Tune in Tuesday: Just Before Dawn (1981) 88 films

Ignoring a forest ranger (George Kennedy), Oregon hikers camp near inbred twins with pointed teeth and meat cleavers.

A unique take on the slasher from its peak era, directed by the idiosyncratic filmmaker jeff leiberman (Blue Sunshine) the ending is a must see. Justin Kerswel of the hysteria continues podcast provides a essential commentary. 

Tune in Tuesday: Slope’s Game Room blu ray

Cult Movies, Shows & Classic Comics brings together 9 documentaries based on 9 iconic movies, TV shows and comic franchises. Taking a deep dive into these popular IP’s before finding every single video game based upon them.

Not every licensed video game is terrible… although, most of them are!

Originally created on the YouTube channel Slope’s Game Room, these popular short films look at how classic horror franchises such as Friday the 13th™, SAW™ and The Evil Dead™ began their gruesome journeys. We look at the creation of classic comics such as The Mask™, Howard The Duck™ and Scott Pilgrim™

This may be the first recusive format Blu Ray. Something made originally for youtube finds life as a blu ray disc. I am in no way a fetishist of material items, its the content that I care about, but there is something about-selectively-curating a collection of Vinyl Records, books, and blu rays. The whole tangible item idea. If you like classic

horror movies, video games, etc and have a analytically inclined mjnd, I would highly recommend this be added to your collection

Tune In Tuesday Criminally Insane

Ethel Jankowski has just been released from an asylum where her both violent and suicidal tendencies had kept her under medical supervision. Deemed “cured,” save for her severe weight problem, she moves in with her grandmother who, under doctor’s orders, locks up the household’s food supply to prevent Ethel from continuing to gorge herself. However, Ethel’s raging appetite cannot be contained and, as visitors to the house begin discovering her growing stash of snacks, she has no choice but to violently kill them and hide their remains… A charmingly depraved proto-slasher anchored by a captivating performance from its (literally and figuratively) larger-than-life star, Priscilla Alden

A grindhouse era odyssey that could come off as mean spirited if the context is not understood, the film is extremely low budget but makes the most of its limited cast and sets. Priscilla Alden was a classically trained actor, and although her characters large size and hunger is central to the movies theme, it comes across as more John Waters than fat phobic. When talking of slasher villians, Ethel may not be mentioned much, but the character deserves a place in proto slasher history.

Endless Now By Lou Toad

Lo, he who findeth himself betrothed to the endless now, and with wisp of wick and whimsy foretold the dagger ritualistic verbally assaults the woods-senses and metallic naturalists spake between the folds of the greenery to upset the balance of computerization. No heroes in this tale be told but instead widespread monsters make mock of the cranks and gears and searing cold that shakes the trees and leaves the leviathan to compleat his thesis on pigeonholing predestination. Fragments of froggy courts and violent sports trail down the chemical highway to make sure the made up is played out exactly as it was never meant to be seen.

In A narcotic moment of creative bliss you approach a door. Do you dare to open it? Or hast thou kept inside all the miscreant self-consciousness of your youth? Did you expect a lot of gratitude when you did what was only natural and never supernatural? 

Was The old Grandstand Bluff overlooking the High School where you psyched school and left the flowers to rot and used the distraught as material fed into the great machine, gnawing metal teeth of the great machine, eclipsed by a cyclops and destned for denial, lore travels in bonds unbroken so remail calloused and glued up.

The only possible peace a release a skip and jump over mountains of nullified creativity. Scraping mooncaps under microphones and the duct tape jones that hits wrong. A crass and corpse recourse to the basic functions. 

Tune In Tuesday: The Phantom of The Opera 1989

Robert Englund (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Galaxy of Terror, Freddy vs. Jason) assumes the classic role of The Phantom in this shocking, nerve-jangling retelling of Gaston Leroux's timeless tale of music, madness and murder! An aspiring opera singer finds herself transported back to Victorian-era London—and into the arms of a reclusive, disfigured maestro determined to make her a star. The silver-throated Christine (Jill Schoelen, The Stepfather) enjoys success through the arrangements of her new lover (Englund)…until she realizes that he has been committing unspeakably grisly murders in her honor and won't stop until he's completed his masterpiece…in blood!

If you are anything more than a casual fan of the A nightmare on elm street series, Then you know how versatile and great an actor Robert Englund is. Though the makeup strikes a resemblance to Freddy's burned Visage, this is a very Theatrical performance, in keeping with any other version of The Phantom.  Late 80s horror mainstay Jill Schoelen is amazing as always, she is more often than not the best thing in the movies she is in. This one' has flown under the radar of my generation  (maybe the vhs was hard to find or it didn't play cable 20,000 times?) But this blu ray is well worth it for ghoulish fun.

Album Review: Slade-beginnings/play it loud

When talking about the bands that laid the foundation for punk and even just heavy rock

 Slade is often left out of the conversation.  This offering, which includes there first two albums (the first as Gurney Slade) both 1969. Deserve a place in the heavy/melodic rock pantheon. Raspy vocals, stop on a dime drums, tight, compressed but heavy guitars, it prefigures  power pop and in ways, even some post punk. These two albums are not only like nothing else Slade ever did, they are like nothing else any band ever did. Put on "knocking nails into my house" LOUD and tell me these guys aren't top notch. 

-Lou Toad