Fifty Years of Manson-sploitation
August 9, 2019 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the murders committed by the Manson family
THE HIPPY CULT MURDERS
It’s no secret that following the August 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders a host of “Mansonsploitation” films, songs and books invaded our lives
THE MANSON MASSACRE
The most notorious of the “Manson-sploitation” movies, an unabashedly exploitive sixty nine minute spectacle that purports to dramatize the August 1969 killings of Sharon Tate and her companions
Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
The Rutger Hauer saga was a curious one
1992: The Year in Bedlam
For me the cinema of 1992 will always be shadowed by one all-encompassing real-life event: the rioting that took place on April 29 to May 4 in Los Angeles
AD NAUSEAM: NEWSPRINT NIGHTMARES FROM THE 1980s
Now here’s a fun book: a handsomely laid out collection of horror movie newspaper adverts from the 1980s
JEANS BLUES: NO FUTURE
Japanese “Pinky violence” from 1974 that’s said to have been inspired by BONNIE AND CLYDE
CALAMITY OF SNAKES
This Hong Kong monstrosity may be the ultimate killer snake movie
BLOODY FRIDAY
One of the Twentieth Century’s premiere examples of Krautsploitation, this German-Italian co-production is an exuberantly exploitive film that revels in violence and sleaze
BRONSON’S LOOSE!
Right now, with the Eli Roth directed remake of 1974’s DEATH WISH currently in theatrical release, I’d say it’s an opportune time for a look back at this book