crown International is always an alluring draw. Fifteen minutes later I was ensconced in my recliner with a double G&T in my left hand and a DVD remote in my right, ready to be transported back to the halcyon days of 1970s exploitation.