Grindbin Podcast - Grindhouse and Exploitation Films

Pam Grier finally makes her Grindbin debut, and we get the return of one of the greatest exploitation movie directors of all time, Jack Hill (Switchblade Sisters). Directly after making his first women in prison film (the Big Doll House), Jack Hill returns with The Big Bird Cage, which is one of the oddest takes in the women in prison genre we've seen yet.

Bobby, Tanner, and Mike are joined by Patreon member (and one of the Grindbin 4) Shane to discuss the first - of hopefully many - appearances of Cynthia Rothrock on the Grindbin. Cynthia kicks ass in high-waisted jeans while bringing down a mysterious serial killer. What is an absolutely insane movie gets even weirder when it's revealed that there is actually two version of this film - one of whic...

We've talked about movies without plot before on the Grindbin; we've raged over runtime runtime runtime issues... nothing could prepare us for this movie. Nothing.

Bobby, Julie and Mike ring in 2019 with another Michael Sopkiw (Blastfighter, Massacre in Dinosaur Valley) classic. In a post-apocalyptic New York, the remaining people struggle to survive in the nuclear wasteland of the US where no babies have been born in over 12 years. It's up to Sopkiw to repopulate the planet.

We are sorry in advance to our listeners from the UK. In a very special Christmas episode, the boys from the Bomb's Away Podcast join Mike and Bobby for a movie that should have never been opened. From the creators of Pieces comes 1984's Don't Open Till Christmas! Complete with lots and lots of bad British impressions from your hosts.

Special guest Julie joins Mike and Bobby to discuss a movie that was never meant to be seen outside of Indonesia. Lady Terminator is one of the great rip-off movies to come out of Southeast Asia during the late 1980s. Attempting to capitalize on the Terminator franchise, but with a woman, and lots of nudity, this film is absolutely baffling and deserves a much larger cult following than it current...

Dan Haggerty returns to the Grindbin in a new DanCember classic. Maybe the greatest movie of all time, seriously, Mind Trap might be the greatest movie ever made. Ever!

Godmonster of Indian Flats is a movie about a giant sheep monster from space that is threatening to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting Nevada mining town! Except the movie isn't about this... at all. Is there even a sheep monster?! Find out on this episode of the bin.

Blairvember 2018 concludes with the only foreign film ever to appear in a Blairvember and a special appearance by a Grindbin favorite! Witchery is a real special kind of bad, the kind of the Italians could deliver. Featuring a return of David Hasselhoff to the bin.

Linda and Wings Hauser (Vice Squad) return in this "erotic" thriller about... well we really don't know. In one of the most needlessly confusing movies we've ever covered on the bin. Bedroom Eyes 2 is one of those classic direct-to-video or late-night cable movies that everyone saw at one point in their life but nobody remembers. 

Blairvember continues with a Linda-in-prison movie that finds her held captive in East Germany where her, um, boyfriend? is trying to break her out, or not... Will Linda spend the entire movie crying? Will she become Savage Streets Linda? Will she get out of East Germany alive?! Find out on this episode of the Grindbin. 

The first week of Blairvember kicks off with a movie featuring 7 Grindbin All-Stars! "Bail Out" finds Linda Blair committing some sort of crime and David Hasselhoff serving as her bail bondsman... or something like that... do you know what this movie is about? Seriously, do you?

It's not cranberry sauce... It's definitely not cranberry sauce. For the Grindbin Halloween special we are covering one of the most underrated slasher movies of the 1980's. Blood Rage is an unintentionally hilarious horror movie that really gets you in the holiday spirit.

Our Patrons demanded it and so we all have to suffer through a bizarre turkey-themed Horror film - that is also a drug scare picture? Blood Freak is truly a one-of-a-kind piece of garbage that is the epitome of so-bad-its-good filmmaking.

Record City might be the lost sequel to our very favorite movie on the Grindbin, 1977's The Van. This is the only other movie to star Stuart Goetz (Bobby from The Van) and the similarities don't end there. Record City was requested by one of our Grindbin Patreon members. Thanks Jason!

A Patreon request from Listener Aaron WC! Grindbin All-Star Marki Bey (The Roommates) returns to the bin to avenge her dead fiancé with an army of undead zombies. Sugar Hill is an underrated exploitation classic. Voodoo and Zombies; what's not to love?

Troma finally makes their way to the Grindbin with a movie made by the guys who created MST3K. Blood Hook might be the only fishing themed slasher movie and it's certainly the BEST fishing themed slasher movie.

Russ Meyer returns to the Grindbin with a movie, well, technically a movie, about... It's Russ Meyer... you either know already or you don't. If you Google his name it's certainly a NSFW result.

Legendary Italian B-movie director Lamberto Bava (Demons) makes his Grindbin debut with the Italian rip-off of Rambo, Blastfighter. Featuring Grindbin All-Star Michael Sopkiw (Massacre in Dinosaur Valley), as Jake "Tiger" Sharp, a horrible father who wants to ignore his family and live in a cabin in the woods. Co-starring the iconic Italian actor/writer George Eastman, Blastfighter is an action mo...

What seems like a rip-off of Animal House quickly cements itself as one of the most offensive movies featured on the Grindbin. Corpse stealing, death by fart, and attempted murder... and that's only the first 10 minutes.

Mann returns to the bin for a movie that the guys loved! Filmed at the infamous Spahn Ranch during a strange time in LA history, this biker film was probably better off left at the bottom of that garbage heap. Thanks to our Patreon member Eric for requesting this movie.

Summer Sequel Month 2018 comes to a close with a B-grade slasher film from iconic grindhouse writer/director Larry Cohen! The Maniac Cop (Robert Z'Dar) was a wrongly accused policeman put in prison by the poeple who framed him. Murdered in the shower, he rises from the grave to take revenge on those who wronged him... again.

Summer Sequel month 2018 continues with the movie our Patrons wanted the most, Death Wish 2! Grindbin Hall of Famer Charles Bronson returns to the show with arguably his most popular series of films. Death Wish 2 is a sleazy grindhouse epic that has Bronson trying to "clean" the mean streets of Los Angeles.

Our favorite Hollywood Hooker by night and straight A student by day returns to the Grindbin in a sequel that nobody wanted. 

Summer sequel month 2018 continues with the sequel to an earlier Grindbin episode (The Bronx Warriors). With the surprising success of the original film, a sequel was quickly placed into production. Does it retain the charm from the first one? Have they made more lands for this theme park of an apocalypse? Are Trash and the boys still runnign things? Will there be a cake?!