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Dial Up The Future: Jason X (2001)
Brett Gallman recalls how Jason X signaled the rise of Internet access to the latest body count shenanigans of our favorite masked maniacs.
Brett Gallman
May 13, 202210 min read
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Let Blockbusters Be Disreputable Again
In which Jacob ponders the question: has our mainstream entertainment become to safe to be, well, entertaining?
Jacob Knight
Apr 11, 20227 min read
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Slow West: The Creeping Outsider Terror of Ti West
Jacob goes long on the career of modern horror's most excitingly idiosyncratic auteur.
Jacob Knight
Mar 25, 202213 min read
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Long Live Goddamn Fucked Up Horror Pictures
Brett's back at SH and sounding the alarm for folks to just embrace horror movies being out of their fucking minds again.
Brett Gallman
Mar 24, 202210 min read
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Wrapped In Plastic: JCVD's Street Fighter
Brandon's back and telling you why you should embrace the goofy sincerity of notorious video game action epic, STREET FIGHTER.
Brandon Streussnig
Feb 11, 20226 min read
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Mondo Stuntmen: The Death Defying Maniacs of Jackass
Anya Stanley returns to Secret Handshake and digs into why Death is a omnipresent player in the JACKASS universe.
Anya Stanley
Feb 4, 20226 min read
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A Gunshot Behind the Woodshed: Lee Marvin's Dog Day
Brandon reveals how a minor late period work tells us all we need to know about Lee Marvin's legacy as a grizzled action star.
Brandon Streussnig
Jan 24, 20226 min read
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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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