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As a parody of the highly popular Cabbage Patch Kids, the series featured gross-out and absurdist caricatures with a striking, cheeky charm that made them a marketing hit. As a result of this success, Topps Company would go dumpster diving in Hollywood, resulting in the 1987 film adaptation The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
Read MoreScream for Help is a sleazy, over-the-top, laugh-out-loud film that the Alamo Drafthouse programmer must’ve found at a VHS convention.
Read MoreA '70s low-budget vanity project from an aging cabaret performer sounds like something interminable and slack, released on 500 copies by some foreign VHS label, never to be seen again until showing up on Youtube in some smeary, unwatchable way. Remarkably, that's not at all what happened.
Read MoreLove On A Leash exists in that space between a movie that shouldn’t have been released and one that should be seen by anybody with the patience for something truly weird.
Read MoreWhile few of Fulci’s classic films appear to take place in the “real” world, Conquest (1983) is the director’s lone foray into the pure fantasy genre.
Read MoreFrom the get-go, Godzilla vs Megalon misleads and surprises the audience. Outside of the final twenty minutes and the first two minutes, Godzilla is not in the movie. Rather, we follow a story of kaiju and sci-fi intrigue as two parents and their kid try to stop spies from the underground world of Seatopia from stealing Jet Jaguar, a humanoid robot.
Read MorePeter Strickland’s Duke of Burgundy examines the give and take of love through the prism of kink, and how even in the context of a sapphic dom-sub relationship, power dynamics can ever shift between two people.
Read MoreA classic riff on The Dirty Dozen, the film follows a ragtag group of undocumented Chinese-Americans who are offered US citizenship in exchange for dropping into the jungle to destroy a cache of American weapons before the Viet Cong can find them.
Read MoreI Come in Peace feels like the culmination of 80s action schlock dialed to eleven and engineered to do nothing but simply entertain our lizard brains with mesmerizing action, cheesy comebacks, and gargantuan muscles.
Read MorePaul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man bottles up all the absurdity lovingly found in any great ‘80s action flick, but uncorking it almost 40 years later proves that some of the absurdity has matured into a shockingly accurate dystopian satire.
Read MoreIf this is your first Gamera, Super Monster is as satisfying as any other entry point you could choose.
Read MoreIn School of The Holy Beast, director Norifumi Suzuki and the Toei film studio bring a nunsploitation that challenges the audience through the shocking nature of its story juxtaposed with its beautiful imagery.
Read MoreNearly 45 years on, Altered States sparks synaptic connections rarely felt in big-budget movies with its operatic emotions and theatrical dialogue.
Read MoreWhat Dark Angel: The Ascent lacks in Ursula is made up for in spine removals as Angela Featherstone lets loose her sense of justice upon the world.
Read MoreFlesh for Frankenstein stars Udo Kier as the titular Dr. Frankenstein, on an obsessive quest to create two perfect specimens of humanity.
Read MoreCool monsters are expensive. Zeiram skimps on the story to feast on a live-action critter (or three).
Read MoreOf Unknown Origin (1983) is about a man trying to kill a rat. But this clever horror film is really about the lead character’s Ahabian obsession with both his rodent opponent and with his career success.
Read MoreTed Post's The Baby (1973) tells the story of a woman stricken with grief, looking to help an underdeveloped adult man trapped within the warped remains of a nuclear family.
Read MoreA definitive ranking of every outfit Honey Kitsuragi wears in Hideakki Anno’s 2004 Cutie Honey adaptation.
Read MoreVenus in Furs is jazz on film. It’s about the scenes you don’t show, baby.
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