JUNESPLOITATION: Delusion (1981)
DAY 24. Slashers! Now, if you’re like me, you spent the better part of the 80s and 90s digging through the bottom shelves of mom-and-pop video stores, looking for big, chunky VHS big-boxes with insane cover art. Back in ’84, you might have rented this one from Embassy Pictures under the name Delusion, or maybe […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026: Heavy Metal (1981)
I should not have seen this movie at nine or ten years of age, nor should I have read the magazine. I should have been blissfully ignorant of the mindblowing nature of what I was about to see and waited until I was ready, but here we are, literally forty years later, and not a […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Kung Fu Zombie (1981)
DAY 8: Zombies! Pang (Billy Chong), a skilled martial artist, lands a local thug, Lu Dai, in jail after foiling a robbery. Upon his release, a vengeful Lu Dai hires a bumbling Taoist priest named Wu Lung to animate a small army of zombies to take down Pang. Lu Dai is killed by his own […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Other Hell (1981)
If you think you’ve seen it all because you sat through The Devils or owned a bootleg of Killer Nun, Bruno Mattei is here to grab your rosary beads and yank you straight into the abyss. The Other Hell (originally L’altro inferno) isn’t just a movie; it’s a 90-minute assault on every Sunday School lesson […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The One-Armed Executioner (1981)
Interpol agent Ramon Ortega (Franco Guerrero) and his new blonde American children’s book author wife Ann (Jody Kay, Death Screams) are back in the Philippines after a honeymoon in San Francisco. Within minutes, the drug dealer that our hero is after — Edwards (Christopher Mitchum) — has sent his men to kill Ann and has had […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Bumpy (1981)
Look, we’ve all been there. You’re out in the woods, the sun is shining, you’re filling your pail with strawberries, and suddenly you realize you’ve wandered too far into the green abyss. For siblings Kusti and Iti, a simple foraging trip turns into a folk-horror nightmare when they stumble into the clutches of the Forest […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama 2026 Primer: Evilspeak (1981)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 24 and 25, 2026. Admission is still only $15 per person each night (children 12 and under free with adult) and overnight camping is available (breakfast included). You can buy tickets at the show, but get there early and […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Lunch Wagon (1981)
What was in the water in the late 70s and early 80s that we got so many movies about attractive women upsetting the balance of power in the food truck, gas station and restaurant industries? See: Swap Meet, Starhops, The Car Hops, Gas Pump Girls…. Directed by Ernest Pintoff (the director of Jaguar Lives!) and written by Marshall […]
CULT EPICS BLU RAY RELEASE: School In the Crosshairs (1981)
Released months before lead Hiroko Yakushimaru’s Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first groundbreaking teenage idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice, much like the film most know him for, House. Yuka (Yakushimaru) is a schoolgirl who discovers that she has psychic powers, just in time for the freethinkers of […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: Kill Squad (1981)
After a home invasion leaves Joseph Lawrence (Jeff Risk) paralyzed from the waist down and his wife sexually assaulted and dead, he reaches out to Larry (Jean Glaudé) to bring together their old army team, the Kill Squad: Tommy (Gary Fung), Arthur (Marc Sabin), K.C. (Jerry Johnson), Pete (Francisco Ramírez) and Alan (Bill Cambra). […]
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