Alan Arkush’s 1979 cult classic Rock N Roll High School offers up everything you could ever want in a campy goofball comedy. On the surface, it appears to be nothing more than a shameless promotion for The Ramones, but time
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs by Yukio Noda has marked my first foray into the world of Pinkie Violence, a particularly nasty sub genre of Japanese films that were predominantly made during the 70s. These films were often overly brutal in
In 1978 a little movie called Halloween was unleashed onto the world and it changed the face of horror as we know it. Though there were movies like it in the past, Halloween defined the slasher film and resulted in
I knew it would only be a matter of time before I discussed a John Waters film on this feature, so I figured now with the new documentary I Am Divine hitting theaters it would be a good idea to
There are so many films that came out during the 80s that just seem to so perfectly encapsulate the era, it’s hard to think of any other decade that had such an overt cinematic style. The birth of VHS paved
John Hough’s Dirty Mary Crazy Larry from 1974 is a fun carsploitation film starring Peter Fonda and Susan George (Straw Dogs). It was a pure coincidence that I picked this movie a week after Vanishing Point, as I
One of my favorite films of the 70s has been, and always will be, Vanishing Point starring Barry Newman and Cleavon Little. Released in 1971 by director Richard C. Sarafian, this road movie takes the car chase concept to
It’s a crime to write a weekly feature highlighting exploitation cinema and not mention one of the earliest and most influential. This of course is Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! With a title nearly as ridiculous as
Dead End Drive-In is a nice little piece of schlock hailing from Australia and released in 1986. The director, Brian Trenchard-Smith released a number of great exploitation flicks, most notably 1983’s BMX Bandits and the gloriously pointless Stunt Rock. Though
Road Games is a little known Australian gem from 1981 directed by Richard Franklin (Cloak and Dagger) and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. While this film seems like a Rear Window clone on the surface, there’s
Perry Henzell’s 1972 film The Harder They Come may not be considered a grindhouse film in the traditional sense, however the cult status this film received, along with the fact that it was one of the original midnight
Death Race 2000 is a very interesting piece of schlock that came out in 1975 and was directed by Paul Bartel, who also directed a fantastic little film called Eating Raoul. The top billed actor in this film was David Carradine
The Switchblade Sisters, also known as The Jezebels, was one of the last films directed by the legendary master of exploitation Jack Hill. Hill directed some of the most influential films of the time including Foxy Brown, Coffy,
In this inaugural edition of Grindhouse Weekly, I thought it would be prudent to start with two big names in exploitation cinema by talking about a film aptly titled Women in Cages. This film is produced by the
