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Meat For the Death Machine: Wes Craven's SCREAM 2
Brett Gallman breaks down what some consider to be the greatest metatextual slasher sequel of all time.
Brett Gallman
Jan 14, 20229 min read
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Psychic Porno Giallo: Patrick Still Lives (1980)
Jacob attempts to describe why this Italian rip off of an Australian blockbuster deserves Facemelter canonization.
Jacob Knight
Jan 12, 20229 min read
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Fuck You, Spaceman: The Ecstatic Action Cinema of Craig R. Baxley
Secret Handshake welcomes Brandon Streussnig into the fold, who in turn indoctrinates us into the action cinema cult of Craig Baxley.
Brandon Streussnig
Dec 24, 20217 min read
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Slime Mansion: The Cult Classic That Is The Kindred
Brett Gallman on why you should be seeking out Synapse's restoration of this highly entertaining monster mash.
Brett Gallman
Dec 10, 20218 min read
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Italian-American: Abel Ferrara's Tommaso
Jacob dives into Abel Ferrara's less celebrated (yet no less essential) works of uncomfortable autobiography.
Jacob Knight
Nov 30, 20217 min read
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Ryder On the Rain: The Hitcher (And Robert Harmon's Other Road Horror)
Jacob goes long on the greatest road horror movie of all time.
Jacob Knight
Nov 2, 20219 min read
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A Pistol For My Partner: The Tall T (1957)
Greg Ferrara joins the SH gang to talk about Budd Boetticher's heralded Elmore Leonard adaptation.
Greg Ferrara
Oct 27, 20216 min read
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Dimension of the Damned: The DTV Children of the Corn Sequels
Brett Gallman is back and is walking behind the rows with these Dimension CHILDREN OF THE CORN sequels.
Brett Gallman
Oct 20, 20218 min read
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Kill Like a Man: Night Warning (1981)
Preston returns to SH with one of the most bonkers camp slasher films of all time.
Preston Fassel
Oct 6, 202116 min read
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The Westerner: An Interview With SUPERNORMAL Cinematographer Laurie Gilbert
Simon Abrams sits down with the cinematographer of the black magic Hong Kong Mondo doc.
Simon Abrams
Aug 25, 202111 min read
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Choice Cuts: Body Parts & The Unapologetic Entertainments of Eric Red
Brett Gallman returns to SH and delivers some words on Eric Red's deranged Frankenstein splatter picture.
Brett Gallman
Apr 8, 20216 min read
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Casual Fridays: Slasher Cinema's Brutal Basics
Body count guru Brian Collins stops by to comment on possibly the most important slasher element: the killer's mask!
Brian Collins
Mar 17, 20217 min read
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I Kill For Love: Kinji Fukasaku's Black Lizard (1968)
Simon Abrams returns to SH, dissecting the seminal queer smash that breathed new life to Fukasaku's career.
Simon Abrams
Mar 10, 202110 min read
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Rent-A-Pal: A Cult Film For Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Preston makes his case for why this tale of analog loneliness should already be in our modern cult canon.
Preston Fassel
Mar 3, 202110 min read
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Forgotten Gialli: Volume One
Jacob slips on his black gloves to prowl through Vinegar Syndrome's first volume of yellow murder mystery obscurities.
Jacob Knight
Feb 11, 20215 min read
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Time Is Luck: The Tragic Romanticism of Michael Mann
Marten examines the one inevitable truth in Michael Mann's sprawling filmography.
Marten Carlson
Feb 10, 20217 min read
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Shooting Blanks: Back In Action ('94) + Tough and Deadly ('95)
Jacob blows a bunch of shit up with two of the most underrated buddy actioners of all time.
Jacob Knight
Feb 4, 20218 min read
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The Last Dragon: Michael Schultz & The Glow of '70s Black Cinema
Mike O'Brien places Michael Schultz and THE LAST DRAGON in the timeline of Black pop history.
Mike W. O'Brien
Feb 3, 202120 min read
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Nothing Really Counts, Does It?: Cutter's Way (1981)
Travis Woods dives into the despair of Cutter's Way and wonders if anything we do really matters.
Travis Woods
Jan 28, 202116 min read
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The Busted Flush: Darker Than Amber (1970)
Jacob runs down the sordid details of Travis McGee's only big screen outing to date.
Jacob Knight
Jan 26, 20218 min read
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