Tag: Grindhouse

Brute 1976: Death Valley Slasher That Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Diving into Marcel Walz’s Brute 1976, a 70s-inspired grindhouse horror; you’ll face masked killers and a desert full of questions—splatterguard optional, curiosity required.

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Coming to VOD Sept 30, 2025 

When your car breaks down near Death Valley, get out fast! Marcel Walz’s Brute 1976 is a throwback for fans of 70s grindhouse and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre—so buckle up and prepare for splatter. If that film isn’t enough to scare or intrigue you, only fans of House of 1000 Corpses need to enter here. This movie wastes no time setting the mood and delivering a gruesome spectacle. It’s hot in them thar hills, and I swear they have eyes too!

Although the setup is clever—three models hired for a desert photo shoot—what follows is painfully familiar. Raquel (Gigi Gustin) and her girlfriend Roxy (Adriane McLean) are quickly stranded in Death Valley’s heat. Their introduction checks every slasher box: a sign to a mine, masked miners, and death lurking in the shadows. It works, but it also feels like déjà vu.

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Facing Mutant Pigs in Bullets of Justice!

This trip through the looking glass in Bullets of Justice is crazy. It’s not just an exploitation movie from the mind of the creator Valeri Milev, but also a potential for a new kind of grindhouse from his native country of Bulgaria.

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Danny Trejo is the Gravedigger in Bullets of Justice (formerly known as Mutant Pig Soldiers), and he’s a father-figure (of all things) to Rob Justice (Timur Turisbekov). The youngin is trying to survive the post-apocalyptic world with Raksha (Doroteya Toleva) and if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear the universe is right out of Palladium’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness. This RPG game has a supplement, After the Bomb, which pits man against mutant in a game of survival.

There’s blood, guts, violence, sex (yes, this movie is not for the kiddies), and mutant pigs. I’d get a kick if there were other animal experiments let loose, but I imagine this Eastern European made film had its limits and a tight budget. It also sets up Trejo as a possible recurring character to introduce other saviours to humanity in this dog eat dog world.

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