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  • Night of the Living SCUFF – August 2019

    Sword of the Stranger A young boy and his dog find themselves the target of the Ming: a foreign dynasty that will stop at nothing. One day, a

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – June 2019

    24 x 36: A Movie about Movie Posters The art of the movie poster has become something of a dying breed in the age of blockbusters and studio

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – April 2019

    This April, SCUM is paying tribute to one of the Masters of Horror, Tobe Hooper! We will be screening two of his unforgettable classics, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

  • Night of the Living SCUFF – Feb 2019

    The most excellent film to watch in 2019! Kicking off the new year, we are very excited to screen one of the most well-loved buddy comedy of all

  • Night of the Living SCUFF 2

    Night of the Living SCUFF is back! We will be featuring The Prodigal Son, widely touted as one of the best Kungfu movies ever made. It features two

Review: Splinter (2008)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Splinter is a tale of not only survival but also facing the unknown. B-Grade horror films tend to be terrible because of budget problems and of course, poor acting. However, Splinter [...]

April 2, 2014 Reviews

Review: Crawlspace (1986)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Over the past couple of years, Scream Factory — an offshoot of American film distributor Shout! Factory — has steadily been releasing remastered horror classics on Blu-ray. It’s recently been diving into [...]

March 28, 2014 Reviews

Review: House (1977)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ I have always loved hunting down bizarre and strange films, and when I saw Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House sitting on the video library shelf, I knew it had my name on it. [...]

March 21, 2014 Reviews

Review: Basket Case (1982)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ Basket Case is a campy, grotesque classic from director Frank Henenlotter. The tale revolves around two brothers separated at age twelve…quite literally. You see, Duane and Belial Bradley are as close [...]

March 13, 2014 Reviews

April 2014 Screening – Black Belt Jones

SCUM CINEMA PRESENTS: Black Belt Jones VENUE: The Arts House Screening Room DATE & TIME: 11 April 2014, 8:30pm RATING: NC16 COST: Free admission For the month of April, we will be exploring the groovy world of Blaxploitation! Admission’s free [...]

March 11, 2014 Events

Review: Bad Milo (2013)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ I usually leave reviews of B-flicks to Monkey Fist, but at first glance, the plot for the comedy-horror Bad Milo seemed too good to pass by. In a nutshell, the Milo in [...]

March 6, 2014 Reviews

Review: Shield of Straw (2013)

Review by: Mountain Monkey SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Since Ichi the Killer melted our brains back in 2001, your hardworking friends at SCUM have sworn to catch all of director Takashi Miike’s flicks, no matter how turgid. Unfortunately, since Ichi [...]

February 21, 2014 Reviews

Review: The Piano Teacher aka La Pianiste (2001)

Review by: Topo Sanchez SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ What is it about the piano that writers and filmmakers find so fascinating? So fascinating in fact, that the last time i googled, there are already 140 movies made around this [...]

February 14, 2014 Reviews

Review: Humanoids From The Deep (1980)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ All hail the King of B-Flicks! “Humanoids from the Deep” feels like a perverted version of “Creature from the Black Lagoon”. In a nutshell, we have killer salmon creatures that have metamorphosised into [...]

February 6, 2014 Reviews

Review: Alligator (1980)

Review by: Monkey Fist SCUM Rating: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Before “Sharknado” and “Boa vs Python”, there was…..ALLIGATOR! This film ranks right up there together with other 80s B-Grade classics such as “Humanoids From The Deep” and “C.H.U.D”. Seriously, with a title like that, you do [...]

January 28, 2014 Reviews