We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 482

 stand out viewing for the in-law CHUD show that was July.

(June) 

TRANSGRESSION (1994, dir. Michael P. DiPaolo)

starts by making more than the most of the format, then goes further beyond. easily makes the top 5 of SOV horror films. 

ANATOMIA EXTINCTION (1995, dir. Yoshihiro Nishimora)

Tokyo Gore Preamble. almost makes me wish the follow-up was shot on this grimy 16mm. 

TAXI HUNTER (1993, dir. Herman Yau)

the middle entry in Yau and Anthony Wong's Cat III Triad (situated between Untold Story and Ebola Syndrome) is maybe not as bleakly vicious as its bookends, but it is no slouch either. 

A CLASSIC HORROR STORY (2021, dir. Roberto De Feo / Paolo Strippoli) 

much more clever than i fear others will ever give it credit for. the twist will probably lose most people, but i don't think it really undermines the events that unfold ala April Fools Day, High Tension. 

SX_TAPE (2013, dir. Bernard Rose)

one of the meanest, horniest, and stress inducing found footage films i've ever seen. 

DEBRIS DOCUMENTAR (2012, dir. Marian Dora)

a thoroughly revolting companion piece to Dora incalculably upsetting Angel's Melancholy, where the development of that creation leads to the mutating ruin of its instigating curator. 

  SOUND OF VIOLENCE (2021, dir. Alex Noyer)

a noise artist reimagining of De Palma's Blow Out, playing its derangement with unwavering straight-facedness 

HONEYDEW (2020, dir. Deveraux Milburn) 

and with this inspired splicing of Midsommor and Skinned Deep (Midskinned?), i'm officially all in on the Dark Star Pictures bandwagon. take that A24 flesh and wrap it around some mid-80s splatter madness. 

SIEGE (1983. dir. Paul Donovan, Maura O'Connell)

flips the script of its times by making the right wing homophobes the bad guys.

MAIL ORDER MURDER: THE STORY OF W.A.V.E. PRODUCTIONS (2020, dir. William Hellfire, Ross Snyder)

"i want you in my life"

#gorenoise vol. 107

 

MAKEUP EFFECTS WIZARD GABE BARTALOS REVISITS HIS DIRECTORIAL DEBUT, “SKINNED DEEP”

AHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Matt Gaetz’s Future Sister-in-Law Says He’s a Gaslighting ‘Creep’

Negation Aspiration vol. 299 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 348

 The story of our era may be one about loneliness, isolation, and a lack of community. Scientists tell us that social isolation is as bad for your health as smoking or not getting adequate sleep. COVID-19 took an already bad situation and made it worse. Meanwhile, (anti)social media does nothing to solve the problem, and likely exacerbates it.

And while lack of communal ties may be killing us at the micro level, on the macro level this phenomenon has contributed to numerous societal ills, including the rise of Trumpism. 

So why did Trump, via rallies and the force of his personality, engender the kind of cult-like loyalty that has thankfully eluded most American politicians? Human beings—especially those who feel marginalized—want to belong to something. And as our geographic communities atomize and religious service attendance dwindles, this emotional void is even more pronounced and ripe for exploitation.

If you are surrounded by friends and family or are otherwise well-adjusted, this probably won’t resonate. But if you are lonely and marginalized (or think you are, like so many of today’s MAGA fans), it will resonate. There’s a reason vulnerable people are drawn to street gangs. There’s a reason Charles Manson preyed upon teenage runaways, and there’s a reason why so many poor Black women died in Jonestown. When you are down-and-out and lonely, you cling to the people who care enough to give you hope.

How Trumpists Prey on Loneliness, and Loneliness Preys on Trumpists

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 5

 

Alabama man wanted for attempted rape caught with 400 pairs of women’s underwear

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 149

 1963, released in 1993 and written by Alan Moore, signaled the rise of the pastiche comic book. No medium of art or commerce can exist for too long before its gaze turns inward, and in an industry in which technologies like time travel were a thing of the past, the format offered a new way of looking at the future. In the pastiche comic, creators painstakingly mimicked the form of classic comic books from the Golden and Silver Age of comics, imitating both the dynamic art styles as well as the bombastic writing.

Those whose love is withheld from us are often those we most closely imitate, and the pastiche technique operated as a tool to expose the contradictions at the heart of some of our most beloved characters and media.

How Pastiche Comic Books Help Us Rewrite Our Own History

Negation Aspiration vol. 298

 

‘Like a horror film’: revisiting the Fyre-esque disaster of Woodstock 99

A new documentary surveys the mess of Woodstock 1999 – a disaster of poor planning and a microcosm of toxic masculinity, raunch culture and entitlement

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 481

 

KILL THE CAT – THE AWFUL INFLUENCE OF THE WORLD’S WORST WRITING GUIDE

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 347 / Awwwwwww Yeah vol. 227 / AHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 "The Republican Party is broken."

sounds like it's working the same as ever, but OK.

at least you have Gamer Ethics Advocate Mercedes Carrera to talk t..... oh, right

Anti-cancel culture Turning Point USA cancels porn star Brandi Love’s ticket to its conference

Brandi Love was kicked out because TPUSA doesn't allow adult entertainers to attend events.

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 148

 

Marvel and DC’s “Shut-Up Money”: Comic Creators Go Public Over Pay

The star writers and artists behind major comic book characters are becoming increasingly outspoken about "paltry" deals that don’t account for their work being adapted into billion-dollar blockbusters.

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 147 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 480

 

Ghost World at 20: the comic-book movie that refused to conform

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 4

 

Florida youth 

pastor 

charged 

with 

voyeurism, 

again, 

after cops 

find videos 

of 

churchgoers 

using 

bathroom

Negation Aspiration vol. 297

 The meme is supposed to be a self-own that highlights the differences between generations. While boomer and Gen X mums and dads were apparently out there building their own houses and having 2.5 kids and a dog by their late 20s, those who are now a similar age are simply trying to keep their succulents alive and spending the last of their rent money on Nintendo Switch games and DMT off the darknet to smoke in their vape. 

Is it really like that, though? Did our parents feel conventionally and existentially “sorted” by their late 20s? Were they not also murdering their plants and eating pills they found crushed up on the floor (I have never done that, by the way, except once)? 

To find out if the memes speak any truth whatsoever, some of us rang up our parents to ask what they were actually doing at 29.

Fact-Checking the Meme: What Our Parents Were Actually Doing at 29

AHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 “Great venue if you like businesses that work with those under investigation for molesting a child, or who promote executing public officials. I assume the toilets here overflow onto the floor,” one wrote.

“When you host Nazi sympathizers, fascists, child sex traffickers, insurrectionists (to name just a few), one star on Yelp is actually a compliment,” another said.

Gaetz and Greene Hold Bizarre Outdoor ‘Protest’ After Multiple Venues Bailed

The controversial pair were forced to address supporters on the street outside the Riverside City Hall, after three California venues turned their planned “protest” away.

Negation Aspiration vol. 296

 

MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 3

 In addition to sending sexually explicit emails to the student, Allison, 50, had touched the student’s breast while hugging her in class, purchased her a sex toy, and brought syringes to school in an attempt to draw and drink her blood, officials said.

Texas Teacher 

Sentenced to 

Prison for 

Sending 

Sexually 

Explicit 

Emails 

to 8th 

Grader, 

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 479

 

Tom Six Disparages PC Culture, Now Asks For Fans Support to Release THE ONANIA CLUB

Creator of THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE series Tom Six asks for fan support to help with the release THE ONANIA CLUB

i guess aging creative provocateurs are just going to keep banging their head against the wall situated atop the most pissant of hills to die on.

i understand the frustration, but i'm pretty sure "wOkE pC cAnCeL CuLtUrE SjWS" have better things to worry about than the filmography of the Ass-to-Mouth torture movie guy from 12 years ago. 

maybe aspiring Entertainment Mogul / FREE SPEECH WARRRRR-E-OOOOORRRRRRRRR Bent Shipoopi will snatch it up?

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 478

 

WHAT THE WATER LEFT BEHIND: SCARS: Co-pro Deal Made, Filming Gets Underway This September

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 2

 The 55-year-old former head of the family court in Dijon, France, has been kicked out for attempting to offer his 12-year-old daughter as a sex toy on a “libertine” dating site.

Judge Who 

Pimped His 

12-Year-Old 

Daughter 

Kicked Off 

the Bench

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 346

 At 2:40 a.m., when Fox News decreed that Donald Trump had won, the crowd in the Gaslight erupted. Howling men in MAGA caps hoisted an ebullient McInnes into the air, crowd-surfing him across the throng. But life hadn’t been so joyous in the eight years since he’d left Vice, the Montreal magazine cum media conglomerate he’d cofounded in 1994 at age 24. He’d lost so much in the intervening years: friends, fistfights, the respect of peers, a stake in Vice Media Group’s future profits, presumably countless brain cells. In his departure letter from Vice, he’d vowed his ideas would one day “blossom into fruition like a hundred humid vaginas in the presence of God’s boner.” Now, here he was—a legal immigrant from Canada, living in the States on a green card—surrounded by 100 sweaty dudes, some waving cocktail-napkin-size U.S. flags.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF GAVIN MCINNES

#gorenoise vol. 106

 Smith, 59, came home the day after hearing the rumors, filled a bucket with boiling water, mixed it with more than 6 pounds of sugar and doused the deadly mixture over Michael Baines’ arms and torso while he slept, according to prosecutors in the northwest England county of Cheshire.

“The sugar placed into the water makes it vicious. It becomes thicker and stickier and sinks into the skin better,” said Paul Hughes, detective chief inspector with Cheshire Constabulary’s Major Crime Directorate.

Mom killed 

husband 

with boiling 

sugar water 

after hearing 

sex abuse 

claims

Negation Aspiration vol. 295

 “Slopping down some pig-shit with these fat fucks, and I’m the fattest of them all. If I died tomorrow no one would shed a tear. Load my frickin’ lard carcass into the mud, no coffin please, just wet, wet mud. Bae.”

You might think the vortex of narcissism, desperation and mindless rote behaviour that characterises many people’s Instagram use would be an obvious, not to say rather tired, subject for satire by now. In fact, TV comedy that mines laughs from the warped ways people behave online is vanishingly rare. But I Think You Should Leave – which returned for a much-lauded second season this week – does it in practically every sketch, drilling down into the absurdity of online interaction, and, in doing so, exposes the half-obscured egomania and self-interest that drives it.

I Think You Should Leave: the sketch show exposing our online egomania

We Are the Sprocket Holes vol. 477

 there’s just no imagination in the appearance or design of any of these characters. This is a byproduct of how many 21st-century alien invasion movies, especially something like Battle: Los Angeles with its constant shaky-cam, are aiming for “gritty realism.” This frustrating creative decision results in a horde of aliens covered in subdued colors, as if restricting extra-terrestrials to just various shades of grey will instantly give something like Independence Day: Resurgence all the lived-in depth of a Mike Leigh movie.

Hollywood Blockbusters Like 'The Tomorrow War' Need to Come Up with Better Designs for Their Aliens

#truecrimepowerelectronics vol. 1

“bought, sacrificed, and abandoned,” 

“The treatment she suffered at the hands of this man was nothing less than enslavement, since he used her like a puppet,” 

18-year sentence sought for man who 'bought' and sexually assaulted African girl

"Canada's reputation is at play here. A child entered here to study and was used as a sex slave for three years," prosecutor Amélie Rivard said during sentencing arguments in the case against Montrealer Sylvain Villemaire.

#gorenoise vol. 105

 

Cop Accused of Hiding Stepson’s Body in a Hole in the Wall of His Home

We Are the Sprocket Holes vol. 476

 At the end of the day, the director was justifiably concerned about the film not finding an audience due its intended portrayal of gore, sexual assault and even pedophilia.

Looking Back on ‘8MM’ – The Horror Masterpiece That Almost Was

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 146 / #gorenoise vol. 104

 

Sony Pictures Television Developing ‘Faust’ Animated Series Based on Comic Book

Books... are FUN vol. 19 / Negation Aspiration vol. 294

 The horror that there is order. We were of a generation, following on Gen-X, where we could easily accept disorder, the sense that everything is chaos. And now we’re reeling from the horror that there might be a much deeper, darker order to things than we’d been led to believe.

The Sterile is the Opposite of the Seedy

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN DAVID LEO RICE AND B.R. YEAGER

#gorenoise vol. 103

 

Assassins Gouged Out Haiti President’s Left Eyeball, Says Official

#gorenoise vol. 102

 

Wrestler Malakai Black Moves from WWE to AEW With Bloody Horror Movie Short [Video]

#gorenoise vol. 101

 

Pet python slithers into neighbour’s home, bites man sitting on the toilet

After feeling a "pinch", the elderly man discovered an albino python in his toilet. Luckily, the Austrian man only suffered some minor injuries in his genital area.

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 345

 We are as a society—and by “we” I mean virtually all of us on the planet —brought up to believe howling absurdities, ridiculous impossibilities, and insupportable malarkey from our very first moments on Earth. We have massive lie-delivery systems that are the core institutions of our society. And we have created cultural barriers to even questioning those fabrications which are most deserving of skeptical scrutiny. For example, we regularly label as sacred those ideas that are least able to stand up to scrutiny. (Heck, we have folks in our society who can’t even handle the idea that the history we teach our kids might actually be based on what happened, you know, back in the past.)

Our parents lie to us. Our churches, synagogues, and mosques lie to us. Our schools lie to us. Hollywood lies to us. Madison Avenue lies to us. The media lies to us. Our leaders lie to us. Our friends lie to us. (They do. Going to the gym couldn’t hurt.)

What is more the lies they offer are not always big lies (e.g. Buying a particular brand of beer will not make you more attractive) while some are just gross oversimplifications (e.g. The Founding Fathers did a lot of good... but they were not the figures carved out of marble we were sold for years). Some have a seed of truth within them but are gross distortions (e.g. Columbus did not discover America). And some of the time we invite the lies because they open the door to enjoyment (e.g. Keto? All the bacon I can eat? I’m in).

But one of the key reasons we buy into so many small lies is that we have been force fed so many big ones. I mean really big ones. I mean ones that make the current Big Lie look like one of those low-calorie snacks that is actually a high-calorie treat shrunk to a smaller size and repackaged.

We Still Won’t Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie

#gorenoise vol. 100 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 475

 

“ASCETIC” IS A SHORT THAT WILL CHANGE YOU

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 226

 Hollywood is never honest about rape. Unattractive people get raped every day and yet, we never see the cinematic depictions of the rape of unattractive people. Not once. How do I know? Let’s start with the anecdotal: A Hollywood producer (who will remain nameless here) maintained an extensive library of every rape scene seen in films he could get his hands on. Thousands. No ugly people.

This is far from accidental. Hollywood plays with rape. Rape as titillation. Rape as foreplay. Rape as plot device. Rape as wish fulfillment.

Which is to say even the word “rape”, insofar as it evokes the rape of other people, rarely involves people who people don’t want to imagine being raped and who, if you’re one of those people now imagining it, will always imagine the victims to be attractive. Because if they weren’t, well who, after all, would want to rape them?

And when I say “people” here is it necessary to say that I really mean “men”?

You Are Getting Sleepy: The Disturbing Case of the Risible Rapist

I spent three weeks with Bill Cosby. And, total disclosure: I wish him ill.

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 474

 

Shannon Lee: Does Quentin Tarantino Hate Bruce Lee? Or Does It Just Help Sell Books? (Guest Column)

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 145

 

Junji Ito creates manga adaptation of horror movie The Lighthouse