Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1985 Erik Estrada action movie Light Blast . A crazed professor invents a death ray and threatens to destroy San Francisco unless he is paid a hefty ransom. Cue the melting people!

This week's pick is the 1980 flick the Exterminator . After his war buddy is left paralyzed by a New York gang, a Vietnam vet sets out to rid the streets of crime by becoming a vigilante. Featuring a discussion on how to cook a hot dog with electricity!

This week's pick is the 1981 high school slasher Graduation Day . A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race. Featuring Linnea Quigley and Vanna White.

This week's pick is the 1980 action horror film Cannibal Apocalypse . Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten. John Saxon stars with a cameo from a hint of pubes.

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones . U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs. A fun action film with colorful characters with names like Doodlebug, Mattingly, Plug, Pickle, and Shelley Winters as a racist drug lord named Mommy!

This week's pick is the 1977 exploitation film Too Hot to Handle. Cheri Caffaro and her nudity star as a sadistic assassin being pursued and simultaneously dated by Domingo, the Chief of Detectives, in Manilla. A slovenly Vic Diaz co-stars.

This week's pick is the gritty 1980 slasher flick Maniac . A serial killer with serious mommy issues is on the loose in New York City. Witness strangulations, scalpings, Tom Savini's head exploding, sweaty grunting, and more!

This week's pick is the 1978 vampire "comedy" Nightmare in Blood . People that are either directly or very loosely involved with a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep winding up dead and often missing vital organs. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping them. Featuring the vampire hunter The Avenger!

This week's pick is the very bloody 1980 samurai flick Shogun Assassin . Re-edited from the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies originally released in 1972, when the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death. Very...

This week's pick is the 1976 sharksploitation film Mako: the Jaws of Death . A man learns that he has a mystical connection with sharks after being given a medallion by a shaman. Becoming increasingly alienated from society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks and sets to destroy anybody who harms them. Starring Richard Jaeckel ( Mr. No Legs ), Buffy Dee and Harold "Odd Job&...

This week's pick is the 1981 killer kid horror flick Bloody Birthday . As their 10th birthday approaches, three children, born prematurely during a complete solar eclipse, turn murderous. Guest JR ( JR's Spooky Shack ) joins us to discuss the film, be disappointed in Bill for losing his connection twice during the recording, and agreeing to be the daughter in our My 2 Dads reboot.

This week's pick is the 1978 Australian psychological thriller Long Weekend . A bitter married couple teetering on the edge of divorce take a camping trip to heal the rift between them. As the weekend progresses, the selfish pair engage in reckless behavior that demonstrates an increasing disrespect for their natural surroundings. When they become the targets of a series of inexplicable animal...

We kick off season 2 with the 1976 South African/American martial arts flick Kill or Be Killed . An ex-Nazi commander who lost a karate match to a Japanese opponent in a factually inaccurate past Olympic Games organizes a martial arts tournament to seek revenge while Chico the midget does cartwheels and offers $5,000 plus expenses to fighters. Our friend Mike Spada returns for this discussion.

This week's pick, and our season one finale, is the extremely fun and excellent Shaw Brothers 1975 superhero film Inframan . If Sid & Marty Krofft tried to make Kamen Rider with the best 70s futuristic sets and costumes while having night terrors, then the result would likely look something like China's first superhero movie. Change! Inframan!

This week's pick is the 1982 movie Class of 1984 . A new teacher at a troubled inner-city high school soon ends up clashing with the delinquent leader of a punk posse that runs the school. Featuring a young and doughy Michael J. Fox, Roddy McDowall, and the guy from Meatballs that wins the hot dog eating contest.

This week's pick is the 1980 animal-on-the-loose flick Alligator . A pet baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives in the city sewers. Twelve years later, it grows to an enormous size thanks to a diet of discarded laboratory dogs injected with growth hormones. Now, humans have entered the menu.

This week's pick is the 1979 power tool slasher the Driller Killer . A struggling artist cracks under the pressure of mounting bills, relationship issues, and a deadline to get his latest painting finished. This causes him to run amock on the seedy streets of New York City, killing bums and crazies with his drill at random. Featuring way too many scenes of band practice by the Roosters. Specia...

The 1982 sci-fi/horror flick Nightbeast is this week's pick. An aggressive alien in what appears to be silk pajamas crash lands on Earth and begins killing people indiscriminately. It's up to a small-town sheriff with a perm and a small group of locals to combat the threat. An unnecessary love triangle adds nothing to this low-budget spectacle, but a high body count and uncomfortable sex s...

This week's pick is the 1984 action revenge movie Alley Cat . A skilled martial artist tries to get revenge on the thugs who attempt to steal her tires and attack her grandparents. Featuring three separate scenes where she kicks the asses of would-be pervs while out for a nighttime jog.

This week's pick is the 1973 film The Little Cigars . A voluptuous blonde on the lam from her sadistic gangster boyfriend (after putting out a cigar on his ding dong) becomes involved with a team of petty crook midgets, not dwarfs!

The 1972 exploitation horror film The Last House on the Left is this week's pick. Two teenage girls heading to a rock concert for one's birthday try to score marijuana in the city, where they are kidnapped and brutalized by a gang of psychopathic convicts in Wes Craven's directorial debut.

This week's pick is the 1976's martial arts/horror mash-up Devil's Express . A tough black martial artist (Warhawk Tanzania) takes on warring street gangs and an evil demon with cartoon eyes that haunts the New York City subways. An accurate description for a rather messy, poorly acted, poorly directed movie. One plus? You get to see lots of how New York City looked in the mid-1970s.

This week's pick is the 1974 British psychological slasher/thriller Frightmare . After escaping a death sentence for her hideous crimes, a seemingly rehabilitated woman settles in an isolated farmhouse with her husband, only to ache, once more, for blood, and extremely awkward tarot card readings! Is, indeed, her old self back? The answer definitely is YES. Special guest Edward Payson joins us...

This week's pick is the 1982 action-type movie Raw Force . Essentially, passengers on a drunken pleasure cruise in the vicinity of Asia end up stranded on an island inhabited by cannibal monks that trade jade stones for meals of prostitutes kidnapped by a Hitler lookalike and his mercenary gang. All hell breaks loose when the passengers, who happened to be knowledgable in sloppy martial arts g...

This week's pick is the 1972 Italian noir-poliziottesco film Caliber 9 . The police and the mob go after small-time gangster Ugo Piazza after his release from prison. They suspect he has hidden $300,000 of stolen money, which belongs to an American drug dealer. First, Ugo meets his psychotic ex-employer Rocco. Have a listen, potato head! Trailer IMDB Wikipedia