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