Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
The Syllabus: A Viewing Guide to Everything We've Been Talking About
You can't go to the grindhouse anymore. But you can watch everything it showed. Here's where to start.
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
The era of just trashy cinema, bad SciFi, men in rubber suits, slashers, soft porn adjacent drive ins, and the exploitation films drove movie making in the 50's thru the 70's and the advent of VCR's. Revisit those glorious titles!
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Last Feature, Lights Up: The Death of the Grindhouse and the Afterlife That Nobody Planned
One last post, to document the end of this era, and why it is still relevant. And why I have so much of this physical media in my collection.
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Lost in Translation: Spaghetti Westerns, Kung Fu Pictures, and the Beautiful Chaos of the Grindhouse Import
Grindhouse meets foreign production, and the imports were born. I remember my father taking me to see the karate/samurai movies at Camera One in San Jose. Good times.
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Blood Simple: Herschell Gordon Lewis and the Cinema of Pure Visceral Fact
A branch of the glorious garbage that I am not so much a fan of, but you can't deny that it is influential. The Gore Merchants really pushed the boundaries of propriety
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Say It Loud: Blaxploitation and the Cinema That Couldn't Be Ignored
I am going to admit that I missed this genre. Oh, I heard about it, but it wasn't my jam. Now, I am totally diggin' it.
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Asphalt and Attitude: The Drive-In Roughie and the Cinema That Played After Dark
As we plumb the depths of trash cinema, there is a whole raft of "made for Drive-in" films that defined a generation, and so many back seat necking sessions. This is near and dear to my Gen-X heart
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
The Wrong Side of the Street: Poverty Row Noir and the Beauty of Having Nothing to Lose
Noir is a deep genre, and while it is by definition gritty, there is a sub-class that truly embodies the grittiness, and the ethos. Poverty Row is an apt description.
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Things from Somewhere Else: The 1950s Creature Feature and the Anxiety It Was Selling
Enlargement, rubber suits, mediocre plots, the creatures and SciFi schlock delights, and creates angst that aligned with public concerns of the era
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
The Man Who Made Everything: Roger Corman and American International Pictures
More on the trash cinema ecosystem: The man that is the epicenter of the phenomena and the AIP studio that defined the genre
Glorious Garbage - Cinema to relish in its badness
Glorious Garbage: A Defense of the Films Nobody Was Supposed to Take Seriously
There's a genre of film that arose in the early 1950's and evolved into several threads, but it has some common themes: Cheap to produce, frough edges, and more than a little sleaze. Delightful.