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Thundercrack! 1975
Underground actress Marion Eaton pukes into a toilet. Her wig falls in the bowl. She takes the wig out, puts it back on her head, and goes about her night. This scene is a perfect summation of what makes THUNDERCRACK! so great. Directed by underground icon Curt McDowell and written by the immortal George Kuchar, this is the only 160-minute, XXX-rated, DIY horror soap opera that you’ll ever need to see. THUNDERCRACK! uses the template of James Whale’s THE OLD…
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Night of the Demon 1980
People love Bigfoot. That’s why there are so many movies about him—LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK, DEMONWARP, SHRIEK OF THE MUTILATED, and, sure, HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS. But only one has a scene where Bigfoot tears off a guy’s johnson. NIGHT OF THE DEMON goes where no other Bigfoot has gone before, in that Bigfoot is a lanky man with brunette wigs glued to his arms and legs. This is a movie that knows what you want: a series of kill…
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Boardinghouse 1982
Just sharing this to commemorate the day that we released BOARDINGHOUSE on Blu-ray with AGFA! We still can’t believe it’s a real thing that happened.
One of the movies that inspired the launch of Bleeding Skull, BOARDINGHOUSE is a hallucinogenic maelstrom of madness from director-producer-actor John Wintergate and writer-producer-leading-lady Kalassu. It’s also the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. We’re ecstatic to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first…
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Things 1989
THINGS is the best drug that I’ve ever taken. Somewhere in Canada, three friends arrive at a house in the woods to watch TV and drink beer. Little do they know that they’ve stepped into a black hole to another dimension, one that’s dripping with giant mutant bugs, gore-soaked chainsaw battles, and violence against all forms of logic. While watching this non-sequitur collage from anti-reality, your central nervous system will be consumed by every emotion that’s essential to being alive—excitement, hilarity, outrage, fascination, confusion, repulsion, and exhilaration. Hesher horror will never reach such heights again. (Joseph A. Ziemba)