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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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Wilmer Valderrama (NCIS, That ‘70s Show) and Freddy Rodriguez (Six Feet Under, Ugly Betty) are teaming up on the new weekly podcast series Dos Amigos (Two Friends), premiering on January 30.

The project will join other popular podcasts from Valderrama’s exclusive slate with iHeartMedia’s My Cultura Podcast Network, of which he is a shareholder, including More Better with Stephanie Beatriz and Melissa Fumero, Essential Voices with Wilmer Valderrama, Date My Abuelita, First!, and Forgive Me For I Have Followed. Dos Amigos is co-produced by Valderrama’s production company WV Sound.

Each episode will feature the longtime friends as they candidly reflect on their careers and lives, and share everything about everything. The podcast will be recorded from Wilmer’s speakeasy and feature special guest appearances. Their goal each week is to bring friends together to spark honest reflection while toasting the good times.

“Freddy is one of my best friends so having an excuse to get together every week to meet new friends, joke, laugh, celebrate and share meaningful conversations couldn’t feel less like work,” Valderrama shared in a statement. “I am beyond grateful for the partnership WV Sound has built with iHeartMedia’s My Cultura Network and cannot wait to continue uplifting our community’s vibrant voices.”

Rodriguez added, “Wilmer and I have known each other for years, and every time we’ve crossed paths during our long journey in the entertainment industry, our conversations have always been filled with laughter, interesting stories and an overall good time. I’m thrilled to invite the audience to join us on Dos Amigos, and I’m honored to work with my long-time friend, iHeartMedia and the My Cultura Podcast Network.”

Valderrama can currently be seen in the CBS hit series NCIS as Nicholas “Nick” Torres which airs Monday nights at 9 p.m. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of ‘Fez’ in the comedy series, That 70s Show. Through his WV Sound banner, Valderrama helps bring underrepresented stories to life across traditional broadcast and streaming platforms. The team has produced Yo Mama, Handy Manny, Charming, and the recent Netflix docuseries Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult. In their partnership with CBS Studios, WV Sound also has a robust slate in development. The multihyphenate is also an activist and philanthropist who recently added the title of published author to his list of achievements.

Rodriguez is best known for playing the ambitious mortician ‘Federico Diaz’ in the hit HBO series Six Feet Under, a role for which he received his first Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2002. His additional TV credits include Bull for CBS, Ugly Betty for ABC, HBO’s Scavengers Reign and Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga. On the big screen, Rodriguez’s credits include Scott Derrickson’s VHS 85; Nothing Like the Holidays (star and executive producer), Grindhouse: Planet Terror from Robert Rodriguez, David Ayers’ Harsh Times, M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water and A Walk in the Clouds alongside Keanu Reeves, to name a few.

[retro-frikianos]

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!

[ultrameganicolaokay]

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

[bbqwhore]

Sergio Martino Meets Eydie Gormet

[notaplaceofhonour]

ok i got to the end (like 2-3 hours ago)! my initial impressions (lowkey highkey just a review at this point) are is that I liked it and I’d definitely watch it again. I can definitely see potential for being a yearly hanukkah rewatch.

it’s not for the faint at heart by any stretch of the imagination (lots of sex, nudity, gore, and reprehensible people being reprehensible to each other); it’s still very clearly a send up to exploitation cinema, even if it is trying to be a little loftier with its themes. but if you’re a fan of schlocky, grimy, low-budget, indie splatter/grindhouse slashers, it’s definitely worth a watch.

it wears its 80s horror influences on its sleeve, and pays some pretty direct homage (most notably to my eye, to john carpenter’s halloween; there’s one shot in particular that was so deliberately referential to Michael Myers stalking the streets of Haddonfield, I wouldn’t be surprised if they shot it in the same location; there’s also a rabbi who shows up in the last half of the film who plays a very Loomis-like role) almost to the point of pastiche. at the same time, it borrows widely enough & inserts enough of its own unique spin to avoid feeling at all derivative.

the plot & characters were fun, and made great use of the premise. some of the cinematography was actually impressive. the soundtrack could’ve used more klezmer-infused metal, but that’s a stylistic preference lol.

a lot of the dialog, acting & delivery wasn’t great, and there was sometimes just a little too much time to breathe between lines that made it feel a little stilted, especially in the first half. it starts way slower than it had to, but it does eventually find its rhythm.

nearly everyone in the movie (aside from a small handful of characters) is it’s always sunny in philadelphia levels of terrible, but further down the drama end of the spectrum than comedy. nevertheless, there are moments that are played for comedy.

one of the concerns i had going in was how it would handle its portrayal of jews & judaism, especially given how unkind to jews & jewish culture horror can be, and the fact that the writer is not himself jewish. it was something where I was prepared to just enjoy laughing about it anyways, with how inherently campy the concept of a “hanukiller” is. but no it was actually pretty good. not perfect, but good.

there’s a refreshing specificity to the characters I enjoyed. jews are allowed to be a world unto ourselves, and the fact that the movie revolves around such terrible people at no point feels like saying “jews are like x”. judaism and the role of a rabbi are affirmed as loving & life-giving, and the hanukiller is fully framed as an exceptional extremist, not representative of any real form of judaism, & not just in a buffalo bill “oh btw he’s not actually trans” throwaway line way.

for every jewish symbol & ritual object that the hanukiller twists, the legitimate version is shown repeatedly in a peaceful, loving context. plenty of dreidels, kippahs, magen davids, and kosher menorahs to go around (out of dozens of menorahs, there is one electric temple menorah with the lights at three different heights in the shul, which is weird bc it looks like it was filmed in an actual synagogue & I’m pretty sure that’s not a kosher temple menorah). I totally understand if seeing stuff like a bone menorah (the true horror is the candles not being at their proper heights) or the star of david carved into people’s chests or scrawled in entrails at all is a “nope”, but it is explicitly framed as an extremely heretical perversion of judaism, and called out as such—“this is not judaism”—and the star of david is shown in proper contexts.

the film definitely could have shown at least one other jew in a shtreimel to keep from associating the hasidic style of dress with violence. i could easily see the juxtaposition of the visibly ultra-frum hanukiller’s violence against less/non observant jews in less/invisibly jewish dress sending the wrong message. however, the aforementioned loomis-like character does still dress in plain orthodox style & is presented as a foil to the killer, being from the same synagogue, and there’s enough counterbalance to the potential “tradition = scary & violent” takeaway elsewhere in the narrative that it feels like the script is still pushing back against that conclusion.

perhaps surprising for the inherent irreverence of making a jewish slasher revolving around a jewish holy day at all, there’s a clear love & respect for jews & jewish culture here. though not himself jewish, the writer’s familiarity & adjacency shines through & manages to dodge flattening Jews down to either antisemitic or philosemitic caricature.

all-in-all, it’s a good bit of the ‘ol ultraviolence: hanukkah edition. if you’re just looking for schlocky, gory fun for hanukkah, it’s the kind of movie that you can just turn your brain off and enjoy that way. but the themes are there and deep enough to still have something interesting to say. there need to be more of both jewish horror AND hanukkah movies, and this is not a bad entry to add to either of those lists.

watching Hanukkah (2019)—the Hanukkah horror/slasher movie—here we go lol

[videoreligion]

Werewolves on Wheels (1971) Review by RevTerry

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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)

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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)

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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)

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X (2022)

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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