One in a Crowd: Jungle Trap

VHS madness needs a little help to get on tape

"...from whence the came. But the brave fools of Bleeding Skull! Video are hoping to resurrect the era, one..."

Feb. 27, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Warped and Bloodied: Two New Books by Drafthouse Veterans

Giving the forgotten children of horror and exploitation the analysis they deserve

"...the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive and Bleeding Skull!: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey – give those films..."

Dec. 3, 2021 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Catches Taika Waititi's JoJo Rabbit

Thor: Ragnarok director's film to open 2019 celebration of the strange

"...LIMBO: Presented by AGFA + Bleeding Skull! D: Tina Krause (USA, 1999, Texas Premiere of..."

July 30, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Zack Carlson Cracks the Vault on Terror Tuesdays at the Drafthouse

Wild and weird movie expert on the underground horror phenom

"...how he'd written about stuff like this on his Bleeding Skull website. That's how I met him in the..."

Jan. 29, 2019 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Beware the Jungle Trap

Director Jim Bryan on Hollywood's seedy and sublime

"...its discovery and completion by the z-movie connoisseurs at Bleeding Skull! (read all about the restoration from Bryan and..."

July 22, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Trap Escapes

Alamo Drafthouse's Video Vortex unleashes Jungle Trap

"...Jungle Trap. Not even Ziemba, and he'd founded his Bleeding Skull! video distribution and the Drafthouse's Video Vortex series..."

July 21, 2017 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead

Every generation gets the George A. Romero socio-political zombie opus they deserve. We must be living right, because this new film cuts right to the heart.

"...of the Dead cuts right back to the beating, bleeding heart of Romero's original Night of the Living Dead..."

Feb. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Fest Announces 2024 Lineup

Love of out-there cinema brings Terrifier 3, The Wild Robot

"...DISEMBODIED (Presented by BLEEDING SKULL) USA, 1998 World Premiere of 4K Restoration, 77..."

Aug. 15, 2024 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest Gets Toxic With The Toxic Avenger

Fall of the House of Usher, The Creator added

"...BLONDE DEATH (Presented by Bleeding Skull) D: James Dillinger aka James Robert Baker USA,..."

Aug. 15, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Announced

Miss Peregrine, Phantasm: Ravager, and more

"...to VHS, but now restored with the help of Bleeding Skull (aka Terror Tuesday host Joseph A. Ziemba, TT..."

Aug. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Five Things to Head Off the Hex on Friday the 13th

Shake off the curse of this mini-Halloween

"...as shown when the American Genre Film Archive and Bleeding Skull! present The F13th Fan Film Mixtape. After all,..."

May 13, 2022 Arts Column by Richard Whittaker

Terror Tuesday Continues to Be the Alamo’s Bloody Beating Heart

Horror series send shivers up the aisles

"...and only choice," Joseph Ziemba of video horror website BleedingSkull.com, in 2013; but apart from that switcheroo, the terror..."

Jan. 25, 2019 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

They're Here! Fantastic Fest Wave One Arrives

Overlord, Apostle headline fest opening salvo

"...AGFA and BLEEDING SKULL PRESENT: BLOOD LAKE D: Tim Boggs USA, 1987,..."

July 31, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Filmmakers Return to Horror

Karen Skloss, Owen Egerton, and Don Swaynos talk terror

"...it first began production, thanks to recovery work by Bleeding Skull (and Swaynos). Pay attention: It may well be..."

June 30, 2017 Screens Feature by Sean L. Malin

How the American Genre Film Archive Is Saving Movies One Reel at a Time

Austin nonprofit preserves cinema’s underseen and underappreciated

"...For Joseph Ziemba, founder of horror celebration site Bleeding Skull and current host of the Drafthouse's Terror Tuesday..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: 'Heavy Metal Movies'

A literary diversion over the long weekend

"...Kay's Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide, and of course Bleeding Skull! A 1980's Trash-Horror Odyssey by Alamo booker/Terror Tuesday..."

July 5, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Something Weird This Way Comes

Alamo Drafthouse pays tribute to Mike Vraney

"...Terror Tuesday series and curator of trash cinema website Bleeding Skull!. He discovered "the aesthetic of Something Weird" when..."

March 28, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Letters at 3AM

The Gospel according to Mel is not as it was

"...place called Golgotha (which means the Place of the Skull)," (Matthew 27:31-33, NIV). Again: no Stations, no mother, no..."

March 5, 2004 Column by Michael Ventura

Duel Album Review

Valley of Shadows (Heavy Psych Sounds)

"...Aptly, Jaime Zuverza's cover art depicts a severed snake bleeding down an obelisk into a skull mortar. Psychedelic –..."

May 17, 2019 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...made from the moss that grows over a buried skull, could cure nosebleeds and possibly epilepsy. Thomas Willis, a..."

June 29, 2012 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories

This sometimes comic story collection explores the relationships between celebrities and animals

"...Love in Infant Monkeys: Storiesby Lydia Millet Soft Skull Press, 192 pp., $13.95 (paper)..."

Oct. 9, 2009 Books Review by Sarah Jean Billeiter

Mental Health Care Meltdown

The mental health care system for Austin and Travis County is increasingly overwhelmed, with no relief in sight.

"...Clayton Lane and assaulted 2-year-old Khyrian Simms, cracking her skull. Five days later, Simms died at Brackenridge Hospital. Amobi..."

Dec. 20, 2002 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Murder in the Suburbs

Good Luck Penny

"...Three more "glancing" blows of the pipe cracked her skull at their impact points but did not crush it...."

Dec. 11, 1998 News Feature by Kayte VanScoy

Texas to Execute Father Accused of Murdering Child Despite Innocence Argument

Will Gov. Abbott allow Robert Roberson to be put to death?

"...the “triad” of symptoms of shaken baby syndrome – bleeding under the scalp, brain swelling, and retinal hemorrhages. The..."

Sept. 27, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Faster Than Sound: Recapping the Year SXSW Got Canceled

Venue closures, fundraising, and industry layoffs headlined Austin music's difficult 2020

"...source characterized as "the only way to stop the bleeding." SXSW plans for a virtual conference this March 16-20...."

Jan. 1, 2021 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Up Too Early

Google Streetview fashion critique from Bee Caves Road

"...some idiot and end up cracking it and your skull like an egg against one of those ubiquitous limestone..."

July 30, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

What Would Keith Richards Do?

Rock & Roll Summer Reading Lagniappe: “What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations from a Rock & Roll Survivor”

"...Walkman! You wouldn’t have had twenty-six overtures, you’d have fifty-bleeding-nine. Those guys would be green with envy. They would..."

July 17, 2009 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Crime and the City Solution

How safe do you feel exiting the Sixth Street/Red River Austin music crucible at 2am?

"...and, later, Coyote Ugly, collapsed, the back of his skull connecting with a stretch of Neches Street pavement halfway..."

June 26, 2009 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

CSI: Travis County

Why Is the Medical Examiner's Office so screwed up?

"...kills the inside of the intestine and causes the bleeding in the [intestinal] wall."..."

June 30, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...Before calling me a bleeding heart liberal, can you prove that more taxes have..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Column

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