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Reform School Girls
Dr. Gore’s Funhouse recently spoke to cult B-movie director Tom DeSimone about his 1986 women-in-prison classic Reform School Girls, which featured exploitation regulars Sybil Danning (Chained Heat) and and Tiffany Helm (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning). Ostensibly a spoof of the genre, which DeSimone had previously explored with Prison Girls and The [...]
The Deadly Spawn
Following a discussion with filmmaker Douglas McKeown regarding his cult flick The Deadly Spawn, we were able to get our hands on a selection of behind-the-scenes images from the movie, courtesy of the director himself. Released in 1983 and having been distributed under a variety of names (including Return of the Aliens), the movie recently [...]
The Dirtiest Game in the World
A decade before he directed the low budget video nasty Don’t Go in the Woods, cult filmmaker James Bryan shot a variety of sexploitation features for the drive-ins and late-night movie theatres. Perhaps the most notorious of these was 1970’s The Dirtiest Game (also known as The Dirtiest Game in the World), which told of [...]
The Dead Next Door
Having interviewed J.R. Bookwalter, we were able to get our hands on half a dozen behind the scenes images from his ‘80s low budget zombie flick The Dead Next Door. Shot for a mere $125,000 on Super-8 and produced by cult filmmaker Sam Raimi (under the alias The Master Cylinder), The Dead Next Door has [...]
Gutterballs
Whilst the millennium may have started out with such mainstream PG-13 offerings as The Ring and The Others, by the middle of the decade horror fans had begun to demand more graphic violence and explicit gore in their movies. Yet even as Platinum Dunes and Rob Zombie began to explore sleazier avenues with their slasher [...]