Dr. Benny Graves
@drbennygraves.bsky.social
Veterinarian. Heavy Metal Marc Maron. Blasphemer.
Archfiend of The Analog Abattoir for http://ruemorguemag.bsky.social
Reviews and musings on horror/schlock:
https://dr-bennys-sinema.ghost.io
Archfiend of The Analog Abattoir for http://ruemorguemag.bsky.social
Reviews and musings on horror/schlock:
https://dr-bennys-sinema.ghost.io
New Sinema is up with a short fiction intro followed by my unfiltered praise for the SOV horror royalty that is THE BURNING MOON!
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Hexcrafting and Cursing: Musing on The Burning Moon (1992)
There's no greater poverty than loneliness. It can drive people to pitch black places. Alan Volk is the blackest place you'll ever go. Moving in your senior year was hard enough, the threads of your l...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New Sinema is up with a short fiction intro followed by my unfiltered praise for the SOV horror royalty that is THE BURNING MOON!
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Check out my new piece for The Sinema where I talk about the cinematic distillation of shred known as HEAVY METAL!
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Headbangers In Leather: Musing on Heavy Metal (1981)
"I have been a customer here for a long time and no one has ever spoken to me this way!"
A cloud of perfume your grandma would wear drifts off the lady and you think of mustard gas flooding a trench w...
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May 19, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Check out my new piece for The Sinema where I talk about the cinematic distillation of shred known as HEAVY METAL!
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Check out my piece on The Art of Dying. This is an absolutely bonkers gem of an exploitation/noir directed by and starring the recently departed Wings Hauser.
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Analog Abattoir: "THE ART OF DYING" Is A Grimy Neo-Noir Fever Dream - Rue Morgue
Cult action star Wings Hauser may be gone but his "Art" lives on in this gritty, blood-soaked 1991 thriller.
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May 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Check out my piece on The Art of Dying. This is an absolutely bonkers gem of an exploitation/noir directed by and starring the recently departed Wings Hauser.
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Check out my musings on Tobe Hooper’s follow up to TCM, the relentless hellworld that is EATEN ALIVE
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Perpetual Night: Musing on Eaten Alive (1976)
It's an endless winter where I live. The howling wind creeps beneath my parka as I drag the body between walls of naked pines. Their branches reach up like nerve cells, desperate for sensation but cur...
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May 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Check out my musings on Tobe Hooper’s follow up to TCM, the relentless hellworld that is EATEN ALIVE
dr-bennys-sinema.ghost.io/perpetual-ni...
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Check out my review on the very slept on bayou witch flick for @ruemorguemag.bsky.social The Witchmaker!
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Analog Abattoir: “THE WITCHMAKER” (1969) is a doom metal-infused meditation on bayou black magic! - Rue Morgue
Dare you attend Black Mass in the bayou?
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April 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Check out my review on the very slept on bayou witch flick for @ruemorguemag.bsky.social The Witchmaker!
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It’s like if you ordered The Warriors from Temu…that’s a compliment to be clear.
April 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s like if you ordered The Warriors from Temu…that’s a compliment to be clear.
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Check out the third stop on the blasphemous bar crawl as I talk Dracula AD 1972 with libations curated by Kitty Bernardo of Paradise Lost NYC.
Check out the third stop on the blasphemous bar crawl as I talk Dracula AD 1972 with libations curated by Kitty Bernardo of Paradise Lost NYC.
Let’s Get Hammered! The Blasphemous Bar Crawl Stop #3: “DRACULA A.D. 1972” - Rue Morgue
Raise your glass – and some hell – with a salud to Satan!
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April 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Check out the third stop on the blasphemous bar crawl as I talk Dracula AD 1972 with libations curated by Kitty Bernardo of Paradise Lost NYC.
Check out the third stop on the blasphemous bar crawl as I talk Dracula AD 1972 with libations curated by Kitty Bernardo of Paradise Lost NYC.
Charlie’s Family absolutely blew me away. Definitely a future review.
April 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Charlie’s Family absolutely blew me away. Definitely a future review.
Thinking about the sheer degradation of the scene in Maximum Overdrive with the little league coach getting shot in the nards by a soda machine, then suffering fatal brain trauma. No one does it like. @stephenking.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thinking about the sheer degradation of the scene in Maximum Overdrive with the little league coach getting shot in the nards by a soda machine, then suffering fatal brain trauma. No one does it like. @stephenking.bsky.social
Late to the party but Strange Darling really worked for me. It isn’t a deluge but there has been a steady trickle of fantastic exploitation throwbacks (Green Room stands out for me) coming out for a while and it is heartening to know there are those who still champion the ugly side of cinema.
April 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Late to the party but Strange Darling really worked for me. It isn’t a deluge but there has been a steady trickle of fantastic exploitation throwbacks (Green Room stands out for me) coming out for a while and it is heartening to know there are those who still champion the ugly side of cinema.
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Giving this whole Bluesky thing another try. Here’s my site where I’ve merged reviews and short fiction. Give it a read and lemme know what you think!
Giving this whole Bluesky thing another try. Here’s my site where I’ve merged reviews and short fiction. Give it a read and lemme know what you think!
Satan is Good, Satan is our pal: Musing on My Sweet Satan
The party is in full swing by the time you arrive. You sink into the brown couch whose floral pattern is all but a memory buried by stains. Facing the TV a tattooed hand passes you a lukewarm Coors. T...
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April 21, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Giving this whole Bluesky thing another try. Here’s my site where I’ve merged reviews and short fiction. Give it a read and lemme know what you think!
Giving this whole Bluesky thing another try. Here’s my site where I’ve merged reviews and short fiction. Give it a read and lemme know what you think!
Reposted by Dr. Benny Graves
Watch me talk about SHREDDER ORPHEUS.
Yasmina digs up pure VHS lunacy with SHREDDER ORPHEUS | RUE MORGUE TV
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April 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Watch me talk about SHREDDER ORPHEUS.
Thought this would be a White Lightning knock off but it’s more like a Hicksploitation thriller with moments of hyper-violence. Pleasantly surprised
March 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Thought this would be a White Lightning knock off but it’s more like a Hicksploitation thriller with moments of hyper-violence. Pleasantly surprised
Why hasn’t there been a movie with a chainsaw-wielding mummy? Why must humanity continue to disappoint me?
March 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Why hasn’t there been a movie with a chainsaw-wielding mummy? Why must humanity continue to disappoint me?
Reading political news lately makes my brain feel like a Roky Erickson album.
March 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Reading political news lately makes my brain feel like a Roky Erickson album.
The golden beeper Trump was gifted and the golden citizenship cards he advertised are ideas that would be shot down as too broad if pitched for a Robocop script. Our dystopia goes beyond farce.
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The golden beeper Trump was gifted and the golden citizenship cards he advertised are ideas that would be shot down as too broad if pitched for a Robocop script. Our dystopia goes beyond farce.
Finally saw this SOV flick this weekend. Holy moly.
March 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Finally saw this SOV flick this weekend. Holy moly.
TONIGHT! I’m at Monster Vegan in Philly introducing and riffing over an all timer…HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II. Ritual starts at eight
…And to think, you hesitated…
…And to think, you hesitated…
February 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
TONIGHT! I’m at Monster Vegan in Philly introducing and riffing over an all timer…HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II. Ritual starts at eight
…And to think, you hesitated…
…And to think, you hesitated…
A truly slept on merger of Amityville Horror and Rosemary’s baby with euro-horror sensibilities and an absolutely insane cast. I have long been a champion of THE SENTINEL!
February 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
A truly slept on merger of Amityville Horror and Rosemary’s baby with euro-horror sensibilities and an absolutely insane cast. I have long been a champion of THE SENTINEL!
The synth lines in Tears For Fears songs are fueling my brain today.
February 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The synth lines in Tears For Fears songs are fueling my brain today.
I only caught The Critic in bits as a kid so I started watching it today. Its got some clever moments and some (Not shockingly) problematic moments. What’s important is that the first episode has TWO digs at Trump. This man was a universal joke…Now he’s half of America’s Christ.
…It stinks.
…It stinks.
February 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I only caught The Critic in bits as a kid so I started watching it today. Its got some clever moments and some (Not shockingly) problematic moments. What’s important is that the first episode has TWO digs at Trump. This man was a universal joke…Now he’s half of America’s Christ.
…It stinks.
…It stinks.
I think often about the grimoire I termed “The Necronomicorn” that is in Children of The Corn: Urban Harvest
February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I think often about the grimoire I termed “The Necronomicorn” that is in Children of The Corn: Urban Harvest
Psyched like an undead marauder on mescaline for the newest release by biker bastards The Death Wheelers
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The Ecstasy Of Möld, by The Death Wheelers
10 track album
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February 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Psyched like an undead marauder on mescaline for the newest release by biker bastards The Death Wheelers
thedeathwheelers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ec...
thedeathwheelers.bandcamp.com/album/the-ec...
Insane poster for Satanic nunsploitation flick Satanico Pandemonium. A perfect pairing with Alucarda when it comes to transgressive horror. Yes, Selma Hayek’s character in From Dusk Till Dawn is named after this movie #satanicopanedemonium #fromdusktilldawn #alucarda
February 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Insane poster for Satanic nunsploitation flick Satanico Pandemonium. A perfect pairing with Alucarda when it comes to transgressive horror. Yes, Selma Hayek’s character in From Dusk Till Dawn is named after this movie #satanicopanedemonium #fromdusktilldawn #alucarda