La Metralleta Infernal (1991)
The Infernal Machine Gun has a submachine gun with supernatural powers that never misses. It stars Julian Garza, a Northeastern Mexico singer of more than 150 corridos. A corrido is a popular narrative ballad often about farming life, dealing with oppression or what it’s like to be a criminal. Garza recorded several albums of these […]
El hacedor de miedo (1971)
Released in the U.S. as The Fearmaker, this movie finds opera singer Sarita Verdugo returning home to claim her inheritance after the death of her father. Yet when she gets back, everyone is against her and she has to deal with a near-maniacal level of greed as money — and the hint of supernatural menace — […]
El Grito de La Muerte (1959)
The Screaming Death was directed by Fernando Méndez, who also made El Vampiro, The Black Pit of Dr. M and Ladrón de Cadáveres. It was written by Ramón Obón, the screenwriter of the first Mil Mascaras movies, as well as the director and writer of Cien Gritos de Terror. The American version — The Living Coffin — was remixed for U.S. audiences […]
Siete en la mira 4 (1990)
With a subtitle of Yo Soy La Ley (I Am the Law) — a title it was re-released under a year later — the fourth Siete en la Mira film moves away from the gang on gang violence to just featuring two killing machines. Roberto “Flaco” Guzman (a man with more than 200 credits, mostly from the […]
Ip Man: The Awakening (2022)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When […]
La maldición de la Llorona (1963)
An older Mexican horror film that actually played in the U.S. — American-International Pictures offered it for syndication in 1965 — The Curse of the Crying Woman is another film that attempts to translate the legend of La Llorona, the crying woman, and does the best job of any I’ve seen. The film starts with full […]
Junesploitation 2022: Personal Vendetta (1995)
June 22: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is lethal ladies! We’re excited to tackle a different genre every day, so check back and see what’s next. I’ve become kind of fascinated by the movies that Mimi Lesseos made, as she didn’t just act in them, she wrote and produced […]
BARK AT THE MOON WITH THE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM LATE NITE MOVIE!
Join Bill and me on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages at 11 PM this Saturday for an absolutely horrible movie yet one that for some reason gets stuck in your head. Seriously, I should sell this better. The Howling II is not good but it’s great. Watch the show and we’ll try and figure it out […]
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