Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the insane 1983 Shaw Brothers action/horror/mystery Portrait in Crystal . According to IMDB, several mysterious killings take place in the underworld and a warfighter is trying to find the culprit behind these murders. Now that sounds pretty straightforward, but what you actually get are hyperactive fight sequences, sparkly special effects, exploding bodies, a weird undergr...

This week's pick is the unsettling 1975 hicksplotation flick, Poor Pretty Eddie. A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal wannabe country singer. Featuring Ted Cassidy aka Lurch! Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

This week's pick is the 1973 Pam Grier flick Coffy . As a nurse, Coffy has seen the ill effects of drugs up close, but it isn't until her little sister becomes addicted to heroin that she finally decides to wage a one-woman battle. Disguised as a prostitute, Coffy goes on a killing rampage, at first going after street dealers and pimps such as sleazy King George, then gradually working her way up...

This week's pick is the 1973 biker horror film Psychomania . A young biker gang leader makes a pact with the Frog God and uses it to win himself eternal life. His gang follows suit and joins him on a rampage across the country. Special guest Kevin Crook joins us to discuss sacred frog medallions, sandwiches, vehicular assault on a baby, 70s interior design, and more. Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

The 1984 sword & sorcery/martial arts/horror/sci-fi/horny flick the Devil's Sword is discussed this time. It lies hidden in a secret cave inside Devil's Mountain, and everything evil will fight to the death for it. Four warriors attack the keeper of the mountain and try to force him to hand over a map that will lead them to the sword. Featuring rubbery crocodile men, underground makeou...

The spooky 1974 film Beyond the Door is this week's pick. A San Francisco housewife becomes demonically possessed in the midst of a pregnancy. Her husband, who has terrible hair, kind of tries to help, and their children are just asking to be punched. Considered to be an Exorcist ripoff, we didn't really see it. Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

The gritty 1971 exploitation horror film the Headless Eyes is this week's pick. A New York artist gouges the eyes out of his murder victims with a spoon after the same had been done to him during a botched robbery attempt. Featuring guest, director/author, Mike Neel . Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

The 1980 Umberto Lenzi film Nightmare City is this week's flick. An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood-drinking ghouls emerge armed with knives, guns, and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside. Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

The action-packed 1976 film Death Machines is this week's pick. A female crime boss uses a special, scientific serum to transform a group of three martial artists into unbeatable assassins, and sends them out against her enemies. Featuring a synth keyboard soundtrack, many assess being kicked (often to death), and a terrible love story subplot. Trailer IMDB

The 1977 martial arts/action flick Deadly Angels is this week's topic. Three ass-kicking policewomen, each armed with a fancy special weapon, go undercover in a cabaret against killer diamond smugglers. Trailer IMDB

The 1974 blaxploitation/horror revenge flick Sugar Hill is covered this week. When nightclub owner Langston refuses to sell out to local mob boss Morgan, he is beaten to death by a gang of hired thugs. His grief-stricken fiancee, Diana "Sugar" Hill, vows revenge for his murder and turns to aged voodoo authority Mama Maitresse. Together they conjure up the demonic spirit of Baron Samedi, who agrees...

We cover the 1974 slasher Devil Times Five this week. Also known as Peopletoys and the Horrible House on the Hill , five mentally unstable children involved in a bus accident terrorize the remote community in which they take refuge. Featuring a terrible catfight, a pre-Boss Hogg Sorrell Booke, a very obvious wig, and some creative murders committed by children. Trailer IMDB Wikipedia

We begin this grindhouse journey with the 1978 action/crime/drama flick Mr. No Legs aka Gun Fighter . Heads roll as two cops, Chuck and Andy, go against Mr. D'Angelo, the biggest drug dealer in Florida, and his ruthless enforcer, who has no legs but does have two mean double barrel shotguns built into his wheelchair. Trailer IMDB Wikipedia