LATE NIGHT NOIR PART DEUX
LATE NIGHT NOIR PART DEUX Since people thanked me for turning them on to some obscure films that ran at […]
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ANDY WARHOL”S FRANKENSTEIN
ACID, ROAD TRIP, & NATHANS It was 1973 and Andy Warhol was a big name in the art world, plus […]
LATE NIGHT NOIR
I had started this series back in Grindhouse Purgatory. As a guy who was out all hours back in the […]
TWO FISTED TALES OF NYC LIQUIDATORS
I TAKE OVER THE ADULT SECTION When I folded up my video store, I had no where to go. Norman […]
LET ME DIE A WOMAN
LET ME DIE A WOMAN Ok, so this is supposed to be a “documentary about transsexuals. Directed by Doris Wishman, […]
A Night At The Harem
A NIGHT AT THE HAREM By Pete chiarella One of the weirder […]
The Word “Grindhouse”
42nd Street had a large amount of theaters on either side of the block. Their opulence faded after the Great […]
The Corrupt Ones
When I was asked to write something for Strange World, I wanted to find a film that is not that well known to fans. So let me take you back to 1967. My first year as a freshman in public school. I hated that place, seriously, and I’d cut classes a lot. It was only a couple of miles from my local and favorite grindhouse…
Sid Haig: One On One
I had discovered Sid Haig during my Drive In/Grindhouse days. The Big Bird Cage, Savage Sisters, Busting Coffee, and his frequent TV appearances during the 70’s. Then he just vanished off the map….
The Stranger and the Gunfighter
It was 1974, two years before our Bicentennial and the great pot famine of 1976. Yes, security was so tight back then that you couldn’t beg, borrow or find a joint in the NYC area. Gee, what happened? But I digress….