CINESLUDGE Returns... THE NAKED OBSESSION OF CHAINSAW HOOKERS!

It's back!  This time your EVIL MONKS consisting of yours truly and Dan Taylor of Exploitation Retrospect are reporting on our trip to Chiller Theater and highlighting some Fred Olen Ray fun on BLU RAY with HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS and featuring some slobbering all over one of the greatest movies about strippers and satyrs ever shot... NAKED OBSESSION!!!  We got William Katt to sign a poster for this film, and talk a little about it too!

Dig in...sling that CINESLUDGE!!

Top 10 Viewings of 2014- Rage Brains and Mecha Sharks!!

I am NO GOOD at making lists of movies of the year. Why? Because I think I may have seen maybe, MAYBE, 4 horror films released this year.  And that is the bulk of my new film viewings.  I'm a fuddy duddy, still trying to catch up with the bazillion things that interest me. So, when Dan Taylor of Exploitation Retrospect and I put together the latest CINESLUDGE - A MANGLED MEDIA PODCAST we opted to go for the top films we watched this year. NO RESTRICTIONS!  The episode is up for download via iTunes or you can listen right here.  But lets get VISUAL!


10. CRYSTAL LAKE MEMORIES

This documentary is HUGE and as in depth as you could want.  I read every book on the films, since I pretty much hold Jason as close as most classic monster fans do DRACULA!  Tons of interviews and a spectacular presentation make it fun to watch AND listen to.  A must. The NEVER SLEEP AGAIN on Freddy is equally excellent, but I'm a Jason kid.

9. FEAST 2 - SLOPPY SECONDS

I picked up the three pack, having NO CLUE about how the sequels would be and I thought FEAST was OK. Well, once John Gulager got the money cuffs off, took less to work with and CRUSHED one mega movie about monster donged beasts, midget wrestlers, disintegrating grammas and gore gore gore, it's beyond fun.  Tit Girl and Tat Girl!  The entire trilogy will run you ten bucks, get it.

8. MEGA SHARK VS. MECHA SHARK

I watched 50 Asylum movies in 30 days.  THIS was a real favorite as it plays with the monster premise AND has Debbie Gibson chatting about a horny Mega Shark. And Mecha Shark gets the Mecha Godzilla treatment perfectly, defeat, drama, action, MECHANIZED MAYHEM. Pure enjoyment as only an Asylum film can provide!

7.  HELLINGER

Max Cerchi brought the most bizarre things to this microbudget terror film!  It's kind of incomprehensible (and it was shot over a long period of time), features Kendall Ransom, the badass with a full body tattoo that leaves his ass crack untouched and a face smashing finale I'll never forget! One day I'll have a TALK LIKE HELLINGER holiday and my children will be very amused. Or frightened.  That is the thing about Hellinger, it works because it's just so damn odd!

6. SEX HUNTER 1980

From the director of the infamous EVIL DEAD TRAP, Toshiharu Ikeda, comes a sex film that blends Suspiria with exploding coca cola enemas with style and sleaze.  UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE.  On the podcast I discuss my new found interest in Nikkatsu films, which I'm devouring this year!  Why didn't I see them before? How did they defy expectation and become so damn vital to my cinematic journey?  Listen for more.  But if you love bizarre cult films and are ready to try something different, this could be your gateway to nirvana, or a very very dark hell.

5. HARD BOUNTY

 I've watched a LOT of Jim Wynorski films this year, after stretching beyond one of my favorite all around films, HARD TO DIE, this one was covered on Cinesludge. It mixes genres, beautiful women, and Matt McCoy as the embodiment of the LONGARM novels into one super entertaining mix.  Wynorski can do anything really, but I never expected to hear, "are you the one they call HOLY GHOST!"  This needs a BluRay!

4. WINTER HEAT

It was a year when I probably could have made a VINEGAR SYNDROME top 10 films of my year, but... this one really stood out. Jamie Gillis is a fascinating figure in porn history, and this roughie that wasn't nearly as rough as I'd feared, is a nifty rip of Last House On The Left with some very bizarre porn scenes and a finale that made me shake my head about 10 times. It's great and another film that bridges a gap from cult film to the current re-releases of adult features from the 70s and 80s.  That ending...hah!

3. THE NAKED CAGE

Sitting within a Shout Factory 4 pack of Cult Films, I had never seen this Golan Globus 80s W.I.P. film with the evil Smiley The Guard, The Lesbian Lust Chamber Warden, A good girl wronged going on a rampage and so much more.  80s. Opens with Fabulous Thunderbirds. Nudity. Profanity. Lesbian Lust Chambers.  Oh yeah, that is the stuff of Cinesludge!

2. BILLY CLUB

This one gets a lot of coverage on  the Cinesludge SLASHERS episode (here!) and is a handcrafted "throwback" slasher film that doesn't just pay tribute to the genre, but picks up the very best parts of it and carries it high above it's head...and then cracks you with it!!  I loved the film and you can find it on Amazon for under 10 dollars RIGHT NOW! Do it!

And finally...#1!!!
1. POSSESSED BY THE NIGHT

NEVER have I been so struck by a movie about a a legbreaker that stumbles over a jar containing an RageVortexEyeHavingBrainEmbryo and sets off rough sex, Bowflex sex, conversations about sex, conversations about violence, rampaging nudity, rampaging kung fu with nothing but a pizza pan (?) and did I mention SHANNON TWEED ON A BOWFLEX???  Ted Prior? Legend. Sandahl Bergman? Legend (listen to the podcast to learn about my exercise routine with her!) And holy sheep shit, it's got Henry Silva saying "I LOVE BIMBOS!!!"
I've seen the "big" films from Fred Olen Ray, but this has sent me on a spree that will dominate my 2015. And not just Fred Olen Ray films, but the 90s sexploitation scene is now a full blown playground of cinematic excess. BY FAR my favorite new film of the year in the DZ canon.

And there you have it...  You can hear these discussed in much more depth (as well as reviews of two new Fred Olen Ray films, AFTER MIDNIGHT and CHRISTMAS IN PALM SPRINGS) by checking it out in the player above!  Happy viewing...and I can't wait to get to 2015!



 
 

Join The Twitching Brain EVIL MONK #1 (Dan Taylor of EXPLOITATION RETROSPECT) and the Rampaging Id EVIL MONK #2 (David Zuzelo of TOMB IT MAY CONCERN) as they combine into the Snark Free Voltron and celebrate the holidays with FRED OLEN RAY as he unleashes not just a new Christmas Film but a beautiful throwback to the Strippers In Peril genre, AFTER MIDNIGHT!  Then it's time for the duo of HorrorDad dichotomy to unleash their TOP TEN films of the year. No simple list, this is the top 10 FIRST VIEWINGS, so nothing is off limits.  From Baseball Documentaries to Holiday Horrors to EyeFetal Anger Generators and Billy Clubs! 
A SUPER DOUBLE SIZED (almost) EPISODE OF TITANIC PROPORTIONS! It's THE TOP O' THE SLUDGE, baby.... we even brought the strippers!

Download. Share. Comment. We'll see you in THE CINESLUDGE!

Zombie Pirates...they just look cool!

After reviewing ZOMBIE PIRATES I am still thinking about how cool the monster make ups were.  You can get your own copy HERE AT RETROMEDIA.TV or you can read my review at ZOMBIE PIRATES DOCK AT EXPLOITATION RETROSPECT if you please. 
And just check out the Pirates, fun monster shots to celebrate a Friday!

ZOMBIE PIRATES in EXPLOITATION RETROSPECT Bay!

I took a look at Steve Sessions film, ZOMBIE PIRATES by using the recently launched RETROMEDIA.TV service via Vimeo.  The review is docked at EXPLOITATION RETROSPECT (curated by my friend Dan Taylor) and you can check it out RIGHT HERE at the ER Blog!

The Retromedia download, priced at $7.99 is a quality presentation with superior resolution to the DVD, though if you purchased the media for a little more you would get a copy of HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES, which the feature is definitely channeling. Hard to believe you don't already have it, but...if not, you should check it out. 

Zombie Parrot loves you!