George Pacheco

'The Disco Exorcist' doesn't live up to its grindhouse standards

There are very few films released these days which legitimately echo the glory days of "grindhouse" cinema.Oftentimes, filmmakers lose the point and miss the magic of what earned such classic drive in fare as Truck Stop Women...

'Countess Perverse' fails to scale the heights of Jess Franco's 70s style

The early 1970s were an extremely fertile period for famed Spanish filmmaker Jess Franco, with no less than ten films attributed to the macabre maestro between the years of 1973 and 1974, the year that this exploitative effort enjoyed a...

Pulp Fiction: 'Machine Gun McCain' is a certified Italian gangster classic

There are many shades of grey when it comes to the world of Italian-made gangster films. While visionary maestros like Fernando Di Leo almost single-handedly changed the game in terms of violence and style with such films as...

Revisiting the Nasties: Joe D'Amato's 'Anthropophagus'

As one of the original prosecuted ‘video nasties’ of 1980s Britain—a period of moral panic during which politicians blamed horror and exploitation films for causing crime, violence and ‘contributing to societal decline’—Joe...

Cinema Sewer wallows proudly in the shallow end of the cult cinema gene pool

Gloriously sleazy and deliriously debauchery-laden, Cinema Sewer fanzine is the warped brainchild of the otherwise unassuming Canadian artist and writer Robin Bougie. A pleasantly unique amalgamation of raunchy, adult-oriented comic art and dedicated celluloid worship, Cinema Sewer proudly...

'A Bullet for the General' is a must-see, must-own Spaghetti Western

Directed by respected Italian auteur Damiano Damiani and originally released in 1966, A Bullet for the General may not have achieved the commercial heights or cult appeal of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Once Upon a Time in...

(Not so) Pretty In Pink: 'Sex Hell' is high on shock, but low on style

Recently released via Impulse Pictures as part of their Nikkatsu Studios Erotic Films Collection, True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell certainly qualifies as an exercise in extreme sleaze and depravity.Originally released in 1975, this production-or...

'The Disco Exorcist' doesn't live up to its grindhouse standards

'Countess Perverse' fails to scale the heights of Jess Franco's 70s style

Pulp Fiction: 'Machine Gun McCain' is a certified Italian gangster classic

Revisiting the Nasties: Joe D'Amato's 'Anthropophagus'

Cinema Sewer wallows proudly in the shallow end of the cult cinema gene pool

'A Bullet for the General' is a must-see, must-own Spaghetti Western

(Not so) Pretty In Pink: 'Sex Hell' is high on shock, but low on style

'The Cabin in the Woods' respects its horror movie heritage

Viewing giallo through American eyes with 'The Girl In Room 2A'

'Strip Nude For Your Killer' is sleazy, trashy giallo greatness

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