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Tis the season to be scary: the growing popularity of Christmas horror films

Christmas is usually a time of giving, caring, and sharing, but if you’re the maker of exploitation movies, it’s also a time for brutal murders by killers in Santa Claus suits, deadly snowmen or, in the case of our screening this month, genetically-engineered Nazi elves with a taste for virgins.

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The top 5 “worst” blaxploitation films ever made

If you thought the likes of Dolemite, Shaft, Cleopatra Jones, Truck Turner, Sheba Baby and Trouble Man were of a dubious quality, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

This November we’re showing Jim Kelly’s Black Samurai which, despite the presence of midget hit men and a killer vulture, is not regarded as one of the high points of the blaxploitation genre. However, it is by no means the worse…
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SOLD OUT: BLACK SAMURAI (1977) – 21st November, Templegate Dojo, Temple Meads

Listen up you jive turkeys! We’re showing Jim Kelly’s cult blaxploitation/martial arts movie Black Samurai at an actual Bristol dojo! Can you dig it? Continue reading SOLD OUT: BLACK SAMURAI (1977) – 21st November, Templegate Dojo, Temple Meads

80s ACTION DOUBLE BILL: DEADLY PREY / HARD TICKET TO HAWAII – 19th September 2014, Redgrave Theatre, Clifton

Prepare for gratuitous levels of violence and nudity as we show two cult actions classics from 1987 as part of Scalarama 2014 – David A Prior’s Deadly Prey and Andy Sidaris’ Hard Ticket To Hawaii! Continue reading 80s ACTION DOUBLE BILL: DEADLY PREY / HARD TICKET TO HAWAII – 19th September 2014, Redgrave Theatre, Clifton

SOLD OUT: SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGALODON (2002) – 13th September 2014, MV Balmoral, Bristol City Docks

It’s John Barrowman vs. a size-changing prehistoric shark! Come to the first of our two September events as part of Scalarama 2014! It’s Shark Attack 3… on a boat! Continue reading SOLD OUT: SHARK ATTACK 3: MEGALODON (2002) – 13th September 2014, MV Balmoral, Bristol City Docks