Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1985 film Gymkata . The trailer makes it look like a lot more fun than you end up getting, but there are some decent gymnastics fighting scenes, multiple questionable hairstyles and loads of ugly people. Friend of the show Mike Spada joins in on the disappointment.

This week's pick is the 1975 British horror film I Don't Want to be Born . A woman is cursed by a dwarf after she rejects his advances, then has an enormous baby possessed by the evil spirit of the dwarf. It seems the child will stop at nothing to exact the dwarf's revenge. It sounds a lot better than it actually is, but at least you get to see a baby murder multiple people.

This week's pick is the 1972 Golden Harvest film One Armed Boxer . Jimmy Wang Yu wrote, directed and starred as the titular character who seeks revenge on the fighters that killed his master.

This week's pick is the 1977 kinda-sorta action movie Bare Knuckles . A bounty hunter in Los Angeles tries to track down a serial killer that likes to hiss like a cat. Sloppy fight sequences, mustaches everywhere and an ok but lengthy chase scene make this potentially tolerable, depending on your mood.

This week's pick is the 1980 Lucio Fulci supernatural horror film the City of the Living Dead . A reporter and psychic that had been prematurely buried (whoops!) head to a hard-to-find Massachusetts town where a clergyman has recently hanged himself to prevent the gates of Hell from opening. Special guest Mike Neel joins us.

This week's pick os the 1981 slasher flick Night School . According to IMDB, "Who's been decapitating the innocent girls at a local night school? The police are baffled." Featuring a turtle nibbling on a decapitated head.

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Willie Dynamite , starring a pre-Sesame Street Gordon, Roscoe Orman. This movie has the absolute best outfits of any movie we have covered so far and is pretty great to boot.

This week's pick is the 1977 Italian crime film the Heroin Busters . An Italian cop goes under cover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring with help from an Interpol agent. Featuring pissed pants and some fine airplane stunt work.

This week's pick is the 1982 Australian action movie Turkey Shoot . In a dystopian future, captured rebels held in re-education camps are offered freedom if they manage to survive as the prey in a hunt. Featuring a werewolf in a top hat!

This week's pick is the 1977 film Nurse Sherri . Taking place on a scant few poorly lit sets, this possession horror movie offers wooden acting, "comedy", and ugly aesthetics.

This week's pick is the 1981 Canuxploitation film the Pit . A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers by luring them into a pit of violent creatures in a secluded part of a forest that nobody else knows about.

This week's pick is the 1978 Spanish Satanic horror tale Satan's Blood . Annie and Andy are easily lured to an isolated home inhabited by a Satanic coven for oily sex rituals and a complete lack of self preservation.

We kick off season 3 with the legendary Sonny Chiba kicking all kinds of ass and making all kinds of faces in the 1974 classic the Street Fighter . X-ray punch!

This week's pick is the 1976 Shaw Brothers goofy horror/revenge movie Oily Maniac. A crippled man uses black magic to transform himself into an oil monster that deals out violent justice to bad people.

This week's pick is the 1984 revenge flick Savage Streets . Linda Blairs stars as Brenda who is out for violent revenge on a local, jolly gang called the Scars for assaulting her deaf sister and tossing her best friend off a bridge. Special guest Kevin Crook ( Wicked Horror Show ) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic action movie the New Barbarians . After the nuclear holocaust in the year 2019, small bands of survivors are terrorized by the Templars, who seek to eradicate the remnants of mankind. Scorpion, Nadir and an unlikeable child to the rescue! Special guest Edwin Callahan ( Castaigne Publishing ) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Baby . Social worker Ann Gentry is fascinated by the case of Mrs. Wadsworth and her fully-grown son who has the mind and behavior of a baby. Her interest fast becomes obsession and leads to a bizarre and violent conclusion.

This week's pick is the bonkers 1983 Shaw Brothers film Holy Flame of the Martial World . A brother and sister seek vengeance for the death of their parents through using the mythical yin/yang Holy Flame kung-fu technique. Featuring Golden Snake Boy, snake bladder induced finger lasers, and the deadly Ghostly Laugh!

This week's pick is the 1975 slasher the Love Butcher . After being pushed around too much, crippled gardener Caleb transforms into the suave, yet volatile Lester and returns to those who have wronged him.

This week's pick is the 1974 blaxploitation action film Three the Hard Way , starring Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly. A record producer, a PR man and a black belt in karate foil a racist plot to poison the drinking water supply of several major cities by the evil Monroe Feather.

This week's pick is the absurd 1981 Spanish revenge film Mad Foxes . Hal gets revenge on a biker gang that assaulted him and his girlfriend by having martial artists attack them. The biker gang then gets revenge on Hal by killing his parents. Hal then gets revenge on the same biker gang himself. Featuring pubes, penises, an intimate scene in what is potentially a bathtub full of urine, and so...

This week's pick is the brain-melting 1981 Taiwanese martial arts/fantasy film Thrilling Bloody Sword . Featuring a cyclops demon, giant floating heads in a hell cave, a dwarf with a mini bagel necklace, flying body parts that resemble raw meat, and a near indestructible warrior getting stabbed in the asshole, amongst other very confusing things set to a synth soundtrack.

This week's pick is the 1974 Bob Clark-directed slasher Black Christmas . As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters begin to receive anonymous, lascivious phone calls. Soon, one of the sisters goes missing from the sorority house, and a local adolescent girl is murdered, leading the girls to suspect a serial killer is on the loose. But no one realizes just how near the culprit is.

This week's pick is the 1984 Xmas slasher SIient Night, Deadly Night. An orphan raised by a strict nun after witnessing his parents being killed by a criminal dressed like Santa Claus grows up to be a killer toy-store Santa Claus himself. Special guest Ben Scrivens (Fright Rags) joins us with his extensive knowledge of actors from this film that also appeared in the Halloween franchise.

This week's pick the the 1980 holiday horror type movie Christmas Evil . A toy factory worker, who is obsessed with Christmas and was mentally scarred as a child after seeing "Santa Claus" (aka his dad) being intimate with his mom on Christmas eve, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work and being disgusted with his fellow co-workers and bad boy Moss Garcia, and emb...