BADass SINema Unearthed - Where we dive into the wild, weird, and wonderfully wicked world of classic grindhouse cinema. We celebrate the raw energy and unapologetic style of vintage exploitation films — from the slick swagger of Blaxploitation and the lurid allure of sexploitation to the gnarly thrills of monster mayhem and cosmic horror.
More than three decades later, Frank Henenlotter's Frankenhooker hasn't mellowed with age. If anything, it has become even more gloriously unhinged. His 1990 parody of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein remains ...
It wasn’t the first buddy cop action flick ever created but it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t regard 1987’s Lethal Weapon as the definitive example. Richard Donner’s kinetic, character-driven, action extravaganza is ...
Forget the capes. Forget the castles. Forget the vampires. The real monster wears a judge's robe. One of Hammer's most underrated late-period horror films, Cry of the Banshee finds Vincent Price abandoning his ...
“A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming,” says Barbarella (Jane Fonda) on her way to save her winged friend. Such is the reaction many people still have to Fonda in the title role of Roger Vadim's gloriously ...
"Alright, who's next? Who wants some?" Some movies mellow with age. Army of Darkness has somehow become even more gloriously insane. Watching Sam Raimi's medieval monster mash again in 2026 ...
Most westerns swagger into town with a six-shooter and a horse. Red Sun walks in carrying a samurai sword, a Colt revolver, Charles Bronson's permanent scowl, Alain Delon's movie-star arrogance, Toshiro Mifune's volcanic dignity...
The light through the darkness still burns thanks to the weird, horny, loud, unapologetically metal world of Heavy Metal. More than forty years later, there really isn't another animated film quite like it. Sure, countless ...
Remakes usually suck. Legacy sequels spend half their running time reminding you how much better the original was. Evil Dead 2 says, "Fuck all of that." Sam Raimi looked at The Evil Dead, tore the damn thing apart with a chainsaw ...
Some horror movies get a shiny new coat of paint when they hit 4K. Zombie Flesh Eaters gets more worms. More rot. More flesh. More reasons to wonder what the hell was going through Lucio Fulci's wonderfully twisted ...
Remember when Wes Craven would just throw absolutely every goddamn idea he had at the screen? No restraint. No studio-mandated "elevated horror." No worrying about tone. Just a filmmaker asking himself, "What if I made ...
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