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Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
If the 1973 predecessor was all about high-energy high jinks and dazzling diamond escapades, Richard Lester’s The Four Musketeers pulls back the curtain into something much more raw, melancholic and deeply compelling. Written by George MacDonald Fraser (creator of the Flashman papers) and based on the timeless Alexandre Dumas classic, this second half of the […]
Tony Breda (Tony Lo Bianco) is a well-respected local in his Italian town, but he’s also a small-time crook with a massive weak spot: he completely idolizes Italo-American mobster Frankie Diomede (Lee Van Cleef), a legendary figure known as “Dio” (“God”). You’ll get it once you see the first few moments of Van Cleef in […]
The Sinful Dwarf (originally titled Dværgen) occupies a notorious niche in the annals of underground cinema. Directed by Vidal Raski, the film is widely recognized as a bizarre, shocking and controversial artifact of 1970s European genre filmmaking. It takes place in a boarding house managed by a harsh, heavy-drinking mother and her peculiar, pint-sized son, […]
Andrew Prine is an exploitation superstar. Just look at a few of his films: Grizzly, a bonkers ripoff of Jaws with a bear instead; The Town That Dreaded Sundown, a movie that can’t decide if it wants to be a comedy or a brutal slasher and ends up being both while being awesome; Amityville II: The Possession, the […]
Based on the Anders Bodelsen novel Think of a Number, this Daryl Duke-directed (The Thorn Birds) and Curtis Hanson-written (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, L.A. Confidential, Sweet Kill) film was an early Carolco film and also one of the earliest films to take advantage of Canada’s Capital Cost Allowance incentive plan, which gave production companies tax inducements […]
Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
Monte Hellman started his career by directing Roger Corman’s Beast from Haunted Cave before working with Jack Nicholson on the westerns The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind, as well as creating the films Two-Lane Blacktop and Cockfighter. He also shot second unit on RoboCop and executive produced Reservoir Dogs. The original script was thrown out and rewritten in one week, with […]
When some tourists head out on a cruise, little do they know that the boat’s engine will fail. And no one expected a strange orange haze that messes with the navigation. Is this a Blind Dead movie? No. Next, as night falls, a massive, rusted cargo ship materializes out of nowhere and sideswipes their vessel […]
Week 8 (Aug 9 – 15) – Trash-Mex picks Hey, Mario Almada was in over 300 movies, someone’s gotta help us find the good ones! Since 2010 Armando Hernandez has been one of the only people discussing Mexican genre pictures through his website trashmex dot com and the Trash-Mex podcast with co-host Joey Diaz. There’s ORO AUTÉNTICO on this list! […]
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