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Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews

Terrible Delights hosted by Scott and Bill

A podcast celebrating the good, bad and ugly that are grindhouse films from the 70s through the mid-80s. If it’s ‘sploitation, we want to watch it! New episodes every Wednesday.

tv & film film reviews

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01:10:48

Terrible Delights #150: Seeding of a Ghost

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2026/04/01

This week's pick is the 1983 Shaw Brothers horror revenge film Seeding of a Ghost. A cab driver inadvertently curses himself by hitting a sorcerer with his cab. This leads to adultery, assault, murder, revenge, magic battles, and the violent birth of a very rude baby.

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01:10:20

Terrible Delights #149: Venom

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2026/03/25

This week's pick is the 1981 snake thriller Venom. A kidnapping attempt goes awry thanks to a goofy grandpa and a black mamba being brought home by accident. Would-be kidnappers Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, and Susan George become hostage takers and have to deal with the police.

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01:13:39

Terrible Delights #148: the Seven-Ups

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2026/03/18

This week's pick is the 1973 crime thriller the Seven-Ups. Tough New York City cop Buddy Manucci who operates as part of an unconventional team called "The Seven-Ups" that uses drastic measures to bring criminals to justice. When Vito Lucia, one of Manucci's street contacts, uses a classified police list to kidnap mobsters and hold them for ransom, it sets off a series of escalating conflicts. After a member of Manucci's unit is killed in the ensuing violence, the cop and his

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01:18:30

Terrible Delights#147: Massacre at Central High

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2026/03/11

This week's pick is the 1976 revenge thriller Massacre at Central High. David is new to school and doesn't want to play by the bullies' rules after being welcomed into their group. David takes revenge after the bullies injure him, allowing the other students that had been terrorized to be free and take over, but with consequences...and explosions!

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01:09:15

Terrible Delights#146: Mean Mother

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2026/03/04

This week's pick is the 1974 film Mean Mother. Director Al Adamson added new blaxploitation scenes to an existing Spanish spy type film and the results are confusing doo-doo with sloppy fight scenes. Listen to us be disappointed about it.

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01:24:02

Terrible Delights #145: 2019: After the Fall of New York

Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews ·

2026/02/25

This week's pick is the 1983 post-apocalyptic film 2019: After the Fall of New York. A nuclear holocaust has wiped out most of humanity and left survivors sterile. Parsifal is forced by the Pan-American Confederacy to locate the last remaining fertile woman in Manhattan but has to get through the evil Euracs, rat eaters, mutants, and monkey men along the way.

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01:19:54

Terrible Delights #144: Kill Squad

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2026/02/18

This week's pick is the 1982 non-stop action flick Kill Squad. 12 hands. 12 feet. 24 reasons to die!

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01:05:47

Terrible Delights #143: Five Loose Women

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2026/02/11

This week's pick is the 1974 jail breakout thriller Five Loose Women. A recently jailed woman wrongly accused of murder is swept up into the escape plans of four other inmates. She is forced to go along while they outrun the law and fight bikers, terrorize locals, and encounter Ed Wood in two different roles!

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01:19:42

Terrible Delights #142: Walking the Edge

Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews ·

2026/02/04

This week's pick is the 1985 thriller Walking the Edge. Pushover cabbie/numbers runner Jason gets himself involved in Christine's revenge plot against the guys that killed her son. Featuring the most annoyingly nosy neighbor ever and Joe Spinell's feather earring.

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01:24:36

Terrible Delights #142: the Dungeonmaster

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2026/01/28

This week's pick is the 1984 fantasy film the Dungeonmaster. If someone made a movie based on a half-assed attempt at a video game with seven very easy yet confusing levels of technology versus satanic wizardry orchestrated by Bull from Night Court, that would be this movie. Featuring W.A.S.P.!

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01:21:54

Terrible Delights #140: Mission Thunderbolt

Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews ·

2026/01/21

This week's pick is the messy sloppy fun 1983 action movie Mission Thunderbolt. Combining two different movies, director Godfrey Ho creates his own confusing tale of assassins and revenge and random scenes without context and a healthy dose of copyright infringed music.

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01:05:24

Terrible Delights #139: the Killing Kind

Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews ·

2026/01/14

This week's pick is the 1973 psychological thriller the Killing Kind. After being released from a two-year prison sentence for an assault a woman that he was forced into, Terry goes to live with his mom in her boarding house. Rat, cats, and people are murdered and Terry and his mom often become too close.

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00:58:31

Terrible Delights #138: Gone with the Pope

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2026/01/07

This week's pick is the "long lost" second Duke Mitchell film Gone with the Pope, originally filmed in 1976 but not released until 2010. A plan to kidnap the Pope is easily pulled off with the intention to receive a dollar from every Catholic as ransom. There are many confusing things that happen before and after this. Mangia!

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01:18:10

Terrible Delights #137: Crash!

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2025/12/31

This week's pick is the 1977 film Crash! A possessed car kills many people and cops on its way to exact revenge on the man who caused its owner to crash their car via sudden dog attack, which was his act of revenge on his wife for causing him to become a cripple. An ancient trinket is somehow involved and a wheelchair becomes possessed at one point.

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01:08:26

Terrible Delights #137: Bloodbeat

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2025/12/24

This week's pick is the 1983 supernatural horror movie Bloodbeat. The ghost of a samurai terrorizes a small town family before Christmas but they fight back with red hand mind powers. We were rightfully lost.

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01:11:39

Terrible Delights #135: Deadly Eyes

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2025/12/17

This week's pick is the 1982 rat infested film Deadly Eyes. Giant rats are eating the citizens of Toronto, including Scatman Crothers! Can a high school teacher who can't keep track of his child save the day?

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01:13:47

Terrible Delights #134: the Warrior

Terrible Delights: Grindhouse Film Reviews ·

2025/12/10

This week's pick is the 1981 Indonesian action fantasy film the Warrior. Jaka Sembung leads rebels against the oppressive rule of the Dutch Colonial Government. The Dutch counter with a fire breathing strong man, a formerly headless mystical rival, and some serious eye poking. Special guest Mike Neel joins us!

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01:14:04

Terrible Delights #133: the New York Ripper

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2025/12/03

This week's pick is the 1982 horror and/or giallo film the New York Ripper, directed by Lucio Fulci. A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city while talking like Donald Duck.

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00:58:34

Terrible Delights #132: Blood Freak

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2025/11/26

This week's pick is a Thanksgiving feast of awful with the 1972 anti-drug horror flick Blood Freak. A Vietnam vet falls in the with the wrong crowd and gets hooked on the marijuana and takes a job at a turkey farm where he eats experimental turkey meat which turns him into a turkey-headed killing machine. He then kills other addicts and feasts on their blood!

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01:05:06

Terrible Delights #131: Wonder Women

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2025/11/19

this week's pick is the 1973 action(?) film Wonder Women. Dr. Tsu's wonder women brings the world's greatest athletes to her Philippine lab via kidnapping, where their body parts are removed for resale to the rich. Mike Harber is on the case to rescue a jai alai player. Featuring Sid Haig and the legendary Vic Diaz.

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