Gabe Powers (Genre Grinder)
@gabepowers.bsky.social
Creator/writer/host of Genre Grinder. Horror ⚰️ spaghetti westerns 🤠 gialli 🔪 kwaidan 👹 kung fu 🥋 S.O.V. 📼 kaiju 🦖 etc. | https://www.genregrinder.com/ | https://letterboxd.com/gabepowers/
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Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark of Slant Magazine
YOU DIDN’T CUT YOUR CARBON EMISSIONS AND NOW WE’RE UP TO OUR EYEBALLS IN SMOG MONSTERS, MUTANT ISOPODS, AND VENGEFUL NATURE SPIRITS!!We’ve already covered natural disasters and killer animals on Genre...
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NEW EPISODE!! Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark (@justinofclark.bsky.social)
My mom randomly rented this for me when I was home sick from school and I had no one to talk about it with for decades, because no one else had seen it. I eventually made my friend Betsy watch it with me for my podcast.
It’s been 5 years since I last popped by @certifiedforgot.bsky.social, but @donatobomb.bsky.social @monagle.bsky.social made it feel like 5 mins. Grateful these guys let me gab about my gateway horror/fever dream The Peanut Butter Solution. Real movie btw!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
My mom randomly rented this for me when I was home sick from school and I had no one to talk about it with for decades, because no one else had seen it. I eventually made my friend Betsy watch it with me for my podcast.
Maaaaan, Kino Lorber used really ugly and dumb genAI for their sale promo image today.
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Maaaaan, Kino Lorber used really ugly and dumb genAI for their sale promo image today.
Walton Goggins as the Grinch looks like Jeffrey Combs as a Deep Space Nine character.
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Walton Goggins as the Grinch looks like Jeffrey Combs as a Deep Space Nine character.
That Tarantino Battle Royale/Hunger Games thing is so embarrassing. And it could've all been avoided had he just listened to the NOW CLASSIC episode of Genre Grinder where @minillajovovich.bsky.social and I talked about Most Dangerous Game Movies!
(Damn I'm good at self-promotion)
(Damn I'm good at self-promotion)
Episode 21: Most Dangerous Game Shows, feat. Luana Saitta of Monster Island Commentaries
THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED AND IT WILL BE BROUGHT TO YOU EXCLUSIVELY BY MING TEA! TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP DEAD! Psychotic games and sadistic reality television are on the docket this month. Gabe ...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
That Tarantino Battle Royale/Hunger Games thing is so embarrassing. And it could've all been avoided had he just listened to the NOW CLASSIC episode of Genre Grinder where @minillajovovich.bsky.social and I talked about Most Dangerous Game Movies!
(Damn I'm good at self-promotion)
(Damn I'm good at self-promotion)
When the MCU eventually gets around to cosmic X-men stuff I'm going to be so unnecessarily critical of how they portray Shiar hair feathers in live action.
November 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
When the MCU eventually gets around to cosmic X-men stuff I'm going to be so unnecessarily critical of how they portray Shiar hair feathers in live action.
A live action, multi-film adaptation of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind comic. As true to the source as possible. Money is no object. We'll shut down the defense dept if needed.
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
A live action, multi-film adaptation of Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind comic. As true to the source as possible. Money is no object. We'll shut down the defense dept if needed.
This whole state department pushing Paramount to make Rush Hour 4 thing is just too funny for me to consider the terrible connotations. Disgraced sex pest director. Franchise WAY beyond its prime. Two stars both past their primes & all too happy to run propaganda for authoritative regimes...
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This whole state department pushing Paramount to make Rush Hour 4 thing is just too funny for me to consider the terrible connotations. Disgraced sex pest director. Franchise WAY beyond its prime. Two stars both past their primes & all too happy to run propaganda for authoritative regimes...
NEW REVIEW!! Super obscure and fantastically fun giallo A Hyena in the Safe on Blu-ray from Celluloid Dreams (@celluloid-dreams.bsky.social)
A Hyena in the Safe Blu-ray Review
It’s always exciting when an obscure giallo is rediscovered on video, but it’s especially exciting when someone finds a film produced before Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Italian:...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
NEW REVIEW!! Super obscure and fantastically fun giallo A Hyena in the Safe on Blu-ray from Celluloid Dreams (@celluloid-dreams.bsky.social)
I think any director looking to remake or reboot The Exorcist, Halloween, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre should have to remake Gnaw: Food of the Gods 2 first to prove their worth. And, y’know, to amuse me.
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I think any director looking to remake or reboot The Exorcist, Halloween, or Texas Chainsaw Massacre should have to remake Gnaw: Food of the Gods 2 first to prove their worth. And, y’know, to amuse me.
I enjoy ranking movies and I love Star Wars, but I think that I'm too sincere for my Star Wars ranking to be in anyway interesting to anyone but myself.
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I enjoy ranking movies and I love Star Wars, but I think that I'm too sincere for my Star Wars ranking to be in anyway interesting to anyone but myself.
Last updated this in 2024 and since then 4 movies have either hit (remastered) BD/4K or are about to. Pretty good year for that so far. letterboxd.com/gabepowers/l...
Remastered Blu-ray/4K UHD Wishlist
UPDATED FOR 2024! Some of these are available on BD, but have subpar image quality (Ravenous and Companeros, for example) or are out of print. A few look okay on BD, but I'd rather have them in 4K. I ...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Last updated this in 2024 and since then 4 movies have either hit (remastered) BD/4K or are about to. Pretty good year for that so far. letterboxd.com/gabepowers/l...
Emerging from a violently ill weekend to learn that Udo Kier AND Jimmy Cliff died is too much to handle, man.
Many Rivers To Cross
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November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Emerging from a violently ill weekend to learn that Udo Kier AND Jimmy Cliff died is too much to handle, man.
Imagine being so worthless that you waste a day voting to officially condemn socialism.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Imagine being so worthless that you waste a day voting to officially condemn socialism.
NEW REVIEW!! Pre-Fistful of Dollars Eurowestern The Taste of Violence on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (@filmsradiance.bsky.social)
The Taste of Violence Blu-ray Review
The European continent had been making American frontier style ‘western’ films since the turn of the previous century, but the pop-culture idea of the Eurowestern is typically tied to the Italian west...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
NEW REVIEW!! Pre-Fistful of Dollars Eurowestern The Taste of Violence on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (@filmsradiance.bsky.social)
Every interrogating cop in every true crime doc ever: We didn't have anything on the guy, but he didn't seem sad enough, so we redirected all of our resources to finding him guilty.
Final title card: ...the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
Final title card: ...the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Every interrogating cop in every true crime doc ever: We didn't have anything on the guy, but he didn't seem sad enough, so we redirected all of our resources to finding him guilty.
Final title card: ...the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
Final title card: ...the case remains unsolved 30 years later.
It's GIVE TO THE MAX day here in Minnesota and I saved up the funds from the latest Genre Grinder Cares sales ($80.17) to donate today for the greatest impact. Go here to donate yourself! www.givemn.org/organization...
My receipts below! Thanks everyone!
My receipts below! Thanks everyone!
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's GIVE TO THE MAX day here in Minnesota and I saved up the funds from the latest Genre Grinder Cares sales ($80.17) to donate today for the greatest impact. Go here to donate yourself! www.givemn.org/organization...
My receipts below! Thanks everyone!
My receipts below! Thanks everyone!
Diabetes medicine is very clever, because you can't eat sugar if you're trapped in the bathroom pooping all day long.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Diabetes medicine is very clever, because you can't eat sugar if you're trapped in the bathroom pooping all day long.
NEW EPISODE!! Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark (@justinofclark.bsky.social)
Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark of Slant Magazine
YOU DIDN’T CUT YOUR CARBON EMISSIONS AND NOW WE’RE UP TO OUR EYEBALLS IN SMOG MONSTERS, MUTANT ISOPODS, AND VENGEFUL NATURE SPIRITS!!We’ve already covered natural disasters and killer animals on Genre...
www.genregrinder.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
NEW EPISODE!! Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark (@justinofclark.bsky.social)
New extended episode is up on Patreon. I'll have it live for everyone else tomorrow afternoon:
Episode 57: Environmental Horror Movies, feat. Justin Clark of Slant Magazine | Genre Grinder
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November 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
New extended episode is up on Patreon. I'll have it live for everyone else tomorrow afternoon:
I was a guest on @chloesnotscared.bsky.social's Not Scared podcast:
Gabe's Talkin' 'bout Lucio Fulci on the Not Scared Podcast
My new friend Chloe Waryan has a podcast and she invited me on. Regular listeners will remember that Chloe was on my podcast back in April of this year when we talked about Anthology Horror Films, so ...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I was a guest on @chloesnotscared.bsky.social's Not Scared podcast:
Catching up on the Netflix Witcher series and noticing that they dressed Philippa Eilhart like David Bowie in Labyrinth for this scene. That's one notch in the plus column.
The Witcher 4 - Yennefer And Philippa Battle Scene | Netflix
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November 18, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Catching up on the Netflix Witcher series and noticing that they dressed Philippa Eilhart like David Bowie in Labyrinth for this scene. That's one notch in the plus column.
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
- Grifter tries to take advantage of a revolutionary, ends up joining it
- Oops, fell in love with a monster/vampire/ghost/witch/etc
- Been a lawman all my life & just realized I'm the bad guy
- Righteously angry ghost
- Having a nervous breakdown while trying to solve a string of murders
- Oops, fell in love with a monster/vampire/ghost/witch/etc
- Been a lawman all my life & just realized I'm the bad guy
- Righteously angry ghost
- Having a nervous breakdown while trying to solve a string of murders
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
- Grifter tries to take advantage of a revolutionary, ends up joining it
- Oops, fell in love with a monster/vampire/ghost/witch/etc
- Been a lawman all my life & just realized I'm the bad guy
- Righteously angry ghost
- Having a nervous breakdown while trying to solve a string of murders
- Oops, fell in love with a monster/vampire/ghost/witch/etc
- Been a lawman all my life & just realized I'm the bad guy
- Righteously angry ghost
- Having a nervous breakdown while trying to solve a string of murders
I'm playing Baldur's Gate with a friend and it has cured me of my allergy to turn-based combat. I'm gonna have to replay it pretty soon, because my friend is very story focused and I'm conent letting him drive. I think maybe we missed our chance to cure Karlach. I hope not.
November 16, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I'm playing Baldur's Gate with a friend and it has cured me of my allergy to turn-based combat. I'm gonna have to replay it pretty soon, because my friend is very story focused and I'm conent letting him drive. I think maybe we missed our chance to cure Karlach. I hope not.
Underrated aspect of Peking Opera is how many blast beats it has.
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Underrated aspect of Peking Opera is how many blast beats it has.