We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 473

 stand-out viewing for the shower grime soup kitchen that was June.

(May)

COME TRUE (2020, dir. Anthony Scott Burns)

FFO The Nightmare, Beyond the Black Rainbow, aforementioned "not-a-vampire" vampire movies. 

CURSE OF THE BLIND DEAD (2020, dir. Raffaele Picchio)

keep sucking dick for a Cinemageddon membership, you grey market doofus. 

A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX (2021, dir. Rodney Ascher)

pretty amazing that a glorified superhero movie from the dawn of Nu-Metal got y'all thinking we're a dream inside a space robot or whatever. 

HANZO THE RAZOR: THE SNARE (1973, dir. Yasuzo Masumura)

gotta be the wildest shit on HBOMAX. 

HUNTING GROUND (1983, dir. Jorge Grau)

starts out as fairly levelheaded and sobering take on the pacifist-struggles-with-feelings-of-revenge narrative, but closes out affairs with a level of ceaselessly troubling brutality that makes the more consistently severe offerings in this genre seem like their holding back. 

I START COUNTING (1969, dir. David Greene)

really think you can trace the DNA of films like Heavenly Creatures, Fun, and Don't Deliver us From Evil back to this nasty lil' charmer. 

RELAXER (2018, dir. Joel Potrykus)

like sweating sour milk. 

SIBERIA (2019, dir. Abel Ferrara) 

Ferrara goes ahead and makes an honest-to-god surrealist horror film.

THE STYLIST (2020, dir. Jill Gevargizan)

could've maybe used just a bit more time on the backstory of the titular Stylist, but other than that it fits real snug between Maniac and May. 

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017, dir. Kevin Philips)

fun with weapons. 

#gorenoise vol. 98 / Negation Aspiration vol. 292

 

Can Journalism Wean Itself Off the Cheap Clicks of Bad Crime Coverage?

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 225

 The semen retention, or “SR”, community has one central premise: the belief that semen is the essence of male energy or chi. This is something John stands by: “I understand a baby grows inside a womb and this is in no way trying to take away what the female reproductive system accomplishes because it's on another level, but every man has magical juice inside them that most spill on a tissue, on the ground, or in the toilet, every other day.” 

Inside the Subreddit Where Men Encourage Each Other Not to Cum

Over 90,000 people have joined r/SemenRetention in the hope of storing their sacred male energy.

AHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Rudy Giuliani suspended from practicing law in New York over false election claims

TERSE: Songs oV Kiritsis PUBLICATION DAY

 

Happy publication day to TERSE! 

bypassing the pre-order gimmick. my second book TERSE is available RIGHT NOW.

the content of this book was intended to serve as lyrical content for future Communion releases, so if you ever took the time to look over the words of our songs and you liked (or were at least curious) about what you read, i think you'll find this release to be of interest. 

in the last four years i've put together 4 book projects. of the four, i figured TERSE would be the last to get published. a big thanks to Zak Ferguson and Laura-Jane Marshall at Sweat Drenched Press for taking a chance on this one. 

BUY IT

Now available to purchase directly via us at sweatdrenchedpress.webador.co.uk or via the links below. 

TERSE

Songs oV Kiritsis 

Arranged and curated by 

N Casio Poe 

Synopsis: 

After PIECEMEAL uncovered the raw sediment of their putrefied essence, THE CRINGE MYTHOS resume their unwinding with TERSE; a murder-journal epic that seeks to compress the shattering multiverses internalized deep within the collective unconscious of the varying deranged into a slim & single volume of ritualistically transcribed creaturous braying.

This book is quite unlike anything you'll read all year. GRITTY, DAMAGING, SCARY, UNEASY. PURE CASIO POE. 

UK:

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Currently links for France, Japan, Australia and many other and easily accessible Amazon outlets are not available. 

If you want to buy a book, and you're not based in America or the UK, order directly via our website.

Negation Aspiration vol. 291

 

John McAfee, 75, dies in Spanish prison, reports say

The antivirus software pioneer's extradition to the US had been authorized by a Spanish court earlier Wednesday.

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 472

 A nihilistic thriller, Manodrome tells the story of Ralphie (Eisenberg), an Uber driver and aspiring bodybuilder who is inducted into a libertarian masculinity cult and loses his grip on reality when his repressed desires are awakened.

Jesse Eisenberg, Adrien Brody, Riley Keough To Star In ‘Manodrome’ – Cannes Market

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 471

 

WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE: Worldwide Rights For Anticipated Sequel to be Handled by Arclight Films

#gorenoise vol. 97

 

QAnon Believer Tried to Kill His Pregnant Partner With a Hammer to ‘Save’ His Kids

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 344

 So just as anti-P.C., vaguely amoral Barstool-ism can be a strength, it can also be a weakness. In a media environment built to reinforce and intensify one’s ideological beliefs, being on the attack all the time can leave you in an exhausting state of constant defense. Yes, it can galvanize — nearly 75 million people voted to re-elect Donald Trump, the Stoolie-in-chief — but it can also exasperate and infuriate in turn — a record 81 million Americans voted for Trump’s purposely less-pugilistic opponent, Joe Biden. It also runs the risk of all novelty: that people might just bore of it. Yesterday’s provocation becomes today’s status quo, and in turn tomorrow’s epic cringe.

How Republicans Became the ‘Barstool’ Party

#gorenoise vol. 96

 New research from the University of Nottingham, found that hospital staff are increasingly witnessing children seeking medical attention for a variety of graphic injuries related to exploitation by city drug gangs, including torture, punishment beatings, stabbings, sexual exploitation and rape. One hospital worker reported numerous cases of men aged under 21 in the south of England being victims of gang rapes. 

Describing the injuries, one youth worker told the report: “Fingernails pulled off, hair pulled out, even the stabbings… whereas before COVID-19 you may have seen one or two injuries on a young person, now they will be repeatedly stabbed. So we're talking five, six times is kind of an average amount of stab wounds.”

Although males were mostly targeted, authors of the report say the violence against women and girls is becoming “more severe and sexual in nature.” Some report women being passed around as sexual rewards for services, and the use of “pop up brothels.”

Children Tortured and Raped By County Lines Drug Gangs

#gorenoise vol. 95

 The researchers also uncovered more macabre finds, in particular the dismembered remains of 10 children and women. Osteoarcheological analysis of the remains revealed that four of those buried there had suffered trauma to their skulls and ribs close to the time of their deaths, suggesting that they had died violently. While archaeologists uncovered more formal burials of 13 male adults within the east side of the rings of the Ringheiligtum, the internment of the women and children was different. Their bodies were thrown indiscriminately into the pits leading some to suggest that they had been ritually sacrificed as a part of the rituals that took place there.

The Cruel and Twisted Discoveries at Germany’s Stonehenge

Awwwww Yeah vol. 224 / NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 144

 

Zack Snyder Ends Debate Over Whether Batman Would Perform Oral Sex on Catwoman

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 342

 When we last checked on Conner O’Malley, it was mid-2018. We were a year and a half into Donald Trump’s presidency, and the kinds of characters O’Malley portrayed in his cult online videos — miserable American men bursting with unrestrained rage fueled in equal parts by conspiracy theories, 3 p.m. airings of The Matrix Revolutions on AMC, unreturned OnlyFans DMs, and decades-old cases of Halo 3 Mountain Dew Game Fuel bought in bulk off Craigslist — were thriving in manic realities of their own creation. But as the calendar turned to 2020 and the gloating waned, these Americans found themselves stuck in the same depressing stasis from which those in power in Washington and in far-right online forums have long promised to free them.

While O’Malley’s earlier videos emphasize how those members of the silent majority were being suckered by Trump’s braying promises, the comedian’s oeuvre since late 2018 spotlights how these spittle-spewing Patriots with a trample fetish have been gleefully crushed under the weight of failing institutions uprooted by a proudly ignorant government. The Trump presidency may be over, but, like a rotting fish left in the walls by a disgruntled employee, it’s impossible to escape the smell of Trumpism in nearly every aspect of American life. Armed with his trusty GoPro and selfie stick, O’Malley has tackled global commerce and the stock market, tin-hat conspiracies about diseases and antifa, police brutality and the historic protests against it, late-era American capitalism and empire, and even the late-night talk-show format, all in his now-signature style of wide-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth psychotic comedy. Here’s a guide to the best of his recent videos.

An Intermediate’s Guide to Conner O’Malley

#gorenoise vol. 94

 

‘Did I Hurt You?’: Accused Killer Grills 11-Year-OId Son in Grisly Double-Murder Trial

#gorenoise vol. 93

 

Remains of at Least 17 People Found Under Alleged Serial Killer's House

Awwww Yeah vol. 224

 

Who is Saki Sudo? Porn star, 25, held for poisoning 'Don Juan' husband, 77, who wanted to die having sex

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 470

 Girlfight + You Were Never Really Here = 

‘Catch The Fair One’ Teaser: First Look At Boxing Thriller From Darren Aronofsky And ‘Nomadland’s Mollye Asher

We Are the Sprocket Holes vol. 469

 

26 Years After ‘Kids’ Shocked the World, a New Documentary Examines the Lives It Shattered

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 223

 “Shot girl summer.” “Vaxxed and waxed.” The “whoring 20s.” As the US becomes increasingly inoculated and the weather continues to warm, the number of Americans who are ready to date is on the rise: A Morning Consult survey for the week ending April 25 found that 53 percent of adults feel “comfortable” dating right now, up 9 percent from the last week in March (although women still feel less comfortable than men). Everyone from Andrew Yang to the bidet company Tushy — which is maintaining a herd-immunity countdown clock at CanIEatAssYet.com — are building anticipation for a hedonistic release of pent-up sexual energy.

“Hot vax summer is coming,” Insider proclaimed in March. “NYC singles ready for ‘slutty summer’ of casual sex,” screamed the New York Post. Clearly, many are ready to throw themselves back into the social melee. “Touch starvation” is real, and it can increase stress, depression, and anxiety. But after a year of such intense isolation, fear, suffering, and grief — and as the pandemic continues to rage across many parts of the world — the answer to how people will try to make up for lost time and lost touch is more complex than the orgiastic fantasy hawked by Suitsupply.

Are we really in for a summer of love? A post-vaccine dating investigation.

Negation Aspiration vol. 290

 Progress Reversed 

“Global suffering has vastly increased vulnerabilities to trafficking,” the U.N. warned in its recent Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. The body says that despite lockdowns and travel restrictions, there have been international surges in places, and while convictions have tripled since 2003, the report says: “We cannot allow the pandemic recession to reverse this progress, or put more women, men and children in danger of being trafficked.” Yet human trafficking is happening all the time, sometimes even in the most unlikely of places.

THE OTHER PANDEMIC: HUMAN TRAFFICKING

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 468

 

‘Vortex’: Gaspar Noé Made a Mysterious Quasi-Documentary Starring Dario Argento

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 467

 

Trailer for Serbian ‘Vampir’, Which Bites Into Actual Vampire Cases

#gorenoise vol. 92

 The elder daughter, now 18, testified in the trial and told the court that her parents were arguing after they returned home drunk from a neighbor's party on Christmas Eve 2011. She noted that the fight soon turned violent, alleging that Wallace shoved her mother into a glass table, leaving the disoriented woman with several lacerations on her body.

The killer husband then asked her then-8-year-old daughter to help pull the broken glass out of the woman's body before he dragged Preston into the bathroom and dropped her against the toilet seat, severely hitting her head. 

Wallace, however, did not call 911 despite his wife's bleeding head injury, Insider noted.

The next day, on Christmas morning, Wallace moved to heave Preston’s corpse out to the living room before propping her up on the couch with sunglasses on. Her lifeless body stayed in a seating position on the couch while her daughters and newborn son opened their Christmas presents, New York Daily News reported.

“Mommy ruined Christmas, she got drunk and ruined Christmas,” Wallace allegedly told the children, according to prosecutors.

Husband Propped 

Up Dead Wife's 

Body 

On Christmas 

As Children 

Opened Presents

Books... are FUN vol. 18

 

Years After Its Founder’s Death, Cult Publisher Feral House Is Still Celebrating the Bizarre

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 466

 The question is always whether these movies serve as a warning against such impulsive, often fascistic forms of violence, or whether they inspire them. Looking at the current climate of “toxic masculinity” – misogynistic online abuse, sexual misconduct and violence (not least in the entertainment industry), strongman politicians, and gun-toting insurrectionist bros doing military cosplay – one would hardly surmise that what the world needs now is more old-school manliness.

Nobody doesn’t offer a particularly nuanced take on these issues, but its artfully orchestrated ultraviolence is cathartic, which is where these films can have a useful function. Then again, it’s a pretty reductive view of masculinity that says you’re either a castrated loser or a rampaging warrior, a sheep or a wolf, a Norton or a Pitt. Other forms of manliness are available – ones that engage the brain as well as the balls.

Toxic masculinity: are violent films such as Nobody a warning or a celebration?

#gorenoise vol. 91

 

Here's Why You Should Avoid the Girl in the Bathroom TikTok Video at All Costs

Negation Aspiration vol. 289

 Forty-eight people from the same small Canadian province struck with a baffling mix of symptoms including insomnia, impaired motor function and hallucinations such as nightmarish visions of the dead.

Mysterious Brain Syndrome Grips Canada

Negation Aspiration vol. 288

 It’s like a movie with a blockbuster budget and cast, but if it’s written by creatively bankrupt nincompoops specifically for an audience of one, in a language nobody understands anymore, it’s.....trash. But people watch it because they like movies.

10 years later, WWE’s latest cuts are more proof CM Punk’s pipebomb was justified

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Why one part of CM Punk’s promo aged like fine wine

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 465

 

DEMONIC Official Trailer: 'Don't be Scared'. Actually, We Think We Will Be.

Negation Aspiration vol. 287

 

‘Unbelievable:’ Children, 12 and 14, use AK-47, other guns in shooting rampage on Volusia deputies

14-year-old girl shot by deputy, Sheriff Mike Chitwood says

AAAAHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

‘Stone Cold Loser!’: The Brief Wondrous Life of Trump’s Sad Little Blog Site

“From the Desk of Donald J. Trump” was met with a collective shrug from the public, and is being shut down after just 29 days.

Books... are FUN vol. 17 / We are the Sprocket Holes vol. 464

 

‘Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey’ is an Ode to Horror Fans, Undiscovered Gems, and the Genre’s Undervalued Decade

#gorenoise vol. 90

 

Woman 

Cuts Off 

Boss's 

Penis 

After He 

Allegedly 

Attempted 

to 

Rape Her

NERRRRRRRRD! vol. 143

 

“Bad Girl” Comics Timeline

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 463

 

Scream Factory Announces Upcoming Blu-ray Debuts for ‘A Return to Salem’s Lot’ and ‘The Borrower’ (but most importantly THE BORROWER)

The Borrower: “From the creative mind of director John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer) comes an eerie tale of an alien killer sentenced to live the rest of his days on Earth for committing unspeakable crimes. The strange insect-like creature arrives in a lone spaceship. When he arrives on our planet, his head explodes.”

“His survival depends on his ability to find a new head for his body. Thus begins a carnage of murder that even the city’s toughest detectives Diana Pierce (Rae Dawn Chong, Commando) and Charles Kreiger (Don Gordon, Bullitt) are unable to solve.”

Awwww Yeah vol. 222

 previously on Awwwww Yeah

Woman found naked in Florida storm drain is rescued again

Awwwww Yeah vol. 221

 Whore is a word that is older than writing. It’s been associated with the illicit erotic for millennia, but it comes from older words that mean, “one who desires,” or, “woman who knows.”

Here’s Why I Celebrate International Whores’ Day