Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1977 Italian crime film the Heroin Busters. An Italian cop goes under cover to break up an international heroin smuggling ring with help from an Interpol agent. Featuring pissed pants and some fine airplane stunt work.

This week's pick is the 1982 Australian action movie Turkey Shoot. In a dystopian future, captured rebels held in re-education camps are offered freedom if they manage to survive as the prey in a hunt. Featuring a werewolf in a top hat!

This week's pick is the 1977 film Nurse Sherri. Taking place on a scant few poorly lit sets, this possession horror movie offers wooden acting, "comedy", and ugly aesthetics.

This week's pick is the 1981 Canuxploitation film the Pit. A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers by luring them into a pit of violent creatures in a secluded part of a forest that nobody else knows about.

This week's pick is the 1978 Spanish Satanic horror tale Satan's Blood. Annie and Andy are easily lured to an isolated home inhabited by a Satanic coven for oily sex rituals and a complete lack of self preservation.

We kick off season 3 with the legendary Sonny Chiba kicking all kinds of ass and making all kinds of faces in the 1974 classic the Street Fighter. X-ray punch!

This week's pick is the 1976 Shaw Brothers goofy horror/revenge movie Oily Maniac. A crippled man uses black magic to transform himself into an oil monster that deals out violent justice to bad people.

This week's pick is the 1984 revenge flick Savage Streets. Linda Blairs stars as Brenda who is out for violent revenge on a local, jolly gang called the Scars for assaulting her deaf sister and tossing her best friend off a bridge. Special guest Kevin Crook (Wicked Horror Show) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic action movie the New Barbarians. After the nuclear holocaust in the year 2019, small bands of survivors are terrorized by the Templars, who seek to eradicate the remnants of mankind. Scorpion, Nadir and an unlikeable child to the rescue! Special guest Edwin Callahan (Castaigne Publishing) joins us!

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Baby. Social worker Ann Gentry is fascinated by the case of Mrs. Wadsworth and her fully-grown son who has the mind and behavior of a baby. Her interest fast becomes obsession and leads to a bizarre and violent conclusion.