Video Store Nightmares

This week, join us as we explore the dregs of cinema once again, with 1974's Walt Davis-helmed Evil Come, Evil Go. Sister Sarah Jane is a travelling, evangelistic street preacher who spreads the message: "God is love, not sex!" To prove her point, she seduces men and murders them mid-coitus. After recruiting a lesbian acolyte, she begins to dream of even bigger plans.

This week, we revisit the work of Fred Olen Ray with 1988's Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers! Jack Chandler is a private investigator hired to track down a runaway teenager (Linnea Quigley). His search leads him to a cult of chainsaw-worshippers led by Gunnar Hansen himself. Let the gore and wisecracks commence!

This week, we enter the Lovecraftian world of Mariano Baino's Dark Waters. This may have been made after the pinnacle of Italian horror, but it's every bit worth your time. Elizabeth travels from London to a desolate Ukrainian island, to find out why her father donated money to a mysterious convent. Turns out, this convent's home to more than one god.

This week, join us for another visit to the convent. This time, we're back in Mexico. Sister Maria becomes tempted, or maybe possessed, by Satan himself. Is she driven mad? Or does her flirtation with Satan corrupt the entire convent? Check out the flick, and this week's episode, to find out!

This week, we kick off our month of nunsploitation, and revisit the work of Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragasso, with 1981's the Other Hell. A scientifically-minded priest is sent to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a convent. Could it be a psychopath or Satan himself to blame? Check out the flick and this week's episode, to find out!

This week, we revisit the work of Stephen Sayadian (Rinse Dream ala Cafe Flesh). This pseudo-sequel to 1920's Cabinet of Dr. Caligari focuses on the famous doctor's granddaughter. She's running an asylum of her own, addressing such psychological maladies as nymphomania and cannibalism. Her treatment involves switching brains and personalities amongst her patients. It all takes place in a surreal, German expressionist wasteland. "Chinchilla Chinchilla Chinchilla!"

This week, join us in discussing one of Charles Band's earliest films - Mansion of the Doomed! Like a grindhouse makeover of Eyes Without a Face, this film follows the exploits of a mad doctor obsessed with restoring the eyesight of his blind daughter. Unfortunately, surgery after surgery proves unsuccessful and the eye-less prisoners start building up in the basement. Featuring Video Store Nightmares alumni such as Gloria Graham and Vic Tayback, as well as a young Lance Henriksen! 

This week, join us in watching a private investigator ("Chase") on the tail of a missing lab assistant (read: prostitute) responsible for stealing a resurrection formula suspiciously similar in look and property to that in Re-Animator. This shot-on-video end to director Hugh Gallagher's "Gore Trilogy" is sleazy and silly in equal measure. On this episode: floating black dildos (isn't that enough?).

This week, we visit an obscure 1975 Spanish production, about an orphanage/boarding school secretly lobotomizing teenage girls to send to wealthy men as sex slaves. It sounds sleazy as Hell! Despite its relative tameness, it's still worth it to watch Leonore try to escape the clutches of the evil Dr. Krueger. 

This week, we once again travel to the 1970s for a character exhibition of a troubled girl who uses tarantulas to scare her victims - to death! It all starts when she overhears her mother plotting to murder her father. In response, young Susan unleashes her tarantulas and there's no going back. On this episode: lessons on tarantula anatomy, the problem with incestuous uncles, death from fright, tarantula endangerment, character inconsistencies, bullying, and standards of tarantula burial.