If you’re a fan of Roger Corman or Joe Dante then you’re probably also a fan of Dick Miller, who is something of a fixture in both their filmographies.
And even if you’re not, there’s a very good chance you’re at least familiar with his face, given that the veteran character actor has appeared in more than 150 films and TV shows, including The Terminator, both Gremlins movies, and Star Trek: Next Generation.
On Friday night, a new documentary about Miller – called, appropriately enough, That Guy Dick Miller — will receive its world premiere at SXSW.
And even if you’re not, there’s a very good chance you’re at least familiar with his face, given that the veteran character actor has appeared in more than 150 films and TV shows, including The Terminator, both Gremlins movies, and Star Trek: Next Generation.
On Friday night, a new documentary about Miller – called, appropriately enough, That Guy Dick Miller — will receive its world premiere at SXSW.
- 3/7/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Kane Hodder’s Exit to Hell, trailer for Evil Feed, Another, and Terrible Angels, video highlights from Steven Yeun interview with Conan O’Brien, and much more:
Exit to Hell Release Details: “After robbing a mafia run strip club, a naïve group of thugs head for the border to enjoy their bounty. But when they enter the remote and wind-swept town of Redstone, they gruesomely discover that revenge is all in how you slice it. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with an abiding appetite for justice! Exit to Hell co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grindhouse cinema.
Uncork’d Entertainment has inked North American VOD,...
Exit to Hell Release Details: “After robbing a mafia run strip club, a naïve group of thugs head for the border to enjoy their bounty. But when they enter the remote and wind-swept town of Redstone, they gruesomely discover that revenge is all in how you slice it. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with an abiding appetite for justice! Exit to Hell co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American Grindhouse cinema.
Uncork’d Entertainment has inked North American VOD,...
- 10/20/2013
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Having just seen Exit to Hell, we can tell you that the flick is a loving homage to the Grindhouse lunacy of yesteryear. Even better? It just scored itself distro! Read on for details and more!
From the Press Release
ncork’d Entertainment has inked North American V.O.D., digital and home entertainment rights to the rough and rugged horror drama Exit To Hell (previously titled Sickle). Exit To Hell was written, directed and produced by Robert Conway and Funhouse Features producers David Friedman, Justin Anderson and Executive Producer Anthony Casanova. Exit To Hell is expected on VOD in early November and DVD in early 2014. Uncork’d Entertainment’s Keith Leopard made today’s announcement.
“Robert Conway and his producers truly understand the depth and cinematic history of this genre,” remarked Leopard, “and it’s all on the screen. Having iconic actor Kane Hodder adds another layer to this...
From the Press Release
ncork’d Entertainment has inked North American V.O.D., digital and home entertainment rights to the rough and rugged horror drama Exit To Hell (previously titled Sickle). Exit To Hell was written, directed and produced by Robert Conway and Funhouse Features producers David Friedman, Justin Anderson and Executive Producer Anthony Casanova. Exit To Hell is expected on VOD in early November and DVD in early 2014. Uncork’d Entertainment’s Keith Leopard made today’s announcement.
“Robert Conway and his producers truly understand the depth and cinematic history of this genre,” remarked Leopard, “and it’s all on the screen. Having iconic actor Kane Hodder adds another layer to this...
- 10/16/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Kane Hodder and the forever hot Tiffany Shepis are together again in yet another tale of murder, mayhem, and indie goodness as director Robert Conway is set to paint the screen red with his new film Sickle.
Rena Riffel and Dustin James co-star. Look for more on this one soon!
Synopsis
A group of stick-up kids rob a Mafia-run strip club and head for the Border, but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with a true appetite for justice. The film co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American grindhouse cinema.
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Rena Riffel and Dustin James co-star. Look for more on this one soon!
Synopsis
A group of stick-up kids rob a Mafia-run strip club and head for the Border, but when they enter the town of Redstone, they find that crime is a dish best served cold. Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th, Hatchet) takes the title role as Sheriff Slade Sickle, a man with a true appetite for justice. The film co-stars Tiffany Shepis (Nightmare Man, Dark Reel) and Rena Riffel (Showgirls, Mulholland Dr.) in this carnage-filled tribute to American grindhouse cinema.
Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!
Got news? Click here to submit it!
Lay down the law in the comments section below!
- 4/16/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Frightfest has had its fair share of controversy in the past, most notably when A Serbian Film was pulled after Westminster Council ruled it couldn’t be shown in an uncut form. This year’s near-the-mark equivalent was predicted to be Patricio Valladares’ Hidden in the Woods, an exploitation film from Chile brimming with incest, gore and cleavage close-ups. Unfortunately for everyone at the screening, that prediction was way off the mark.
The film opens with Felipe, a drug dealer, who murders his wife before turning his attention to his two daughters, Ana and Anny. He submits them to years of violence and sexual abuse which results in both a child with his eldest and the slimming of his chances at winning Chilean Father of the Year. Raising his daughters and mentally unhinged son in isolation, the cycle only stops when the cops arrive and, although disposing of them with a chainsaw,...
The film opens with Felipe, a drug dealer, who murders his wife before turning his attention to his two daughters, Ana and Anny. He submits them to years of violence and sexual abuse which results in both a child with his eldest and the slimming of his chances at winning Chilean Father of the Year. Raising his daughters and mentally unhinged son in isolation, the cycle only stops when the cops arrive and, although disposing of them with a chainsaw,...
- 8/31/2012
- by Billy Langsworthy
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
You know that guy? That guy in the film about the thing. The guy who was also in that other film about that thing. You've seen his mug in numerous films but probably don't know his name. He's been a killer sculptor, been murdered by a Terminator and pestered by Gremlins. He's a professional "That Guy" by the name of Dick Miller and has over 170 film and TV credits under his name.American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner was making a bonus feature documentary for a German DVD release of Roger Corman's War Of The Satellites and was doing a bit on Miller and his part in the film and realized that this prolific actor deserved a full feature length documentary that would span his life as...
- 8/7/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Back in early 2011, horror fan-site juggernaut Bloody Disgusting took a stand for independent and foreign genre lore by partnering with The Collective and AMC Theaters, establishing distribution company Bloody Disgusting Selects. Their purpose? To hand-pick often glanced over horror gems which get lost in the mainstream remake shuffle, and grant those deemed worthy of proper theatrical and Video On Demand releases exposure.
As an avid follower and member of “The Infected” (the site’s online community), Bloody Disgusting Selects seemed like a gleaming beacon of hope in the world of inventive, creative, and one-of-a-kind horror experiences. Selected by site staffers and genre enthusiast super fans sharing a common love for skin crawling madness, I made it my mission not to skip a single feature. Now, with their first ten tales of terror rated and reviewed, I thought I’d touch upon Bloody Disgusting’s foray into film distribution and determine the company’s future.
As an avid follower and member of “The Infected” (the site’s online community), Bloody Disgusting Selects seemed like a gleaming beacon of hope in the world of inventive, creative, and one-of-a-kind horror experiences. Selected by site staffers and genre enthusiast super fans sharing a common love for skin crawling madness, I made it my mission not to skip a single feature. Now, with their first ten tales of terror rated and reviewed, I thought I’d touch upon Bloody Disgusting’s foray into film distribution and determine the company’s future.
- 7/12/2012
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
It’s time for another update from our friends at Arrow Video, this time previewing their <ay 2012 releases which include theSteelbook Blu-ray release of the King of New York and the ArrowDrome release of Frankenhooker and the awesome-looking X-Rental four-pack!
Frankenhooker (ArrowDrome)
Some Assembly Required
Finding a girl when you’re a nerdy science geek can be hard. But what happens if that special someone dies in a bizarre gardening accident and it’s all your fault? Meet Jeffrey Franken. He’s just killed the love of his life and now he’s going to rebuild her… From the body parts of the dead streetwalkers who exploded when he introduced them to a lethal new drug – Supercrack! Little does he know that a good recipe requires the correct ingredients. Jeffrey isn’t putting his life back together; he’s building… a Frankenhooker! From the twisted imagination of Frank Henenlotter (Basketcase...
Frankenhooker (ArrowDrome)
Some Assembly Required
Finding a girl when you’re a nerdy science geek can be hard. But what happens if that special someone dies in a bizarre gardening accident and it’s all your fault? Meet Jeffrey Franken. He’s just killed the love of his life and now he’s going to rebuild her… From the body parts of the dead streetwalkers who exploded when he introduced them to a lethal new drug – Supercrack! Little does he know that a good recipe requires the correct ingredients. Jeffrey isn’t putting his life back together; he’s building… a Frankenhooker! From the twisted imagination of Frank Henenlotter (Basketcase...
- 4/7/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Episode 3 of the budding web-based horror talk show Inside Horror is here, and as always we have the goodies for you right here! On tap this week is a look inside The Theatre Bizarre and much more!
Every week, totally live and completely uncensored, your horror hosts Staci Layne Wilson and Elric Kane not only vivisect the latest in the genre but also uncover undiscovered classics with recommendations via decidedly undead debate.
Inside Horror features the hottest and the coolest film directors, actors, authors, filmmakers, documentarians and experts on the horror genre. Giving our audience a voice on the show, live and as you watch, is our chat room cutie Jenna Busch. Jenna also kicks off every show with the latest news in “Dreadlines” – hot off the Dread Central wire.
Inside Horror with Elric Kane and Staci Layne Wilson airs Tuesday nights live at 7:00 p.m. Pst at TheStream.
Every week, totally live and completely uncensored, your horror hosts Staci Layne Wilson and Elric Kane not only vivisect the latest in the genre but also uncover undiscovered classics with recommendations via decidedly undead debate.
Inside Horror features the hottest and the coolest film directors, actors, authors, filmmakers, documentarians and experts on the horror genre. Giving our audience a voice on the show, live and as you watch, is our chat room cutie Jenna Busch. Jenna also kicks off every show with the latest news in “Dreadlines” – hot off the Dread Central wire.
Inside Horror with Elric Kane and Staci Layne Wilson airs Tuesday nights live at 7:00 p.m. Pst at TheStream.
- 1/25/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
I think one of the best things that Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino’s Grindhouse film did was make the mainstream aware of the exploitation genre. I still say this to this day. Do I think they pulled off the duplication of the films they were paying homage to? Not so much but that doesn’t mean I didn’t like the film. Ever since 2007, more film fans have been digging into the past and finding tons of gems that were lost until the interest was revived. With the history pages turning, people could smell a wiff of the 42nd Street culture. While most of us were not there to experience it first hand, there were plenty of filmmakers and New York City and Jersey citizens that did.
Recently, you may have seen American Grindhouse – if not, you should as it is on Netflix Streaming – which touches on some of the...
Recently, you may have seen American Grindhouse – if not, you should as it is on Netflix Streaming – which touches on some of the...
- 12/8/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
With the rise of B-movie documentaries like Not Quite Hollywood, Machete Maidens Unleashed, and American Grindhouse, it only makes perfect sense that the true “King of the B’s”, Roger Corman, would finally be the subject of his own well-deserved documentary. When it comes to B-movies, it truly is Corman’s World.
Without Roger Corman in the director and producer’s chair, the world of cinema would be without a huge number of cult classics and not-so-classics. Without Roger Corman’s own version of filmmaking boot camp giving many writers, directors, and actors their big break, the world of cinema might be without Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, John Sayles, Paul Bartel, Gale Anne Hurd, Joe Dante, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson; and that’s just to name a few.
Director Alex Stapleton weaves archival footage following...
Without Roger Corman in the director and producer’s chair, the world of cinema would be without a huge number of cult classics and not-so-classics. Without Roger Corman’s own version of filmmaking boot camp giving many writers, directors, and actors their big break, the world of cinema might be without Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, John Sayles, Paul Bartel, Gale Anne Hurd, Joe Dante, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson; and that’s just to name a few.
Director Alex Stapleton weaves archival footage following...
- 11/9/2011
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
The Films:
Shout Factory has made it their mission to release all kinds of Roger Corman goodness recently. They put together 2, 3 and even 4 movie sets with some of Corman’s lost movies. They have also made a name for themselves by just putting out some other cool DVDs in general. Their latest foray into the Roger Corman world is a triple feature, and although only 1 of the movies is produced by Corman, each contain the same heart and ideas, although that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
In Roger Corman’S Cult Classics Triple Feature: Lethal Ladies Collection, Shout Factory has brought the world the DVD release of Friecracker (1981), Too Hot To Handle (1977) and the Corman produced TNT Jackson (1976). Each of these films contain similar stories. They are each about women who take the law into their own hands and kick ass.
TNT Jackson is about Diana “TNT” Jackson (Jeannie Bell...
Shout Factory has made it their mission to release all kinds of Roger Corman goodness recently. They put together 2, 3 and even 4 movie sets with some of Corman’s lost movies. They have also made a name for themselves by just putting out some other cool DVDs in general. Their latest foray into the Roger Corman world is a triple feature, and although only 1 of the movies is produced by Corman, each contain the same heart and ideas, although that isn’t necessarily a good thing.
In Roger Corman’S Cult Classics Triple Feature: Lethal Ladies Collection, Shout Factory has brought the world the DVD release of Friecracker (1981), Too Hot To Handle (1977) and the Corman produced TNT Jackson (1976). Each of these films contain similar stories. They are each about women who take the law into their own hands and kick ass.
TNT Jackson is about Diana “TNT” Jackson (Jeannie Bell...
- 10/27/2011
- by Brad Reiter
- Killer Films
Our good friends at Arrow have sent us details on their December release schedule, which includes the awesome news that Frank Henlotter’s classic Frankenhooker is getting the Arrow Video Blu-ray treatment! Count me in for that one. The other releases for the Yuletide season include ArrowDrome re-releases of De Palma’s Obsession and Tobe Hopper’s The Funhouse.
Frankenhooker Blu-ray (Arrow Video)
Some Assembly Required… Finding a girl when you’re a nerdy science geek can be hard. But what happens if that special someone dies in a bizarre gardening accident and it’s all your fault? Meet Jeffrey Franken. He’s just killed the love of his life and now he’s going to rebuild her… From the body parts of the dead streetwalkers who exploded when he introduced them to a lethal new drug – Supercrack! Little does he know that a good recipe requires the correct ingredients.
Frankenhooker Blu-ray (Arrow Video)
Some Assembly Required… Finding a girl when you’re a nerdy science geek can be hard. But what happens if that special someone dies in a bizarre gardening accident and it’s all your fault? Meet Jeffrey Franken. He’s just killed the love of his life and now he’s going to rebuild her… From the body parts of the dead streetwalkers who exploded when he introduced them to a lethal new drug – Supercrack! Little does he know that a good recipe requires the correct ingredients.
- 9/30/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
American Grindhouse Movie: Disc: Click here to read the dvd review! "Though director Elijah Drenner's first docu full length feature is an entertaining and historically enlightening film on often forgotten genre, its topic is too broad to cover in such a short length of time. A film focusing on the antiquities of exploitation cinema, American Grindhouse packs just the nuts and bolts, leaving the coveted nitty-gritty on the cutting room floor."...
- 8/30/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
The grindhouse doc is out on DVD. We’re giving you copies!
American Grindhouse – Elijah Drenner’s informative, jam-packed documentary about exploitation cinema — came out on DVD last week. It’s loaded with great interviews (with many people Trailers From Hell fans will recognize, like John Landis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Larry Cohen and Allison Anders). It’s positively brimming with cool stories and peeks at some truly mind-bending films. Definitely worth a look.
Here’s a mini-review from Joe!
In an appropriately grindhouse running time of 80 minutes it’s impossible to be the definitive take on this broad psychotronic subject, but American Grindhouse packs a lot of sleazy info into its compact running time. Some of the worthy interviewees are folks not often asked to talk about about their work in exploitation films and there are transgressive clips and abbreviated trailer blurbs galore. It’s all put together in a breezy,...
American Grindhouse – Elijah Drenner’s informative, jam-packed documentary about exploitation cinema — came out on DVD last week. It’s loaded with great interviews (with many people Trailers From Hell fans will recognize, like John Landis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Larry Cohen and Allison Anders). It’s positively brimming with cool stories and peeks at some truly mind-bending films. Definitely worth a look.
Here’s a mini-review from Joe!
In an appropriately grindhouse running time of 80 minutes it’s impossible to be the definitive take on this broad psychotronic subject, but American Grindhouse packs a lot of sleazy info into its compact running time. Some of the worthy interviewees are folks not often asked to talk about about their work in exploitation films and there are transgressive clips and abbreviated trailer blurbs galore. It’s all put together in a breezy,...
- 8/2/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
Sorry this column is coming at you a bit late folks, but buckle up and get ready to empty your bank accounts because it's one of the best release weeks in a long time!
Ironclad - James Purefoy (Solomon Kane) carries this actioner about a ragtag group of Knights Templar who hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth Century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the King to defend the freedom of their country.
Source Code - For his sophomore film, Moon director Duncan Jones creates a multiple-reality/time traveling twister of a film that is both thematically and viscerally exciting. The film is about a helicopter pilot who is recruited for a top-secret military operation and finds himself on a startlingly different kind of mission that challenges our assumptions about time and space.
Ironclad - James Purefoy (Solomon Kane) carries this actioner about a ragtag group of Knights Templar who hold out for months against the hard-fought siege of Rochester Castle in the thirteenth Century. Set in the time of King John's signing of the Magna Carta treaty, the group struggles against the King to defend the freedom of their country.
Source Code - For his sophomore film, Moon director Duncan Jones creates a multiple-reality/time traveling twister of a film that is both thematically and viscerally exciting. The film is about a helicopter pilot who is recruited for a top-secret military operation and finds himself on a startlingly different kind of mission that challenges our assumptions about time and space.
- 7/27/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Two titles, three chances to win.
Let it be known that the gentlemen at Severin Films aren’t just behind classy, high-caliber, prestigious releases like Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man. They’re also a little insane (and if you’re in La and make it to The Cinefamily for the Everything is Festival, Evan Husney of Severin promises to inflict that insanity upon you with his mash-up “Brain Bludgeon”).
Today, for example, Severin Films are dropping some new titles, including two of the weirdest, most shocking, exploitative “kid” movies that you’ll find anywhere.
First up is Ted Post’s The Baby, a supremely odd looking title about which I don’t even know what to say. Just look at the trailer:
That’s weird. And it got a PG rating! As American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner says:
…describing The Baby as ‘sleazy’ is too simple, not to mention inaccurate.
Let it be known that the gentlemen at Severin Films aren’t just behind classy, high-caliber, prestigious releases like Richard Rush’s The Stunt Man. They’re also a little insane (and if you’re in La and make it to The Cinefamily for the Everything is Festival, Evan Husney of Severin promises to inflict that insanity upon you with his mash-up “Brain Bludgeon”).
Today, for example, Severin Films are dropping some new titles, including two of the weirdest, most shocking, exploitative “kid” movies that you’ll find anywhere.
First up is Ted Post’s The Baby, a supremely odd looking title about which I don’t even know what to say. Just look at the trailer:
That’s weird. And it got a PG rating! As American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner says:
…describing The Baby as ‘sleazy’ is too simple, not to mention inaccurate.
- 6/28/2011
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
This week’s Must Read: While I’m not familiar with the films of Winnipeg director Winston Moxam, he sadly passed away very young back in April. Cineflyer has a round-up of articles and reviews about Moxam’s last feature film, Billy, which just opened in the filmmaker’s hometown. Plus, Randall King of the Winnipeg Free Press gave the film a glowing review.Battle for Brooklyn opened in NYC this week, so the New York Times published a semi-positive review by Neil Genzlinger. On the one hand Neil had some good things to say and the paper made the film a Critics Pick for the week, but way too brief reviews of very powerful movies like this always make me sad.Australia’s Beat magazine profiled Richard Wolstencroft about his latest venture, the just ended genre film festival Bloodfest Fantastique.Filmmaker Nathan Wrann has started a new Tumblr blog...
- 6/19/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
by Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com
Ever since Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino gave us Grindhouse back in 2007, the term has been tossed around by fans to refer to a type of movie experience that most of us just never had the chance to partake in. Since then the gritty style and intentionally shoddy filmwork have become a sort of asthetic, alluding to a type of picture that never really existed. Sure, we all know what a grindhouse movie looks like today, sort of, but I’ll be honest, I never really knew where the term came from. For me, Grinhouse movies were just films that played on 42nd Street in New York. That was as much as I knew.
Now, thanks to Elijah Drenner and his film “American Grindhouse” I get to correct that little glitch in my film history knowledge. This documentary does more than just showcase clips from yesteryear,...
Ever since Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino gave us Grindhouse back in 2007, the term has been tossed around by fans to refer to a type of movie experience that most of us just never had the chance to partake in. Since then the gritty style and intentionally shoddy filmwork have become a sort of asthetic, alluding to a type of picture that never really existed. Sure, we all know what a grindhouse movie looks like today, sort of, but I’ll be honest, I never really knew where the term came from. For me, Grinhouse movies were just films that played on 42nd Street in New York. That was as much as I knew.
Now, thanks to Elijah Drenner and his film “American Grindhouse” I get to correct that little glitch in my film history knowledge. This documentary does more than just showcase clips from yesteryear,...
- 3/8/2011
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Every weekend, I like to dig up a free movie for our readers to watch, something that they may have missed during their numerous cinematic adventures. Most of them tend to be pretty cheesy and/or fairly obscure, which is why I thought Elijah Drenner’s “American Grindhouse” seemed like the perfect candidate for inclusion. The film explores the history of the grindhouse scene, and contains several interesting interviews with people who thrived in the culture. Anyone with even a passing interest in cinema will probably get a kick out of this one, particularly if your taste in cinema tends to lean towards the bizarre. Via Hulu...
- 2/26/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Cinematic sleaze has been with us as long as … Well, as long as cinema has been invented. What else are you going to do with a camera except convince some woman to take her clothes off in front of it? The history, trajectory and influence upon mainstream media of the exploitation film circuit is lovingly chronicled in Elijah Drenner‘s fun romp American Grindhouse. However, like the salacious marketing gimmicks and hucksterism that drew in audiences to tawdry theaters that this documentary gleefully covers, could equally apply to the way Drenner has structured his film. (Note: Film is 100% Nsfw.)
American Grindhouse starts off with a bang with aficionados of cinema’s dark underbelly, like directors John Landis, Joe Dante and William Lustig, exuberantly describing the seedy neighborhoods of Hollywood Boulevard and Times Square of the ’70s where one could go see gore, mayhem and nudity for cheap on the big screen.
American Grindhouse starts off with a bang with aficionados of cinema’s dark underbelly, like directors John Landis, Joe Dante and William Lustig, exuberantly describing the seedy neighborhoods of Hollywood Boulevard and Times Square of the ’70s where one could go see gore, mayhem and nudity for cheap on the big screen.
- 2/13/2011
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
We have not one, but two amazing trailers for the Grindhouse documentary that is currently in limited release (via official site).
The salacious and uproarious American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the exploitation film, those popular purveyors of cheap sex and violence. It emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows into features like Freaks, and mutated from there to change with the times. There were the rebellious teen flicks and “Nudie Cuties” of the Eisenhower 50s, bloody gore-fests and drug movies of the turbulent 60s, and the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s, echoing the Black Power movement. American Grindhouse takes a fascinating look at the films, filmmakers, shysters, and hustlers who made it all happen. Narrated by Academy Award nominated Robert Forster, and boasting exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors and critics Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Kim Morgan and many more, and featuring...
The salacious and uproarious American Grindhouse explores the hidden history of the exploitation film, those popular purveyors of cheap sex and violence. It emerged from the tents of carnie sideshows into features like Freaks, and mutated from there to change with the times. There were the rebellious teen flicks and “Nudie Cuties” of the Eisenhower 50s, bloody gore-fests and drug movies of the turbulent 60s, and the Blaxploitation boom in the 70s, echoing the Black Power movement. American Grindhouse takes a fascinating look at the films, filmmakers, shysters, and hustlers who made it all happen. Narrated by Academy Award nominated Robert Forster, and boasting exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors and critics Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, John Landis, Fred Williamson, Kim Morgan and many more, and featuring...
- 2/11/2011
- by Jason Bene
- Killer Films
[Editor's note: If anyone says 2010 was a sh!% year for movies, please refer them to this post.]
Instead of the usual "best" or "worst" films of the year lists, I thought a good way to take a look at the highs and lows of the 2010 film year would be to compile almost every single review we published in 2010 and let readers meander through the wasteland as it were.
I'm really amazed at the range of films we managed to cover from around the globe this year. Quiet Earth has certainly come a long way over the years and it's really due to the talents and passion of our team of writers who literally travel a world of fests to bring news and reviews of new films.
I hope you're all taking notes. Many of these films were from fests and will probably be hitting VOD and Blu-ray sometime in the new year, so this is a good chance to get a start on your must-watch lists.
The...
Instead of the usual "best" or "worst" films of the year lists, I thought a good way to take a look at the highs and lows of the 2010 film year would be to compile almost every single review we published in 2010 and let readers meander through the wasteland as it were.
I'm really amazed at the range of films we managed to cover from around the globe this year. Quiet Earth has certainly come a long way over the years and it's really due to the talents and passion of our team of writers who literally travel a world of fests to bring news and reviews of new films.
I hope you're all taking notes. Many of these films were from fests and will probably be hitting VOD and Blu-ray sometime in the new year, so this is a good chance to get a start on your must-watch lists.
The...
- 12/31/2010
- QuietEarth.us
5. Splice
I love science fiction horror, especially with an emphasis on the science part. Scientific experiments gone awry, researchers pushing the boundaries of science with horrific results, these things have been the cornerstones of good sci-fi/horror flicks for decades. Sadly, with Hollywood’s recent addiction to mindless re-makes and adaptations, there has been a severe shortage of good, original, sci-fi/horror lately. I think that’s why Vicenzo Natali’s Splice was such a welcomed addition to the genre when it was released this summer. While this certainly isn’t a perfect film (the wheels kind of start falling off the last 20 minutes), I think Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley deliver good performances as the two genetic engineers/lovers who test the limits of science and ethics, and the creature effects on Dren (the human/animal hybrid monster they create) are fantastic. I had a lot of fun with...
I love science fiction horror, especially with an emphasis on the science part. Scientific experiments gone awry, researchers pushing the boundaries of science with horrific results, these things have been the cornerstones of good sci-fi/horror flicks for decades. Sadly, with Hollywood’s recent addiction to mindless re-makes and adaptations, there has been a severe shortage of good, original, sci-fi/horror lately. I think that’s why Vicenzo Natali’s Splice was such a welcomed addition to the genre when it was released this summer. While this certainly isn’t a perfect film (the wheels kind of start falling off the last 20 minutes), I think Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley deliver good performances as the two genetic engineers/lovers who test the limits of science and ethics, and the creature effects on Dren (the human/animal hybrid monster they create) are fantastic. I had a lot of fun with...
- 12/29/2010
- by jfdpodcast@gmail.com (Kevin, Mark & Parker)
The 2nd annual Oakland Underground Film Festival, which will run Sept. 23-25, has a definite theme this year. And that theme is funk! The all-documentary festival features profiles of music professors, avant-garde musicians, funky music histories, female Bolivian wrestlers and the history of sleazy cinema.
The hit underground documentary American Grindhouse by Elijah Drenner will be making yet another stop in Oakland. A chronicle of exploitation cinema from the ’20s to the ’70s, the film has interviews with filmmakers such as John Landis, Joe Dante and Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Other documentaries in the lineup are Mark Landsman’s Thunder Soul, about an inspirational music teacher; Stascha Bader’s Jamaican music history Rocksteady: Roots of Reggae; plus, a profile of female Bolivian wrestler Carmen Rose the Champion, Mamachas Del Ring directed by Betty M. Park.
The full film lineup is below. Plus, there will be dance contests, parties and more. For...
The hit underground documentary American Grindhouse by Elijah Drenner will be making yet another stop in Oakland. A chronicle of exploitation cinema from the ’20s to the ’70s, the film has interviews with filmmakers such as John Landis, Joe Dante and Herschell Gordon Lewis.
Other documentaries in the lineup are Mark Landsman’s Thunder Soul, about an inspirational music teacher; Stascha Bader’s Jamaican music history Rocksteady: Roots of Reggae; plus, a profile of female Bolivian wrestler Carmen Rose the Champion, Mamachas Del Ring directed by Betty M. Park.
The full film lineup is below. Plus, there will be dance contests, parties and more. For...
- 9/20/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Tucson and Phoenix: Prepare to be rocked, shocked and defiled. Blasting its way into its third — and biggest — year on Sept. 18-25, the Arizona Underground Film Festival is a cacophonous concoction of angry transsexuals, bumbling hit men, slacker superheroes, living dolls, aliens, dead hookers, adventure-seeking blondes and other crazies.
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
This year the fest is screening 30 feature films, some of which are making their U.S. and even world debuts. The opening night film is the U.S. premiere of the German hit man comedy Snowman’s Land, directed by Tomasz Thomson,while closing the fest is the controversial and violent A Serbian Film by Srdjan Spasojevic, which you have to be over-18 to get into.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of homebrewed films as well, such as Dead Hooker in a Trunk by Jen Soska & Sylvia Soska; Nude Nuns With Big Guns by Joseph Guzman; 1,001 Ways to Enjoy the...
- 9/13/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Paris -- Annette Bening, Terry Gilliam and Gregg Araki will add star and stripe power to the 36th annual Deauville American Film Festival, organizers said Monday.
Bening, Gilliam and Araki will be in the spotlight when the seaside fest pays homage to their respective careers complete with screenings of their older and more recent films. Araki's latest feature "Kaboom" will screen as part of "Generation Araki: A look at the filmmaker's work" and Lisa Cholodenko's recent U.S. summer release "The Kids are All Right" starring Bening alongside Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo will host its French premiere.
This year's festival won't be lacking for other star power – on screen at least.
High-profile premieres will include Richard Levine's "Every Day" starring Live Schreiber, Helen Hunt and Eddie Izzard; Aaron Schneider's "Get Low" with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray; Don Roos' "Love and other Possible...
Bening, Gilliam and Araki will be in the spotlight when the seaside fest pays homage to their respective careers complete with screenings of their older and more recent films. Araki's latest feature "Kaboom" will screen as part of "Generation Araki: A look at the filmmaker's work" and Lisa Cholodenko's recent U.S. summer release "The Kids are All Right" starring Bening alongside Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo will host its French premiere.
This year's festival won't be lacking for other star power – on screen at least.
High-profile premieres will include Richard Levine's "Every Day" starring Live Schreiber, Helen Hunt and Eddie Izzard; Aaron Schneider's "Get Low" with Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and Bill Murray; Don Roos' "Love and other Possible...
- 8/2/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Year: 2010
Director: Elijah Drenner
Writers: Elijah Drenner, Calum Waddell
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7 out of 10
Grindhouse. A term as old as cinema (though it wasn’t always referred to as that) that has, for a large part of its history, existed on the fringes. For some, it was a common form of entertainment but for many others, it was something that existed outside of our regular watching habits, heard and perhaps even talked about but rarely explored.
Over the decades, grindhouse has taken on different incarnations, changing and adapting to the times, the culture and the audience and Elijah Drenner’s first full length feature documentary American Grindhouse does a great job of walking the uninitiated through the history of the genre (though it’s much more than that) from the early days of Thomas Edison’s invention of the camera to the old burlesque...
Director: Elijah Drenner
Writers: Elijah Drenner, Calum Waddell
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 7 out of 10
Grindhouse. A term as old as cinema (though it wasn’t always referred to as that) that has, for a large part of its history, existed on the fringes. For some, it was a common form of entertainment but for many others, it was something that existed outside of our regular watching habits, heard and perhaps even talked about but rarely explored.
Over the decades, grindhouse has taken on different incarnations, changing and adapting to the times, the culture and the audience and Elijah Drenner’s first full length feature documentary American Grindhouse does a great job of walking the uninitiated through the history of the genre (though it’s much more than that) from the early days of Thomas Edison’s invention of the camera to the old burlesque...
- 7/14/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The good folks over at Creation are doing their damnedest to make sure that this weekend's con will be a show that fans in attendance will never forget! More guests have been added, and we've got the whole schedule for you right here so you can make sure that you don't miss a single thing!
Just added:
Director Tim Sullivan and his 2001 Maniacs -- Christa Campbell, Lin Shaye, Ryan Fleming, Kevin "Ogre" Ogilvie, and Bill Moseley.
Director Steven R. Munroe and company from I Spit on Your Grave 2010 - Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, and Daniel Franzese.
Full Schedule:
Friday May 21, 2010
4 pm to 5 pm: Pre-Registration for Gold Patrons
5 pm to 10 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Saturday May 22, 2010
11 am to 7 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Sunday May 23, 2010
11 am to 7 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Friday May 21
5:30 P.
Just added:
Director Tim Sullivan and his 2001 Maniacs -- Christa Campbell, Lin Shaye, Ryan Fleming, Kevin "Ogre" Ogilvie, and Bill Moseley.
Director Steven R. Munroe and company from I Spit on Your Grave 2010 - Sarah Butler, Rodney Eastman, Jeff Branson, and Daniel Franzese.
Full Schedule:
Friday May 21, 2010
4 pm to 5 pm: Pre-Registration for Gold Patrons
5 pm to 10 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Saturday May 22, 2010
11 am to 7 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Sunday May 23, 2010
11 am to 7 pm: Registration, Vendors/Stage/Film Room Open to the Public
Friday May 21
5:30 P.
- 5/20/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Even though Austin is home to some of the world's most passionate fans of genre filmmaking, this year's South by Southwest featured a relatively modest slate of horror, sci-fi and fantasy material. Thankfully, however, SXSW programmers included a one-stop-shop for virtually any kind of genre fan, a documentary entitled American Grindhouse, to fill in the gaps between monster movies, smut, and all-around exploitation filth that was otherwise absent from the festival schedule. Directed by Elijah Drenner, the documentary utilizes interviews with genre luminaries including Joe Dante, John Landis, David Hess, Herschel Gordon Lewis, and many others to take a long and detailed look back at the history of exploitation cinema, from its...
- 3/22/2010
- FEARnet
(This film was sent to Bad Lit as a screener from the 2010 Boston Underground Film Festival, which runs March 25-April 1.)
After a bombastic opening credits sequence and an introduction that promises tons of gratuitous and sleazy sex, nudity and violence, the documentary American Grindhouse settles into something really hardcore: A hardcore history lesson.
Directed by Elijah Drenner, this chronicle of the seedy underbelly of film history does a damn fine job of showing how the notorious exploitation cinema racket is really the history of all cinema, that even from the days of Thomas Edison, all movies focused on the salacious and the bloodthirsty in order to draw in audiences. However, it is the grindhouse films that makes no bones about appealing to prurient interests while so-called mainstream films hide their licentious side under the cover of art.
One type of obscure, mostly-forgotten film covered in American Grindhouse are the ’50s...
After a bombastic opening credits sequence and an introduction that promises tons of gratuitous and sleazy sex, nudity and violence, the documentary American Grindhouse settles into something really hardcore: A hardcore history lesson.
Directed by Elijah Drenner, this chronicle of the seedy underbelly of film history does a damn fine job of showing how the notorious exploitation cinema racket is really the history of all cinema, that even from the days of Thomas Edison, all movies focused on the salacious and the bloodthirsty in order to draw in audiences. However, it is the grindhouse films that makes no bones about appealing to prurient interests while so-called mainstream films hide their licentious side under the cover of art.
One type of obscure, mostly-forgotten film covered in American Grindhouse are the ’50s...
- 3/22/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
There are so many books, articles, and documentaries available on the subject of American exploitation cinema that new revelations are increasingly scarce and unlikely. A new documentary called American Grindhouse from director Elijiah Drenner is an example of the difficulty in uncovering anything new in this area.
Although the subject is briefly discussed, American Grindhouse isn't about grindhouse theaters. It is about exploitation films. To this end, the film is split into multiple chapters that cover a wide array of exploitation sub-genres, including film noir, teen beach party films, nudie cuties, roughies, gore, bikers, porn, women in prison, nazi exploitation, and blaxploitation.
Robert Forster handles the narration. 21 interviewees are featured with a set of core interviewees like Joe Dante, Alison Anders, John Landis, and film noir expert Eddie Mueller garnering extended screen time. Interviews with prominent figures, including H.G. Lewis, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, and Lewis Teague. Rare interviews with people like Judy Brown,...
Although the subject is briefly discussed, American Grindhouse isn't about grindhouse theaters. It is about exploitation films. To this end, the film is split into multiple chapters that cover a wide array of exploitation sub-genres, including film noir, teen beach party films, nudie cuties, roughies, gore, bikers, porn, women in prison, nazi exploitation, and blaxploitation.
Robert Forster handles the narration. 21 interviewees are featured with a set of core interviewees like Joe Dante, Alison Anders, John Landis, and film noir expert Eddie Mueller garnering extended screen time. Interviews with prominent figures, including H.G. Lewis, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, and Lewis Teague. Rare interviews with people like Judy Brown,...
- 3/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Struggling to keep up with the hordes and reviews that Cinematical and sister sites SciFi Squad and Horror Squad are pushing? Here's your handy round-up by day:
Thursday, March 11
Erik Childress talks to The People Vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe.
Friday, March 12
Todd Gilchrist on Kick-Ass at Cinematical: "Unfortunately, as a full-length film, Kick-Ass is a great comic book come to life, but not much else."
Erik Childress talks to Elektra Luxx director Sebastian Gutierrez at Cinematical.
Erik Childress talks to Greenlit director Miranda Bailey at Cinematical.
Saturday, March 13
Jette Kernion on Micmacs at Cinematical: "Its playfulness is engaging and contagious and takes over any seriousness of story or plot."
Erik Childress talks to American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner at Cinematical.
Todd Gilchrist checks out the Predators preview at Cinematical.
Scott Weinberg talks the Alamo Drafthouse's Tim League at Cinematical.
Todd Gilchrist talks to Happy Poet writer-director-star Paul Gordon at Cinematical.
Thursday, March 11
Erik Childress talks to The People Vs. George Lucas director Alexandre O. Philippe.
Friday, March 12
Todd Gilchrist on Kick-Ass at Cinematical: "Unfortunately, as a full-length film, Kick-Ass is a great comic book come to life, but not much else."
Erik Childress talks to Elektra Luxx director Sebastian Gutierrez at Cinematical.
Erik Childress talks to Greenlit director Miranda Bailey at Cinematical.
Saturday, March 13
Jette Kernion on Micmacs at Cinematical: "Its playfulness is engaging and contagious and takes over any seriousness of story or plot."
Erik Childress talks to American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner at Cinematical.
Todd Gilchrist checks out the Predators preview at Cinematical.
Scott Weinberg talks the Alamo Drafthouse's Tim League at Cinematical.
Todd Gilchrist talks to Happy Poet writer-director-star Paul Gordon at Cinematical.
- 3/18/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Picture taken by James Rocchi.
Celebrity Sightings: Things are pretty quiet on the celeb front, but there are a few goodies lurking on the Twitter. Eic Erik Davis snapped some celeb pictures today -- Scott Weinberg with Matt Reeves and Robert Rodriguez, plus Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) chatting with Reeves. And if you have one of those spiffy television computers that can do the impossible, you might be able to spot Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer in this pic.
Our Coverage: Today kicked off with a preview of Predators, which Todd Gilchrist called "a terrifically riveting blast of fanboy provocation." Hit the post to see the sneak peek for yourself. Then Scott offered a chat about international genre fare with the man behind the beloved Alamo Drafthouse -- Tim League, Todd chatted with Paul Gordon -- writer/director/star of Happy Poet, and Erik Childress offered an interview with American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner.
Celebrity Sightings: Things are pretty quiet on the celeb front, but there are a few goodies lurking on the Twitter. Eic Erik Davis snapped some celeb pictures today -- Scott Weinberg with Matt Reeves and Robert Rodriguez, plus Chloe Moretz (Kick-Ass) chatting with Reeves. And if you have one of those spiffy television computers that can do the impossible, you might be able to spot Patrick Wilson and Judy Greer in this pic.
Our Coverage: Today kicked off with a preview of Predators, which Todd Gilchrist called "a terrifically riveting blast of fanboy provocation." Hit the post to see the sneak peek for yourself. Then Scott offered a chat about international genre fare with the man behind the beloved Alamo Drafthouse -- Tim League, Todd chatted with Paul Gordon -- writer/director/star of Happy Poet, and Erik Childress offered an interview with American Grindhouse director Elijah Drenner.
- 3/14/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
In under 80 minutes, the documentary American Grindhouse is a rather impressive and very entertaining documentary on the history of exploitation films and the theaters that hosted them. The film's producer and director, Elijah Drenner, took some time out before its world premiere at this year's South by Southwest Film Festival to talk to Cinematical about the making of the film and how the grindhouse influence still exists in today's cinema.
Cinematical: When films are done as well as yours, you submit an abbreviated brand of film school to moviegoers everywhere. But what do you think that today's film students can learn for the better from grindhouse cinema?
Drenner: I'll start by saying that I don't really agree to describing a movie as a grindhouse movie. It's not accurate. A grindhouse movie theater is a relic of the 20th Century. They do not exist anymore. Jonathan Kaplan explains, although we did...
Cinematical: When films are done as well as yours, you submit an abbreviated brand of film school to moviegoers everywhere. But what do you think that today's film students can learn for the better from grindhouse cinema?
Drenner: I'll start by saying that I don't really agree to describing a movie as a grindhouse movie. It's not accurate. A grindhouse movie theater is a relic of the 20th Century. They do not exist anymore. Jonathan Kaplan explains, although we did...
- 3/14/2010
- by Erik Childress
- Cinematical
The teasing is over! This here is the real deal. The moment we wait all year for: The lineup for the powerful, the mighty Boston Underground Film Festival, which is set to run March 25 to April 1. Now in its 12th year, Buff shows no sign of slowing down or taking it easy. In fact, this might be their most demented and transgressive edition yet.
There are homages to Giallo horror, tributes to the grand grindhouse tradition of sleaze and exploitation, sex and violence galore — both separately and together — plus, a resurrected ’80s slasher classic that all combine into an epic celebration of everything that is vicious and twisted in this world. But, in a fun way, ya know.
Alas, I haven’t seen any of the feature films that are playing this year, so I can’t offer any special recommendations of those. Although, there are many (most) that I...
There are homages to Giallo horror, tributes to the grand grindhouse tradition of sleaze and exploitation, sex and violence galore — both separately and together — plus, a resurrected ’80s slasher classic that all combine into an epic celebration of everything that is vicious and twisted in this world. But, in a fun way, ya know.
Alas, I haven’t seen any of the feature films that are playing this year, so I can’t offer any special recommendations of those. Although, there are many (most) that I...
- 3/12/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
If you can't get to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival to catch the highly anticipated documentary American Grindhouse, don't fret! You might have to wait a little bit longer to catch Elijah Drenner's promising feature, but it'll be making its way into the confines of your living room soon enough!
We received confirmation today that Gravitas Ventures has acquired the VOD rights to American Grindhouse, which will debut across North America on VOD through Warner Bros. Digital Distribution in June. No word on a DVD release yet, but what better way to relive the glory days of exploitation than with a six-pack of your favorite beer while slumped into your favorite recliner?
American Grindhouse is a feature-length documentary that explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and...
We received confirmation today that Gravitas Ventures has acquired the VOD rights to American Grindhouse, which will debut across North America on VOD through Warner Bros. Digital Distribution in June. No word on a DVD release yet, but what better way to relive the glory days of exploitation than with a six-pack of your favorite beer while slumped into your favorite recliner?
American Grindhouse is a feature-length documentary that explores the hidden history of the American exploitation film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and...
- 3/11/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
Gravitas Ventures has inked a two-picture deal with Lux Digital Pictures Inc. to bring two documentaries to North American audiences via VOD (Video on Demand). One of the docs, Elijah Drenner's "American Grindhouse," will make its world premiere the first Saturday night of the South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival (SXSW) on March 13th, and in June, "Grindhouse" will be available in North America on VOD through Warner Bros. Digital ...
- 3/10/2010
- Indiewire
We talk quite a bit about narrative feature films here at The Flickcast. You know, the ones that exist in a fictional world full of characters and situations contrived to tell a story. There are also these other films known as documentaries where actual, real people relate the experiences of their lives and also tell a story.
And yes, some of them are quite good, even if they’re not directed by Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock (although, they do make some good films). Case in point, the SXSW documentary premiere film American Grindhouse.
Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Robert Forster, the feature-length documentary “boasts exclusive interviews with filmmakers Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, Fred Williamson, John Landis and many more. Not only that, quite a few of these actors, directors and writers are speaking out in their first-ever on-camera interviews.”
In addition, the film features...
And yes, some of them are quite good, even if they’re not directed by Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock (although, they do make some good films). Case in point, the SXSW documentary premiere film American Grindhouse.
Narrated by Academy Award-nominated actor Robert Forster, the feature-length documentary “boasts exclusive interviews with filmmakers Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, Fred Williamson, John Landis and many more. Not only that, quite a few of these actors, directors and writers are speaking out in their first-ever on-camera interviews.”
In addition, the film features...
- 3/8/2010
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
If you can get to Austin, Texas this month, the South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival will be well worth the journey. Today we've got a look at one of the most anticipated scheduled debuts, the documentary American Grindhouse!
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the complete features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 12–20, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Over the course of nine days, 119 features will screen at the festival, with 55 of those having their world premieres at SXSW 2010. These films were selected from a record 1,572 film submissions composed of 1,206 U.S. and 366 international feature-length films.
Of those films, Elijah Drenner's American Grindhouse looks to be a funny and informative look back at the genre's Golden Age. You can catch it at SXSW '10 during one of the following dates, and be sure to dig the trailer below:
Saturday, March 13th at 9 pm
Tuesday,...
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival is thrilled to announce the complete features lineup for this year’s Festival, March 12–20, 2010, in Austin, Texas. Over the course of nine days, 119 features will screen at the festival, with 55 of those having their world premieres at SXSW 2010. These films were selected from a record 1,572 film submissions composed of 1,206 U.S. and 366 international feature-length films.
Of those films, Elijah Drenner's American Grindhouse looks to be a funny and informative look back at the genre's Golden Age. You can catch it at SXSW '10 during one of the following dates, and be sure to dig the trailer below:
Saturday, March 13th at 9 pm
Tuesday,...
- 3/3/2010
- by Masked Slasher
- DreadCentral.com
Do you ever get the feeling that you might have been born out of time? That, perhaps, your soul was meant for a different era, a different age? Considering how diseased and deranged my taste in cinema truly is, I think I would have fit right in during the heyday of the so-called “grindhouse theater”, a place where cheap, low-grade motion pictures were screened morning, noon, and night. Elijah Drenner’s upcoming documentary “American Grindhouse” looks spectacular, and should provide plenty of tasty information for those who aren’t overly familiar with the terminology. Narrated by Robert Forster and featuring a plethora of interview from Joe Dante, John Landis, and Jack Hill, among others, the film chronicles the rise and fall of this peculiar era in cinematic history. The trailer, which is definitely not safe for work, lies below.
- 3/1/2010
- by Todd
- Beyond Hollywood
The feature length documentary and directorial debut of Elijah Drenner, American Grindhouse, will première at the South by Southwest festival in Austin Texas on March 13th.
American Grindhouse is a project from Drenner born out of a passion for grindhouse cinema in which he investigates the tradition of grindhouse film in American cinema over the past 100 years.
Although not lucky enough to experience the grindhouse cinema experience first hand (I was born after its heyday in the 70s) I have watched many of the films closely associated with the tradition of the grindhouse and there are many fantastic films with even those that are truly terrible often having a hook that makes them worth a watch.
Following Tarantino and Rodriguez’s 2007 Grindhouse there is a renewed interest in these kind of films and it looks like this documentary will provide a great introduction for the uninitiated and a further insight...
American Grindhouse is a project from Drenner born out of a passion for grindhouse cinema in which he investigates the tradition of grindhouse film in American cinema over the past 100 years.
Although not lucky enough to experience the grindhouse cinema experience first hand (I was born after its heyday in the 70s) I have watched many of the films closely associated with the tradition of the grindhouse and there are many fantastic films with even those that are truly terrible often having a hook that makes them worth a watch.
Following Tarantino and Rodriguez’s 2007 Grindhouse there is a renewed interest in these kind of films and it looks like this documentary will provide a great introduction for the uninitiated and a further insight...
- 2/23/2010
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
As the SXSW Film, Music and Interactive festival gets closer, more and more announcements are coming out about what programming we can expect during the event. Friday, it was announced what film would cose the competition and in addition, more features and shorts were added to the program which already features over 100 films.
Here’s all the info about the new items from the official press release. As we told you previously, we’ve got a great team going to SXSW this year so be sure to check back often for more.
SXSW Film Festival Announces Closing Night Film,
Additional Features & Shorts For 2010 Event
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which...
Here’s all the info about the new items from the official press release. As we told you previously, we’ve got a great team going to SXSW this year so be sure to check back often for more.
SXSW Film Festival Announces Closing Night Film,
Additional Features & Shorts For 2010 Event
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which...
- 2/22/2010
- by Chris Ullrich
- The Flickcast
SXSW Film has announced more titles for its 2010 program. Chris Morris' Four Lions will now close the festival. New features, shorts, and documentaries have also been added, including American Grindhouse, Cargo, Strummerville, This Movie is Broken, and Suck. The full list (courtesty of SXSW) is presented below.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell and Chris Morris
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar
Spotlight Premieres
American Grindhouse
Director: Elijah Drenner. Screenwriters: Calum Wadell and Elijah Drenner
This feature documentary chronicles the history of the American Exploitation Film. It digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. (World Premiere)
Cargo...
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Simon Blackwell and Chris Morris
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. Cast: Riz Ahmed, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, Kayvan Novak, Adeel Akhtar
Spotlight Premieres
American Grindhouse
Director: Elijah Drenner. Screenwriters: Calum Wadell and Elijah Drenner
This feature documentary chronicles the history of the American Exploitation Film. It digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment. (World Premiere)
Cargo...
- 2/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Austin, Texas – February 19, 2010 – The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Chris Morris’ pitch-black satire Four Lions as its Closing Night film, to play on Saturday, March 20 at the Paramount Theatre in Austin, Texas. SXSW also released additional feature and short titles or the 2010 event, which will take place March 12 – March 20, 2010. The festival will open with the world premiere of Kick-Ass, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Aaron Johnson, Cholë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Nicolas Cage. SXSW will also host more than 80 Film Conference panels, which will take place Friday, March 12 – Tuesday, March 16. Previously announced participants for the 2010 SXSW Film Conference include Michel Gondry (The Thorn in the Heart, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds), David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down, Pineapple Express), Jeffery Tambor’s Acting Workshop, and Academy Award-winning Argentine composer, solo artist and producer Gustavo Santaolalla, among many others. For full panel descriptions and participants,...
- 2/20/2010
- by Dave Campbell
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Just in time, the folks at South by Southwest (SXSW) have released their final additions to this year's festival. Taking place from March 12 - 20, 2010, the 2010 edition of the film festival will feature a wide range of films. It will open with Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass. And as we know now, it will close with Chris Morris' Four Lions, a highly acclaimed film from this year's Sundance Film Festival. Also on the list of additions are Spike Jonze's great short I'm Here, a tale of robot love; Elijah Drenner's American Grindhouse, an exploration of American exploitation films; and more...
- 2/20/2010
- by Neil Miller
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Sundance favorite and World Cinema Grand Jury nominee Four Lions will close the 2010 SXSW Film Festival on Saturday, March 20. The UK film was co-written, directed, and stars Chris Morris.
Other “festival favorites” include Waking Sleeping Beauty, a behind-the-scenes documentary about Disney animation from 1984 to 1994 directed by Beauty and the Beast producer Don Hahn, and Tony, a Slamdance selection and psychological thriller about a serial killer.
Skateland, starring Ashley Green, is also getting another look from festival goers, as well as the raved-about short film from Spike Jonze titled I’m Here. Plus a Doors documentary narrated by Johnny Depp. I’ll be reviewing and covering as many of these films as I can.
Below is a full list of the additional titles screening at the film festival, which runs from March 12th through the 20th in Austin, Texas.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain,...
Other “festival favorites” include Waking Sleeping Beauty, a behind-the-scenes documentary about Disney animation from 1984 to 1994 directed by Beauty and the Beast producer Don Hahn, and Tony, a Slamdance selection and psychological thriller about a serial killer.
Skateland, starring Ashley Green, is also getting another look from festival goers, as well as the raved-about short film from Spike Jonze titled I’m Here. Plus a Doors documentary narrated by Johnny Depp. I’ll be reviewing and covering as many of these films as I can.
Below is a full list of the additional titles screening at the film festival, which runs from March 12th through the 20th in Austin, Texas.
Headliners
Four Lions (United Kingdom)
Director: Chris Morris. Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain,...
- 2/19/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
I love cult films, particularly those of the "trash" variety, so I've been keeping an eye on this new documentary by Elijah Drenner for well over a year now. And finally we've got footage!
Narrated by the great Robert Forster, American Grindhouse looks at the history of the great American exploitation film. It features great footage and interviews with legends like with John Landis, Fred Williamson, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Larry Cohen and many more.
American Grindhouse is premiering at SXSW 2010 as part of the festival's "Spotlight Premieres" series.
Check out the preview trailer after the break.
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Narrated by the great Robert Forster, American Grindhouse looks at the history of the great American exploitation film. It features great footage and interviews with legends like with John Landis, Fred Williamson, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Joe Dante, Jack Hill, Larry Cohen and many more.
American Grindhouse is premiering at SXSW 2010 as part of the festival's "Spotlight Premieres" series.
Check out the preview trailer after the break.
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- 2/17/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The 12th annual Boston Underground Film Festival isn’t set to start until March 25 — and will run until April 1 — but they’ve leaked a couple of early picks to Bad Lit. Even with just this little tease to start whetting New England underground film fans’ appetites, it looks like the venerable fest is in for another real doozy of a year.
The festival kicks off in high riotous fashion with the Opening Night feature Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi), a four-hour Japanese whirlwind of sinful transgression by Sion Sono about a good Christian schoolboy who’s obsessed with taking pictures of girls’ panties — while they’re wearing them. Eventually, he meets the love of his young life, who doesn’t much like being his object of obsession.
Then, after the Love Exposure screening on March 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, Ma — where the entire...
The festival kicks off in high riotous fashion with the Opening Night feature Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi), a four-hour Japanese whirlwind of sinful transgression by Sion Sono about a good Christian schoolboy who’s obsessed with taking pictures of girls’ panties — while they’re wearing them. Eventually, he meets the love of his young life, who doesn’t much like being his object of obsession.
Then, after the Love Exposure screening on March 25 at 7:00 p.m. at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, Ma — where the entire...
- 2/5/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
Fango got the word that Britain’s Arrow Video is launching a new Masters of Giallo DVD imprint, devoted to showcasing the works of Italy’s top genre directors. The line debuts June 29 with movies by Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava, each in brand new special editions.
Argento’s Sleepless, Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery (pictured) and Bava’s MacAbre will be presented completely uncut for the first time in the UK, packaged with double-sided sleeve inserts sporting the original release artwork and fresh, specially commissioned exploitation art, along with posters featuring the latter. There will also be a host of extras, including new documentaries directed by Elijah Drenner (of the forthcoming American Grindhouse):
Sleepless
• Murder Madness and Mutilation: Sleepless and the Modern Italian Giallo docu with Joe Dante, Sergio Stivaletti, Fango’s Tony Timpone and others
• The Making of Sleepless
• Press kit
• Photo gallery...
Argento’s Sleepless, Fulci’s The House By The Cemetery (pictured) and Bava’s MacAbre will be presented completely uncut for the first time in the UK, packaged with double-sided sleeve inserts sporting the original release artwork and fresh, specially commissioned exploitation art, along with posters featuring the latter. There will also be a host of extras, including new documentaries directed by Elijah Drenner (of the forthcoming American Grindhouse):
Sleepless
• Murder Madness and Mutilation: Sleepless and the Modern Italian Giallo docu with Joe Dante, Sergio Stivaletti, Fango’s Tony Timpone and others
• The Making of Sleepless
• Press kit
• Photo gallery...
- 5/14/2009
- Fangoria
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