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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.



The Incredibly Strange Film That Mixed-Up Audiences

By Andrew Haworth • Mar 12th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews, Featured Stories

Check your sanity at the door and prepare yourself for “Hallucinogenic Hypnovision” before viewing Ray Dennis Steckler’s masterwork, THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES!!?



Creature from the Hillbilly Lagoon (2005)

By Andrew Haworth • Feb 25th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

Homophobic rednecks, foul language, and jokes about a certain portion of the male anatomy abound in CREATURE FROM THE HILLBILLY LAGOON, but if you can get through the first painful 80 minutes, you’ll eventually be rewarded with an ending that isn’t half bad.



Don’t Go in the House (1980)

By Andrew Haworth • Feb 15th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

Here’s why you watch this schlock: To see a voluptuous gal get tied up, doused with gasoline and torched to death by a sexually confused mamma’s boy armed with a homemade flame-thrower.



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.



Bad Inclination (2003)

By Andrew Haworth • Feb 10th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

Occasionally I watch a film so bad that I feel like it’s my duty to warn others about it. BAD INCLINATION (2003) is one such film.



Body Fever (1969)

By Andrew Haworth • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

There are two good reasons to watch Ray Dennis Steckler’s BODY FEVER: Carolyn Brandt in a snake-skin catsuit; and Steckler himself in a toupee.



The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979) / The Las Vegas Serial Killer (1987)

By Andrew Haworth • Jan 15th, 2008 • Category: DVD Reviews

Filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler has to be either the laziest guy in the business or a genius who just doesn’t give a damn.