Friday, December 11, 2015
Thank You For This Friendly World vol. 18
FBI Joining 'Long Island Serial Killer' Investigation
Sini's announcement of the FBI involvement comes one day after the department's former chief, James Burke, was indicted on federal charges that he beat a man suspected of stealing items from the officer's SUV, and then conspired with other officers to cover it up. Burke, who resigned as chief in October amid the federal investigation, has pleaded not guilty.
The confessed larcenist’s illicit haul included a duffel bag containing some of Burke’s property, including handguns, ammunition, mace, and what Loeb described as a stash of “nasty porn” and “sex toys.”
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Awwww Yeah vol. 42
"I have never claimed to be a feminist or a nice guy, or the boy next door or anything like that.I am a pornographer.It’s all I ever wanted to be."
- James Deen
- James Deen
James Deen Breaks His Silence: ‘I Am Completely Baffled’ by Rape Allegations
Monday, December 7, 2015
We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 225: Top DVDs of 2015
nightmarishly reappraises the mock-snuff genre with an atmosphere of humid putridity and ritualistic quietude.
an artfully startling yet surprisingly humane look at rape culture and all its tangential effects.
the duo behind You're Next offers up and synth ladden neon blasted action horror that plays like a brainstorming session between William Friedkin and John Carpenter being interpreted by Buddy Giovinazzo going off tapes he secretly recorded through a wall. and also Maika Monroe needs to call me.
if Crimson Peak left you cold (as it did for me), then this surrealistic modern gothic tale with no small nods to Mario Bava, Antonio Margheriti, and the like should cure what ales ya.
murder competition between internet BFFs from the minds behind The Raid.
another entry in the burgeoning "What Could Have Been" Comedy Docu-Drama genre. doesn't quiet reach the heights of Jodorowsky's DUNE, but still packed with enough insight into the frequently terrible process of big game film making.
David Cronenberg's most genuinely subversive film since 97's Crash and his funniest film ever. incredible performances from all involved.
somewhere between Possession, Thantomorphose, and a little Videodrome for structure lurks this brilliant blend of occult conspiracy, allegorical body horror, and coal-raking Hollywood satire.
An American ghost story's rustic surface with an Italian ghost story irrational beat.
Sion Sono inimitable love letter to the blissfully batshit genre cinema of his homeland.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Awww Yeah vol. 41
Art Basel visitor randomly follows woman around show, then stabs her in the NECK - and witnesses who think it's art do nothing
- A woman was stabbed with an X-Acto knife during a fight at Art Basel Miami Beach Friday in the Miami Beach Convention Center
- Police said the victim confronted the suspect, Siyuan Zhao, about purposely following her around the art show and bumping into her several times
- Zhao pulled out an X-Acto knife and stabbed the victim in the right side of the neck and left shoulder without warning or provocation
- The victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and is expected to survive
- Zhao was arrested, admitted to stabbing the victim and she has been charged with felony attempted murder
- Some patrons thought they were watching performance art during the stabbing
Sunday, November 8, 2015
We Are The Sprocket Holes vol. 224
R.I.P. Gunnar Hansen, the Original Leatherface from ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’
shit dude, what can be said?
even after years of viewing /collecting ultra obscure hyper disturbing mega gore torture rape surrealist nightmare films from across the globe, when i'm asked "what's your favorite horror film?" (fuck, "what's your favorite film") the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre is still the first name that pops in my head.
i can't remember how old i was, but i was in a comic book shop looking at model kits. before McFarlane Toys kicked off the golden age of Horror themed action figures with the Movie Maniacs line, the only way you could get scaled down replicas of your favorite horror movie characters was through model kits (most of them by Screamin), which you had to build and paint yourself. my regular comic shop had a shelf in the back filled with Jasons, Freddys, Michaels, Pinheads, and one character i hadn't yet seen on the USA Network, a beast of a dude in a crusty butcher smock holding a massive chainsaw over his head. the box said "LEATHERFACE", a reference to the stitched up mask adoring the character; something that looked like a catcher's mitt that had been sliced up, sculpted, and re-purposed into a muzzle.
i later discovered this character was one of the villains in a film called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where he and his backwoods brothers (and mostly enfeebled grandfather) hack-up some youngins' and grind them into supper. i had already become bored with Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the rest that saturated the basic cable blocks that i lived off of back then, and this looked and sounded like something so much more than those. my local video store didn't have a copy of this film, so i made do with articles, reviews, interviews, any information i could find on this film. when i finally saw (seewhatididthere) a copy of the VHS available at The Wall, i bought it immediately and proceeded to spend the weekend with it.
everything i had seen and heard about this film didn't even begin to do it justice.
at the grimy heart of this near-corporeal experience was Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface in a performance both subtle and visceral. monstrous and childlike, abused and abuser, determined and unwieldy, Hansen created a character that has yet to be rivaled or eclipsed in the genre. yet underneath the human jerky mandible was a soft spoken, pleasant natured man with the soul of a great author, more in his element at a library than a slaughterhouse.
i got nothing else. for more watch the movie or read Hansen's fine account Chainsaw Confidential
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Thank You For This Friendly World vol. 17
‘It Gets Worse’: The Secret Jared Fogle Audio Tapes Released
“I would fly us clear across the world if we need to. To Thailand or wherever we want to go. If we’re gonna try to get some young kids with us it would be a lot easier,” said 38-year-old Fogle, married father of two, in the tapes. “I had a little boy. It was amazing. It just felt so good. I mean, it felt — it felt so good.”
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