directed by: Lance Ozanixruntime: 30 mins or so. You can tell a lot from an exclamation. For example, “Yikes!” tells us you are scared. “Ow!” tells us you are hurt. “Zoinks!” and “Jinkies!” tell us you are trapped in an episode of Scooby-Doo. Sometimes, when you’re watching shot-on-video horror, you just have to exclaim “Holy … More Schlock du Jour: Holy Moly (1991)
directed by: Olaf Ittenbachruntime: 74 mins Germany’s resident wizard of gore, Olaf Ittenbach, is a master of making the skin crawl. His films THE BURNING MOON, PREMUTOS, and BLACK PAST are favorites of mine. They are undeniably brutal, and NO REASON is no exception. In NO REASON, A woman named Jennifer is guided through a … More The Scum Gutter: No Reason (2010)
directed by: Emilio Vieyra, Jerald Intratorruntime: 87 mins It’s February, you know what that means! Twitterpated teens with hearts for eyes, their wings and gills all aflutter. Love is in the air! What better time, then, to share this review with you for THE CURIOUS DR. HUMPP Dr. Humpp is a mad doctor who performs … More (NSFW) Schlock du Jour: The Curious Dr. Humpp (1969)
There’s some things I don’t recommend slipping back into. Heroin addiction, last week’s unwashed Brazilian flag speedo, collecting candid snaps of Mark Wahlberg on the toilet…you know, the usual. I once believed that picking up on your anthology wraparound five years later fell into that category but I’m happy to say that I was so … More The Merits of Sin: Chills Down Your Spine 2020 USA Dead Lantern Pictures ****1/2 NSFW
A microwaveable pizza transforms into a lantern whilst being nuked (No. I’m not having a stroke. Watch the damn movie!), the poor schlub waiting on his personal treat rubs the lantern and out pops a sexy topless genie. His first wish is to have her cover up (Justin ain’t no creep!), realizing he may not … More The Merits of Sin: Shivers Down Your Spine (2015) (USA) ****
Carter the Great, the world’s greatest magician, discovered some sort of super substance called raw zeta which seems to be some form of hasheesh. When it’s introduced into the human body it becomes deadly zeta or some shit which grants the conduit’s voice the power to control humans or something along those lines. Carter vanished … More The Merits of Sin: Alabama’s Ghost (1973) (USA)
Small town boredom and a rapid fire imagination merge into a flawed but magically bizarre Florida SOV nightmare. Logic is left behind almost from the get go and we’re dropped headfirst into a world of skateboarding, punk/thrash culture, non-sequiturs and (of course) death. Paul is a kid who loves skateboarding. Charles is a kid who … More The Merits of Sin: Twisted Issues (1988) (USA)
At the age of 29, in the year 1993, director Fabio Salerno committed suicide. Leaving behind a handful of little distributed horror films that sit comfortably in the ever popular bizarre landscape of backyard horror. Sadly for Mr. Salerno he snuffed out his own candle a few decades before the boom in SOV and amateur … More The Merits of Sin. Fabio Salerno: Unsung
A grand retirement home in a secluded patch of the French countryside serves as the setting for this somehow quirky and mean spirited tale. Martine (the insanely beautiful Isabelle Goguey) has just arrived at the Deadlock House a day ahead of schedule. Nicole, the current nurse, thinks that she’s about to get fired but the … More The Merits of Sin: Night of Death (1980) (France)
As a fan of world horror there’s a few regions on this stupid rock I’m absolutely in love with. Mexico offers some of the best genre output this gringo has ever come across. They can get wild but if you’re in the mood for some serious pants shitting horror they throw it out with equal … More A Magical Evening in Indonesia
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