November 1st, 2015 - Taeter City (2012)

If you're in the mood for cheap and splattery and aren't too concerned with things like story and characters, Taeter City will scratch that itch. It's almost knowingly devoid of any sort of reasonable story. When one police captain-ish guy is essentially laying out the plot of the film, he says ""Don't ask me how, or why, because this is fucking nonsense - fucking nonsense!"" Which yeah, pretty much sums it up. It's just a loose concept that allows writer-director-star Giulio De Santi to do as much gory shit as possible. Faces/heads getting blown-up/smashed/melted seem to be De Santi's calling card. It's all so over the top and cartoonish that it practically begs you to never really take it seriously.

June 27th, 2015 - The Gore Gore Girls (1972)

I really needed something like the The Gore Gore Girls today. After back to back days of truly awful movies, it was refreshing to get something that was fun - as fun as a film about a crazed murder who viciously mutilates his victims can be, anyways. But The Gore Gore Girls has this weird, almost wacky sense of humor thrown into the mix. It's no doubt a strange cocktail: a splattery detective tale featuring graphic gore mixed with campy comedy, along with a hefty dose of 70's style. It's certainly an acquired taste... but I dug it.

The Gore Gore Girls is clearly an exploitation film; not a surprise as the plot revolves around an assailant who murders strippers. So in addition to graphic mutilation scenes, you get a handful of striptease scenes too. Often inexplicably done to circus-esque big band music, but whatever. The Gore Gore Girls is old enough that the exploitation stuff to me was more often charming than shocking - the striptease scenes are never really that titillating, and the gore scenes, while graphic, are low-fi enough that they are usually more fun than truly disgusting. (There are a couple of exceptions where I winced a bit.) But according to imdb, it is rated X -  I don't know, to me it's a soft X. Still, buyer beware.