I’ve Got ‘Yer Cheri Caffaro Online Movie Archive RIGHT HERE.

I’ll just come out and say it: I keep a candle lit for Ms. Caffaro. If you do too–and you know who you are–why don’t you spend the next eight hours watching all the Cheri Caffaro films I was able to find on YouTube. You’ll know where to find me: Let’s start with 1971’s Ginger. I’ve

My Top Five First-Time Watches of 2014

A bit ago over at the Badasses, Boobs, and Bodycounts podcast, the inestimable hosts Mike and Iris asked listeners to submit their top and bottom five first-time watches from 2014. I jumped on that action quickly, and got my email read on the podcast–mine was first up in fact.  Here it is again, slightly edited:

Raiders of Atlantis (1983)

Grindhouse Brackets 5: On to the Sweet 16!

At this point, we’ve eliminated half of the films we started with, and have arrived at our Sweet 16! But before we get to that story, I have to go over this story–how Match-Up 4 shook out. This Story  Match-up 4 had about half the votes of 3, which is fine, and here’s how it all went

Grindhouse Brackets Match-Up 1: 50s Classics, 80s Horror, Campy Bikers, Animals On the Loose!

Here are the first four contests in my better-late-than-never Grindhouse Brackets.  “Submitted for your approval,” in the words of the late great Rod Serling, are the trailers for these fine flicks below. You’ll also find a poll embedded under each match-up to record your votes, which will remain open only for the next 168 hours (or,

The Deadly Spawn (1983)

Rivers of Grue Crimson Quill’s Appraisal #173 Number of Views: MultipleRelease Date: 22 April 1983 (USA)Also known as Return of the Aliens: The Deadly SpawnSub-Genre: Alien InvasionCountry of Origin: United StatesBudget: $25,000Running Time: 81 minutesDirector: Douglas McKeownProducer: Ted A. Bohus, John Dods, Tim HildebrandtScreenplay: Douglas McKeownSpecial Effects: John Dods, Gregory RamoundosCinematography: Harvey M. BirnbaumScore: Paul

Grindhouse Brackets–Top 32

Here, Mrs. I Love Terrible Movies and I put together a fun little 32-team bracket featuring bad guys/monsters/villains of horror and exploitation films I’ve seen in the past year or so.  In case you forgot who’s who, I’ve embedded the film trailers below. Tweet me or comment on this post by a week from today (1

Link Dump: Mid-Late October

It’s time for another good-sized roundup of good movie reviews from the tweeps.  Love how you folks are keeping exploitation and B-movies in circulation. With a good-sized H/T to Cultural Gutter, I saw this interesting post on TV criticism vs. TV recapping, among other things.  I liked it because it gives voice to what I’m trying

Films I’ve Seen Lately #2

This time around, I thought I’d just keep track of everything I’m watching over the past month or so.  No rhyme or reason, as usual–just stuff I run across on YouTube, Netflix, my cable on-demand service, and stuff I see refs to in Twitter and elsewhere. Christine (1983) Fun flick from John Carpenter adapting a