Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1984 action-type crime film Killpoint . Nighthawk has stolen military weapons for his boss to sell on the streets to gangs which causes havoc and many a death. It is up to Lt. Long (Leo Fong and his hair) and FBI Agent Bradley (a barely present Richard Roundtree) to clean up the streets and take down the violent and wacky weapons dealer, Joe Marks (Cameron Mitchell).

This week's pick is the 1978 "comedy" Starhops . Two friends buy a failing diner and with the help of a French chef make it a success. A goofy, childish oil baron is determined to get the property from them at any cost, including having his dunderhead son try to sabotage the business.

This week's pick is the 1977 summer time killer octopus flick Tentacles . Radio waves annoy a giant octopus who goes on a killing spree that includes a baby, a peg-legged man, and a fat guy with a mustache. Shelly Winters dons numerous dope hats.

This week's pick is the 1980 horror film Anthropophagus . A small group of friends travels to a remote island on holiday only to find it virtually deserted. One-by-one they are killed by a lumbering, handsome cannibal!

This week's pick is the 1978 supposedly post-apocalyptic film Deathsport . Ranger Guides Kaz and Deneer are captured by the evil Ankar Moor and Lord Zirpola to compete against death machine motorcycles in the game of Deathsport. Many people are zapped into red oblivion with fancy ray guns, as well as a horse! Ready your clear swords and join us as we trudge through this nonsense.

This week's pick is the 1984 goofball thriller Angel . An honor student turns to prostitution so that she can pay the tuition at an exclusive California high school while a serial killer is taking out her hooker friends.

This week's pick is the 1973 crime thriller Redneck . Memphis and Mosquito's jewelry store heist goes awry after the jeweler is shot and in their rush to escape, they inadvertently kidnap a teenage boy. Witness an unhinged Telly Savalas get kicked in the crotch and dive like a dolphin into a lake.

This week's pick is the 1980s Don Dolher low-budget horror flick Fiend . A small town is terrorized by a resurrected violin teacher possessed by a supernatural entity that glows red sometimes.

This week's pick is the 1981 Indonesian horror-ish movie Wolf aka Srigala. Treasure hunters and three youths at a supposedly cursed lake begin to get picked off one by one. To our dismay, it was barely a Friday the 13th rip-off like we'd heard about. Special guest Mike Neel returns to power through it with us!

This week's pick is the 1981 Ozploitation thriller Roadgames . It is if Rear Window was set in the Australian Outback with an affable American truck driver and new his hitchhiking lady pal track a man they believe is killing ladies and dispersing their body parts throughout the territory.

Season 7 starts with our latest additions to the TD Hall of Fame followed by a spooky discussion about the 1983 horror type film Mortuary . TD legend Christopher George's last film before passing features a young Bill Paxton terrorizing a young lady who is investigating her's father's death. IMDB Wikipedia Highly Inaccurate Trailer

This week's pick is the 1983 Shaw Brothers horror revenge film Seeding of a Ghost . A cab driver inadvertently curses himself by hitting a sorcerer with his cab. This leads to adultery, assault, murder, revenge, magic battles, and the violent birth of a very rude baby.

This week's pick is the 1981 snake thriller Venom . A kidnapping attempt goes awry thanks to a goofy grandpa and a black mamba being brought home by accident. Would-be kidnappers Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, and Susan George become hostage takers and have to deal with the police.

This week's pick is the 1973 crime thriller the Seven-Ups . Tough New York City cop Buddy Manucci who operates as part of an unconventional team called "The Seven-Ups" that uses drastic measures to bring criminals to justice. When Vito Lucia, one of Manucci's street contacts, uses a classified police list to kidnap mobsters and hold them for ransom, it sets off a series of escala...

This week's pick is the 1976 revenge thriller Massacre at Central High . David is new to school and doesn't want to play by the bullies' rules after being welcomed into their group. David takes revenge after the bullies injure him, allowing the other students that had been terrorized to be free and take over, but with consequences...and explosions!

This week's pick is the 1974 film Mean Mother . Director Al Adamson added new blaxploitation scenes to an existing Spanish spy type film and the results are confusing doo-doo with sloppy fight scenes. Listen to us be disappointed about it.

This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic film 2019: After the Fall of New York . A nuclear holocaust has wiped out most of humanity and left survivors sterile. Parsifal is forced by the Pan-American Confederacy to locate the last remaining fertile woman in Manhattan but has to get through the evil Euracs, rat eaters, mutants, and monkey men along the way.

This week's pick is the 1982 non-stop action flick Kill Squad . 12 hands. 12 feet. 24 reasons to die!

This week's pick is the 1974 jail breakout thriller Five Loose Women . A recently jailed woman wrongly accused of murder is swept up into the escape plans of four other inmates. She is forced to go along while they outrun the law and fight bikers, terrorize locals, and encounter Ed Wood in two different roles!

This week's pick is the 1985 thriller Walking the Edge . Pushover cabbie/numbers runner Jason gets himself involved in Christine's revenge plot against the guys that killed her son. Featuring the most annoyingly nosy neighbor ever and Joe Spinell's feather earring.

This week's pick is the 1984 fantasy film the Dungeonmaster . If someone made a movie based on a half-assed attempt at a video game with seven very easy yet confusing levels of technology versus satanic wizardry orchestrated by Bull from Night Court, that would be this movie. Featuring W.A.S.P.!

This week's pick is the messy sloppy fun 1983 action movie Mission Thunderbolt . Combining two different movies, director Godfrey Ho creates his own confusing tale of assassins and revenge and random scenes without context and a healthy dose of copyright infringed music.

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Killing Kind . After being released from a two-year prison sentence for an assault a woman that he was forced into, Terry goes to live with his mom in her boarding house. Rat, cats, and people are murdered and Terry and his mom often become too close.

This week's pick is the "long lost" second Duke Mitchell film Gone with the Pope , originally filmed in 1976 but not released until 2010. A plan to kidnap the Pope is easily pulled off with the intention to receive a dollar from every Catholic as ransom. There are many confusing things that happen before and after this. Mangia!

This week's pick is the 1977 film Crash! A possessed car kills many people and cops on its way to exact revenge on the man who caused its owner to crash their car via sudden dog attack, which was his act of revenge on his wife for causing him to become a cripple. An ancient trinket is somehow involved and a wheelchair becomes possessed at one point.