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.
There are few things as terrifying to me then to be trapped on a school bus with a bunch of High School jocks. Talk about a total freak-out of testosterone, sweaty gym bags, and meat hooks. This is the territory exploited by Jeepers Creepers 2, now ...
I’m killing you…with my mind! This is the mad premise of character actor Ray Danton’s Psychic Killer. Released in 1975, the B-movie is probably still known among certain groups due to the simple fact that, despite a shocking amount of blood and a “boobalicious” ...
Comedian Rudy Ray Moore returns just in the nick of time to save all the fine ladies from racist cops and bad attitudes everywhere. This time – one year after his original outing – his mission against The Man stretches all the way from rural Alabama to Los Angeles ...
Blood Bath is one of Roger Corman’s wildest endeavors. I dare suggest that the history of the movie is probably far more interesting and unpredictable than the movie itself. Well, to be exact, Blood Bath, having started its life in 1962 and finally released in 1966, is actually ...
When it comes to directing1970s fantasy/adventure films, Kevin Connor is definitely one of the genre’s mad geniuses. After showing a very versatile set of skills in bringing dinosaurs back to life with aplomb in The Land that Time Forgot, he flexed hardcore alongside returning ...
Oliver Reed. George Kennedy. Jose Ferre. And action movie regular Brian Thompson (otherwise known as the alien bounty hunter in The X-Files). What movie could possibly bring them together? And for what reason? Other than probably being unemployed at ...
Anyone's education in cinema involves stopping for a spell in New York City. While you are there, though, be sure to not skip out on the knowledge that can be gained by watching 1970's fascinating Cotton Comes to Harlem. ...
Barry Shear's Across 110th Street remains a hard-hitting look at racial violence in the streets of New York City. Loaded with hundreds of F-bombs, there's no denying its visceral power and, while the film gets lumped in with a lot of other Blaxploitation flicks from the era, the ...
Written and directed by Larry Cohen (The Stuff), Black Caesar is essentially a remake of 1931’s Little Caesar with Edward G. Robinson. To its credit; however, Cohen’s film has enough stylized action and Harlem locale in it to make it stand out and far, far apart from the ...
The odds were not in Easy Rider's favor. Coming off of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels and the Jack Nicholson-penned The Trip, Peter Fonda was digging his heels into the counterculture scene. He and wild man Dennis Hopper, driven to tell another tale of ...