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[ruleof3bobby]

SAVAGE ISLAND (1985) Grade: D+

No idea how this movie ended up on my list. But at least I could cross it off. Just a old "B" movie / grind house type film. Will actually be an interesting/average #Netflix movie w higher budget.

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On April 24, 2020, Chopping Mall and Bloodsucking Freaks were screened as a double-feature on The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs.

Here's some new art inspired by both grindhouse classics!

[crimetimesteadicam]

💥 🚀 for the lupin iii asks !

💥 - do you prefer the serious or more light-hearted content?

the tone doesn't matter to me as long as it's camp and ambitious. i tend to most enjoy what people consider the "serious" stuff, because historically "serious" lupin iii media favors truly wacko experimentation. like i really love all the koike movies because they're so juiced up on no-limits grindhouse rizz. i'm always like, "bro what" when people say they're serious lmao. like there's a carnivorous Karl Lagerfeld clone sniper who makes S&M robots and they fight him through the power of East German Government Surveillance. that's camp bitch.

🚀 - thoughts on the lupin viii pilot episode?

*puts head in hands* lupin viii is one of the five things i haven't seen... the other four being the detective conan stuff and two of the live action films*

*i have of course seen strange psychokinetic strategy, the greatest movie ever made.

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FRIKUMENTALES 8

AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE (2010)

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Some more reviews from John Waters's yearly favorites:

Love Lies Bleeding

This hilarious, bloody film noir is the best movie of the year, one that Russ Meyer might have made if he had been a lesbian intellectual addicted to steroids. Even the pig-men are cute. Sort of.

Climax

The best movie of the year gives new meaning to the term “bad trip.” Frenzied dance numbers combined with LSD, mental breakdowns, and childhood trauma turn this nutcase drama into The Red Shoes meets Hallucination Generation. Freak out, baby, freak out!

Tom of Finland

This dirty but dignified, oddly commercial biopic of the artist who inspired the modern-day s/m gay leather scene is now the Finnish government’s official entry in the 2017 foreign-film Oscar race. That’s what I call patriotic penis progress, and I hope it wins.

Cinderella (2015)

Yes, you heard me, Cinderella. I fucking love this Disney film.

Carol

Maybe the only way to be transgressive these days is to be shockingly tasteful. This Lana Turner–meets–Audrey Hepburn lipstick-lesbian melodrama is so old-fashioned I felt like I was one year old after watching it. That’s almost reborn.

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

I’m not kidding. A well-made doc that proves the Bieb was a child prodigy. Wait until you see Justin stick his head into the audience and shake his hair in 3D. I screamed.

Bruno

Don’t listen to the critics—it’s better than Borat. Imagine a hetero teen couple in a mall on a first date somewhere in Middle America watching Sacha Baron Cohen pantomime every known gay male sex act, ending in a joyous “facial.” Sometimes audiences get what they deserve.

Grindhouse

The coolest high-concept art film of the year. A faux-exploitation double feature from hell with coming attractions in between for films you’d kill to see if they were real. I could feel the ghost rats from Baltimore theaters past brushing up against my legs as I watched.

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

GLAAD was wrong on this one. Jason Mewes can tell me a blowjob joke any day of the week.

O Brother Where Art Thou

The jaw-dropping all-singing, all-dancing Ku Klux Klan/Busby Berkeley number is a real beaut.

I will admit, John Waters's review of Joker II has me a little intrigued...

Finally, a love story I can relate to. So insane, so well thought out, so well directed, so much smoking! It’s Jailhouse Rock meets Busby Berkeley with a 9/11 That’s Entertainment! ending that will make you shake your head in cinematic astonishment. Stupid critics. Gaga so good. Joker so right. Die, dumbbells, die!

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Swamp Dogs: House of Crows #2 by J M Brandt, Theo Prasidis and Kewber Baal. Cover by Robert Sammelin. Variant cover by Christian DiBari. Out in January 2022.

“Black Caravan Imprint: Young lovers Ayana and Violet sneak away for more erotic passion in the bayou. Meanwhile metal band The Grunch gear up to find a spooky place to shoot a music video. Both groups gravitate towards the abominable Maison Du Corneilles – the last place many of them will ever know. Love, jokes, voodoo, creepy kids, and the undead… Get ready to start shrieking in delight and fear!”

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Sergio Martino Meets Eydie Gormet

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Werewolves on Wheels (1971) Review by RevTerry

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Im expanding on this a bit more because i wrote this post on 2 hours of sleep and a 1 hour nap and I slept like a rock last night so i can articulate my thoughts a bit better

Noir hasn't been a widely expanded-upon genre for multiple generations now, and neo-noir is enjoyed by a select few who frequent arthouses and tend to enjoy your average grindhouse flick, so I get that the average joe in the 2020s isn't all that familiar with it. But I also don't think it's too much to ask to expect a game that is clearly a modern noir story to tell a noir narrative, and it's similarly not too much to ask its players to become at least superficially familiar with the base concepts of that genre.

Noir was a product of the post-WWII economic boom, and its main theme can be boiled down to the phrase "all that glitters is not gold." You had this seemingly prosperous America, but only prosperous to the "right" type of person. And even among that type of person, social expectations brought out the worst of them. Alcoholism was rampant, domestic violence was on the rise, racism and sexism and homophobia were deadly, mental health was in a crisis, and they were told to suck it up. Especially among the veterans they had called "heroes" only to abandon them to die the moment they needed help. America was gold-plated in its raw wealth, but chip it away and you get this rotting self-cannibalizing corpse that can only sustain itself for so long. PTSD and toxic masculinity created a deadly combination for most who suffered it, but noir was the genre that grabbed all this by the throat and forced its viewers to see it for what it was: a great big pile of shit that they'd convinced themselves was a victory just because they helped kicked the nazis out of europe.

That's why noir is so cynical in nature. It didn't use metaphors for societal issues because everyone at the time was hiding those issues behind metaphors to avoid acknowledging their existence. That's why the harsh and brutal depictions of racism, domestic violence, sexism, police brutality, and everything else it criticizes aren't glorifying it just because it depicts a society that did. You gotta step into the shoes of the social culture of the american 1940s for a second and ask yourself if today's modes of storytelling are actually the most effective for it or not before you come at a game like L.A. Noire for recreating it.

And I'm not saying you can't be uncomfortable with its heavy themes, but that discomfort was... very much the point in the noir genre. And I'm sorry this sounds harsh but your personal discomfort is not a measure of something's artistic merit, especially when the discomfort was the point. "The protagonist is so flawed and problematic and he think he's the good guy" yeah, that was the point. "The racial segregation and systemic racism is incredibly brutal and violent and you just uphold it" that was the point. "But the slurs-" that was the point. That was always the point of noir, you just might not see it under the censorship standards of the 1940s.

Personally, I think L.A. Noire does a fantastic job of reviving the noir genre in an interactive medium with the freedom of visuals and depiction that an M-rating gives it. My main criticisms of it are within the gameplay, but the things I see people maily complain about just... don't hold any salt when you consider that that's how the noir style functions. It's brutal and uncomfortable for a reason, that's just not a valid criticism. A story about a very flawed WWII veteran trying to be a good man and protect people as a police detective only to slowly realize that his efforts only contribute to a system of more violence and disparity is a... pretty run of the mill noir story. That's what I expect of it.

I cant look through the la noire tag anymore because my film degreed ass gets way too annoyed at all the people who seem to think a game with "noire" in the title functioning like the old noir genre did is emblematic of bad writing or problematic storytelling

There are definitely some gameplay mechanics that couldve been more ironed out, but "i dont like how this heavily genred game adheres to the long-established storytelling modes of that genre because i personally find it uncomfortable" isnt the critique you think it is

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On June 26, 2003, Bloodsucking Freaks was screened at the Moscow Film Festival.

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A Final Girl (and Boy), Against the World

A Final Girl (And Boy), Against the World by dfcfanfics

Marinette Dupain-Cheng hates horror movies. So what is she doing at Bobby Joe Bloom's Eternal Grindhouse tour with Alya and Nino?

The blond boy sitting next to her explains that. But he's no horror fan, either.

By the time that they're done hiding their eyes and clinging to each other... will either one escape unchanged? Who will hold the popcorn, and what will be left of it by the last jump-scare? And, just maybe, could someone help them see these movies in a different kind of light?

(One-shot, complete. Post-Season 4.)

Words: 5844, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard, A Very Thinly Disguised Tribute to the King of the Drive-Ins

Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Additional Tags: Romance, Humor, Horror, adrienette, DJWifi, Post-Season 4, I'm Sorry If Your Hand's Now Purple, What Makes Your Engine Rev, The Drive-In Will Never Die

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39221967

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Spooky Tuesday Episode Index

Check out all of our episodes listed in alphabetical order — not including "The" or "A" in titles. We've officially done too many episodes to link everything in one post, but you can jump to the links below and check out the full list underneath.

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28 Days Later (2002)

47 Meters Down (2017)

47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)

A

Alien (1979)

Aliens (1986)

Anaconda (1997)

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

Annabelle: Creation (2017)

As Above, So Below (2014)

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)

B

The Babadook (2014)

Barbarian (2022)

Bedazzled (2000)

Better Watch Out (2016)

Black Christmas (1974)

The Black Phone (2022)

The Blair Witch Project (1999)

The Blob (1958)

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)

Bones and All (2022)

The Boy (2016)

Brahms: The Boy II (2020)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

The 'Burbs (1989)

But I'm A Cheerleader (1999)

C

Cabin Fever (2002)

Candyman (1992)

Candyman (2021)

Carrie (1976)

Casper (1995)

Child's Play (1988)

Cloverfield (2008)

Clue (1985)

The Conjuring (2013)

The Covenant (2006)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

Creep (2014)

Crimson Peak (2015)

Cursed (2005)

The Curve (1998)

D

Dead Man's Curve (1998)

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Death Proof (2007)

The Descent (2005)

Donnie Darko (2001)

Don't Worry Darling (2022)

E

The Evil Dead (1981)

Evil Dead (2013)

The Exorcist (1973)

F

The Faculty (1998)

Fear (1996)

Fear Street Part One: 1994 (2021)

Final Destination (2000)

Final Destination 2 (2003)

Final Destination 3 (2006)

The Final Destination (2009)

Final Destination 5 (2011)

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)

The Fly (1986)

Fresh (2022)

Friday the 13th (1980)

Fright Night (1985)

Frozen (2010)

G

Get Duked! (2019)

The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)

Goodnight Mommy (2014)

Gremlins (1984)

Grindhouse (2007)

H

Halloween (1978)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

The Haunting (1999)

Hell House LLC (2015)

Hereditary (2018)

The Hills Have Eyes (2006)

Hocus Pocus (1993)

Honeymoon (2014)

The Host (2013)

The House of the Devil (2009)

House of Wax (2005)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

I

Influencer (2023)

Insidious (2010)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

The Invisible Man (2020)

IT (1990)

It Follows (2014)

J

Jason X (2002)

Jaws (1975)

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Jennifer's Body (2009)

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)

K

Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Knife + Heart (2018)

Knives Out (2019)

L

Lake Placid (1999)

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

Leprechaun (1993)

Let The Right One In (2008)

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Lodge (2019)

The Love Witch (2016)

The Lost Boys (1987)

M

M3GAN (2023)

Ma (2019)

Magic (1978)

Malignant (2021)

Mars Attacks! (1996)

May (2002)

The Meg (2018)

The Menu (2022)

Midsommar (2019)

Misery (1990)

The Mist (2007)

Mother! (2017)

The Mummy (1999)

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

N

Near Dark (1987)

Night Swim (2024)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)

O

Obsessed (2009)

Ocean's 8 (2018)

Orphan (2009)

P

ParaNorman (2012)

Pearl (2022)

Planet Terror (2007)

Poltergeist (1982)

Practical Magic (1998)

Prom Night (1980)

Prom Night (2008)

The Purge (2013)

Q

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R

Ready Or Not (2019)

Renfield (2023)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The Ring (2002)

Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

The Roommate (2011)

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

S

Saltburn (2023)

Santa Jaws (2018)

Santa's Slay (2005)

Saw (2004)

Scream (1996)

Scream 2 (1997)

Scream 3 (2000)

Scream 4 (2011)

Scream (2022)

Scream VI (2023)

The Shining (1980)

Signs (2002)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Sinister (2012)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Snowpiercer (2013)

Society (1989)

Suspiria (1977)

T

Talk To Me (2023)

Teeth (2007)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

ThanksKilling (2008)

They/Them (2022)

The Thing (1982)

Thir13en Ghosts (2001)

Till Death (2021)

Tragedy Girls (2017)

Train to Busan (2016)

Tremors (1990)

Trick 'r Treat (2007)

Troll 2 (1990)

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)

Twilight (2008)

U

Urban Legend (1998)

V

Valentine (2001)

V/H/S (2012)

The Visit (2015)

The VVitch (2015)

W

What Keeps You Alive (2018)

What Lies Beneath (2000)

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Witch (2015)

X

X (2022)

Y

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Recently watched: Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1973). Tagline: “Wilder than you can imagine! Explicit beyond belief! Meet them all! Hustlers and pimps! Pushers and S&M freaks! Straight guys and girls looking for thrills and one-night stands!” Sample dialogue: “It’s getting so you can’t give a blowjob on Times Square without some cop looking over your shoulder!” 

It’s fun to imagine the dirty mac brigade settling into their seats at some fleapit grindhouse cinema in the early seventies to watch some raunchy triple-X titillation – and instead being confronted by this grimly downbeat, profoundly unerotic character study about survival prostitution by maverick outsider gutter auteur Andy Milligan (1929 - 1991). There’s even mournful flute music on the soundtrack for maximum erection repellent. You could call Fleshpot a “gritty” genital warts-and-all slice of life – but “grubby” might be more accurate. 

Pretty brunette Dusty Cole is a street-smart and calculating sex worker barely eking out a hardscrabble existence in New York’s Times Square. Her hard-bitten demeanor begins to melt after a fluke encounter with handsome, sensitive and earnest young Wall Street banker Bob Walters. Can Dusty embrace the straight life and find true love and happiness in Staten Island with Bob? Spoiler alert: anyone familiar with Miligan’s pessimistic oeuvre will already know the answer is a resounding NO! 

Like Andy Warhol, John Waters and R W Fassbinder, Milligan populates his movies with his own repertory troupe of freaks and misfits – in his case, mostly drawn from the realms of underground off-Broadway theatre and pornography. The acting here is genuinely potent (some of the verbose monologues demanded of the actors are worthy of Tennessee Williams). Porn actress Laura Cannon imbues surprising delicacy, complexity and intelligence as constantly hustling, amoral anti-heroine Dusty. We glimpse the emotional toll of constantly living by her wits and the seemingly endless procession of encounters with creepy, unappealing men, and that everything Dusty does is tinged with desperation. (I love how Cannon tangibly goes into weary dead-eyed autopilot every time she begins disrobing). Always the most chivalrous and affable of seventies porn studs, young Harry Reems of Deep Throat notoriety (sans his trademark mustache) is painfully adorable as the idealistic Bob. And as Cherry Lane, Dusty’s sassy aging drag queen roommate and fellow working girl, Neil Flanagan – and his matted bouffant wig - steals every scene. 

Thematically and stylistically, Fleshpot is analogous to Flesh (1968), Trash (1970) and Heat (1972), the trilogy of Warhol-produced underground films directed by Paul Morrissey, and the early works of John Waters. What separates Milligan from Morrissey and Waters is the ferocity of his misanthropy and nihilism. He takes a decidedly jaundiced perspective on concepts like “free love” and sexual liberation. Apart from Bob, none of the characters could be described as “sympathetic.” The film offers a vividly grungy cinema verité document of decrepit pre-gentrification seventies New York. Every character in Fleshpot lives in squalor and escapes to drown their sorrows at depressing dimly lit dive bars. Milligan was gay and the sexuality on display here is refreshingly polymorphous: the ostensibly hetero male tricks take a surprisingly pragmatic open mind when it comes to the gender of their sex workers (Dusty and Cherry share clients). The world Milligan evokes packs an undeniable lowlife allure, but you wouldn't want to live there. Warning: the ugly racial epithets casually thrown around by Cherry are authentic to the period and character but wildly offensive to modern ears (prepare to flinch!). There are two versions of Fleshpot in circulation: grainy and softcore (on Amazon Prime) and digitally remastered and hardcore (via Vinegar Syndrome’s website).

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Swamp Dogs: House of Crows #1 by J M Brandt, Theo Prasidis and Kewber Baal. Cover by Robert Sammelin. Variant cover by Solo Macello. Out in October.

“Black Caravan Imprint. They came from the swamp... the scummiest squad of Confederate soldiers, brought back to life by powerful Voodoo magic. They crave power, carnage, and female flesh! They are the Swamp Dogs! Now, young lovers Ayana and Violet, and their friends from the goofy stoner metal band The Grunch, will unknowingly fall into their ghoulish nest. Bear witness to a rollicking gorefest straight out of the shocking grindhouse and revengeful blaxploitation of the 1970s, and the cult horror classics of the 1980s... with a modern twist.”