On the Internet there are many voices in the horror movie review game. Many of them are near worthless in that they repeat the same old sentiments you could get from a Blockbuster Video clerk. So finding an original, fresh perspective on the low budget, horror, b-movie genre is vital to those of us loking for new thrills in the bowels of video store hell. As our site begins to establish ourselves in this pursuit it is extemely sad to report on the demise of a reviewer and a site that has been doing it for six amazing years. The “One Man. Two Twisted Minds” known as Beardy Freak and 42nd Street Freak is closing up shop and I for one am heartbroken. Beardyfreak.com was always my first stop for passionate, witty, kick ass reviews on all kinds of explotation cinema. If not for Beardyfreaks singular crtical approach I would’ve missed out on the pleasures of great trash classics like Cataclysm and Don’t Go in the Woods. You’d be hard pressed to find any review that expresses the delirious brillance of these two deeply flawed but incredibly entertaining cinematic messes better than Beardyfreak. I had tried in vain to sit through Dont Go in the Woods on several occasions but it was Beardyfreaks exuberant reveiw that clued me into the fact that the films wild combo of zero character development, mucho body count, bad dubbing and over the top violence is in fact it’s virtue. And the schizoid allure of Catclsm is perfrectly captured in his review.

I have always maintained that sometimes what we really need from a movie critic is not so much “If” we should watch a flick but specifically “How” we should watch it. Explotation cinema especially needs this type of consideration in that those things that others hate about trash such as Lady Terminator and Island of Death is excatly what we fans love about them. We really don’t need another reviewer to tell us that 1981’s Kill Squad has no chareacter development. We need someone to express what a demented delight it is.

Thank you Beardy Freak for being a true fans voice. Get on over to Beardyfreak.com while it’s still around to read his reveiws and get some great recomendations.