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Heat Score, the gritty crime-comedy-thriller from co-directors Devin and Robert Burkosky, wears its greasy heart right there on its sleeve. Set deep within the gritty underworld of Edmonton, this takes place in the 1990s, a place where Vince Valcone, once the toast of the local adult entertainment scene, has fallen on hard times. He’s running […]
When: Saturday at 8 PM EDT Where and how to watch: Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channels. Just click on those channels and watch the show. We have three segments: the intro, then you watch the movie either on physical media or the links we provide. Then we’ll go back in around 2 hours and do the […]
Bugs (Sean Ashlet) is a burned-out Atlanta private investigator who thinks he is taking on a simple, quick-cash gig when he agrees to help a foul-mouthed kid on the run. That easy money evaporates instantly once he realizes the boy is fleeing the clutches of a dangerous, unhinged cult. What follows is a relentless, chaotic […]
Final Transmissions was announced as a six-episode analog horror anthology series co-created by the husband-and-wife team Steven Hugh Nelson and Erica Nelson (Old Wounds). However, it played as a film at Genre Blast X, an anthology set in the small, eerie town of Eldritch, Illinois, in 1999. There, a local cable-access TV host begins broadcasting […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Alligator was on the CBS Late Movie on November 18, 1983 and September 14, 1984. There are moments in horror movies when even the most jaded of us can be upset by a visual or an idea. In Alligator, there’s plenty to be disgusted by, but for me, the dead dogs being floated down a sewer […]
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there; it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Dark was on the CBS Late Movie on March 26, 1982. Bill Van Ryn from Groovy Doom/Drive-In Asylum explained this movie short and sweet: “It’s like an episode of Kolchak: The Night Stalker without Kolchak.” It’s also about the press freaking out about an eight-foot-tall alien who is killing people who eyebeam lasers in the dirty and […]
Director Lee Dae-han’s feature debut Debone, shot on a $ 23,000-or-less budget, is a punishing, pitch-black entry into South Korea’s rich tradition of uncompromising crime-thriller horror. The film is the tale of Gyutark (Lee Gyu-tark), a young man whose life is derailed by an initial act of primal self-preservation: killing his abusive father to protect […]
When you talk about late 70s regional drive-in cinema, Stingray is an absolute slice of Midwest exploitation action that demands respect. Directed by Southern Illinois University film professor Richard Taylor, this isn’t just another post-Smokey and the Bandit gearhead flick—it’s a gritty, weird, relentlessly paced indie bullet-and-asphalt thriller that somehow bridges the gap between pure […]
Agnes Applewhite (Lauren Kitchen) is a blossoming young woman trapped in a claustrophobic home with her sanctimonious mother (Brooklyn Woods) and tightly wound sister, Liberty (Harlie Madison). Defying her family’s strict expectations, Agnes takes a job as a shampoo girl at the lively Hairbrain Beauty Salon. Surrounded by a colorful, welcoming crew of misfits—including a […]
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