The B-Movie Buffet is on vacation*!

(*Mentally at least.)

We will return to our regularly scheduled schedule of regular weekly updates the first week of January.

Hope you all have a festive holiday season!
xoxo,
bunny

Slasher flicks a-go-go; new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny grabs her sleeping bag and heads for the Smut Shack to spend the night with Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre.

While The Kommandant returns to The Decade That Dripped Blood for a confusing slice of slasher film, Happy Birthday To Me.

By the way, in case you were wondering why it's been so long between additions to the Smut Shack menu, it was due to the sad-but-true fact I totally forgot I even started a porn review column on the site. (Sad, but true.)

I blame this on the fact that, although I used to contribute adult movie reviews to a few different on-line publications that no longer exist, these days I only review porn for c14. And thus I only think about reviewing porn about twice a year. I was doing some year-end maintenance on the site the other day though, saw the Smut Shack folder and realized it was time I added something to it.

I also found a pile of currently unreviewed VividAlt and Burning Angel DVDs in my office so hopefully I'll remember to update this section more often in the future. (And, depending on how you feel about the porn column, this will either be a good or a bad thing.)

While we're on the subject of side notes, although most of the stuff we review comes to us via the mail, or those seemingly bottomless boxes of VHS tapes the husband has stashed in the basement, today's Decade That Dripped Blood entry comes to us by way of us stumbling across this film on On Demand in the wee hours of this past Saturday night.

I'd never actually seen the movie before but definitely remember being kind of freaked out by the promotional campaign when it originally came out - particularly the shish-kebob scenario as depicted in the movie poster above. (Also courtesy the personal collection of the Kommandant.) To put things into perspective and age myself at the same time though, I was ten years old when it was in theaters.

Anywhoo, now that I'm an adult and have seen all sorts of unpleasantries I figured it was safe to give it a whirl; and, I must say, the kebob-ing looked a lot nastier in the poster than in the film. And in retrospect, even the poster is pretty tame.

For those of you in the audience who also pay Comcast to put TV into their house there is another, seasonally appropriate, slasher flick available this month - New Year's Evil, featuring the woman who played Pinky Tuscadero on Happy Days. (That one was pretty horrible though so watch at your own risk.)

Murderers, monsters and murderous monsters; new this week at the buffet...

This week Giallo Biafra takes a seat in his Trattoria Of Terror for a taste of Lucio Fulci's A Lizard In A Woman's Skin.

Stately Wayne Manor embarks on a voyage to The Angry Red Planet in the latest installment of Manor On Movies.

And Bunny sets the wayback machine for the sexadelic seventies and Paul Naschy's Horror Rises From The Tomb.

Enjoy!

A fistful of Fulci; new this week at the buffet...

In the most recent print version of the BMB, as seen in the most recent issue of c14, I made kind of a flippant remark about the collected works of Lucio Fulci. Which I probably shouldn't have done but, you know, things happen when you're on deadline.

My larger point was that I don't like really gross Italian zombie films, of which Fulci made many; including at least one with the word zombie in the title. Anywhoo, I should have known this would lead to us getting one or more non-gross non-zombie films he directed for review - and, in fact, we got two.

With that in mind, I present this week's menu options.

First join the Kommandant and be not entirely seduced by his sacrilegious sex comedy The Eroticist.

Then join me and consult Fulci's atmospheric thriller The Psychic.

Blood roses and lake monsters; new this week at the buffet...

Join Bunny as she takes time to stop and smell "the first sex-horror film ever made", The Blood Rose.

Then join The Kommandant and be struck by '70s obscurity The Crater Lake Monster.

Once you go black... Emanuelle; new this week at the buffet...

This week The Kommandant opens the Pandora's Box of Black Emanuelle's Box, Volume 2.

While Bunny does time with Eddie Romero's grittiest, grimiest, WIP-est flick, Black Mama, White Mama.

Werewolves and wackos; new this week at the buffet...

Bunny commits herself to spending the night (or at least 89 minutes) in Amicus' Asylum.

While The Kommandant takes a werewolf break with The Beast Must Die.

(PS: These two films are part of recently released Amicus Collection; along with And Now The Screaming Starts, which we reviewed earlier in the year.)

Acid atrocities and renegade rednecks; new this week at the buffet…

While Halloween 2007 is a week behind us, we've probably got enough appropriately themed movies left in ye old review pile to last us until Christmas! Or at least Thanksgiving.

With that in mind, join Bunny as she does a double feature featuring two dubious features, Blue Sunshine & Monstroid.

Then join The Kommandant as he heads to Hillbilly Lagoon to face off against the aptly named Creature From The Hillbilly Lagoon.

From ghastly gore to lycanthropic lunatics; new this week at the buffet…

Happy Halloween everybody! As promised we have a special menu item for you all today; a tempting, terrifying, often torturous array of gritty grindhouse fare that has confounded and confused even the most seasoned b-movie viewer.

I invite you to join The Kommandant & myself as we set sail for a Sin-E-Rama On Staten Island, a look at the garish, gore-ish films of Andy Milligan. And if you've never heard of this somewhat prolific filmmaker before, prepare to be dazzled. Or dumbfounded. Possibly both.

Anywhoo, as you may have guessed from the artwork at the right of this post, this piece was originally published in issue #30 of our humble journal of art, film, music, smut and wrestling, carbon 14. Or rather, it will have been originally published in that issue once the issue comes back from the printer. Which it won't for a couple more weeks.

Either way - enjoy!

Mad doctors and doctor related madness; new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny schedules an appointment with curious Argentinean softcore porn / horror flick, The Curious Dr. Humpp.

While The Kommandant consults the creator of a gang of super sexpots built to kill, Dr. Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine.

Space monsters, seamen and moonmen, oh my; new this week at the buffet...

The Kommandant docks with a double dose of far out flicks, Gamera, Super Monster & They Came From Beyond Space.

While Bunny gets swept overboard by Great Britain's version of Godzilla, Gorgo.

Say you love Satan, or at least movies with the word Satan in the title; new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny has a sacrilegious play date with a reincarnation of Malabimba: The Malicious Whore, Satan's Baby Doll.

While The Kommandant returns to the vaults of Hammer horror to partake in The Satanic Rites Of Dracula.

A double dose of demonic deviance; new this week at the buffet...

Although the air is far from crisp here on the East Coast, in my travels and errands this past weekend, I saw many things that reminded me that Fall - and therefore Halloween, hand's down the BMB's favorite holiday - is not that far away.

I'm working on a special menu for this oh so special occasion but, in the meantime, we're pleased to offer up this double helping of demonic possession.

First, join the Kommandant and be possessed by Cameron Mitchell's over-the-top performance in The Demon.

Then join Bunny to have an encounter with a teen temptress consumed by the depraved lust of Satan, Malabimba: The Malicious Whore.

A double dose of nudie cuties; new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny goes Walking In A Wishman Wonderland to find out what happens in a nudist camp during a Hideout In The Sun.

While The Kommandant takes a titillating romp through the wild and rollicking west with Russ Meyer's Wild Gals Of The Naked West.

Something witchy this way comes; new this week at the buffet...

This past weekend the Kommandant & I took a trip to Salem Massachusetts, the unofficial official home of all things witchy. And I bring this up not because I think anyone cares what we do in our spare time but because this - in addition to the convenient release date of our first title - inspired this week's menu offerings.

With that in mind, grab a napkin and prepare to join the Kommandant and travel back to a time when men were men and people of both sexes were scared of the man in the pilgrim-esque hat: Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General.

Then join me as we travel to Mexico to peer into the smoking glass of omnipotent knowledge that is Chano Ureta's The Witch's Mirror.

Locked up lasses and more locked up lasses; new this week at the buffet...

This week it's a double dose of defiance, deviance, and group delousings as we shackle ourselves to two "classic" examples of the Women In Prison genre.

First join Bunny and be sentenced to a brief stint in a house of correction, corruption and cheesy lingerie, Reform School Girls.

Then join The Kommandant as he volunteers to be locked up with Jess Franco's Women Behind Bars.

PS: I just noticed this is our 100th BMB blog post. Yay for us!

Seized sirens and troubled teens (times three); new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny gets ready to rumble with a delinquent double dose of turbulent teensploitation, Teenage Gang Debs & Teen-Age Strangler.

While The Kommandant takes to his Corman Corner and faces off against the curiously paired Viking Women And The Sea Serpent & Teenage Caveman.

Possession and repossession; new this week at the buffet…

Bunny finds herself possessed by the spirit of a decidedly different take on an oft told tale of demonic possession, Abby.

While The Kommandant faces off against the occasionally erotic evil forces of Paul Naschy's version of The Exorcist, Exorcism.

Who's got what and what's got who; new this week at the buffet...

This week Bunny takes a seat in Giallo Biafra's Trattoria Of Terror and rhetorically wonders What Have You Done To Solange?

While The Kommandant travels to an island of the damned to seek the answer to a most un-PC question, Who Can Kill A Child?

A double dose of De Ossorio; new this week at the buffet...

This week we are pleased to present two films from the fertile imagination of Spain's master of slow moving menaces, Amando De Ossorio.

First join Bunny and be spellbound by the vampire vixens and vulgar voodoo of The Night Of The Sorcerers.

Then saddle up alongside the Kommandant and return to the tombs of the blind dead for it's aptly named sequel, Return Of The Blind Dead.