Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

This week's pick is the 1982 non-stop action flick Kill Squad. 12 hands. 12 feet. 24 reasons to die!

This week's pick is the 1974 jail breakout thriller Five Loose Women. A recently jailed woman wrongly accused of murder is swept up into the escape plans of four other inmates. She is forced to go along while they outrun the law and fight bikers, terrorize locals, and encounter Ed Wood in two different roles!

This week's pick is the 1985 thriller Walking the Edge. Pushover cabbie/numbers runner Jason gets himself involved in Christine's revenge plot against the guys that killed her son. Featuring the most annoyingly nosy neighbor ever and Joe Spinell's feather earring.

This week's pick is the 1984 fantasy film the Dungeonmaster. If someone made a movie based on a half-assed attempt at a video game with seven very easy yet confusing levels of technology versus satanic wizardry orchestrated by Bull from Night Court, that would be this movie. Featuring W.A.S.P.!

This week's pick is the messy sloppy fun 1983 action movie Mission Thunderbolt. Combining two different movies, director Godfrey Ho creates his own confusing tale of assassins and revenge and random scenes without context and a healthy dose of copyright infringed music.

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Killing Kind. After being released from a two-year prison sentence for an assault a woman that he was forced into, Terry goes to live with his mom in her boarding house. Rat, cats, and people are murdered and Terry and his mom often become too close.

This week's pick is the "long lost" second Duke Mitchell film Gone with the Pope, originally filmed in 1976 but not released until 2010. A plan to kidnap the Pope is easily pulled off with the intention to receive a dollar from every Catholic as ransom. There are many confusing things that happen before and after this. Mangia!

This week's pick is the 1977 film Crash! A possessed car kills many people and cops on its way to exact revenge on the man who caused its owner to crash their car via sudden dog attack, which was his act of revenge on his wife for causing him to become a cripple. An ancient trinket is somehow involved and a wheelchair becomes possessed at one point.

This week's pick is the 1983 supernatural horror movie Bloodbeat. The ghost of a samurai terrorizes a small town family before Christmas but they fight back with red hand mind powers. We were rightfully lost.

This week's pick is the 1982 rat infested film Deadly Eyes. Giant rats are eating the citizens of Toronto, including Scatman Crothers! Can a high school teacher who can't keep track of his child save the day?