John Bloom
Also Known As: Joe Bob Briggs
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, and comic performer. He is known for having hosted the TNT television series MonsterVision from 1996 to 2000, and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder from 2018–present. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Bloom, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dallas, Texas, USA
Birthday: January 27, 1953
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Gender: Male
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VHS Massacre Too
Overview: The last stand of the American exploitation film. In a post video store era, media consolidation has led to the censorship and near death of the independent and exploitation film industry. Joe Bob Briggs (Last Drive-in), Debbie Rochon (Toxic Avenger IV), Lloyd Kaufman and James Rolfe (Angry Video Game Nerd) take us on an adventure that leads from the last Blockbuster video store in Bend Oregon to Troma Entertainment in New York, all in an effort to examine how history keeps repeating itself from the video store era to the modern streaming.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-20
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The Barn Part II
Overview: The Halloween ban is now lifted in Helen's Valley, and the sorority girls of Gamma Tau Psi place Michelle in charge of their annual haunted house. Unfortunately for Michelle some uninvited trick or treaters from her past come knocking.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Wretched
Overview: Jenny and her husband Eric sit at a diner eating a cheap meal of burgers, fries and chocolate cake. Through their ever-increasing arguments and Jenny's constant visits to the ladies room, the audience will start to learn how close to losing her sanity Jenny really is, and how oblivious Eric is when it comes to Jenny's disorder.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-06
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Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
Overview: Following the events of the original with the survivors attending the funeral of “Rad Chad” Buckley, which quickly devolves into an elaborate series of death traps centered around Chad’s favorite films, forcing the guests to band together and use the rules of horror to survive the bloody game.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Horror Business
Overview: The movie covers the careers of five up-and-coming horror-movie loving directors – Mark Borchardt ('Coven'), Ron Atkins ('Necromaniac'), Dave Stagnari ('Catharsis'), John Gora ('Chirpy'), and Brian Singleton.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Rapturious
Overview: Hip-hop meets horror in this twisted tale directed by Kamal Ahmed (The Jerky Boys). Binging on hard drugs, white rapper Rapturious spins into murderous hallucinations - or is he really committing these blood-splattering crimes?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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Evil Ever After
Overview: Reformed cannibal, Bernie Grisso re-discovers his appetite after being used as a pawn in a malicious game started by his neighbor Ashley, her rotten group of friends and two sadistic cops. Armed with his legendary family's sword and a ravenous midget guardian, Grisso sets out to teach his tormentors a lesson they won't live to forget.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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In Search of Darkness: Part III
Overview: The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-25
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Foodfight!
Overview: The evil Brand X joins a supermarket that becomes a city after closing time.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action Animation Family War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-15
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The Storytellers
Overview: An unemployed young man takes credit for his grandmother's scripts to impress a beautiful Hollywood agent. As his reputation grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep up the pretence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Werewolf Santa
Overview: Lucy has a social media channel where she hunts evidence of actual monsters, but it’s not doing great, with just a few viewers following her disappointing posts. Everything changes on Christmas Eve when her camera witnesses Santa getting bitten by a werewolf before he turns lycanthrope himself! As Werewolf Santa starts wreaking bloody havoc in their seaside town, Lucy and her bickering family set off on a madcap adventure armed with a rusty skate and a vague understanding of how to kill werewolves gained from her collection of horror comics. The Beast must die to save Christmas!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-25
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One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead
Overview: Cast and crew, as well as some famous fans, recall the insanity that was the making of the ultimate experience of grueling terror that is The Evil Dead.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-18
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VHS Massacre: Cult Films and the Decline of Physical Media
Overview: This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media from the origin of film all the way through the video store era into digital media, focusing on B-movie and cult films. With icons like Joe Bob Briggs (MonsterVision), Lloyd Kaufman (Toxic Avenger), Greg Sestero (The Room), Debbie Rochon (Return to Nuke 'Em High), Deborah Reed (Troll 2), Mark Frazer (Samurai Cop), James Nguyen (Birdemic) and many others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-06-20
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Jim Dandy to the Rescue: A Film by Joey Skidmore
Overview: A documentary about Jim "Dandy" Mangrum and his band Black Oak Arkansas.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-16
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Tie Die
Overview: When a series of mangled bodies begin appearing in the park, Ranger Jones and a state trooper are baffled by the attacks. It's been a long time since a black bear has gone rabid in the park and never to this degree. The timing couldn't be worse as the area is filling up with young musicians, hippies, and earth children for a local music festival. Can they stop the killings before things get worse, or will Ranger Jones miss the encore?
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-22
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The Prophet of Prosperity: Robert Tilton and the Gospel of Greed
Overview: Ok, let's admit it. We all miss him. Sure, there's Jan & Paul Crouch and even Pray TV's "hair apparent," Pastor Benny Hinn - but nobody, nobody, nobody can hold a collection plate up to "Brother Bob" Tilton. You know it. we know it. And most of all, he knows it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-26
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Slashercise
Overview: Aerobics, neon, and a real Meathead!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-25
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Barbie & Kendra Crash Joe Bob's Drive-In Jamboree!
Overview: Barbie and Kendra head to Vegas to crash horror host Joe Bob Briggs' annual Drive-In movie meltdown and profess their love to the trash lovin' Texan and his sexy sidekick Darcy. But as the ladies settle in for some primo cinematic slop, they learn that a ruthless land baron is planning to turn their crush's outdoor horror movie palace into a golf course!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-06-28
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Hollywood Boulevard II
Overview: A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills the latest star. Soon more actresses get violently eliminated as the desperate search for the killer begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-30
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The Sleeper
Overview: It's 1981 and the girls of Alpha Gamma Theta sorority are having a party. As the new pledges arrive, so does an uninvited guest. Little do the sisters know someone is watching them in the shadows. As the girls shower, study, eat and sleep the stalker studies the girls. One by one he finds the girls at their most vulnerable and murders them. The police hunt for the missing girls and their killer, but will they find them in time? Or will the girls be forced to fight for their lives..
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-31
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Drive-In Movie Memories
Overview: A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photographs and interviews with Leonard Maltin, John Bloom, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Barry Corbin and many others... Drive-In Movie Memories is a film celebration of America's greatest icon of youth, freedom and the automobile. What began as an auto parts owner's business venture to make some easy money accidentally became a magical place where romance, fun and a sense of community flourished. This film chronicles the drive-in's birth and development, its phenomenal popularity with audiences of all ages, its tragic decline, and its inevitable comeback as a classic form of Americana.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Casino
Overview: In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-11-22
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Ghosts of Goldfield
Overview: A group of five led by Julie set up their filming equipment in the hotel of the derelict town of Goldfield, hoping to capture footage of the ghost of Elisabeth Walker, a maid tortured and killed in room 109. Troubled by visions, Julie discovers that a necklace, handed down to her from her grandmother, is somehow connecting her to this tragedy.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-27
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After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater
Overview: A video documentary/road trip that celebrates the drive-in movie theater's impact on the United States, and pays homage to the people who keep the few remaining ones fully operational. Features interviews with horror movie maker John Carpenter, movie critic John I. Bloom (aka "Joe Bob Briggs"), Michael Wallis, author of "Route 66: The Mother Road," and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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American Scary
Overview: A fond remembrance of and tribute to the uniquely American institution of the horror movie host.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-21
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The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees
Overview: A documentary charting the rise and fall (and inevitable undead rise) of fictional killer Jason Vorhees from the Friday the 13th series, which takes in the "video nasty" phenomenon in general.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-23
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Great Balls of Fire!
Overview: The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-30
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Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre
Overview: Feature length documentary about the making of the film featuring interviews with producer Michael Bay, director Marcus Nispel, executive producers Brad Fuller and Andrew Form, screenwriter Scott Kosar, and the cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Joe Bob Briggs: Dead In Concert
Overview: A filmed version of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs' one man show, "An Evening With Joe Bob Briggs," featuring stories, comedy and music, performed in front of a live audience.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-29
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The Ghosts of Johnson Woods
Overview: A young woman gets involved with an awkward young man but soon they find out that neither are who or what they say they are.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-01
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Poetry Slammed
Overview: Hex-Man D-Lord wants nothing more than to win the Ultra States Poetry Slam, the most prestigious poetry slam in the world. But the intimidating The Groove stands in his way, and with the unorthodox training methods Hex-Man's coach Julius uses to prepare Hex-Man for the Ultra States, Hex-Man just might have a chance to take down The Groove.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-04
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Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Overview: Take an outrageous ride through this wild world of exploitation films with this thoroughly entertaining documentary, HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS – THE GODFATHER OF GORE! Featuring cult director John Waters, Drive-In Movie Critic Joe Bob Briggs, Herschell Gordon Lewis himself and a “cast of thousands,” you’ll witness the innocent bare-naked era of Nudie-Cuties before Lewis schocked the world with “Blood Feast,” the first ever gore film!
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-06-01
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Scare Package
Overview: Chad Buckley is a horror aficionado, and he's lonely. Chad spends his days at his struggling genre video store arguing with his only regular customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting applicant shows up, Chad begins to teach him about the rules of horror and his video store at large, much to the chagrin of Sam. During Chad's on-boarding process, we weave in and out of different hilarious horror shorts, each one geared at a different set of horror tropes. As this new applicant learns the ropes, he begins to suspect Chad of something sinister, but we quickly learn that he may have a secret of his own.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Hogzilla
Overview: A tabloid news crew ventures into the backwoods of Central Florida to investigate reports of an aggressive feral hog who the locals call Hogzilla. What they find, though, are demons, devils, creeping things and pure evil.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-15
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In Search of Darkness
Overview: An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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In Search of Darkness: Part II
Overview: The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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Survival of the Film Freaks
Overview: Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-26
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The Perfect Scary Movie
Overview: A documentary looking at the various conventions and scare techniques of the horror genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Cryptids
Overview: An anthology film about a paranormal radio show accepts calls from individuals who have encountered creatures from the unknown.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-19
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Harry and the Hendersons
Overview: Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-05
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Face/Off
Overview: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-27
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Bloody Summer Camp 2: Red Horizon
Overview: After being shut down for eight years, Camp Trustfall is reopened in 1994 by a new owner. The first summer has come to an end and the counselors are closing down the camp for the year when one by one, they start to disappear.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-10-31
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Scare Package
Overview: Chad Buckley is a horror aficionado, and he's lonely. Chad spends his days at his struggling genre video store arguing with his only regular customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting applicant shows up, Chad begins to teach him about the rules of horror and his video store at large, much to the chagrin of Sam. During Chad's on-boarding process, we weave in and out of different hilarious horror shorts, each one geared at a different set of horror tropes. As this new applicant learns the ropes, he begins to suspect Chad of something sinister, but we quickly learn that he may have a secret of his own.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Grinners
Overview: Marley is a moderately successful horror cooking show host. Her life gets flipped upside down when she crosses paths with the voyeuristic possum mask. Marley has to survive the night as she is hunted down through the eyes of a possum.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-14
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