We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 432

 stand-out viewing for the year of January (get it? because we're on a perpetual motion machine of escalating tortures LOL)

ZEROVILLE (2019, dir. James Franco)

not sure if this works as a film at all, but as a 1970s movie nerd with a insatiable taste for dream logic, i couldn't help but find this a more than enjoyable half-dead at 1am viewing. 

THINGS TO COME (1976, dir. Derek Todd)

somewhere between SexWorld and Turkey Shoot. 

RITUALS (1977, dir Peter Carter)

male bonding. 

RAVAGE aka SWING LOW (2019, dir. Teddy Grennan)

starts out belonging in the same conversation as films like Revenge, Defenceless, Fair Game, etc before nearing Bunny Game levels of nightmare-cadenced denouement. lead actress looks like a lady i like IRL, so that held my attention. 

JR BOB DOBBS AND THE CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS (2019, dir. Sandy K. Boone)

perfectly cromulent doc about the important (if a bit tiresome and too eager to be wAcKy) prank collective that is responsible for both the most resplendent and the most loathsome strains of post-ironic meta-posturing.

THE HERETICS (2017, dir. Chad Archibald)

i really liked Archibald's Bite, and this explores similar body horror themes, with an added occult twist. 

FADE TO BLACK (1980, dir. Vernon Zimmerman) 

like someone made a film based on the true events of my middle school Id. 

CTHULHU MANSION (1992, dir. Juan Piquer Simon)

ok well none of that was correct.

BLOOD SISTERS (1987, dir. Roberta Findlay)

that chick who looks like Irma from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles needs to call me. so does Irma from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for that matter. 

THE BLACK GESTAPO (1975, dir. Lee Frost)

there's no way Ben Shapiro hasn't used this film as grist for the mills of his erotic white slavery fan-fic. 

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 431

 

Vice Acquires Doc ‘The Toxic Pigs Of Fukushima’ About Nuclear Disaster Aftermath

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 430

Censor review – disturbing descent into video nastiness

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 335

 The latest was unearthed Thursday by the left-leaning group Media Matters for America, which detailed a 2018 Facebook post where Greene blamed California's Camp Fire—the deadliest in state history—on a laser beam fired from space, perhaps as part of a plan involving the state's former governor, Democrat Jerry Brown.

Clinton Conspiracies, False Flags And Laser Beams That Cause Wildfires—Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Endorsed Them All

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 334 / #gorenoise vol. 48

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Believes in Frazzledrip, QAnon’s Wildest Conspiracy Theory

私たちはスプロケットホールボリューム429です

 

First Look at 

‘Shin Ultraman’ 

from the Team 

Behind 

‘Shin Godzilla’! 

[Trailer]

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 428 / #gorenoise vol. 47

 

[Review] 

Shudder’s 

‘The Queen 

of Black 

Magic’ 

Conjures Up 

Gory Horror

Fuck YOUR Life vol. 34

 

Exclusive: 

Proud Boys 

leader was 

‘prolific’ 

informer 

for 

law 

enforcement

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 427

 

‘Mirror’ Trailer: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Influential Film Has A New 4K Restoration Coming Later This Month

NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 128 / #gorenoise vol. 56

 comics haven’t felt so dangerous over the past couple decades. There are probably a variety of reasons for that. For one, after decades of newspaper headlines proclaiming that “comics aren’t just for kids anymore,” the public might finally be starting to believe it. For another, not a whole lot feels particularly dangerous in a world where Quentin Tarantino’s pseudo-snuff torture films routinely garner Oscar nominations and you can watch Devilman: Crybaby on Netflix. What boundaries were there left for visual media to cross?

More than I’d thought, it turns out. Sad Sack is a digital comic series by artists Barbatus and Meanboss consisting of five issues, totaling more than 1,000 pages. Each issue includes a long list of content warnings. Issue three, for example, warns of:

• Explicit sexual content
• Sexual assault
• Transphobic sentiments
• Substance use
• Administration of rohypnol
• Discussion of date-rape aftermath
• Graphic violence & murder
• Body horror
• Salirophilia/mysophilia
• Decomposing human bodies

These warnings are no joke. The series includes a lot of explicit images of torture and rape. It’s heavy stuff. I won’t describe these scenes in detail in this piece, but I will continue to discuss the contents of the series in the abstract. You’ve been warned.

Sad Sack: The Comic Forcing Us to Think the Unthinkable

NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 127 / #gorenoise vol. 55

 

Red Room #1

Awwww Yeah vol. 195 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 426

 

‘Promising 

Young 

Woman’ and 

the 

Evolution of 

Rape-Revenge 

Films

Awwww Yeah vol. 194

 

Scientists Have Described a Dinosaur's Butthole in Exquisite Detail

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 425

 

'Gekimation': Japan takes a post-Ghibli leap into another dimension

Using thousands of lovingly crafted props and painstaking stop-motion, animator Ujicha is reviving the gekimation style with his grotesque, visceral films

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 333

 

Trump Pardons Cronies and Celebs Hours Before Leaving D.C.

Trump Just Left Washington for the Final Time as President

“Have a good life. We’ll see you soon.”

may you live out the rest of your days sliding into cheeseburger fueled irrevocable dementia from obliviously wilful pariahdom, until one evening you are shocked back into full faculty coherence by bullet train conveyor belt of rusty drill shanks piston-raping your dwarf-shroom into carbonated bedpan  rinds of smoldering IBS marsh tallow. ...  the motions perpetuated until all that remains of grease trap memory is a grunge-fucked burnt sienna mist.

Awwww Yeah vol. 194

 

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘vagina’ candle reportedly explodes in UK woman’s home

Negation Aspiration vol. 262

 

There Is Nothing Natural About the Way We Work

Fuck YOUR Life vol. 35

 

Baked Alaska’s clout-chasing spiral into white supremacy is an empty internet morality tale

The former BuzzFeed employee’s arrest for his role in the Capitol riot reminds us alt-right racism was never ironic.

Negation Aspiration vol. 261

 

THE BALLAD OF R. BUDD DWYER

https://buddxdwyer.bandcamp.com/

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 332

 You can imagine the coda: Trump living out his days, comfortable but grumpy, in a gilded prison on a golf course. He golfs, he dines, he broadcasts his version of the world on what amounts to an oversized ham radio. He scrapes up money to fund his defense from a long string of court dates from entities he’d never feared before—New York district court, various corners of the Justice Department. Maybe he has a Newsmax show, or a brisk ongoing business in MAGA hats, or he sells tickets to rallies to make money.

There’s no guarantee of any ending at this point; Trump is a master of rewriting his own script, even re-inventing the medium. But there are limits to how far his image rehabilitation can go. In his TV life, the ratings-hungry Apprentice franchise once rejected Trump’s most incendiary idea, a season pitting Black contestants against white ones. In real life, even some Republicans in Congress voted to impeach him, and all indications are that his final act did permanent damage to his brand. It’s hard to imagine a PGA tour on a Trump-branded golf course for a very long time. At this point, he wouldn’t even make it onto Dancing With The Stars. To a media-chaser, an attention-seeker, an egotist like Donald Trump, there’s nothing more painful than irrelevance. Roll the credits and change the channel.

What TV Can Tell Us About How the Trump Show Ends

More than reality TV, the Trump presidency resembled an antihero drama. Here’s what we might expect next.

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 424

 

Ten Gems Of Decadent Cinema

Fuck YOUR Life vol. 34

 What Pink provides is a clear image of a certain kid of “transgressive” Trump supporter, for whom getting into Trump has always been more of a personality quirk than a fervent political stance. It’s an aesthetic pose, meant to do little more than make a certain kind of person angry or alarmed. It’s also not out of character. Pink has based his career on triggering those who he considers soft: He once said that he appreciated being bullied because it made him thick-skinned, and one said in an LA Weekly profile that, “Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.”

The irony is that this particular strain of Trump support also happens to be shot through with an intense desire for victimhood. As you can see in the interview, Pink is just exasperated that someone might not want to do business with him anymore because he’s the kind of asshole who would attend a Trump rally. “People are so mean,” he moans.

That Pink thought he could make a public show of supporting Trump, at this particular moment in time, and expect it to be chalked up as just another provocative, “consequence-free” career pivot tells you everything you need to know about what a boring, sad asshole he has always been.

Ariel Pink Goes on Tucker Carlson Show, Says Controversy Over Trump Support ‘Leaves Me Destitute and on the Street’

Ariel Pink Has Always Been This Boring And Stupid

#gorenoise vol. 54

 

Armie Hammer Facing Cannibalism Fantasy Accusations

#gorenoise vol. 53

 

Designer Water, Horse Jizz, and Other Ridiculously Expensive Liquids

A gallon of semen from a popular show jumping stallion is worth $4.7 million.

Horseshoe crab blood

Due to the presence of copper, the blood of a horseshoe crab is an alien blue. What makes this blue liquid so valuable, though, is a fluid called limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) found in Atlantic horseshoe crabs. When it was introduced to the pharmaceutical industry in the 1970s, LAL provided researchers with a revolutionary way of testing for bacteria and contaminants in drugs. Today, it remains an important step in vaccine development — and one of the key ingredients in testing COVID-19 vaccines. Due to the high demand for horseshoe crab blood and practices of over-harvesting, however, horseshoe crabs around the world are now facing serious threats to their survival.

Horse semen

Horse semen is one of the most expensive liquids in the world, thanks to the star stallions in the highly competitive and lucrative equestrian sports industry. In 2015, it cost $200,000 for mare-owners to secure a mating session with American Pharoah, the famed Triple Crown winner. The Triple Crown is a title awarded to horses who win all three classic American horse races — the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes — in a single season.

Scorpion venom

A little droplet of venom from the deathstalker, one of the deadliest species of scorpions, costs about $130 — and $39 million per gallon — making it arguably the most expensive liquid in the world. Why is it priced so insanely high? As it turns out, certain types of scorpion venom contains precious chemicals that may be the key to medical breakthroughs — such as chlorotoxin, which can bind with certain cancer cells for easier identification of tumors in the human body. Studies have also shown scorpion venom to be an effective painkiller. Another possible reason for its exorbitant price tag is the process of extracting scorpion venom — also known as milking — which is, quite literally, excruciating. While one sting from a deathstalker is unlikely to be fatal for humans, a venom extractor told Business Insider that it’s “a hundred times more painful than a bee sting.”

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 331

 

Conspiracy theories and the ‘American Madness’ that gripped the Capitol

Author Tea Krulos talked to Religion News Service about how conspiracy theories have spread, how religion plays a role and how to talk to friends and family who believe them.

Books... are FUN vol. 11

 

Vampira, Hollywood’s original Goth, emerges from the shadows in a new biography

#gorenoise vol. 52

 

Florida manatee is found with 'TRUMP' carved into its back

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 193

 

The Strange History of Men Going Nuts for Monkey Testicle Transplants

NERRRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 126

 "I've said this before a couple of times, but no one actually wants to be the Punisher," Nobody wants to pull three tours of duty in a combat zone with the last one going catastrophically wrong, come home with a head full of broken glass, see their families machine-gunned into bloody offal in front of their eyes and then dedicate the rest of their lives to cold, bleak, heartless slaughter."

"The people wearing the logo in this context are kidding themselves, just like the police officers who wore it over the summer. What they actually want is to wear an apparently scary symbol on a T-shirt, throw their weight around a bit, then go home to the wife and kids and resume their everyday life. They've thought no harder about the Punisher symbol than the halfwits I saw [on Wednesday], the ones waving the Stars & Stripes while invading the Capitol building."

Punisher Writer Garth Ennis Calls Rioters Wearing Skull Logos "Halfwits"

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 330

 speaking of face-turns;

Even Loony Alex Jones Has Has Enough Of The QAnon Crowd’s Insane Bullsh*t

Awwwww Yeah vol. 192 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 423

 

PVT CHAT: Official Trailer and Poster For Ben Hozie's Psycho-Sexual Thriller

Fuck YOUR Life vol. 33

 

Why was 'Elizabeth from Knoxville' holding an ONION as she sobbed about being 'maced' for storming the Capitol?

Negation Aspiration vol. 260

 

How Cosmic Horror Went Mainstream

Negation Aspiration vol. 259 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 329

 But the real blame lies with not an individual group or person, but with an idea; specifically, the notion that dismissing erroneous beliefs as toothless murmurings in shadowy internet echo chambers does not make them so. For years, as QAnon festered in these corners, there was a belief among some members of the media that openly discussing it would provide adherents with a platform and lend credence to their beliefs; better, they thought, to let it quietly wither on the vine, as most bad ideas on the internet do. But just because an idea is bad doesn’t mean it will go silently into the night, or that it won’t inspire people to kidnap their children, or storm the Hoover Dam, or stand on the dais in a government building as congress cowers in their offices. When it comes to whether we have the luxury of ignoring bad ideas like QAnon, that horse is well out of the barn, and in this case, we let it run wild enough for so long that it stampeded straight onto the senate floor. Trump may only have 14 days left in office, but he has issued a chilling warning that he will use his waning power to the best of his ability. It was only a matter of time before Angeli, and people like him, heeded the call.

The Attempted Coup 

at the Capitol Proves 

This Is the 

United States 

of QAnon

A mob descended on 

Washington D.C. today, 

proving that internet 

conspiracy theories 

can have violent, 

real-life consequences