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.
Thirty years later and the Martians are back, baby. ACK! ACK! ACK! Watching Mars Attacks! again in 2026—now that Warner Bros. has finally dragged Tim Burton's beautifully deranged bastard onto 4K—I'm ...
There is something almost aggressively comforting about returning to Meatballs in 2026. Maybe it’s because summer camp movies basically don’t exist anymore. Maybe it’s because Bill Murray had not yet become ...
I remember seeing Cabin Fever when it first hit theaters in 2003 and thinking, what the fuck did I just watch? This was before Eli Roth became ELI ROTH, before Hostel, before “torture porn” became a phrase critics could ...
There are movies that politely ask you to suspend disbelief, and then there’s Crank, which kicks disbelief square in the fucking balls, steals its wallet, snorts whatever it finds inside, and tears ass down the freeway at 120 mph ...
Never before in the history of motion pictures have the changes happening inside the female body when a girl gets her first period been explained quite as clearly—or as fucking viciously—as they are in Ginger Snaps. The ...
There’s a moment in Prom Night when you realize this movie has absolutely no intention of behaving itself. Sure, Paul Lynch’s 1980 slasher arrives carrying all the necessary equipment: buried childhood trauma, teenagers ...
Remaking Night of the Living Dead should have been a terrible fucking idea. Seriously. George A. Romero’s 1968 original didn’t merely become a classic; it ripped open horror cinema, changed the rules, and left generations ...
It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! And, holy hell, They Live refuses to stay in 1988. Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he? Between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, Carpenter was king of science ...
The comets are coming!! The comets are coming!! And, somehow, more than forty years later, Night of the Comet is still one hell of a good time. Science fiction gets satirized in writer/director Thom Eberhardt’s fantastic ...
Forty-four years later, Swamp Thing remains one of the oddest entries in both Wes Craven's filmography and the long, strange history of comic book movies. Released years before Alan Moore transformed the character into ...