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.
Don’t be afraid to scream, ghouls and boils, this underground fantasy flick knows its way in the dark, but that doesn't mean something crawling across the floor won't bite the hell out of you. The subterranean gets slaughtered thanks to the stop motion animated fury ...
“Burn the witch! Burn her! Burn, witch! Burn, witch! Burn! Burn! Burn!” This is the chant that is silenced when the entire fictional town of Whitewood, Massachusetts notices a deep darkening in the sky over Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessell) as the accused witch they hare trying ...
Let the beginning backdrop of this Blaxploitation classic be your warning. As the African statue turns to face us, we see what it is depicting: a black man with a very, very big and erect penis in his hands. Need you be anxious about the main “thrust” of this picture, yes, this is a ...
Haunted horse gallops, death by jackhammers, and a magic leathery bag that, once opened, strangles whoever is doing the opening? All of this inside a church where the sacred is believed to reign? Get the fuck right out of here and consider me warned. I’m not messing ...
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
And the Mother of the Year award goes to little Johnny Radley’s gap-toothed beast of a Mom. In just about one minute of screen time, we get enough information about this grumpy bitch to know that she deserves a knife in a skull. I wish I was kidding. I’m not ...
The critics were wrong about this movie. DEAD WRONG. The ‘Burbs, when it released in 1989, opened to hellfire and damnation via the printed word by most of the print critics. Director Joe Dante, in the NEW interviews with the cast and crew for this special Collector’s Edition ...
The Baby Mask Killer strikes again! Alexander Cassini's Star Time will fuck you up. There’s no other way to put it because this dark commentary on television’s impact upon our culture is truer now than it was when it was originally released in 1993. And we have Vinegar ...
Sometimes surreal horror involves a gnarly sex scene on a rotating bed. Other times it involves knifing someone in the face through a pillow while they sleep. You know what they say, though, if you die in your dreams then you die in real life. For the dude at the center of this ...
Mannequins. It had to be Mannequins. Even more fun at the local neighborhood chopping mall! This movie, full of gorgeous girls and their brain dead boyfriends, is what happens when four teenage couples do some after hours shopping in a furniture store. Well, sort of ...