Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Submit To Me (1986)
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd A BDSM video made for parties and edited down to ten minutes, this hits you with a dangerous-looking Lydia Lunch, tops that with Lung Leg holding a knife and a Butthole Surfers soundtrack. Women wrestle in pools of gore. Guys shaving themselves. […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Lovedolls Superstar (1986)
Week 9 (Aug 16 – 22) – Cinema of Transgression: “none shall emerge unscathed” -Nick Zedd Directed by David Markey, Lovedolls Superstar is the wild, anarchic 1986 sequel to the underground cult classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls. Running nearly half an hour longer than its predecessor, this Super 8 punk-rock epic trades quick-and-dirty vignettes for a full-blown, Manson-inspired swipe […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E9: Baker’s Dozen (1986)
Advertising executive Henry Hogan (Larry Manetti in his second appearance on the show; he was also in “Printer’s Devil“) tracks down a small New Orleans bakery called Cuzzin’s Dozens, run by an elderly voodoo practitioner named Ruby Cuzzins (Mabel King). Smelling a massive payday, Henry pitches a grand franchising scheme to turn her local treats […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Vacaciones Sangrientas (1986)
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! […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E8: A Serpent’s Tooth (1986)
Renée Taylor brings her legendary comedic timing—honed across decades of stage, television, and film, later famously as Sylvia Fine on The Nanny—to the role of an overly persistent matriarch. Brett Marx (Jimmy Feldman from The Bad News Bears movies) is her son, Marc and JoAnn Willette is her daughter, Madlene. Meanwhile, young Jared Rushton, who […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E6: Black Widows (1986)
Audrey Webster (Theresa Saldana, Raging Bull) is just a girl trying to get out of her mother’s trailer park. She’s set to marry her fiancé, Robert (Joe D’Angerio), but she has no idea that her mother, Mildred (Margaret O’Brien), is keeping a massive, hairy secret. On their wedding night, things go sideways. Audrey doesn’t just […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Hallucinations (1986)
Week 5 (July 19 – 25) – Sub Rosa Studio Ron Bonk’s SRS Cinema has been providing the underground with TOP QUALITY GRIME since the 90s. Not only does he release a deluge of Sharksploitation, Amityville ripoffs, and Cocaine-addicted critter flicks, he also distributes auteurist masterpieces like Tim Ritter’s Truth or Dare? – A Critical Madness, Hugh […]
Tales from the Darkside S3 E5: The Geezenstacks (1986)
The Hummel family—Audrey (Lana Hirsch), her dad Sam (Craig Wasson), and mom Edith (Lisa Fugard)—have their quiet, seemingly normal life upended when Uncle Richard (Larry Pine) drags home a dust-caked dollhouse from an abandoned property, hinting at the episode’s eerie and suspenseful tone. Audrey becomes instantly obsessed with the inhabitants, dubbing them The Geezenstacks. She […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Babe Watch (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Babe Watch was on USA Up All Night on April 18, 1987 and December 13, 1997. Rick Sloane is the undisputed king of the USA Up All Night movie, and with Babe Watch, he manages to capture that specific lightning-in-a-bottle stupidity that makes his work—like the Vice Academy series—beloved works of, well, I guess art […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Body Slam (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Body Slam was on USA Up All Night on July 19, 1991 and January 20 and July 28, 1995. This movie nearly didn’t come out. Dirk Benedict, who stars in Body Slam, has said that he and director Hal Needham (Megaforce, Rad) fought with the film’s writer-producer team, Steve Burkow and Shel Lytton. Burkow had no other […]
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