WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Shiver of the Vampires (1971)
Also known as Sex and Vampires, Strange Things Happen at Night, Terror of the Vampires, Thrill of the Vampire and Vampire Thrills, this is the third time that Jean Rollin would bring a vampire movie to the screen. Look, if you’re obsessed, you’re obsessed. Isle (Sandra Julien, Je Suis Frigide… Pourquoi?) and Antoine (Jean-Marie Durand) have just […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Shark! (1969)
Caine (Burt Reynolds) is a stranded gunrunner stuck in a small port on the Red Sea. Looking for a way out of his financial and logistical nightmare, he crosses paths with an alluring woman named Anna (Silvia Pinal). Anna and her associate proposition Caine to take on a diving expedition into treacherous, shark-infested waters. While […]
MVD REWIND COLLECTION BLU-RAY RELEASE: Force: Five (1981)
When a dangerous cult — the Palace of Celestial Tranquility — successfully brainwashes the daughter of a U.S. senator, Cindy Lester (Amanda Wyss), local authorities find themselves completely powerless. With time running out, the government turns to seasoned agent Jim Martin (Joe Lewis) to assemble a specialized team of elite martial arts experts known as […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
Following the global devastation of the Robot Wars, the remnants of humanity fled Earth to establish New Washington, a domed city on the Moon. Society here is fragile, entirely dependent on Raddic-Q2, an essential anti-radiation miracle drug mined exclusively on the distant planet Delta 3. Enter Omus (Jack Palance), a scenery-chewing cyborg-controlling tyrant who overthrows […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Shanty Tramp (1967)
A hypocritical, sleazy evangelist named Preacher Fallows (Bill Rogers) rolls into a sleepy, tight-knit community preaching righteousness while practicing anything but. He sets his sights on Emily (Lee Holland), the local small-town free spirit labeled by the judgmental locals as a shanty tramp. Fallows assumes he can easily add her to his list of conquests, […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Pretty Peaches 2 (1987)
Pretty Peaches 2 was directed by Alex de Renzy, a pioneering documentary and adult filmmaker whose career spanned from the counterculture 1970s well into the digital era. At times, it seems like he treated adult cinema with actual cinematic composition, often shooting with widescreen framing and narrative pacing that mirrored mainstream studio sex comedies. Young […]
NIGHTMARE USA PODCAST episode 4: Death Bed
In this episode, Adam and Sam leave no crumbs as they discuss George Barry’s fairy tale film Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. You can listen to the show anywhere you find podcasts, including Spreaker and Spotify. Email us at nightmareusapod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @nightmareusapod Follow Adam on Letterboxd: @ashursey Follow Sam on Letterboxd: @bandsaboutmovie Visit Sam’s site B […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Shadey (1985)
Wealthy diamond merchant Sir Cyril Landau (Patrick Macnee) gets an unusual visitor: a motor mechanic named Oliver Shadey (Antony Sher). Shadey has a very specific proposition—he wants £25,000 for a sex change operation, and in exchange, he’s willing to trade his rare psychic skill. His talent? The ability to mentally view remote locations and record […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: Fireback (1983)
If you dig deep enough into the trenches of exploitation movies, you eventually find yourself watching Filipino action cinema. Directed by the prolific Teddy Page (working under his own name alongside his Teddy Chiu moniker), Fireback is a relentless blast of custom weaponry, wild pacing and pure cinematic adrenaline. The narrative kicks off in the […]
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