42nd Street Forever
42nd Street Forever
Grindhouse Cinema Database
The staff of Grindhouse Cinema Database and guests discuss a variety of classic exploitation films that played in grindhouses on The Deuce in the 60s, 70s and 80s.
I Drink Your Blood & The Hills Have Eyes at the Times Square
On Episode 19, Pete & Seb celebrate SHOCKTOBER 2025 with a classic grindhouse horror double bill that played the Times Square in October 1979. First, a cross country family road trip becomes a horrifying fight for survival in Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes THEN a small town is terrorized by a rabid satanic cult in I Drink Your Blood.
Nov 1, 2025
55 min
Master Killer and Duel of the Iron Fist at the Times Square
On Episode 18, Pete & Seb discuss a classic Shaw Brothers grindhouse kung fu double bill that played the Times Square in July of 1979. First Ti Lung and David Chiang star in DUEL OF THE IRON FIST a bloody kung fu gangster mashup from Chang Cheh, Then Gordon Liu must pass through the tricky obstacle filled 36 chambers of shaolin in Lau Kar Leung's MASTER KILLER.
Jul 19, 2025
56 min
Walking The Edge and Low Blow at the Selwyn
On Episode 17, Pete & Seb hit The Selwyn for an 80s crime thriller double bill that played in April 1986: FIRST Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan must evade a gang of criminals out for blood in WALKING THE EDGE. Then low budget Martial Arts legend Leo Fong is a San Francisco private detective who infiltrates a deranged religious cult in LOW BLOW. 
Apr 26, 2025
1 hr 3 min
Psychic Killer and Circle of Iron at CINE 42
On Episode 16, Pete & Seb stop into CINE 42 to watch an eclectic double bill that played in January 1979. FIRST Jim Hutton stars as a man with deadly telekinetic powers in PSYCHIC KILLER then David Carradine (fresh off of the Kung Fu TV series) stars in CIRCLE OF IRON a mystical martial arts fantasy based on a story by Bruce Lee.
Jan 25, 2025
59 min
Foxy Brown and Truck Turner at the Harris
On Episode 15, Pete & Seb discuss a Baadasss Blaxploitation Double Bill from AIP that played at The Harris in October of 1974. FIRST, Pam Grier stars as a chick with drive who don't take no jive in FOXY BROWN, THEN Isaac Hayes stars as TRUCK TURNER, the last of the bounty hunters. Grab your popcorn and get ready for a supercool, super fly grindhouse cinema experience!
Nov 2, 2024
1 hr 1 min
Rolling Thunder at CINE 42
On Episode 14 Pete and Seb discuss a film released in October of 1977 which premiered at CINE 42 on The Deuce. William Devane, Tommy Lee Jones and Linda Haynes star in John Flynn’s classic revengeamatic ROLLING THUNDER.
Oct 28, 2023
58 min
Sabata and Payment in Blood at the Lyric
On Episode 13, Pete and Seb discuss a spaghetti western double bill that played at the Lyric theater in September of 1970. FIRST, Lee Van Cleef stars as The Man With Gunsight Eyes in the Gianfranco Parolini classic SABATA. THEN Edd "Kookie" Byrnes sets out to find a lost Confederate treasure with a gang of maniacal marauders in Enzo G. Castellari’s 1967 directorial debut PAYMENT IN BLOOD. 
Oct 7, 2023
1 hr 7 min
Brutal Justice at the Selwyn
On Episode 12, Pete and Seb discuss one of their favorite poliziotteschi/Eurocrime films that played at the Selwyn theater in July of 1978, Umberto Lenzi’s Brutal Justice aka The Tough Ones starring Maurizio Merli and Tomas Milian.
Jul 30, 2023
1 hr 21 min
The Hot, The Cool & The Vicious/Crippled Masters/The Steel Edge of Revenge at the Empire
On Episode 11, Pete and Phil (Making Tarantino) discuss three films that played at the Empire Theater in June of 1983. FIRST they've got a double dose of 70's grindhouse kung fu with Tso Nam Lee's The Hot, The Cool & The Vicious followed by the chopsocky sideshow Crippled Masters. Don't leave the theater just yet because there's more in store! It's supercool samurai time with the 1969 Hideo Gosha chambara classic The Steel Edge of Revenge aka Goyokin.
Jun 5, 2023
49 min
Friday The 13th Pt. 2 and My Bloody Valentine at the New Amsterdam
On Episode 10, Pete and Phil (Making Tarantino) discuss a classic slasher double feature that played May 9, 1981 at the New Amsterdam Theater on The Deuce, Friday The 13th Pt. 2 (which marked the debut of horror icon Jason Voorhees) followed by My Bloody Valentine.
May 9, 2023
45 min
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