Grindhouseland is a movie blog that spits on your taste, bringing only movies with copious amounts of blood, bikers, zombies, tits, afros, acid, Ice Pirates and / or Carradines. For those interested in the roots of the genre film and the paracinema renaissance (as typified by the films of Quentin Tarantino, Rob Zombie, Robert Rodriguez, Eli Roth, John Woo and Luc Besson, to name only a few) check out Grindhouseland.
Created by Deacon Blues, a prolific blogger and Steely Dan fan, Grindhouseland is a nuanced but mercifully brief review site for what could kindly be called “budget” films. Known as exploitation, drive-in, cult, psychotronic, or grindhouse movies to aficionados, the films range from the sublimely gripping (Escape From New York or The Wild Angels) to the dreadfully stupid (Race With The Devil and Ice Pirates).
Blues’s talent lies in knowing his medium. A long-time fan of paracinema (the industry term for movies that are never going to be in Oscar consideration) Blues cut his teeth on Troma and $1 Vestron videos while still in middle school. “Many moons ago, even the worst mom and pops had great stuff on video from the home video explosion in the early 80s.” Blues explains. “I used to get gems like Die! Die! My Darling! or pure schlock like Rocktober Blood.” referencing a Tallulah Bankhead psycho-biddy classic and a heavy metal slasher film, respectively. “The first rated R film I saw in the theater was Pulp Fiction which pretty much sealed the deal.”
Grindhouseland is updated at a prolific clip, with Blues putting as many as five new reviews up per day. The back catalog is worth poking around, and the in-review links are often pedestrian, merely linking to the relevant IMDB article, but can be laugh out loud funny, such as when the phrase “the last beautiful, free soul on this planet” directs the reader to Axl Rose’s wikipedia entry. This is one movie blog that’s definitely worth putting in the RSS feed.
