We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 440

 stand-out viewing for the jacked-knifed dump truck of gelatinous blood-piss that was February.

(January) 

ZIPPERFACE (1992, dir. Mansour Pourmand)

like an extended episode of Silk Stalkings directed by Danzig. 

SPLIT (1989, dir. Chris Shaw)

up there w/ Decoder in the paranoid industrial surrealist thriller category. something tells me Grant Morrison would be a fan. 

SHOGUN'S JOY OF TORTURE (1968, dir. Teruo Ishi)

arguably the most vicious entry in Ishi's edoverse. 

RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE (2019, dir. Jay Baruchel)

an unwaveringly bleak post-deconstructionist slashterpiece that elevates the stalker/body count genre to heights not seen since the mid-late 80s boom of truly imaginative splatter stories. 

THE PIT (1981, dir. Lew Lehman) 

a twelve year old boy stuck between holding court with morose imaginary friends and perving on his dishy baby sitters... don't look at me that way. i can feel your look. 

NO BLADE OF GRASS (1970, dir. Cornel Wilde)

before the post-apocalypse genre became overrun with diminishing zombie returns and flea market Road Warrior cosplays, there was this cold, brutal, nihilistic slice of anti-life that reads like the Stand without the bullshit. 

INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS (1973, dir. Denis Sanders)

schlubby losers get fucked to death by literal honey traps. 

IMPETIGORE (2019, dir. Joko Anwar)  

i still have a ways to go with Anwar's filmography, but this is the one to beat for me. no spoiler in the form a terse purple prose poetry here... just check it. 

THE EL DUCE TAPES (2019, dir. Rodney Ascher, David Lawrence)  

a nexus point for the last 30 years of performative outrage culture that inadvertently transcends its ultimately shallow subjects (although i'm not too proud to admit that i occasionally jam "Four F Club"). 

 DOGS DON'T WEAR PANTS (2019, dir. JP Valkeapaa) 

one of the stronger entries in the suburban BDSM melodrama mileau that leaves just enough to the imagination while being unafraid to go to places more intense than other post-Secretary yarns (even some of those in the "couples friendly" XXX field.)

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 439

 

Shudder Has 

Your Ticket 

to See 

George A. 

Romero’s 

Long-Lost 

‘The 

Amusement 

Park’ 

This 

Summer!

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 199

 Statistics on child exploitation can be deeply misleading. Most notoriously, the commonly-cited data point that “over 100,000 children in the United States are commercially exploited each year,” which was mentioned in a 2010 congressional testimony by the then-president of NCMEC, is based on decades-old data. It relied on two studies, both collected during the 1990s, which included runaways, abandoned kids, and unhoused children. One of the studies, a Washington Post fact-check found, was compiled in a way that allowed some incidents to be counted two or three times. When challenged, the former NCMEC president Ernie Allen pointed to a third report which estimated an average of 1.7 million missing children reported each year. But his findings neglected that 99.8 percent of those kids were later recovered.

Despite its dearth of accurate data, #SaveTheChildren proved wildly popular—spurring summer-long protests across the country, many of them planned and promoted on Facebook. In recent years, the platform has become a hub for right-wing-oriented conspiracy groups—a trend documented by @FacebooksTop10, an automated Twitter account created by New York Times journalist Kevin Roose to track its most popular pages each day. “What sticks out, when you dig in to the data,” Roose wrote in an Aug. 2020 piece about the account, “is just how dominant the Facebook right truly is… The result is a kind of parallel media universe that left-of-center Facebook users may never encounter, but that has been stunningly effective in shaping its own version of reality.”

Facebook a Hotbed of ‘Child Sexual Abuse Material’ With 20.3 Million Reports, Far More Than Pornhub

BOOKS.... are FUN vol. 13

The Unreprinted: 

LORD HORROR by David Britton

#gorenoise vol. 58

 

‘A Serbian 

Film’s 

Milos 

Gets an 

Action 

Figure 

From 

Unearthed 

Toys

NERRRRRRRRRD! vol. 133

 NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back its first video of its new home: a 1-minute arabesque of color and motion captured from four on-board cameras, as the car-size rover dangles from its rocket-propelled descent vehicle, a red-and-white parachute snaps into place, and the pitted surface of Mars comes slowly into view, dark canyons giving way to ripples of dust that look like giant, rust-colored dunes.

Martian rover sends back ‘overwhelming’ video, audio from the Red Planet

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 132

 

Justice League: The Shocking, Exhilarating, Heartbreaking True Story of #TheSnyderCut

PSST: still more jazzed for the RAZOR movie than any Marvel / DC property

Negation Aspiration vol. 269

 

‘This Crap Means More to Him Than My Life’: When QAnon Invades American Homes

What a Reddit forum for "QAnon casualties" can tell us about the conspiracy theory scrambling American politics.

#gorenoise vol. 57

 "Among other chilling anecdotes, a former deputy coroner in Colorado who planned on buying the Kents’ funeral homes describes backing out of the deal after discovering an unidentified infant found in a tiny casket that appeared to have been sitting in a freezer since at least last October."

Grieving Mom Fears Coroner’s Grisly Funeral Home Gave Her Fake Ashes

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 338

 

Andrew Cuomo and the Lincoln Project were media-created debacles. What now?

Negation Aspiration vol. 268

 

Scientists Achieve Real-Time Communication With Lucid Dreamers In Breakthrough

AHHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70

boy golly i tell you what when i heard this news i just about dropped a lung.

#gorenoise vol. 56

 

Body Parts are Washing Up on the Shores of This Colombian City

Awwwww Yeah vol. 198

 

‘Allen v. Farrow’ Is a Horrifying Indictment of Woody Allen

#gorenoise vol. 55

 

Philadelphia sex offender charged after ‘deep-fried’ body parts found

Negation Aspiration vol. 267

 To my fellow introverts: Are you confined in a small space with family members who play loud music, conduct Zoom calls in common areas, and insist on discussing every quasi-interesting internet headline (or whatever else may wander through their minds)? You are not in hell, though it may feel that way. You are in month 11 of COVID quarantine.

Budget travel, like COVID quarantine, forces the introverts and extroverts together for unnaturally long stretches of time. Each personality type considers the other to be the problem. For the introverts, the incessant talking and other social distractions are like a jackhammer to the brain. For the extroverts, there would be no problems if the introverts were not so sensitive.

Introverts + Extroverts + Quarantine = Big Trouble

#gorenoise vol. 54 / NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 131

 

Red Room: Exclusive Preview of Ed Piskor's 'Splatterpunk' Horror Comic

We Are the Sprocket Holes vol. 438 / #gorenoise vol. 53

 

ANIMALES HUMANOS Trailer: Lex Ortega Takes on Home Invasion in New Horror Flick

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 437

 

The

20

best

Frankenstein

films

–

ranked!

#gorenoise vol. 52

 

This Dude Built a Guitar Out of His Dead Uncle’s Skeleton

Negation Aspiration vol. 266

 

'Game of Thrones' Actress Esme Bianco Claims Marilyn Manson Relationship "Almost Destroyed Me"

#gorenoise vol. 51

 The documents state the pair then went to a storage building behind their home, reported AL.com. There they reportedly had consensual sex on a mattress in the loft of the building. as the woman was looking over the loft at the ground below, Waters pushed her and she fell 8 feet, landing on the cement floor. Waters jumped on his wife and repeatedly hit her head on the cement floor. He then stabbed her with shards of broken glass as she attempted to fight back. When the woman managed to take the shards from him,  Waters reached for a Ryobi circular saw....

Man Cuts Wife's Throat With Circular Saw After Dinner Date, Police Say

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 436 / NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 130

 

Slamdance 2021 BAD ATTITUDE: THE ART OF SPAIN RODRIGUEZ Exclusive Clip

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 337 / #gorenoise vol. 50

  In a detention memo filed in D.C. federal court on Tuesday, prosecutors revealed that Verastigui also discussed “in great detail” how much he enjoyed seeing children be abused and killed.... Verastigui, who worked for pro-life groups and designed social media ads for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, was working for the GOP at the time of the alleged offending.

Former Trump and GOP Aide Charged With Distributing Child Porn 

Former GOP Staffer Arrested for Child Porn Discussed Killing a Kid: Prosecutors

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 435

 

‘Death Rider 

in the House 

of Vampires’: 

Everyone’s a 

Blood-Sucker 

in Glenn 

Danzig’s 

Horror 

Western 

[Trailer]

#gorenoise vol. 49

 

Man dies of shrapnel wounds as cannon explodes at baby shower

Negation Aspiration vol. 265

You poison all the children to camouflage your scars, that's a lyric from "Man that You Fear", a song from Marilyn Manson's Anti-Christ Superstar album. That's a pretty good summary of what everyone from the younger Boomer generation downwards was dealing with. Sometimes poison in the rather literal sense in that nearly everyone I knew was on medication of some type for showing normal reactions to abusive situations, abusive as in none of the adults listened to us and overreacted to everything we did (yes, that is abuse, plus the gaslighting, the denial, the blame shifting, the expectations either being too high or too low but never in a healthy place, having all their whims projected onto us, being roped into their lack of stability and this perfect family image they crafted in their minds that we were expected to act out). And some kids today still have to deal with it. That's really powerful. The older generation did not like being called out like that by a man wearing ladies undergarments and nothing else tearing up Bibles and cutting himself on stage. 

 

The Man That You Fear by Dani Brown 

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 336 / NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 129

 

Ted Cruz Called Out by 'Watchmen' TV Writer for Misunderstanding the Comic

Books.... are FUN vol. 12

 

Raising A Column Of Fire: On Simon Morris’s Autobiographies

Amidst a glut of self-indulgent autofiction, Simon Morris's books stand out form the pack, finds Enrico Monacelli

Negation Aspiration vol. 264

 

The First U.S. Funeral Home That Turns Bodies Into Compost Is Now Open

Awwwww Yeah vol. 197 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 434

 

Pleasure review – bold, explicit and ambitious LA porn drama

Awwwww Yeah vol. 196

 

German Nuns Sold Orphaned Children to Sexual Predators: Report

Negation Aspiration vol. 263

 

Two FBI Agents Shot Dead at Florida Child-Porn Raid

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 433

 

Sion Sono on Briefly Dying, His Favorite Nicolas Cage Performance, and Prisoners of the Ghostland

Fuck YOUR Life vol. 35

 

He “Horrifically Abused Me for Years”: Evan Rachel Wood and Other Women Make Allegations of Abuse Against Marilyn Manson