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.
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 ...
“Whoa. Free toy inside! Free toy inside!” Do I have your attention, Cult of UHF? Good. Because after all these years, the rest of the world has finally caught up with what "Weird Al" Yankovic was doing back in ...
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 ...
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