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.