We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 537

 stand out viewing for the chum-lotioned pubic lice-cob that was July. 

(June)

SZAMANKA (1996, dir. Andrzej Zulawski)

It's been taking me quite the minute, but i'm finally approaching a respectable depth of Zulawski viewing. this one might be my favorite thus far. 

 THE SHADOWED MIND (1988, dir. Cedric Sundstrom) 

a South African sex gialli? sure. 

NOPE (2022, dir. Jordan Peele)

perfect blends the unique spin on social fiction of Get Out with the impeccable popcorn horror iconography of Us. 

NINJA III: THE DOMINATION (1984, dir. Sam Firstenberg)

easily the most bat-shit insane offering from the sacred Cannon Group. 

MODERN VAMPIRES (1998, dir. Richard Elfman)

Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone) trying his hand at the 1990s “cool ‘n sexy” vampire sub-genre (complete with Udo Kier). It’s…. something. sidenote; imagine if someone good actualized a triple XXX triple threat between Natasha Gregson Wagner, Casper Van Dien, and Natasha Lyone in 1998. 

MASTER OF THE WORLD (1983, dir. Alberto Cavallone)

someone find Cavallone's Maldoror right now. 

HATCHING (2022, dir. Hanna Bergholm)

like a baby caught in a garbage disposal; tight and gross. 

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (2022, dir.s Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert)

if you hated this, you're just being an asshole. 

BLOOD HUNT (1986, dir. Javier Elorrieta)

"the lighthearted feel good romantic comedy of the decade" - Rodrigo Duterte

ARABELLA BLACK ANGEL (1989, dir. Stelvio Massi)

the reason you keep digging through the cinematic detritus of Italy is too find sweet precious treasures such as this. the movie Danzig will be trying to make for the rest of his career. 

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 284

 

School District Enacts One of ‘Strictest’ Book Bans Yet After Raucous Meeting

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 536

 

‘Pearl’ Trailer – Mia Goth and Ti West Reunite for A24’s Wild and Bloody ‘X’ Prequel Movie!

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 25 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 283

 As the eulogies for Vince McMahon’s career pile up in the wake of his not-in-any-way-forced retirement on Friday, they follow the usual script of any powerful and ungodly wealthy man’s career coming to an end. His offenses, crimes, and responsibility for the misery and violation of basically countless somehow come in under his accomplishments. Because in this country, being rich is the ultimate accomplishment of all. We value someone’s bank account more than just about anything, especially women and low-level workers, and usually mistake it for some genius we couldn’t possibly attain. Even if the only “genius” involved was having all the money in the first place, it all gets muddied.

Because was Vince McMahon really a genius? Or did he just have more money than everyone else, and was left alone in the industry of wrestling where his vision and ideas were the only ones that we just had to assume were next level because there was no one else providing an alternative for decades? His lifelong insecurity about being known simply as a wrestling promoter and his failures in any other line (XFL, his bodybuilding league, etc.) tells its own story.

Is having all the money and being an unmitigated asshole prepared to do whatever to gain more money really a mark of genius? Well, in this country, yeah, it is. Because, somehow, most people like to envision themselves as just an unfortunate millionaire dealing with some hard times and if just given one chance, if they could just be as ruthless, if they could just play the game that way…

Vince McMahon is an actual American story

Ex-WWE boss built his vision through hard work, luck, and a complete disregard for morality

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 24

 

SOURCE: Kevin Dunn Didn't Think Becky Lynch Was "Attractive Enough" to be Champion

Negation Aspiration vol. 331

 the serotonin story of depression was just that: a story. It was a hypothesis that turned into a simplistic representation of a guess about the underlying causes of depression and how to “fix” it. Researchers and clinicians, in their responses to the review, said this theory hasn't been widely held by the mental health community for some time. Yet the paper, and the response to it, reveal the still-existing chasm between what mental health professionals say they know and what the general public understands about what causes depression, and how it’s treated.

The New Study on Serotonin and Depression Isn’t About Antidepressants

A review confirming what has long been known is being used to make misleading claims about antidepressants—and shows the gap between scientific knowledge and public understanding.

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 23

 

Vince McMahon Retires

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Steve Bannon found guilty on both contempt of Congress charges

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 188

 

SDCC Exclusive: Richard Corben's Murky World, Den Get New Reprints From Dark Horse

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 535 / Awwwwwwww Yeah vol. 254

 

J.K. Simmons’ Next Project Is Apparently A Lovecraftian Glory Hole Thriller Called ‘Glorious’

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 534

 Reviews are just starting to trickle in with Screen Anarchy calling All Jacked Up and Full of Worms “a lo-fi gross-out for weirdos,” further adding, “With influences ranging from Cronenbergian body horror to John Waters-esque reveling in bad taste, to more contemporary waking nightmare fuel like Calvin Lee Reeder’s The Oregonian or The Rambler, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms is really going to hit the spot for a small segment of demented viewers and really repel others.”

‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ Review Calls the Indie “a Lo-Fi Gross-Out For Weirdos”

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 59

 

LimeWire, Our Favorite Family Computer Virus-Downloading Software, Is Now Peddling NFTs

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 22 / U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 282

 Nor, at this stage of the failed state that is the United States of America, is it much more than a pop culture cliché to point out that wrestling's histrionics and reality-TV M.O. were a metaphor for the rise of Donald Trump. The 45th president, who continues to lurk in hope of an authoritarian sequel, is a decades-long crony of Vince McMahon and his wife Linda (who was head of the Small Business Administration under Trump). Trump performed in WWE shticks, hosted two early WrestleMania pay-per-view extravaganzas at his now defunct Atlantic City casino, spurred record buy numbers at a later one and is a proud inductee of the WWE Hall of Fame.

Beginning nearly 40 years ago, I wrote some of the earliest major articles that took the wrestling industry seriously and explored the relationship between its explosion and the breakdown of regulations, specifically, and of civil society, generally – for publications such as Penthouse, Washington Monthly and Spy. So I am here to review that story, but also to do more.

Yes, the wrestling-ization of America, like the Trumpfication of America, has been insidious and inexorable. But it has not been inevitable. In the case of Vince McMahon, there were rope guides to his ascent. And there were missed opportunities, by the media and most especially by prosecutors. There was one huge missed opportunity to take him down nearly 30 years ago.

Vince McMahon's hush-money scandal: A window into Trump's America

Pro wrestling mogul (and Trump pal) Vince McMahon built an empire on exploitation — and that's barely even news

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 21

 Who should be considered for induction into every wrestling hall of fame? Nancy Benoit, who people forget had a 13-year professional wrestling career as a manager/valet and is unfairly best remembered for being a victim of her husband’s rage. 

Chris Benoit should be remembered for his crimes, not his in-ring work

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Trump: I could have made Elon Musk beg on his knees

NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 187

 

Have we gone from Marvel fatigue to Marvel exhaustion?

Mixed reviews for Thor: Love and Thunder make it just the latest MCU entry to under-deliver, extending what might be the franchise’s worst era

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 563

 

‘Hidden in the Woods 2’ Trailer Teases Bloody Revenge 

#gorenoise vol. 155 / Oh I Get It vol. Never EVER Come This Close to Boy's Stairway!

 

Howie Mandel Prolapse Video Shocks Internet: 'Traumatized'

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 58

 

Internet enamored by a 14-year-old’s captivating 'I Voted' sticker in county contest

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 57

 

'The Anarchists' charts the predictable implosion around 'Anarchapulco' and its founders

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 56

 

4chan shutting down as the Internet’s most notorious community goes broke

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 562

 

FAIR GAME Brings Ozploitation Classic Back

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 55

 

The Internet Turns Jordan Peterson’s Hateful Transphobic Rant Into Video Game Gold

From Arkham Asylum to Control and beyond, games are providing the perfect way to dunk on this goober

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 20

 

It was reportedly business as usual at SmackDown last night despite new Vince allegations

#gorenoise vol. 154 / AHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Federal investigation launched after feces were mailed to 25 Ohio GOP state lawmakers

Negation Aspiration vol. 330

 

Elderly Man Dies After Seven Teenagers Beat Him With Traffic Cone

AHHHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

British Lawmaker’s Live Analysis of Boris Johnson’s Resignation Drowned Out by ‘Benny Hill’ Theme Music

#gorenoise vol. 155

 "There's an island the size of two tennis courts, and I've been and stood on it – it's near Hammersmith Bridge in the Thames, and it's a meter deep or more in places of just wet wipes. It's actually changed the course of the Thames,"

An 'Island' of Disgusting Wet Wipes Changed The Course of The Thames River in London

GO. OUT. SIDE. vol. 54

 "The sculptures are very complex and imaginative, reflecting the fairy world imagined by people at that time, and they demonstrate the diversity and richness of Chinese civilization," 

Mysterious artifacts hint at the 'fairy world' of ancient China

Booker Man is the Bastard vol. 18 / #gorenoise vol. 155

 Slade and Hoodfoot faced off in a Death Match at the show but the match was scrapped after 94 seconds when a light tube spot went wrong. For the spot, Slade broke a light tube before he stabbed Hoodfoot in the arm. Hoodfoot quickly began losing a lot of blood from his arm, though, with the blood pouring out as a referee tried to tape up the wound. 

GCW Match Stopped Due To Gruesome Injury