John H.
@jahoffsis.bsky.social
Former film reviewer, DJ & alternative music video show host, retired book seller. Lifelong movie fan.
#Deucember 2025, Movie 33: BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) My umpteenth viewing of Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert’s camp cult classic social satire soap opera. Still insane after all these years. “This is my happening and it freaks me out!” #grindhouse #filmsky #cultclassic
December 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 33: BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970) My umpteenth viewing of Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert’s camp cult classic social satire soap opera. Still insane after all these years. “This is my happening and it freaks me out!” #grindhouse #filmsky #cultclassic
#Deucember 2025 Movie 31: BROTHERS TILL WE DIE (1977) The final team up between Umberto Lenzi & Tomas Milian has him doing double duty, reprising characters from FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP & THE TOUGH ONES, as twin brothers. Much fun, with more wit than usual. #poliziotteschi #grindhouse #FilmSky
December 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 31: BROTHERS TILL WE DIE (1977) The final team up between Umberto Lenzi & Tomas Milian has him doing double duty, reprising characters from FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP & THE TOUGH ONES, as twin brothers. Much fun, with more wit than usual. #poliziotteschi #grindhouse #FilmSky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 30: JESSI’S GIRLS (1975) It’s not saying much, but this softcore revenge western is one of Al Adamson’s better flicks, due to star Sondra Currie. Rod Cameron sports a fake beard. Some will argue there weren’t breast implants in the 1880s, but go with it. #grindhouse #filmsky
December 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 30: JESSI’S GIRLS (1975) It’s not saying much, but this softcore revenge western is one of Al Adamson’s better flicks, due to star Sondra Currie. Rod Cameron sports a fake beard. Some will argue there weren’t breast implants in the 1880s, but go with it. #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 30: THE SHADOW WHIP (1971) Dir: Lo Wei. This fun #shawbrothers wuxia film stars Cheng Pei-Pei as a young whip-wielding woman helping her uncle who was framed for a jewel robbery. The whip vs. sword fights are unique, as is the snowy setting. #grindhouse #filmsky #hongkong
December 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 30: THE SHADOW WHIP (1971) Dir: Lo Wei. This fun #shawbrothers wuxia film stars Cheng Pei-Pei as a young whip-wielding woman helping her uncle who was framed for a jewel robbery. The whip vs. sword fights are unique, as is the snowy setting. #grindhouse #filmsky #hongkong
#Deucember 2025, Movie 29: MANIAC (1980) Dir: William Lustig. This landmark psycho killer classic still packs a wallop today, mostly due to Joe Spinell’s brilliant performance and Tom Savini’s gore effects. #grindhouse #NYC #FilmSky
December 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 29: MANIAC (1980) Dir: William Lustig. This landmark psycho killer classic still packs a wallop today, mostly due to Joe Spinell’s brilliant performance and Tom Savini’s gore effects. #grindhouse #NYC #FilmSky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 28: RITUALS (1977) Dir: Peter Carter. Grueling, intense survival horror as five doctors on a fishing trip in the remote wilderness are being stalked by a mysterious killer. Staring Hal Holbrook & Lawrence Dane. #canuxploitation #grindhouse #filmsky
December 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 28: RITUALS (1977) Dir: Peter Carter. Grueling, intense survival horror as five doctors on a fishing trip in the remote wilderness are being stalked by a mysterious killer. Staring Hal Holbrook & Lawrence Dane. #canuxploitation #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025 Movie 27: SEX BEYOND THE GRAVE (1984) This #shawbrothers horror film is a Hong Kong take on POLTERGEIST as a family moves into a house haunted by a female ghost raped and murdered years ago. Less sleazy than usual with lots of levitation and too much mah jongg. #grindhouse #filmsky
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 27: SEX BEYOND THE GRAVE (1984) This #shawbrothers horror film is a Hong Kong take on POLTERGEIST as a family moves into a house haunted by a female ghost raped and murdered years ago. Less sleazy than usual with lots of levitation and too much mah jongg. #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 26: AN IDEAL PLACE TO KILL aka OASIS OF FEAR (1971) This enjoyable, stylish Umberto Lenzi thriller with slight #Giallo trappings has hippie porn peddlers Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti invading Irene Pappas’ house only to find she’s got a secret. #grindhouse #FilmSky
December 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 26: AN IDEAL PLACE TO KILL aka OASIS OF FEAR (1971) This enjoyable, stylish Umberto Lenzi thriller with slight #Giallo trappings has hippie porn peddlers Ray Lovelock and Ornella Muti invading Irene Pappas’ house only to find she’s got a secret. #grindhouse #FilmSky
#Deucember 2025 Movie 25: INQUISITION(1977). Paul Naschy’s first directorial effort is his take on WITCHFINDER GENERAL, Spanish-style, with copious female nudity and a nasty nipple ripping scene. Nobody expected that! #grindhouse #FilmSky #horror #paulnaschy
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 25: INQUISITION(1977). Paul Naschy’s first directorial effort is his take on WITCHFINDER GENERAL, Spanish-style, with copious female nudity and a nasty nipple ripping scene. Nobody expected that! #grindhouse #FilmSky #horror #paulnaschy
#Deucember 2025, Movie 23: THE BIG BAD WOLF. This is a 1966 English-dub by Barry Yellin’s Childhood Productions of a 1957 German film. The WICKER MAN-like realistic masks of the billygoats are quite disturbing, and the catchy upbeat music & songs by Milton Delugg just make it weirder. #FilmSky
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 23: THE BIG BAD WOLF. This is a 1966 English-dub by Barry Yellin’s Childhood Productions of a 1957 German film. The WICKER MAN-like realistic masks of the billygoats are quite disturbing, and the catchy upbeat music & songs by Milton Delugg just make it weirder. #FilmSky
#Deucember 2025 Movie 23: THE OILY MANIAC (1976) Dir: Ho Meng-Hua. The man who gave us the BLACK MAGIC series directs an insanely goofy and sleazy creature feature based on Malaysian folklore. Lots of female nudity accent the ridiculous monster costume & effects. Much fun! #grindhouse #shawbrothers
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 23: THE OILY MANIAC (1976) Dir: Ho Meng-Hua. The man who gave us the BLACK MAGIC series directs an insanely goofy and sleazy creature feature based on Malaysian folklore. Lots of female nudity accent the ridiculous monster costume & effects. Much fun! #grindhouse #shawbrothers
#Deucember 2025, Movie 22: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) Finally treated myself to a long overdue rewatch of John Carpenter’s classic updating of siege westerns like RIO BRAVO. Still kicks ass. #grindhouse #filmsky #action #crime #johncarpenter
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 22: ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976) Finally treated myself to a long overdue rewatch of John Carpenter’s classic updating of siege westerns like RIO BRAVO. Still kicks ass. #grindhouse #filmsky #action #crime #johncarpenter
#Deucember 2025, Movie 21: BURY ME AN ANGEL (1971) Director: Barbara Peeters. The greatest movie poster tagline ever hides an odd female centric biker flick that focuses more on the lead character’s trauma than revenge or action. Doesn’t live up to the poster’s promise. #grindhouse #filmsky #biker
December 16, 2025 at 2:46 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 21: BURY ME AN ANGEL (1971) Director: Barbara Peeters. The greatest movie poster tagline ever hides an odd female centric biker flick that focuses more on the lead character’s trauma than revenge or action. Doesn’t live up to the poster’s promise. #grindhouse #filmsky #biker
#Deucember 2025, Movie 20: TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (1983). This #shawbrothers sci-fi comedy has Cherie Chung abducted by aliens. There’s a great light saber fight with a Vader-like robot, but mileage varies depending on your tolerance for the very loud, shrill comic style. #grindhouse #filmsky
December 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 20: TWINKLE, TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (1983). This #shawbrothers sci-fi comedy has Cherie Chung abducted by aliens. There’s a great light saber fight with a Vader-like robot, but mileage varies depending on your tolerance for the very loud, shrill comic style. #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 19: BATTLE WIZARD (Hong Kong, 1977) This zany, rapid fire #shawbrothers wuxia fantasy is full of crazy stuff. Lasers shoot from bones, fingers & eyes. A girl tosses flesh burrowing snakes. There’s a giant python, a guy with a metal claw, an ape & more. #grindhouse #filmsky
December 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 19: BATTLE WIZARD (Hong Kong, 1977) This zany, rapid fire #shawbrothers wuxia fantasy is full of crazy stuff. Lasers shoot from bones, fingers & eyes. A girl tosses flesh burrowing snakes. There’s a giant python, a guy with a metal claw, an ape & more. #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 18: ALLTHE COLORS OF THE DARK (1972). My favorite of the Sergio Martino & Edwidge Fenech #giallo collaborations. Trippy direction, a fast pace, Satanists, a terrific Bruno Nicolai score, along with Fenech, George Hilton, and Ivan Rassimov make this stand out. #filmsky
December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 18: ALLTHE COLORS OF THE DARK (1972). My favorite of the Sergio Martino & Edwidge Fenech #giallo collaborations. Trippy direction, a fast pace, Satanists, a terrific Bruno Nicolai score, along with Fenech, George Hilton, and Ivan Rassimov make this stand out. #filmsky
#Deucember 2025 Movie 17: DISCO GODFATHER (1979) Director: J. Robert Wagoner. Anti-drug screeds have never been more entertaining than in this Rudy Ray Moore classic/70s time capsule. “Put your weight on it!” #grindhouse #blaxploitation #filmsky
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 17: DISCO GODFATHER (1979) Director: J. Robert Wagoner. Anti-drug screeds have never been more entertaining than in this Rudy Ray Moore classic/70s time capsule. “Put your weight on it!” #grindhouse #blaxploitation #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 16: THE BRIDE FROM HELL (1971) Pretty tepid Taiwanese Shaw Brothers horror film has a man discovering his new bride is a ghost. Few chills, but some decent atmosphere at times. #grindhouse #filmsky #shawbrothers #horror
December 12, 2025 at 4:45 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 16: THE BRIDE FROM HELL (1971) Pretty tepid Taiwanese Shaw Brothers horror film has a man discovering his new bride is a ghost. Few chills, but some decent atmosphere at times. #grindhouse #filmsky #shawbrothers #horror
#Deucember 2025 Movie 15: THE SEEDING OF A GHOST (Hong Kong, 1983). This insane Shaw Brothers horror film is full of nudity, sex and gore, and an ending that rips off ALIEN and THE THING. Don’t know if this actually played the Deuce, but it would be a perfect fit. #shawbrothers #grindhouse #filmsky
December 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 15: THE SEEDING OF A GHOST (Hong Kong, 1983). This insane Shaw Brothers horror film is full of nudity, sex and gore, and an ending that rips off ALIEN and THE THING. Don’t know if this actually played the Deuce, but it would be a perfect fit. #shawbrothers #grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 14: ANGEL UNCHAINED (1970) Director: Lee Madden. Biker Don Stroud leaves his gang for a hippie commune, but when the local dune buggy riding cowboys hassle them, he calls the bikers in to help fight back. The final confrontation is a doozy.
#grindhouse #filmsky
#grindhouse #filmsky
December 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 14: ANGEL UNCHAINED (1970) Director: Lee Madden. Biker Don Stroud leaves his gang for a hippie commune, but when the local dune buggy riding cowboys hassle them, he calls the bikers in to help fight back. The final confrontation is a doozy.
#grindhouse #filmsky
#grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025 Movie 13: BRUCE LEE IN NEW GUINEA (1978) Major unintentional #bruceploitation hilarity as Bruce Li stars as an anthropologist seeking the treasured snake pearl. There’s a wizard, a snake pit, a princess in leopard skin platform boots, a guy in an ape suit, & Bolo Yeung. #filmsky
December 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 13: BRUCE LEE IN NEW GUINEA (1978) Major unintentional #bruceploitation hilarity as Bruce Li stars as an anthropologist seeking the treasured snake pearl. There’s a wizard, a snake pit, a princess in leopard skin platform boots, a guy in an ape suit, & Bolo Yeung. #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 12: DEATH FORCE aka FIGHTING MAD (1978) Filipino action master Cirio H. Santiago directs this fun blaxploitation/samurai mashup with James Iglehart, Leon Isaac Kennedy and Jayne Kennedy. Some really hilarious body part chopping here. #grindhouse #filmsky #blaxploitation
December 10, 2025 at 4:06 AM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 12: DEATH FORCE aka FIGHTING MAD (1978) Filipino action master Cirio H. Santiago directs this fun blaxploitation/samurai mashup with James Iglehart, Leon Isaac Kennedy and Jayne Kennedy. Some really hilarious body part chopping here. #grindhouse #filmsky #blaxploitation
#Deucember 2025 Movie 11: THE NAKED ZOO (1970) William Grefé got Rita Hayworth for this tawdry drama with Stephen Oliver as a dirtbag writer/gigolo milking older women of their money. The unapproved released cut adds a nude scene and the band Canned Heat. It helps. #grindhouse #psychedelic #filmsky
December 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#Deucember 2025 Movie 11: THE NAKED ZOO (1970) William Grefé got Rita Hayworth for this tawdry drama with Stephen Oliver as a dirtbag writer/gigolo milking older women of their money. The unapproved released cut adds a nude scene and the band Canned Heat. It helps. #grindhouse #psychedelic #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 10: DEFIANCE (1980) Director John Flynn’s surprisingly weak follow-up to the classic ROLLING THUNDER feels like a squeaky clean TV movie-style prototype for DEATH WISH 3. Too much drama, not enough action.
#grindhouse #filmsky
#grindhouse #filmsky
December 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 10: DEFIANCE (1980) Director John Flynn’s surprisingly weak follow-up to the classic ROLLING THUNDER feels like a squeaky clean TV movie-style prototype for DEATH WISH 3. Too much drama, not enough action.
#grindhouse #filmsky
#grindhouse #filmsky
#Deucember 2025, Movie 9: VICE SQUAD (1982) Director: Gary Sherman. Gritty and exciting L. A. crime thriller has hooker Season Hubley forced to help nab maniac pimp Ramrod, played by the wonderfully over the top Wings Hauser. A real banger! #grindhouse #Filmsky
December 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#Deucember 2025, Movie 9: VICE SQUAD (1982) Director: Gary Sherman. Gritty and exciting L. A. crime thriller has hooker Season Hubley forced to help nab maniac pimp Ramrod, played by the wonderfully over the top Wings Hauser. A real banger! #grindhouse #Filmsky