Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1980 flick the Exterminator. After his war buddy is left paralyzed by a New York gang, a Vietnam vet sets out to rid the streets of crime by becoming a vigilante. Featuring a discussion on how to cook a hot dog with electricity!

This week's pick is the 1981 high school slasher Graduation Day. A masked killer begins murdering students on the school track team after a runner dies upon completion of a 30 second 200-meter race. Featuring Linnea Quigley and Vanna White.

This week's pick is the 1980 action horror film Cannibal Apocalypse. Mentally unstable Vietnam vets who were held captive by the Viet Cong come back to America after being rescued carrying a dangerous virus that turns people into cannibals when bitten. John Saxon stars with a cameo from a hint of pubes.

This week's pick is the 1973 blaxploitation film Cleopatra Jones. U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs. A fun action film with colorful characters with names like Doodlebug, Mattingly, Plug, Pickle, and Shelley Winters as a racist drug lord named Mommy!

This week's pick is the 1977 exploitation film Too Hot to Handle. Cheri Caffaro and her nudity star as a sadistic assassin being pursued and simultaneously dated by Domingo, the Chief of Detectives, in Manilla. A slovenly Vic Diaz co-stars.

This week's pick is the gritty 1980 slasher flick Maniac. A serial killer with serious mommy issues is on the loose in New York City. Witness strangulations, scalpings, Tom Savini's head exploding, sweaty grunting, and more!

This week's pick is the 1978 vampire "comedy" Nightmare in Blood. People that are either directly or very loosely involved with a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep winding up dead and often missing vital organs. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping them. Featuring the vampire hunter The Avenger!

This week's pick is the very bloody 1980 samurai flick Shogun Assassin. Re-edited from the first two Lone Wolf and Cub movies originally released in 1972, when the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death. Very awesome violent death. And a synth soundtrack!

This week's pick is the 1976 sharksploitation film Mako: the Jaws of Death. A man learns that he has a mystical connection with sharks after being given a medallion by a shaman. Becoming increasingly alienated from society, he develops an ability to communicate with sharks and sets to destroy anybody who harms them. Starring Richard Jaeckel (Mr. No Legs), Buffy Dee and Harold "Odd Job" Sakata.

This week's pick is the 1981 killer kid horror flick Bloody Birthday. As their 10th birthday approaches, three children, born prematurely during a complete solar eclipse, turn murderous. Guest JR (JR's Spooky Shack) joins us to discuss the film, be disappointed in Bill for losing his connection twice during the recording, and agreeing to be the daughter in our My 2 Dads reboot.