Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1976 martial arts movie Master of the Flying Guillotine . The titular character seeks revenge against the One-Armed Boxer for killing two of his disciples, laying waste along the way to any one-armed man he encounters with his flying guillotine. Featuring a man with very long arms and a Krautrock soundtrack.

This week's pick is the 1978 drama/thriller the Fifth Floor . A disco dancer is placed into a mental asylum and held there against her will while being tormented by an orderly. Featuring a young Robert Englund and too many dance scenes.

This week's pick is the 1975 blaxploitation (with a side of Nazi overtones) film the Black Gestapo . The staff leader (Night Court's Charles P. Robinson) of a black community-service militia organizes a private army and initiates a violent war against white mobsters.

This week's pick is the 1984 slasher flick the Mutilator . Years after the accidental death of his wife by his son with a hunting rifle, a deranged man begins to kill his son's friends at his beachfront condominium during an impromptu fall break weekend, which is conveniently stocked with an array of murder weapons.

This week's pick is the 1975 melty Satanic film the Devil's Rain . Watch as Ernest Borgnine forcefully converts William Shatner to Satanism and Tom Skerritt blows away cult members in a spray of orange and green blood!

This week's pick is the 1981 slasher film Madhouse . A deformed woman escapes from a mental institution and organizes a morbid birthday surprise for her twin sister with the help of her deranged priest uncle, who can carry a tune pretty well.

This week's pick is the 1981 horror film Evilspeak . Relentlessly bullied by classmates and treated poorly by every adult staff member he encounters, a pudgy military-school student fights back using computer technology to summon a devil worshipper and his demonic powers to exact his revenge on those who have wronged him. Starring a toupee wearing Clint Howard, Richard Moll of Night Court fame...

This week's pick is the 1975 supposedly revenge horror film Satan's Children . Teenager Bobby has had enough of his abusive stepfather and evil, weirdly horny stepsister. He runs away only to be assaulted by a group of unsavory men, who leave him in a ditch. He is then taken in by a Satanic cult and spends most of the movie trying to escape their compound in his tidy whities.

This week's pick is the 1974 Duke Mitchell crime thriller Massacre Mafia Style . IMDB describes it accurately: "The ruthless son of a Mafia kingpin blasts his way through Hollywood on a bloody crime spree." You're in or you're in the way!

In this special episode, Greg and Dan from Stabby Stabby literally stumble into the Terrible Delights realm through a wall and in a wild coincidence watched the 1980 artsy fartsy monkey fantasy film Tanya's Island , just like Scott and Bill had. What's left to do but to talk about the movie with these unexpected visitors!

This week's pick is the 1976 natural horror film Squirm . A storm causes downed power lines that touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start devouring locals.

This week's pick to kick off season 4 is the ass-kicking Return of the Street Fighter . Sonny Chiba is back to breath weird, make weird facial expressions and destroy everyone in the Street Fighter sequel.

In this special episode we each induct two acting legends that have appeared in multiple Terrible Delights movie choices into our Hall of Fame. The honorees are Vic Diaz, Christopher George, Shelley Winters and Richard Jaeckel.

This week's pick is the wonderful 1977 Shaw Brothers King Kong rip-off Mighty Peking Man . Also known as Goliathon, a giant ape-like creature with a rubbery face is brought to Hong Kong from the Himalayas and exploited for profit. A rampage of mass destruction follows once it escapes.

This week's pick is the 1981 slasher Girls Nite Out . Ohio college students taking part in their school's annual late night scavenger hunt find themselves falling victim to a killer dressed like the school mascot.

This week's pick is the 1977 revenge movie Death Promise . Slumlords kill a martial artist's father and he promises to kill them all to death!

This week's pick is the 1975 film Cover Girl Models . Three fashion models kind of, sort of become involved in some espionage shenanigans in a roundabout way, barely. It's all very confusing. Vic Diaz is criminally underused.

This week's pick is the classic 1972 martial arts flick Five Fingers of Death aka King Boxer . As two martial arts schools prepare for a tournament, one master tries to ensure his son wins the title by hiring three samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter. To succeed, the other fighter has to defeat the samurais and his rival.

This week's pick is the the 1981 sci-fi/horror film Inseminoid . A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one. Featuring a cast of unlikeable characters and loads of confusion.

This week's pick is the 1976 Jaws-on-land style movie Grizzly . An enormous grizzly bear develops a taste for human flesh and begins to terrorize a state park. It's now up to Mr. Cook a Hot Dog with Electricity himself, Christopher George, to put a stop to the beast's deadly rampage.

This week's pick is the sleazy 1977 film Hitch-Hike to Hell . Howard is a mild-mannered young man who drives a truck for a commercial laundry. He's also a mother-obsessed psycho who picks up young female hitchhikers, rapes them and kills them. As the bodies start piling up, the police finally begin to investigate.

This week's pick is the 1981 Tobe Hooper directed horror (not slasher) film the Funhouse . Four teenagers sneak into a sketchy carnival funhouse and plan to stay the night when they witness some bad doings by the owner and his deformed son. Can they escape before getting killed off within the funhouse walls? Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

This week's pick is the serious and well-made 1977 vetsploitation film Rolling Thunder . A Vietnam veteran who returns home after years in a POW camp is treated as a hero, but his family proves to be distant. When thugs invade his home to steal silver coins that he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him, his wife and son for dead. He survives and becomes obsessed with get...

This week's pick is the 1974 Jack Hill film Foxy Brown starring the always awesome Pam Grier. Foxy Brown's boyfriend is gunned down and she infiltrates the bad guy's enterprises to bring them down.

This week's pick is the 1974 action-ish movie Savage Sisters. Three women of three races join forces to get one million dollars from, and revenge on, a double-crossing Revolutionary. It is kind of like a wacky caper with bad acting, bad fight scenes, and Sid Haig's over-the-top stereotyping of Mexicans.