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EDITOR’S NOTE: Have I ever mentioned how much I love Sylvia Kristel? If you’re reading this site, you probably do too. Here’s some good news from Cult Epics and MVD.

Don’t have Shudder? Maybe June’s line-up will convince you. Plans start at under $5 a month and you can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

Click on any of the links to see an in-depth article on the movie.

June 1

What Keeps You Alive: A couple discovers that must battle one another on their first anniversary.

Eye of the Cat: A young man starts thinking of murder after his wealthy aunt announces that she intends to leave her fortune to her cats.

Daughters of Darkness: The Eurohorror classic comes to Shudder in a film that redefined what female vampire movies could be.

Poltergeist: Tobe Hooper’s horror classic is here to make you afraid of trees, TV sets, the suburbs, swimming pools and toy clowns all over again.

Mary, Mary Bloody Mary Mary: A beautiful American artist living in Mexico is obsessed with drinking blood while avoid John Carradine, who may be her father.

In the Mouth of Madness: A John Carpenter film in much need of people talking more about it, filled with nightmarish images and true fright.

The films of Eloy de la Iglesia: Celebrate Pride with a curated collection of more than two dozen must-see LGBTQ+ horror and thriller features, series, and documentaries showcasing queer themes, characters, and creators. The Iglesia movies are added this month and include Cannibal Man, El Pico, El Pico 2, Navajeros and No One Heard the Scream.

June 2

Alligator: Twelve years after a kid flushes an alligator down the toilet, Robert Forster must battle the mutated and gigantic critter.

Alligator II: The Mutation: Steve Railsback, Dee Wallace, Richard Lynch, Kane Hodder and another big and bad gator.

June 6

Backcountry: There’s a reason why I don’t go into the woods. Movies like this.

A Lonely Place to Die: Shudder doubles up on movies that will keep me inside all summer.

Hellbenders: A demon tries to escape the gates of Hell, which just so happens to be in New York City.

The Incident: It used to be a great job doing security in a mental institution but when the power goes out, well…

Crystal Eyes: I’m super excited that this modern giallo is on Shudder, as it’s one I’ve been trying to hunt down. Look for a review ASAP.

The Demons of Dorothy: Dorothy seeks comfort in her favorite TV show, which may be sending literal demons to bedevil her.

The Wild Boys: Five boys (all played by actresses) in need of punishment are sent to an island that transforms their minds and bodies.

June 10

Offseason: After getting a mysterious letter that her mother’s grave site has been vandalized, Marie (Jocelin Donahue, The House of the Devil) gets trapped on the island and stuck in a strange place unlike the hometown she remembered.

June 13

The Clovehitch Killer: A really well-made BTK movie that explores what it’s like to be the son of a serial killer.

Demonic: When teen ghost hunters get in over their heads, a cop and a psychologist have to figure out exactly what happened.

Open 24 Hours: After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station. Grab some Slim Jims!

Repression: The ten-year-old patient of a therapist claims he can see and control her future through his art.

All About Evil: The new Severin release, starring Natasha Lyonne, is on Shudder too. A shy and nerdy librarian inherits her father’s beloved but failing old movie house, The Victoria. To save the family business, she must embrace her inner serial killer when she starts filming a series of gruesome shorts.

June 16

Mad God: Prepare to be changed. This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time, the results of thirty years of hard work from stop-motion animator and special effects supervisor Phil Tippett.

June 20

The Freakmaker: Well, I know one movie Joe Bob will be showing in July! Mutant plants and real sideshow workers? You know it.

Sea Fever: I can think of no fate worse than being stuck on a ship with people who hate you.

We Summon the Darkness: After a metal festival, a party gets out of hand and someone is the killer. I had a blast with this one and am super excited for more people to see it.

Slumber Party Massacre: The power drill — and the murders it causes — are back!

Double the William Girdler, as Shudder will also add Grizzly and Day of the Animals.

June 23

Revealer: A stripper and a religious protester are trapped together in a peep show booth and must survive the apocalypse in 1980s Chicago. Written by comic authors Tim Seeley and Michael Moreci.

June 30

The Long Night: New York transplant Grace (Scout Taylor-Compton) returns to her childhood home with her boyfriend (Nolan Gerard Funk) to investigate a promising lead on her disappeared family and finds a cult waiting.

If you don’t get Shudder, well…there’s quite the library of movies to get into. Just check out what they have on in May! Plans start at under $5 a month and you can get the first week free when you visit Shudder.

There’s also the final episode of Cursed Films that’s about Cannibal Holocaust and Joe Bob is on every Friday night.

May 1

Eli Roth’s History of Horror Season 3: This season has the following topics: “Sequels (That Don’t Suck),” “Infections,” “Psychics,” “Apocalyptic Horror,” “Holiday Horror,” and “Mad Scientists.”

Broadcast Signal Intrusion: A video archivist becomes way too into pirate broadcasts and uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.

Goodnight Mommy: Twin brothers welcome their mother home after reconstructive surgery but is it their mother?

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2: Can you imagine if Twitter was around when this movie came out? I love it so much, no matter what others think of it.

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III: The trailer for this is so much better than the movie, but then again this movie gets better with each new sequel.

May 2

The Babadook: Less a horror movie and one about bad parenting. I guess if I can’t say anything nice, I shouldn’t say anything.

The Midnight Swim: Dr. Amelia Brooks’ three daughters travel home to settle her affairs after she disappears in Spirit Lake. What have I said about never going back home?

May 6

The Twin: A family moves from Finland from New York to deal with the grief of losing a son. Just reading that line I know that nothing works out for anyone in this movie.

May 9

Popcorn: One of my favorite weird movies, I’m so excited that this film has the potential to reach a larger audience on Shudder.

The Stylist: This modern slasher needs more eyes on it, because it gets so much right. This was one of my favorite films of 2020.

A Ghost Waits: Sometimes, when you try and clean a house of a ghost, you end up falling in love.

May 12

The Sadness: This Taiwan-shot zombie movie has been compared to the comic book Crossed and is said to be the roughest movie in some time. I’m looking forward to this!

May 16

Brain Damage: Welcome back to Shudder, Aylmer!

May 19

The Found Footage Phenomenon: As much as I dislike this style of movie, the documentary is pretty wonderful.

May 23

Get totally into the body horror of two Japanese blasts of maniac wildness: Tetsuo the Iron Man and Tetsuo the Body Hammer

May 24

The Prowler: In case you ever wondered what my favorite slasher is, it’s this movie.

May 26

A Banquet: This film may not totally stick the landing, but it has some big ideas and is aiming for the fences. Is a young girl inspired by the divine? Or has she lost her mind?

May 30

The Unseen: Teens are on the way to a music festival and end up in a scary house. In 1980, this was enough for us.

Demon Wind: Magic tricks, an evil house, a nonsensical plot — I own the t-shirt.

May 31

Kolobos: An experimental new way of making movies leads to actors dying for real.

April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. Admission is still only $10 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included) for an additional $10 per person. You can buy tickets at the show but get there early.

The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects.

Here are the two drinks I’ll be bringing!

Amazing Grace (Sit On Budd’s Face)

In 1986, Bret McCormick wrote, produced and directed one of the strangest direct-to-video feature films ever created – THE ABOMINATION. This companion book illuminates the history and critical reactions to the film for a new generation of viewers. Find out why THE ABOMINATION has a dedicated world-wide cult following with this book.

I’m super excited for this book to be released, as it takes the review that I did of the film and expands on an interview that I got to work on with Bret. I truly feel that this is one of the most interesting horror films of the 80s, so anything I can do to get it new fans I will.

You can get this book now from Amazon.

Want more of Bret’s books? Here’s where to find them.

You have no idea how excited I am to announce the first blu ray commentary track I’ve ever done, along with Bill Van Ryn, who I host the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature with! Get ready!

Wild Eye Releasing’s new sister label Visual Vengeance, a collector’s Blu-ray label dedicated to vintage Shot on Video and micro budget genre independents from the 1980s though 2000s, is excited to reveal the next two Blu-ray collectors editions in their fast growing catalog.

LA. AIDS JABBER (1994): One of the rarest and most sought-after bad taste movies of the SOV era. Jeff, a mentally unstable young man is diagnosed with AIDS and takes his anger out on the world by filling a syringe with his own tainted blood and trolling the seedy streets of Los Angeles looking for victims in an acid-washed and venomous delirium. Police slowly piece together his crimes in an attempt to stop this ticking virus time bomb from jabbing again. This is the first wide release of the movie since it was self-distributed by director Drew Godderis himself, and the Blu-ray is packed with newly produced bonus features and commentary from the original creators.

• Commentary Track with Director Drew Godderis
• Lethal Injection: The Making of L.A. AIDS JABBER
• Bleeding The Pack: An Interview with Lead Actor Jason Majick
• L.A. AIDS JABBER – 2021 Locations Visit
• Interview with Blood Diner Director Jackie Kong
• Actress Joy Yurada Interview
• Cast and crew Interviews
• Liner notes by Tony Strauss of Weng’s Chop Magazine
• Limited Edition Slipcover – FIRST PRINTING ONLY
• Reversible BR sleeve featuring original VHS art
• Collectible Mini-poster
• ‘Stick your own’ VHS sticker set
• And More

For more details on the label and updates on new releases – as well as news on upcoming releases – follow Visual Vengeance on social media – IG, Facebook or twitter

TWITTER @VisualVenVideo

INSTAGRAM visualvenvideo

FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/visualvenvideo

We spoke with Eric Eichelberger on February 13, 2021 about his upcoming film Exploit This! The Complete History of Exploitation Cinema in America. As he continues working on that film, he’s also behind the Shock-A-Go-Go Film Festival and we had the opportunity to find out what’s happening this year.

B&S About Movies: How did you decide the movies for this edition?

Eric Eichelberger: We started out with Blood Diner because my partner had shown that movie in Indianapolis and had a big crowd. We were trying to celebrate women filmmakers and because that movie and Slumber Party Massacre  were directed by women and we had multiple female-directed shorts, it all worked well. I had met Brinke Stevens and Debra De Liso through making Exploit This, so I asked if they would come. And I just liked The Greasy Strangler which is a good fit as well.

B&S: Did doing Exploit This influence the festival?

Eric: It informed it. After all, Blood Diner is so close to Blood Feast that it just worked. It was a natural outgrowth of working on the film and that helped with the festival.

B&S: How’s the movie going?

Eric: We’re in the process of editing down about 30 million hours of material cut down to five and a half hours. Then,  we’re trying to get it down to two and a half hours by the end of spring. Hopefully by summer, we’ll have a rough cut.

We keep picking up interviews to kind of wrap up the story including some people that we needed to get more coverage on in terms of the story. For example, on Saturday we interviewed Kitten Natividad, who had a relationship with Russ Meyer and was in his films. We found a few others that talk about him, because you need to have him as a plot point. She was a great interview!

B&S: Did you discover any new movies through this process?

Eric: The people who made these movies, they’d make recommendations, and I ended up learning about a lot of filmmakers I was familiar with but had not experienced their films, like William Gréfe. The first one I watched was Impulse, which is a blast. It’s really fun.

B&S: With so many recent box sets of filmmakers like Gréfe and Bill Rebane, people can get a really great look at their films quickly.

Eric: As I was doing the Shock-A-Go Go in the past, I met a lot of these directors and conducted Q&A with them and thought, “People need to hear all this.” David F. Friedman was one of the first that I got for the movie, then we met Roger Corman and suddenly we had some great interviews.

B&S: What’s the goal with Shock-A-Go Go?

Eric: We’re looking to kind of grow the festival. I would love to turn the festival into a 24 hour event again. We have a great place to show movies now. This year, there’s an exciting lineup, great guests and you get it all for $15 dollars.

If you live anywhere near Long Beach, you need to find your way to this show, because it looks amazing.

When: April 22, 2022

Where: Art Theatre Long Beach, 2025 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Venue Website: Arttheatrelongbeach.org

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/232597865744712

Tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/5376635

Festival Website: https://shockagogo.com

Festival social media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

Shock-A-Go-Go Film Festival is coming to the Art Theatre in Long Beach, California on Friday, April 22, 2022. Tickets are on sale now and a Full Festival Pass is only $15 pre-sale ($20 at the door).

What a night! Just gaze at this line-up!

5 p.m.: Short Film Program

7 p.m.: Slumber Party Massacre with Brinke Stevens and Debra De Liso in person!

9 p.m.: Blood Diner with director Jackie Kong in person!

Midnight: The Greasy Strangler with cast members Sky Elobar, Michael St Michaels, Gil Gex, Carl Solomon and Holland MacFallister in person!

Wild Eye Releasing is thrilled to announce their brand new sister label Visual Vengeance, a collector’s Blu-ray label dedicated to vintage, sometimes overlooked micro budget genre independents from the 1980s though 2000s.

The upcoming slate of releases will span underground genre history including action, horror, and sci-fi titles – and will feature SOV, Super 8, 16mm and 35mm lensed movies – though its primary focus will be shot on video movies of the beloved VHS and early DVD era, when independent film output flourished.

The label will include movies from enduring fan favorite directors like Todd Sheets, Bret McCormick, Mark Polonia, Brad Sykes, Kevin Lindenmuth and Donald Farmer, as well as many others – and a good selection of the featured movies have been feared ‘lost’ or remained out of print for decades.

All releases will include participation on brand new bonus features with the original creators and stars of the movies, and be released in deluxe collector’s editions with limited edition Slipcase packaging – as well as being loaded with special features.  Plus, many will have the addition of liner notes and premium items such as posters, stickers and more surprises.

Here are the first two blu rays that have announced for July 2022 — a pair of ultraviolent cult films never properly available in North America:

>BLOODY MUSCLE BODY BUILDER IN HELL (1995): Alternately known as “The Japanese Evil Dead,” this legendary, sought after Super 8 independent Japanese cult film will enjoy its first ever North American release in any format and features new bonus content. Trapped inside a haunted house, a body builder must survive a blood soaked night of insanity to save himself and his friends from a demonic ghost that is hell-bent on revenge.

Select Bonus Features:

• • New interview with director Shinichi Fukazawa
  • Commentary track with directors Adam Green (Hatchet, Frozen) and Joe Lynch    (Shudder’s Creepshow, Mayhem)
  • Commentary track with Japanese film historian James Harper
  • Liner notes
  • Limited Edition Slipcase
  • Collectible Mini-poster
  • ‘Stick your own’ VHS sticker set
  • Vintage style laminated Video Store Rental Card and more

Get it from Diabolik DVD.

THE NECRO FILES (1997): An often referenced and notorious underground classic for the last 25 years, this “American Video Nasty” is finally available to a mass audience and for the first time ever in Blu-ray format. A serial killer rises from the grave as a flesh-eating zombie maniac! Two Seattle cops, a satanic cult and a flying demon baby try to stop the lust-crazed ghoul before he can kill again. The Necro Files is stacked with intense scenes of gore and sadism, and boasts some of the most WTF moments in the history of shot on video cinema.

Select Bonus Features:

• Brand new commentary with director Matt Jaissle
• Brand new on camera interview with director Matt Jaissle
• Bonus Movie: Necro Files 3000 (2017 sequel)
• Dong of the Dead: The Making of The Necro Files
• Limited Edition Slipcase
• Collectible Mini-poster
• Stick your own’ VHS sticker set and more