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We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes photos from Chainsaw Sally: The Animated Series, the first two chapters from the novel Survivor Max, the uncensored trailer for Smothered with Bill Moseley and Kane Hodder, Camp Dread DVD release details, and much more:

First Two Chapters of Survivor Max: “Meet Max, an 11-year old boy who was stuck in another boring day at school when the lock down alarm went off. They were under quarantine. He escaped and made it home, only to discover he’d have to find a way to survive this plague alone. Little did he know his father, his only parent, was among the infected. Slow-moving and non-thinking, the “lamebrains” swarmed his apartment complex, hunting survivors to feed their insatiable hunger for living flesh. Now he must apply his Porcupine...

Few recent decades contain as much sex as the 1970s. It was the era of porno chic, the sexual revolution and a general – anything goes! – attitude. Let’s face it, all of the good sex films were made in the 1970s – the classic ones like Emmanuelle and Deep Throat. Russ Meyer was sexing it up to the max and even Britain had a sexploitation industry. It may have been cheesy but at least it contained some decent eye candy.

I have given you here a wide variety of 1970s film crumpet to titillate and tantalise you. Please add your own personal 1970s babe below…

10. Dyanne Thorne

Dyanne Thorne is known chiefly for her contributions to the Ilsa series of film in which she plays the evil, sadomasochistic Ilsa in a variety of exotic settings. She had a killer body and was regularly photographed topless for pin up magazines as well...

Title: Nazithon: Decadence And Destruction by: Charles Band Starring: Michelle “Bombshell” McGee & Ian Roberts Running time: 79min Michelle “Bombshell” McGee hosts a marathon of Nazi themed grindhouse horror movie trailers. Titles include the following: SS Camp 5 Women’s Hell, SS Hell Camp (women get raped by a genetically mutated monkey man), SS Experiment Love Camp, Private House of the SS, Salon Kitty (starring Helmut Berger), The Damned (with Helmut Berger again and Charlotte Rampling), Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Wanda the Wicked Warden, Elsa Fraulein SS, The Tigress, The Black Gestapo (wtf?!), The Tormentors (motorcycle neo-nazis), Mad Foxes (neo-nazi biker gang [ Read More ]

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A Planet Fury-approved selection of notable genre releases for June.

Harold and Maude (1972) Criterion Blu-ray and DVD Available Now

Forty years later, this 1972 Hal Ashby cult favorite remains a lovably eccentric meditation on life. The romance between a death-obsessed youth (an adorable Bud Cort) and a vivacious geriatric (the mythic Ruth Gordon) is still as beguiling and heartfelt as it was upon its original release. Written by Colin Higgins (9 to 5, Foul Play) and featuring an iconic soundtrack with several Cat Stevens hits, this is a must-have release for cult film buffs.

The much-anticipated Criterion release features:

A new high-definition digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack, optional remastered stereo soundtrack, audio commentary by Hal Ashby, Nick Dawson and Charles B. Mulvehill, illustrated audio excerpts of seminars by Ashby and Colin Higgins, new interview with songwriter Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens), plus a booklet featuring an essay by critic Michael Wood and more!

With Tarantino's Grindhouse set to appear on DVD, Matt checks out the controversial exploitation series, Ilsa...

Grindhouse is coming out on Blu-ray. Hooray! Give us hug, you Weinstein-surnamed sons of guns. All is forgiven.

After the marketing catastrophuck that marred the film's release, followed by a lengthy period of time with no mention of the full cut, I suspected the full Grindhouse presentation would never get a proper home video release.

My favourite part of Grindhouse is the fake trailers, which, with the exception of Machete, were not included on the film's individual DVD releases. They're brilliant and it's great to see that some of them are being turned into films now. The one I liked best is yet to exist as a full length film and is probably the most difficult sell. I can't imagine it would be easy convincing people to finance a film called ‘Werewolf Women of the SS'.

Michel Levesque worked in the film industry as a production designer and art director from the late 1960s. He was best known as writer and director for the 1971 biker horror film Werewolves on Wheels.

Levesque was born in Pennsville, New Jersey on August 22, 1943. He moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and began his film career working as an assistant on Roger Corman’s 1967 cult classic The Trip. He teamed with David M. Kaufman to write and direct Werewolves on Wheels, and also directed the 1972 women’s prison exploitation film Sweet Sugar. He worked as art director on several Russ Meyer films in the mid-1970s, including Supervixens (1975), Up! (1976), and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). Levesque also worked as an art director and production designer on the films Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976) and The Incredible Melting Man (1977).

Levesque died of cancer at his home in...