There exists some debate about audience familiarity with the term “grindhouse,” and even a certain confusion about the origins of the word itself — whether it refers to the movies that comprised a ...

Trash cinema is an acquired lack of taste. Once relegated to the drive-in or the urban grindhouse, obscure films of schlock horror and sexploitation are now rife for home viewing. “For better or worse ...

On an unassuming street in central London, a red-painted building peeks at passersby — its facade plastered with a close-up of The Man with the X-Ray Eyes. Inside, I’m watching Ruggero Deodato’s The ...

It’s been a year since Sharknado, and almost a decade since Snakes on a Plane. The world needs a new B-movie for its late-night trash cinema marathons, and that movie is WolfCop. It is, as you may ...

The twelfth annual Boston Underground Film Festival, which runs March 25-April 1 at the Kendall Square Cinema in Cambridge, will focus on grindhouse films and queer cinema, with appearances ...

If you were alive and adolescent and wired on junk culture in the 1980s, “Freaky Tales” will have you counting the pop references until you run out of fingers and toes. “The Warriors” and “Scanners,” ...