BARGAIN BINNED DIGS DEEP INTO THE RANDOM AND FASCINATING TITLES FOUND IN THE CLEARANCE AISLE My DVD of Midnight Cop highlights actors Morgan Fairchild, Michael York, and Frank Stallone, while omitting the movie’s actual star, […]
TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE(S), AKA THAT DOG WILL PUNK
Tobe Hooper collected many accomplishments as a filmmaker: there was Salem’s Lot, the miniseries that made kids soil their bedsheets at the thought of a vampire floating outside their bedroom window asking to be let in. […]
MUSIC TO QUARANTINE YOURSELF BY
There’s lots to explore in this edition of BHYH, from painfully hardcore punk to painfully noisy exposition to painfully dancey late-2000s nostalgia. Let’s go! cLOSET WITCH (COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY) If you don’t follow metal, you might […]
WILLIAM CASTLE A ONE-TRICK PONY? NAH
As time goes on and his films become historic artifacts, the overall opinion on William Castle has warmed up. There was a time, however, when his trademark gimmicks were considered cheap and tacky. But doesn’t […]
NICK SPACEK DOESN’T LIKE E.T.
Grumpire 7, E.T. 0 Joining us on this episode is site contributor, Nick Spacek. Nick’s grump pick probably needs no introduction, as it’s one of the most beloved films of all time. It’s the classic […]
STRANGE MUSIC FOR STRANGE DAYS
This edition of BHYH features a bizarro mix of weird-o bachelor pad essentials and a perhaps forgotten gem of bubblegum goth (yes, it exists). Read below to see what The Grumps are listening to this […]
STILL A GALA DAY FOR THE MARX BROTHERS IN DUCK SOUP
In what a Gentile like myself considers an ideal way to celebrate the Festival of Lights, last December (2019) I celebrated Hanukkah by watching a Marx Brothers film every night. It was that or hopping […]
MIXTAPE: COVID-19
It seems as if the media just can’t get enough of the Coronavirus, so we thought we’d join in on that hype! Please enjoy this Friday Mixtape, full of the most sick, diseased, and terribly […]
ROBOCOP 2: ODE TO THE SATIRIC, BOMBASTIC SEQUEL
Film sequels exist primarily to make money. As much as cinephiles worship The Godfather Part II, it wasn’t a logical progression Francis Ford Coppola envisioned after filming wrapped on The Godfather; it was Paramount, the […]
IT’S OUR MUSIC COLUMN!
This edition of BHYH features an array of artists from the realms of experimental dream pop, velvety vintage seductresses, and jangly, dirty guitar-based rock and roll. Check out what The Grumps are listening to lately—new […]
DEAD MAN: JIM JARMUSCH’S TRANSGRESSIVE WESTERN TONE POEM
There is something romantic about a film genre set in unexplored territory in a bygone period, places untouched by Western civilization, where right and wrong are settled by the spin of a gun barrel, a […]
MIXTAPE: IT’S JUST A LITTLE CRUSH
This Valentine’s Day Mixtape is dedicated to all my secret crushes. HIT THIS Spotify link AND TRY NOT TO LET ANYONE SEE YOU gushING over all these love notes. tHE mAGNETIC fIELDS, “sTRANGE pOWERS” The […]
“READ MY LIPS – NOT X RATED!” 1995’S EVIL ED TACKLES CENSORSHIP, PUNK, AND POLITICS
PUMP UP THE COLUMN EXPLORES THE MANY INTERPRETATIONS OF PUNK AESTHETIC USED IN CINEMA Genre film – in particular, horror – and punk rock have enjoyed a long and comfortable kinship. For bands like The Misfits and The Cramps, […]
HAL NEEDHAM’S “BALLET WITH BMX BIKES” RESURFACING AT SXSW THIS YEAR
BARGAIN BINNED DIGS DEEP INTO THE RANDOM AND FASCINATING TITLES FOUND IN THE CLEARANCE AISLE Director Hal Needham knew stunts. He was a stuntman himself, having worked in innumerable Westerns during the ’60s begore turning […]
DANGER SLATER DOESN’T LIKE THE DARK KNIGHT
Grumpire 6, The Dark Knight 0 Joining us on this episode is author Danger Slater, who brings us one of his more disliked films: Christopher Nolan’s much beloved and seriously gritty take on the Batman […]