WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Brainiac (1962)

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Known as The Brainiac in the U.S., this was directed by Chano Urueta, who helped Blue Demon get on the silver screen and was written by Federico Curiel, who would make The Champions of Justice, several Santo movies and Neutron.

All the way back in 1661, Baron Vitelius was burned at the stake during the Inquisition and claimed that the next time a particular comet passed by the Earth, all of the children of those who did him wrong would pay. I mean, you would think a bunch of religious folks would treat a necromantic sorcerer better, but such is life in ancient Mexico.

Three hundred years later, Baron Vitelius rides back in on that comet and is now able to change at will into a monster able to suck out the brains of his victims via a gigante-forked tongue, which is incredibly easy to do thanks to his ability to hypnotize his victims.

How bonkers is this movie? No less than Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart paid tribute to it in their song “Debra Kadabra,” saying, “Turn it to Channel 13 / And make me watch the rubber tongue / When it comes out! From the puffed and flabulent Mexican rubber-goods mask / Next time they show the Binaca / Make me buy The Flosser / Make me grow Brainiac Fingers / But with more hair!”

In America, we’d be satisfied with an evil alien. In Mexico, it was added that he was a wizard who brought people back from the dead before he was burned alive and ascended to a heavenly body for three hundred years. Viva la peliculas de terror!

You can watch this on Tubi.

WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Boss (1975)

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I will not call this by its main title, as I’m a white person and have no right to use it. Instead, I’m going to call it Boss or The Black Bounty Killer. And despite its incendiary title, it is a major movie in black film history, as Dana M. Reemes’ wrote in Directed by Jack Arnold: “Jack Arnold seems to have been artiste exécutant on this picture; content-wise, we must regard Fred Williamson as the film’s auteur. He is like a black Clint Eastwood in a Cottafavi western. William’s bounty hunter turns the tables on the town’s White establishment with an intelligent and biting wit. He is very popular in the nearby Mexican village and is generous to its inhabitants—a kind of cinematic third-world unity. From an ideological standpoint, it is interesting to note that the only White male who turns out to be worth much is the blacksmith, a simple, honest tradesman.”

Boss and Amos (Fred Williamson and D’Urville Martin) stop a stagecoach robbery and save Clara Mae (Carmen Hayworth). They then learn that several of the bodies in the aftermath have rewards for their capture, while one was due to become the sheriff of the town of San Miguel, as recommended by Jed Clayton (William Smith). Does Mayor Griffin (R. G. Armstrong) know that this man was a criminal?

They end up becoming the lawmen of this town and Boss even romances the white Miss Pruit (Barbara Leigh), which starts off on the wrong foot when she has fond memories of the slaves her father once owned. This may not be the best way to handle things. But by the end, Boss and Amos are defending the town from Jed, who has killed Clara Mae and kidnapped the Mexican boy, Poncho, who has become friends with them. Then, the mayor shoots Boss twice, who somehow is able to kill him with a knife. He tells Amos, “Don’t let me die in a white town,” before they leave. Does Boss survive? I’d like to think he does.

Jack Arnold did so much, like The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Incredible Shrinking Man, The Mouse That Roared and The Space Children. He produced this with Williamson, who wrote the script. It’s way better than you’d expect, made at the height of the Black Power movement, yet it makes the hero the outsider who is fighting the sins of white America.

Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Hot Moves (1984)

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July 7-13 Teen Movie Hell Week: From the book description on the Bazillion Points website: All-seeing author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies) passes righteous judgment over the entire (teen movie) genre, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time. In more than 350 reviews and sidebars, Teen Movie Hell lays the crucible of coming-of-age comedies bare, from party-hearty farces such as The Pom-Pom Girls, Up the Creek, and Fraternity Vacation to the extreme insanity exploding all over King Frat, Screwballs, The Party Animal, and Surf II: The End of the Trilogy.

Michael (Adam Silbar), Barry (Michael Zorek), Scotty (Johnny Timko) and Joey (Jeff Fishman, who is now in the band Survivor and did the score for Gregory Dark’s Carnal Crimes) are four guys at the beach just looking to lose their virginity. Yes, it’s another Lemon Popsicle, doing that thing way before Porky’s and American Pie.

Michael already has a girlfriend, Julie Ann (Jill Schoelen!) who won’t put out, so he’s scheming with his friends and wondering if he should cheat. Now, Barry does hook up with Monique Gabrielle, so perhaps he has a point. But I kind of think Schoelen is worth waiting for. Debi Richter from Cybor is also in this, as is Virgil Frye as “the porno man,” the store owner who sells the guys condoms. A biker in Easy Rider, a survivor in Xtro 3, the father of Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye.

This was directed by Jim Sotos, who also made Sweet Sixteen, Little Scams on Golf, The Last Victim (AKA Forced Entry) and The Super Weapon. His real name? Dimitri Sotirakis.

It was written by Larry Anderson and Pete Foldy, who is still working in Hollywood, producing the TV movie Get Rich or Die Trying and directing Love Unleashed.

A breakdance scene, Venice Beach travelogue footage, nude ladies running in slow motion to Vangelis’ “Chariots of Fire” and the songs “Hot Moves” and “Ladykiller” by the British New Wave of Heavy Metal band Raven, who called their sound athletic rock and like Oasis, had two Gallagher brothers. Their drummer, Rob “Wacko” Hunter, would wear hockey gear and face paint; he’d throw himself into his drums. Today, he’s an audio engineer on jazz albums for artists such as Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis. Most of all, this is a movie about dudes trying to have an awkward ten seconds of sex and then apologizing after.

You can watch this on YouTube.

WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Boogeyman (1980)

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When Willy and Lacey were kids, they watched their mom and her boyfriend, who wore her stockings on his face, make out. Their mother was so upset that she sent Lacey to her room and tied Willy to his bed. It didn’t work, though. Willy would get out and stab the guy to death with a giant knife in front of a mirror. And that’s only the first few minutes of this one!

Now we’re in the present, and Lacey (Suzanna Love, who was married to the film’s director, Ulli Lommel, and appears in all the sequels) is married with a young son, living with her aunt, uncle, and Willy (Nicholas Love, Suzanna’s real-life brother) on a farm. Willy’s never gotten over killing a man, so he doesn’t talk and often steals knives.

Over dinner, Lacey announces that their mother wants to see them one last time before she dies. Willy burns their letter, and this starts off a series of dreams where she is tied to a bed and nearly stabbed, which makes her husband send her to a shrink.

And that shrink? Skinny Dracula himself, John Carradine, who shot everything in one day. He tells them that they must face their fears and return to their childhood home. As they look at the house, we see the dead boyfriend reflected in the mirror he died in front of. Lacey goes shithouse and smashes it, which is totally not what you should do. Nor should you take those pieces and try and fix the mirror. Mirrors are cheap. Go to Wal-Mart. Buy a new and uncursed mirror.

The pieces left behind start to glow red and kill everyone in the house after Lacey and Jake leave. Speaking of mirrors, Willy hates them. One of them made him strangle a girl, so he paints them all black.

The shards of glass start doing evil things, like levitating pitchforks, ripping off Lacey’s shirt and impaling young lovers with a screwdriver. I was cool with the shards of glass until then. You’ve taken it too far, shards of glass! I guess we can blame them for the aunt and uncle dying, too, right? In 1980, Jake decides to bring in a priest to fix everything. This causes Lacey to get possessed by a mirror shard and attack everyone. She kills the priest, too, but not before he removes the mirror’s control over her.

That’s when the best solution comes up — let’s just throw the mirror in a well. This releases all of the souls, with Lacey, Willy and her son exiting a graveyard. Oh, no — a piece of the mirror is on her son’s shoe!

I was wondering where many of the plot points of this movie would go, and they often get lost, as if this were a foreign film. But it isn’t!  So, I did some research on the director, Ulli Lommel.

Lommel had one crazy career, starting with appearing in Russ Meyer’s Fanny Hill, then acting in Fassbinder’s surreal western film Whitey (as well as several other of the director’s films). Moving to the U.S. in 1977, Lommel became connected to Andy Warhol, who was involved in his films, including Cocaine Cowboys and Blank Generation, a movie that starred Richard Hell and was filmed at CBGB.

Seriously — a movie that rips off Halloween, The Amityville Horror and Argento lighting while feeling like more than two movies mashed up into one that also features a girl cutting her own throat with scissors, a child getting his neck broken, and a priest getting his face melted? The acting is horrible — but are you here for that? Nope. You want to get freaked out when people’s eyes get replaced with a piece of a mirror.

Part of me wants to make fun of this movie. But another part of me wants to protect it from mean people who say things like it lacks attention to detail. Or the fact that none of its characters appear to be actual human beings. And the camera angles are more reminiscent of Dad not knowing how to use the video camera than art. But yet, I love this. I want to love it more, but I love what it can be more than what it is.

The Boogeyman was followed by two sequels that utilize footage — a lot of footage — from the original.

CBS LATE MOVIE: The Missing Are Deadly (1975)

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Missing Are Deadly was on the CBS Late Movie on May 21, 1976.

Directed by Don McDougall (the TV movies that made up Farewell to the Planet of the Apes, Forgotten City of the Planet of the Apes, Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge and two Kolchak episodes, “The Youth Killer” and “Legacy of Terror”) and written by TV veterans Michael Michaelian and Katharyn Powers, The Missing Are Deadly starts with Dr. Margolin (Ed Nelson) inviting his mentally disturbed son Jeff (Gary Morgan) to his lab, where he takes one of Dr. Durov’s (Leonard Nimoy) infected mice. Yes, the man who once was and would be Spock has been experimenting on infecting vermin with Mombasa Fever despite being told to stop doing exactly that. Now, Jeff has taken the disease into the wild, where the CDC has been hampered by a horrible President — oh wait, that’s real life — where the CDC and the scientists must stop the spread or multitudes will die.

David (George O’Hanlon Jr.) is Jeff’s brother and primary caregiver. He’s upset that dad is sending his brother to live at a new school instead of caring for him at home. Then again, Jeff thinks that he’s a robot named Gordot. Also: Jeff infects everyone around him, including Jeff’s girlfriend Michelle (Kathleen Quinlan) and troops from The Crazies have to be sent out to stop this plague.

Spock figures it out, Dr. Margolin lets Jeff stay home despite him almost killing most of the United States and this is ninety minutes of TV movie. José Ferrer shows up and Marla Gibbs is a nurse! As Jackée would say, “MAAAAARY!”

You can watch this on YouTube.

Interview with Grindhouse Toys’ Chris Scott — BACK WORLD WAR HELL, NOW ON KICKSTARTER!

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If you know me, you know how much I love G.I. Joe and horror movies. Well, this new toy line is perfect!

Let Grindhouse Toys tell you all about it!

“World War HELL is a vintage-inspired 1/18 World War II horror O-ring action figure line. Combining the nostalgic fun of Friday nights at the video store, 3-3/4 action figures and ridiculously over-the-top low-budget horror movies. Featuring classic O-Ring construction with a twist. Extra articulation, killer sculpting, highly detailed interchangeable accessories, all with premium deco. Incorporating a VHS-style packaging design, every figure comes in a slipcase box that beautifully showcases the movie poster artwork. Our team has spent the last year and a half designing, sculpting, fabricating and painting to create these incredibly detailed prototypes.”

World War HELL tells the story of an alternate history World War II. An apocalyptic world filled with skeletons, demons, corpses, ghosts and all manner of hell beasts. CERBERUS (The Allied department of supernatural and occult) is fighting a losing battle against COLONEL MALLUM and THE REVENANT, to keep the 9 circles of hell closed. Spearheading the ground assault is SGT. GRAVES and THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. A highly trained special forces unit made up of questionable heroes.

World War HELL: Series 1 is coming, and hell is coming with it. Each character is armed to the teeth and includes multiple interchangeable parts, so that you can build your army the way that you want. These are all of the rewards available on launch: CORPSE, SGT. GRAVES, SGT. SPECTER, CERBERUS TROOPER, and the GREEN ARMY MEN FROM HELL!

I had the chance to speak with Chris Scott, the creative powerhouse behind this line. He has worked on multiple toy lines in the independent toy industry, including but not limited to: Operation: Monster Force, Eagle Force Returns, The Naughty or Nice Collection, Skeletron Red Shadows, Operation Recall, The Prisoner, Nancy Drew, Longbox Heroes, The Fresh Monkeys, and Soldiers of Fortune. Grindhouse Toys has also released two highly sought-after and now sold-out action figures. The Multiverse Massacre D.R.E.A.D. Trooper and Necromancer.

B&S About Movies: How did you make the jump from collecting toys to making them?

Grindhouse Toys: From collecting toys, I got into customizing as well. I had been doing a lot of Marauder (a line of customizable figures you can find at this link)stuff, but I was intimidated about painting them. But then I started doing a bit of it and took a few classes at Joefest, and I got good at it quickly. I started building up a little bit of custom work and working with different people. My friend Ed Hellman actually recommended me to Bill Murphy, who is in charge of Fresh Monkey Fiction — he does Eagle Force and Operation: Monster Force — and he needed a painter to work on Monster Force. He reached out to me and said, “Hey, do you want to do paint masters?” The line combines G.I. Joe and monsters, so I said, “Absolutely.” Beyond just choosing the colors, I also get to do the art direction. We’re now in wave four of those figures.

I started painting on other stuff for Bill. He gave me numerous opportunities to work on other lines like Long Box Heroes, which were Super Powers-style action figures but instead of batman and superman it was The Rocketeer and The Goon. I worked on the Naughty or Nice collection, which is the Santa Claus action figure line that Arlen Pelletier and Bill produce, and they just had me doing all kinds of stuff. I’ve also worked for several different companies, and I’ve been wanting to do my own thing for a while. It was fun to work on all that, but I can do my own. I want my own IP, my own stories, and it’s been pretty cool to get to this point already.

B&S: There have been so many toy Kickstarters over the past few years, but what’s really unique about your stuff is that there’s a unique vision and that you can tell that, like, it feels like the story comes first.

Grindhouse: Yeah, that’s what I wanted. Something to like really connect and you know — I’ve always been big into movies and storytelling. It goes hand in hand with the toys that we collect. I wanted to bring that to what I was working on.

B&S: It feels like Mars Attacks! in that it’s humans against the undead.

Grindhouse: As I came up with this line, one of the hardest things to do is- it’s so expensive — to tool the parts (mold the parts) in China. You know I can’t come up with a bunch of uniquely sculpted figures. It would not be a viable, so I started brainstorming around the idea of shared parts. I got into the concept of World War II being at the edge of modern technology; it’s a diesel punk time where we don’t have computers yet. I did the Multiverse Massacre figures with Bill — the D.R.E.A.D. Trooper and Necromancer — and when we got the figures back from the factory, they were just in plastic bags. That’s not packaging! I found someone who had clamshell boxes, and we made that into something different. Giving them VHS style packing.

For this line, instead of a modern body, I wanted to go back to O-rings. There’s something about 1980s G.I. Joes and renting horror VHS tapes that just seems to go together.

B&S: But you’ve taken the articulation beyond what we had as kids.

Grindhouse: Everybody’s doing really cool stuff already. We’re in an O-Ring renaissance. Delta-17, Operation Recall, Callsign Longbow, Skeletron, Strike Force Alpha — you know all of these different companies have done extraordinary things with O-ring. They’re creating fantastic items that complement our old Joes. I said, “Let’s go a different direction and update the articulation.” Adding articulation in the neck, ankles, wrists. Adding an overlay, which was former Hasbro sculpt supervisor James Carter’s idea, is a second piece over the body that adds a whole new dynamic. I wanted to add G.I. Joe Classified-style quality sculpting to this world.

B&S: What movies influenced these figures?

Grindhouse: I’m a big fan of Evil Dead, especially Evil Dead II, so I didn’t want it to be too serious. I wanted it to be both scary and ridiculous. That’s why it works so well as an O-Ring figure: you have this over-the-top gory corpse with its head exploding and you still see where the rivets go and the goofy O-Ring construction. I also love The Thing, and Aliens is one of my all-time favorite movies. I didn’t want the science fiction of Star Wars. I wanted it to be scary when I was a kid! (laughs)

Those are the big three there, but I also love all the ’80s action movies with their goofy taglines. I mean my phone case is John Matrix from Commando holding his giant rocket launcher utilizing the camera phone.

I did try to make some things realistic — the guns are especially — but these are Nazi experiments with zombies, so it can be goofy, like something Troma could have made.

B&S: Have you had a good reaction with the VHS cases?

Grindhouse:Oh yeah, yeah, so people love that. I want to go for a horror exploitation feel. The packaging is so important — just look at the G.I. Joe toys we grew up with, the paintings that Hector Garrido created for them. Plus, you have the file cards, the comic book, the cartoon…the world building.I wanted something special so Brian Sauer and I created the VHS packaging, and even won a best of category packaging award by the Art Directors Association of Iowa for the Necromancer VHS packaging.

B&S: Do you have plans for more after the Kickstarter?

Grindhouse: Oh yeah, absolutely. I have so many more ideas coming. And I did these at 3 3/4″ because I want vehicles and army building to be part of World War Hell. We need a tank. (laughs)

I have tons of ideas. There’s a lot of cool characters. Even though this is supposed to be a World War II movie, the sky is the limit. Ash goes back and forth in time, after all. My characters can too. No real rules and nothing is holding me back.

I’m so excited about these toys! Chris is a great guy and deserves your support and money!

You can support this Kickstarter now.

Click the link and be sure to do it in the next 5 days!

You can also learn more at the official Grindhouse Toys website.

CBS LATE MOVIE: Arnold (1973)

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Arnold was on the CBS Late Movie on November 21, 1986 and March 25 and July 29, 1987.

Lord Arnold Dwellyn (Norman Stuart) has just married Karen (Stella Stevens), which would not be all that strange except that, well, he’s dead. He’s not buried, as per his will, if Karen wants to inherit all that he owns, she must never leave his mansion and leave him in state. That doesn’t mean that she’s taking it easy, as she’s been having an affair with Arnold’s brother Robert (Roddy McDowall). And, um, how did Arnold get married when he had a widow, Lady Jocelyn (Shani Wallis)? I guess it really is until death do you part, right?

There’s money hidden in the walls, though, but whenever anyone gets close to it, Arnold has already planned for it, knowing how each person will react and coming up with a death trap created just for them, like some kind of Dr. Phibes without the years of medical school. Only Arnold’s sister Hester (Elsa Lanchester, once a Bride) seems to benefit from all of this, but her luck can’t last.

Shot at the same time as Terror in the Wax Museum with most of the same cast — Lanchester, Wallis, Steven Marlo, Patric Knowles, Shani Ben Wright and Leslie Thompson — this didn’t hit right with me at first. It felt like a long, black out sketch from Night Gallery. Yet the more I think about it, well, I keep thinking about this movie. I mean, what other film finds roles for Victor Buono, Bernard Fox, Farley Granger and Jamie Farr? How many fog machines did it take to make this? And wow, it was produced by Bing Crosby Productions?

Directed by Georg Fenady, who other than this and the aforementioned Terror in the Wax Museum mainly worked in TV and written by Jameson Brewer (who did write The Incredible Mr. Limpet) and John Fenton Murray (whose credits include Sid and Marty Krofft shows and Partridge Family 2200 AD), this feels like something made in between episodes of other shows. Yet, it has a weird charm that keeps drawing me back to it. Maybe it’s the Shani Walls theme at the end?

Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: One Crazy Summer (1986)

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July 7-13 Teen Movie Hell Week: From the book description on the Bazillion Points website: All-seeing author Mike “McBeardo” McPadden (Heavy Metal Movies) passes righteous judgment over the entire (teen movie) genre, one boobs-and-boner opus at a time. In more than 350 reviews and sidebars, Teen Movie Hell lays the crucible of coming-of-age comedies bare, from party-hearty farces such as The Pom-Pom Girls, Up the Creek, and Fraternity Vacation to the extreme insanity exploding all over King Frat, Screwballs, The Party Animal, and Surf II: The End of the Trilogy.

Made one after the other with Better Off Dead by director and writer Savage Steve Holland with actor John Cusack, this may not have been a success in theaters, but when it came to video stores and cable TV, it was watched over and over.

Hoops McCann (Cusack) — named for the Steely Dan song “Glamour Profession”– didn’t get a scholarship in basketball, despite his name. However, he wants to attend the Rhode Island School of Design to become an animator. He just needs to put together an illustrated love story to get in, so he does what we all would: he goes to Nantucket with his friends George (Joel Murray) and Squid Calamari (Kristen Goelz).

After they rescue singer Cassandra Eldridge (Demi Moore) from a motorcyle gang, they settle in for a summer of hijnks with twins Egg (Bobcat Goldthwaite) and Clay Stork (Tom Willard) and Ack-Ack Raymond (Curtis Armstrong), much of which is about saving Cassandra’s family home from the Beckersted family (Mark Metcalf, William Hickey, Matt Mulhern). Hoops even gets challenged to a basketball game that he loses horribly, upsetting Cassandra, all while Egg gets stuck in a Godzilla costume.

There’s a regatta, a boat race, an old man bad guy who turns babyface and a radio station blowing up real good. Plus, animated sequences, bunny versions of Siskel and Ebert exploding, Rich Little as a DJ, Joe Flaherty as General Raymond, a young Jeremy Piven as rich kid Ty, Billie Bird as a wacky grandma (of course) and two of my favorite small role players, Rich Hall and Taylor Negron, as gas station attendants. Oh yeah! John Matuszak — Sloth himself — is in this!

Yes, Summer Rental also ends with a boat race.

CBS LATE MOVIE: Parts the Clonus Horror (1979)

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Parts the Clonus Horror was on the CBS Late Movie on January 15, April 9 and August 11, 1982.

Directed by Robert S. Fiveson and written by Bob Sullivan, Ron Smith, Myrl A. Schreibman and Robert S. Fiveson, this is about an island named Clonus. The clones there believe that they’re being educated and trained so that they can better fit into America; the truth is, they’re about to be stripped for parts. There’s a big party when people ship out for the U.S.A. And then, they’re frozen in bags and hung to wait for someone to need their body parts.

Richard (Tim Donnelly) is a clone of Richard Knight (David Hooks); his brother Jeffrey (Peter Graves) is soon to be President. What neither Richard knows is that Jeffrey commissioned this clone to be made. This is one dark movie, because they lobotomize Lena (Paulette Breen), Richard’s lover, and when he comes back for her, he learns that she’s already gone. He’s killed and used for parts, which is good news for Jeffrey, who ends up stabbing in the chest when government troops attack the home of his brother, killing his entire family as well as Jake Noble (Keenan Wynn) and his family.

Somehow, the press gets a tape, though, sent by Noble, who was a reporter. Richard has a massive hole in his chest when we see his body. Yes, this ends with the hero dead in a freezer.

If you’ve ever seen The Island and thought, “This is the same movie,” well, you’re right. Except Dreamworks never asked for the rights or even considered it. They did after they paid what was said to be a seven-figure settlement to the creators of Clonus.

Finding Nicole (2025)

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Based on the true story of Nicole Beverly — as seen on Inside Evil with Chris Cuomo – Til Death Do Us Part and also the title of Beverly’s top-selling book, Finding Nicole: A True Story of Love, Loss, Betrayal, Fear and Hope — this film is all about Nicole (Kaiti Wallen), who at one point fell in love with football player Warren (Mari G.). Love, as they say, blinded her toward the red flags that he showed untik it was too late.

Directed and written by Harley Wallen, along with Geoffrey D. Calhoun, the story moves to the couple having two children, Carter and Myles (played by Isaiah and Ayden Franklin). Time has not improved the relationship between husband and wife, as what were small bits of jealousy have become full-blown rages. Throw in some alcohol, and you have a man who continually beats his wife, so much so that the cops know their home without needing the address. The problem? Warren used to be an officer, so the blue line protects him until he puts a gun to her face.

This leads to a trial, where attorney Cameron Banks (Sean Whalen) even discusses the size of her intimate areas to try to convince the jury that she’s a woman of loose morals. With the help of her lawyer, Shonda Wright, Esq. (Shawntay Dalon), Nicole wins the case, only to learn that her ex has ordered a hit on her and the children while he rots in prison.

The good news? Today, Nicole has “taken her traumatic experiences and turned them into a springboard for helping others understand and recover from their own trauma while working to create societal changes and viewpoints about trauma survivors.” You can learn more about her and her story — not just from this movie — at Finding Nicole.

This site usually covers horror, but not the real kind. Domestic violence is a true and terrifying ordeal. According to Break the Cycle, “in the United States, nearly every 1 in 2 women and more than 2 in 5 men reported experiencing intimate partner violence at some point in their lifetime.” If you or someone you love is dealing with it, don’t stay. Call 1-800-799-SAFE, visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline or text START to 88788.