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The Stuff 4K UHD Review
An unsung chronicler of New York gutter life, lover of high concepts, and unlikely cornerstone of the blaxploitation movement, Larry Cohen’s greatest contributions to cult filmdom were (arguably) his counterculture B-sci-fi and horror throwbacks. Beginning with the monster baby thriller It’s Alive (1974) and its sequels, and following through esoteric, deity-based horror comedies God Told Me To (1976) and Q: The Winged Serpent (1982), Cohen’s last great creature feature as di

Gabe Powers
2 days ago


Detonation! Violent Riders Blu-ray Review
Detonation! Violent Riders isn’t a surrealistic horror film, bone-crunching karate epic, or jidaigeki drama – it’s an entry in the juvenile delinquent bikersploitation subgenre colloquially known as bosozoku. Bosozuku movies date back to the early ‘60s and tend to be intrinsically linked to other delinquent gang films...

Gabe Powers
Jul 3


New Kaiju Vs. ICE Genre Grinder Shirt/Sticker
We have new design available on the Genre Grinder Cares sales page as both a T-shirt and sticker. The King of Monsters has a special...

Gabe Powers
Jul 2


Exact Revenge: The Eunuch & The Deadly Knives Blu-ray Review
The theme of revenge reverberates across pop and exploitation cinema genres, making up a large share of cop thrillers, gangster movies, westerns, slashers, gialli, jidaigeki, and especially martial arts movies. During their dominant era of the 1960s & ‘70s, Shaw Bros. Studios thrived on revenge narratives, thanks to the wuxia and kung fu templates set by Chang Cheh, Ni Kuang, and Lau Kar-leung. These often revolved around a lone warrior or small group of fighters escaping a m

Gabe Powers
Jul 1


Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight Blu-ray Review
A truly innovative and unique filmmaker, Teruo ‘King of Cult’ Ishii’s prolific career encompassed almost 100 features, shorts, and television episodes, ranging from the children’s sci-fi serial Super Giant (Japanese: Sūpā Jaiantsu; aka: Starman and Spaceman, 1957-1959) to mainstream hit Abashiri Prison (1965), which inspired no fewer than 17 sequels. But his enduring legacy is a series of pinku eiga thrillers and ero guro shockers, including Shogun’s Joys of Torture (Japanese

Gabe Powers
Jun 26


Terminus (1987) Blu-ray Review
While George Miller’s Mad Max (1979) was a groundbreaking work of science fiction action, it was really the first sequel, Mad Max 2 (aka: The Road Warrior, 1981), along with John Carpenter’s Escape from New York (also 1981), that set the standard for the post-apocalyptic action boom of the 1980s. The bulk of the output was made by Italians in the wake of the enormous success of Enzo Castellari’s 1990: The Bronx Warriors (Italian: 1990: I guerrieri del Bronx, 1982). The spaghe

Gabe Powers
Jun 24


New Suspira-Themed Genre Grinder Shirt
We have new design available on the Genre Grinder Cares sales page and it's an ode to the climax of Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). I...

Gabe Powers
Jun 20


The Nice Guys (Limited Edition) 4K UHD Review
Much like writer/director Shane Black's previous detective movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which teamed a fresh-out-of-rehab Robert Downey Jr. with Val Kilmer (RIP), The Nice Guys is a witty, funny, and twisty crime thriller set on the fringes of the Los Angeles film industry. Tragically, like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, it was another box office disappointment, much to the chagrin of, well, pretty much anyone who saw the movie in theaters. Thankfully, with Warner Bros. finally opening

Tyler Foster
Jun 19


Dark City (Limited Edition) 4K UHD Review
Ah, Alex Proyas. Similar to, say, director Brad Silberling, or the Wachowski sisters' work outside of The Matrix, Proyas has left behind a string of visually dazzling cult films but has never quite managed to become a name, despite his ability to put remarkable images on the screen. First there was The Crow, a comic book movie that feels like the next evolutionary step following Tim Burton's Batman, but which was marked by unimaginable tragedy. More recently, Proyas made the

Tyler Foster
Jun 18


53. Canuxploitation Films, feat. Jim Laczkowski of Director’s Club
ALRIGHT, YA HOSERS, GRAB YOUR PLAID TRAPPER HAT, YOUR MOOSEHEAD, AND YOUR BIGGEST BOWL OF POUTINE – WE’RE CHECKING OUT SOME CANADIAN...

Gabe Powers
Jun 10
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