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Since 2004, Bleeding Skull has explored otherworldly cinema through reviews, books, and home video releases.

Favorite films

  • The Soultangler
  • Cannibal Orgy
  • Disembodied
  • In Memorium

All
  • Murder in a Blue World

    ★★★

  • Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday

    ★★★½

  • The Soultangler

    ★★★★

  • Drive-In Massacre

    ★★★★

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Murder in a Blue World

1973

★★★ Rewatched

MURDER IN A BLUE WORLD (aka CLOCKWORK TERROR) is an unexceptional Spanish exploitation film. Or, it would be an unexceptional Spanish exploitation film, if not for the meta-enhanced pilfering from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. But this isn’t A CLOCKWORK ORANGE with a fourth of the budget and even less potency. Instead, it’s the dream that Kubrick’s film might incite in your subconsciousness after taking a gummy. Everything’s a bit warped, a bit different, not exactly how you it. Tangents and…

Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday

1991

★★★½ 2

On the road between POLTERGEIST and LEPRECHAUN 3, there is . . . VACATION OF TERROR II: DIABOLICAL BIRTHDAY! Pop singer Tatiana performs a song called “Chicos!” at her sister’s Halloween-themed birthday party, even though it’s the middle of summer. This compels a repulsive Cabbage Patch Kid to transform into a raging demon-troll that’s on a quest to regain stolen coins from the ladies’ dad. Produced by the same team as DON’T PANIC, VACATION OF TERROR II is joyously strange…

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Boardinghouse

1982

15

Just sharing this to commemorate the day that we released BOARDINGHOUSE on Blu-ray with AGFA! We still can’t believe it’s a real thing that happened.

One of the movies that inspired the launch of Bleeding Skull, BOARDINGHOUSE is a hallucinogenic maelstrom of madness from director-producer-actor John Wintergate and writer-producer-leading-lady Kalassu. It’s also the first shot-on-video horror film to be blown up to 35mm and released theatrically. We’re ecstatic to bring the 35mm theatrical cut to home video for the first…

Brain Damage

1988

★★★★★ Rewatched

Happy birthday, Aylmer! BRAIN DAMAGE was released on this day in 1988 and I'm forever grateful. After making horror history with BASKET CASE and FRANKENHOOKER, the incomparable Frank Henenlotter unleashed the ultimate Grimm’s Fairy Tale for adults. This slimy slice-of-NYC-life follows a poor schmo who is addicted to a drug called Aylmer. But unlike heroin or cocaine, Aylmer is a mutant penis monster who needs human brains to survive. BRAIN DAMAGE is hilarious, unsettling, and jam-packed with bad taste gags that would make John Waters blush. May the well of brain juice never run dry. (Joseph A. Ziemba)