Be Kind, Rewind

Listen, I don't think I even have to explain this, but when a building has a name that specifically implies what occurs inside this building, or what it's representing, you might want to steer clear of it especially if that name is dangerous. For example, I don't go to Pizza Hut and ask for tacos, because it's a hut that serves pizza. Same reason I don't go to Radioshack to try and buy books, because it's a shack full of electronics. Do you see what I'm saying? So it only stands to reason then that if a place is called Murder House or Death Row or, in this weeks case, fucking Blood Shack, that yeah, perhaps you shouldn't go poking around in it. It's just common sense, really. I mean, what do you really expect to find inside of a Blood Shack? Blood, presumably. Possibly even your own blood if you're not careful. So just stay the hell away from it. It's not like you're going to find buried pirates treasure. It's not called Pirate Treas...

Once more, we dive back into the gift that keeps on giving, a nonstop ordeal on this blog, a classic family favorite topic...strangulation! This is one of those rare cases where there's nothing really specific about this box art that jumps out at you, it's just that the whole thing is bad. Like, this entire thing is an assault on your eyes, and frankly I'm not even sure where to begin pressing the blame first. Should we start at the hideous nuclear yellow vomit they colored the outside with, or perhaps the ridiculous font for "Hell"? Or maybe, just maybe,the bizarre idea to put yet another woman being choked to death on the cover, even though it takes you a full few minutes to really comprehend that that's what you're actually looking at? As I said, there's no real starting point; the whole thing is a goddamned travesty. The description on the back, "A horrific story of the rape and murder of countless runaway girls by a homicidal maniac", i...

If this blog has anything resembling a tradition, I'd be willing to say that tradition is covering terrible movies about strangulation. Whether it was The Invisible Strangler or Night Of The Strangler , we seem to run across this genre in particular far more than anything else, don't we? Well, I'm happy to officially make it a regular ongoing tradition! So long as I keep stumbling upon terrible strangulation films, I'll continue to share them with you, whether you like it or not. So with that in mind, let's discuss this box. It...isn't...terrible, I guess? It's not great by any stretch of the imagination, nor is it vaguely visually imaginative but, it's also not outright atrocious. It really at least gets the message across, if nothing else, even if that message is just "people get strangled". Despite the title sounding like a sleazy, terrible Abbot & Costello title, I've always personally been a fan of dueling serial killer concepts. ...