We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 462

 stand-out viewing for the dysentery pus show that was May.

(April) 

BAXTER (1989, dir. Jerome Bolvin)

aka The Killer Inside Marley and Me. 

BLOOD (2000, dir. Charly Cantor) 

here's a mysterious one from the early 00s fits right alongside other "it's not a vampire" vampire movies (Martin, Night Owl, the Addiction, Habit, the Transfiguration), with drops of In My Skin, Cutting Moments, and Raw, with an additional thematic layer of repressed fetishism coming to dominate and devour the increasingly insular universe the characters are fated to inhabit.  pretty heady stuff... especially coming from the Asylum, before they hit paydirt with their stable of "mockbusters" and  the Sharknado franchise.

BLOOD FOR FLESH (2019, dir. Alex Hernandez) 

vicious Mexican gore collides with the kind of cryptic creation myth that informs the universe of Begotten. 

CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU (2014, dir Chris LaMartina) 

so much better than it has any reason to be. 

GARDEN OF TORMENT (1976, dir. Christian Gion) 

what was released with the intention of piggy-backing off the success of the comparatively placid Emanuelle instead delivers something more along the lines of Salo. i'm not a movie poster collector, but i'd love to snage the above. 

GUNDALA (2019, dir. Joko Anwar) 

haven't so thoroughly enjoyed a "big" superhero franchise since Nolan's Bat-Cycle, but even those films too often defer to the sort of normie hand-holding "realism", sacrificing all the rudderless imagination running through the comic book sources. not so much here; the weightier grit is in perfect balance with the magical speculation. 

HUNTED (2020, dir. Vincent Parannaud) 

aka Grandma's House on the Edge of the Park. 

IRMA VEP (1996, dir. Oliver Assayas) 

one of the best movies about movies ever. 

SAINT MAUD (2019, dr. Rose Glass)

somewhere between a Paul Schrader forced perspective character piece and caustic nunsploitation hysterics.

WALKING THE EDGE (1985, dir. Norbert Meisel) 

LA gets the 42nd Street treatment. 

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 142

 After the massive blockbuster success of Batman, Burton, Keaton, and Hamm were quickly tapped to make a sequel, with Hamm taking a first stab at the script, which would have introduced Robin as well as shown District Attorney Harvey Dent’s transformation into Two-Face. You probably know what happened next: Burton was unhappy with Hamm’s script (the director detests the Boy Wonder, for one thing) and said he would not direct the picture unless he could make a “Tim Burton movie,” not a Batman sequel, according to Hamm. The rest is history: Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters replaced Hamm and the result was Batman Returns.

Since Batman ’89 will “pull on a number of threads left dangling by the prolific director,” the series is an opportunity for Hamm to finally deliver his vision for “Batman II.” As you’d expect, one of the storylines from his unused script that will be front and center in the miniseries is Harvey’s villainous turn, which means we’ll finally get to see Billy Dee Williams’ version of the character become Two-Face within the Burtonverse.

Batman 89: Billy Dee Williams Finally Becomes Two-Face in Burtonverse Comic

Negation Aspiration vol. 285

 

The Youth Prepare for #Summer2021, a Glorious Summer They’re Unlikely to Get

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 341

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene Deletes Retweet Calling Kevin McCarthy a 'Feckless C**t' and 'Moron'

U.S.A.! U.S.A! vol. 340

 “Rather than preventing what it calls ‘censorship,’ the Act does the exact opposite: it empowers government officials in Florida to police the protected editorial judgment of online businesses that the State disfavors and whose perceived political viewpoints it wishes to punish,” the complaint stated. “Although the Act uses scare terms such as ‘censoring,’ ‘shadow banning,’ and ‘deplatforming’ to describe the content choices of the targeted companies, it is in fact the Act that censors and infringes on the companies’ rights to free speech and expression; the Act that compels them to host speech and speakers they disagree with; and the Act that engages in unconstitutional speaker-based, content-based, and viewpoint-based preferences.”

Florida Social 

Media 

Censorship 

Law 

Touted 

by 

Gov. 

DeSantis 

Is a 

‘Frontal 

Assault 

on the 

First 

Amendment’: 

Lawsuit

#gorenoise vol. 88

 

Mother Arrested After Asking Cops What to Do About Her Son’s Rotting Corpse

The 53-year-old man was found dead on his futon with cuts on his neck.

Books... are FUN vol. 16 / We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 461

 

‘Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made’ Explores Guillermo del Toro’s ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ and More

U.S.A.! U.S.A.! vol. 339

 

MGM Sold to Amazon for $8.45 Billion in Blockbuster Deal

#gorenoise vol. 87

 

Woman Tries to Remove Mole on Her Face With Drill and It Ends in Disaster

#gorenoise vol. 86

Scott Quinn Berkett, 24, was arrested on charges that he tried to get a hitman to rub out a woman he met on a Facebook anime fan page.

Reporters Help Feds Foil Murder-for-Hire Plot

We are The Sprocket Holes vol. 460

 “The more unusual a film is,” the director sighed, “the more resistance you’ll face.”

Dead Man’s Curve: David Cronenberg’s ‘Crash,’ 25 Years After Cannes

#gorenoise vol. 85

 "After almost four decades, a 75-year-old Texas man has been arrested for sexually assaulting a woman before strangling her and setting her body on fire in a field—a grisly crime that a notorious self-proclaimed serial killer once insisted was his doing."

"Darnell’s arrest marks the second time authorities thought they had solved Purchases’ case. Henry Lee Lucas, also known as The Highway Stalker, originally confessed to the murder before she was even identified. He was convicted of her murder in 1986. "

She Was Raped, Strangled, Set Alight in a Field. Cops Say They’ve Found Her Killer.

#gorenoise vol. 84

 

Eight Pits Full of Murdered Women Found in Ex Cop’s Backyard in El Salvador

Books... are FUN vol. 16 / Awwwwww Yeah vol. 220

 

Poetry and Sex Work: An Interview with Dylan Krieger

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 459

 

Brandon Cronenberg to Adapt J.G. Ballard Novel ‘Super-Cannes’ as Series

#gorenoise vol. 83

 "Because of the disputes we had, I sedated him this morning [Sunday] by giving him anesthetics, then stabbed him to death. Then I dismembered his body and threw it in the nearest trash can on the street with my wife."

Film 

Director 

Murdered 

and 

Dismembered 

by Family 

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

 “A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all f*cking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.

“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. F*ck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since f*cking Hitler.”

‘They’re All F*cking Short-Bus People’: The QAnon Shaman’s Lawyer Claims That Trump’s Jan 6th Mob Were All Easily Manipulated Dullards

Books... are FUN vol. 15

 

‘Watchmen’ Creator Alan Moore Signs Publishing Deal For Fantasy Series ‘Long London’

#gorenoise vol. 82

the boy was found dead in a pool of blood in the middle of the street with injuries police said were caused by “an edged weapon.”

‘I’m already cried out’: Police say sleeping child taken from crib before he was killed, left in Dallas street

#gorenoise vol. 81

 

7-year-old stabbed to death in Paterson, mother charged

#gorenoise vol. 80

 

After 

Murdering 

Her 

Children, 

Woman 

Told 

Officer 

That 

She Heard 

Voices 

Telling Her 

to Kill 

Them

AHHHHHHHHH vol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

Gaetz Buddy Joel Greenberg Agrees to Plead Guilty to Sex Trafficking, Says Report

NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 141

 

We’re getting The Venture Bros. movie

#gorenoise vol. 79 / NERRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 140

 

Ed Piskor's Red Room Is Fantagraphics' Best-Selling Comic In Decades

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 458

 

Capcom Accused by ‘Frankenstein’s Army’ Director of Copying Monster Designs For ‘Resident Evil Village’

Awwwwww Yeah vol. 219

 

Juno Temple Charms in the Surreal and Steamy First Trailer for Starz’s ‘Little Birds’

Negation Aspiration vol. 284

 

Boy, 11, jumped out of school bus to escape beating from bullies, dad says

NERRRRRRRRRRRD! vol. 139

 

‘Think, Mark, Think!’: Binge ‘Invincible’ On Amazon, Not ‘Jupiter’s Legacy’ On Netflix

i mean... 

...you could ...

....also... 

...but maybe just....

READ. THE. COMICS. 

..but ok.

#gorenoise vol. 78

 

Teacher 

Accused 

of Scalping 

Boy 

As 

Punishment 

for 

Talking 

in Class

#gorenoise vol. 77

 LiveLeak began in 2006 as an offshoot of the early internet shock site Ogrish. Along with Rotten.com and others, Ogrish was a place people went to when they wanted to see the worst the web had to offer. It was a digital Face of Death. LiveLeak contained much of the same footage but framed it in a more respectable way and the creators framed it as a place for citizen journalists to post uncensored videos of world events.

If you wanted to see footage of the Saddam Hussein execution you went to LiveLeak. If a friend wanted to show you footage of a drug cartel beheading via chainsaw, they were showing you on LiveLeak. If you wanted to see footage of America firing Hellfire missiles at fighters in Afghanistan, you looked to LiveLeak.

As the world got more complicated and more people surged online, Hewitt and others tried to better moderate LiveLeak. After Islamic State posted the video of it beheading journalist James Foley in 2014, LiveLeak banned Islamic State from posting beheading videos. As YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter removed video of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shooting, LiveLeak continued to host it and faced mounting pressure from the Government’s of Australia and New Zealand.

That’s all over now. LiveLeak is gone, replaced by a site that explicitly bans gory and violent imagery. “To the members, the uploaders, the casual visitors, the trolls and the occasionally demented people who have been with us. You have been our constant companions and although we probably didn't get to communicate too often you're appreciated more than you realize,” Hewitt said on his blog. “On a personal level you have fascinated and amused me with your content. Lastly, to those no longer with us. I still remember you.”

LiveLeak, the Infamous Site for Beheading Videos, Is Gone

Awwwww Yeah vol. 218

 

Woman crashes ex’s funeral, runs over gravesites at Fargo cemetery, court documents say

#gorenoise vol. 76

 

Atsushi Onita Launches New Promotion

More Exploding Deathmatches Are On The Way

#gorenoise vol. 75

 

Bus 

Passenger 

Caught 

With 

Fresh 

Human 

Head 

and Hands 

in Bag

#gorenoise vol. 74

 

Japanese firm installs vending machine selling nothing but munchable insects

#gorenoise vol. 73

 

‘Mummified’ Cultist’s Corpse Found With Glitter Makeup but No Eyes

Negation Aspiration vol. 284

 The Army Research Laboratory believes its bots could use real muscle, which allows most living things to move and manipulate their environments, instead of mechanical arms, wheels, tracks, and other systems to travel across the battlefield. The concept, which some might find disturbing, is an example of the new field of “biohybrids.”

The Army Wants to Give Its Robots Living Muscle Tissue

We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 457

 

Classic Halifax thriller Siege receives long-awaited video revival

#gorenoise vol. 72

 

Extreme cinema: the most brutal extreme films of the last 10 years

Books... are FUN vol. 14

 

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