Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1983 supernatural horror movie Bloodbeat . The ghost of a samurai terrorizes a small town family before Christmas but they fight back with red hand mind powers. We were rightfully lost.

This week's pick is the 1982 rat infested film Deadly Eyes . Giant rats are eating the citizens of Toronto, including Scatman Crothers! Can a high school teacher who can't keep track of his child save the day?

This week's pick is the 1981 Indonesian action fantasy film the Warrior . Jaka Sembung leads rebels against the oppressive rule of the Dutch Colonial Government. The Dutch counter with a fire breathing strong man, a formerly headless mystical rival, and some serious eye poking. Special guest Mike Neel joins us!

This week's pick is the 1982 horror and/or giallo film the New York Ripper, directed by Lucio Fulci. A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city while talking like Donald Duck.

This week's pick is a Thanksgiving feast of awful with the 1972 anti-drug horror flick Blood Freak. A Vietnam vet falls in the with the wrong crowd and gets hooked on the marijuana and takes a job at a turkey farm where he eats experimental turkey meat which turns him into a turkey-headed killing machine. He then kills other addicts and feasts on their blood!

this week's pick is the 1973 action(?) film Wonder Women . Dr. Tsu's wonder women brings the world's greatest athletes to her Philippine lab via kidnapping, where their body parts are removed for resale to the rich. Mike Harber is on the case to rescue a jai alai player. Featuring Sid Haig and the legendary Vic Diaz.

This week's pick is the 1976 Fred Williamson joint Death Journey. Jesse Crowder is one tough cat and is tasked with getting an important witness across the country while an endless army of thugs try to kill them both.

This week's pick is the 1977 carsploitation film the Car . If Jaws was a car in the desert with James Brolin on the hunt, that's this movie.

This week's pick is the 1972 vampire style film Blacula . Los Angeles decorators buy the coffin of an African prince bitten by Dracula centuries before and unwittingly set him loose in the city.

This week's pick is the 1973 sci-fi/abstinence movie Invasion of the Bee Girls . A government official investigates the sudden mounting deaths in small town caused women with bee-like qualities.

We kick off season 6 with with the 1982 slasher flick Pieces starring the legendary Christopher George. A chainsaw wiedling maniac is loose on the campus of a Boston university, mutilating students! Can the cops stop the madness? Special guest Mike Neel joins us!

This week's pick to end season five continues our tradition of choosing a very fun and confusing Shaw Brothers film with 1982's Buddha's Palm . Points of interest include an ultra extendable mega leg, neon hand lasers galore, a boy that can shoot acidic goo from his face goiter, and the EAST ISLAND CHIEF! We also induct four more folks into the Terrible Delights Hall of Fame: Linnea Qu...

This week's pick is the ABC (!) produced women in prison film Nightmare in Bedham County . This originally aired as a made for TV movie of the week, but it also got an international theatrical release with additional footage containing vulgarity, violence, and nudity. Featuring Mike Brady, Ginger from Gilligan's Island, and a very gross Chuck Connors.

This week's pick is the 1983 sci-fi E.T.-ish oddity Extraterrestrial Visitors . A boy befriends an alien that he names Trumpy that hatches from a space egg he found at a meteor crash site while its mother kills anyone it crosses in the surrounding woods with a light swat of the hand.

This week's pick is the 1981 Jaws rip-off the Last Shark aka Great White. A seaside town is terrorized by a massive great white and the residents must band together to stop it. Can the mayor, a horror novelist, and a shark hunter do it? Where were the police?!?!?

This week's pick is the 1974 low budget horror film Axe . A young woman takes grisly revenge on the three criminals who terrorized her and her catatonic grandfather. Featuring indoor fruit shooting and a toenail clipping scene.

This week's pick is the 1978 car action comedy Stingray. Al and Elmo buy a 1968 Stingray that some handsome criminals stashed drugs and dirty money in. They are then pursued relentlessly for the rest of the film. Icy calm!

This week's pick is the 1974 action style movie Golden Needles . A priceless ancient Chinese statue and the youth-restoring acupuncture needles contained in it is pursued halfway across the world. They promises the owner health and incredible vigor, but can also deliver a painful death. Featuring a good amount of uncomfortable Burgess Meredith nudity talk.

This week's pick is the 1974 poliziottesco film Shoot First, Die Later. A seemingly great cop is on the take but gets in too deep with the bad guys. Featuring an excellent exploding doorbell scene.

This week's pick is the 1982 revenge flick Vigilante . An outraged family man joins a co-worker's vigilantes against a New York street gang.

This week's pick is the 1976 flick Cat Murkil & the Silks. Eddie "Cat" Murkil kills his way to the top of his Los Angeles street gang, the Silks. Think of all the good times!

This week's pick is the Shaw Brothers action movie Mercenaries from Hong Kong . A rag tag group of mercenaries is sent to retrieve a crime lord from a dangerous stronghold. Featuring plenty of action and lots of matching jumpsuits!

This week's pick is the 1978 New Orleans horror movie Mari Gras Massacre . A sadistic rich man kills prostitutes he deems evil to a goddess he worships in his spacious apartment.

This week's pick is the 1970 Roger Corman crime film Bloody Mama . TD Hall of Famer Shelley Winters is the matriarch of the Barker Family, raising her boys to steal, kidnap, and kill. Featuring a young Robert De Niro.

This week's pick is the 1978 Indonesian"cannibal" movie Primitives . Four students go deep into the jungle searching for a truly primitive tribe but get more than they bargain for. Features unfortunate scenes of animal abuse and Barry Prima screaming in his speedos a bunch.