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Masters of The Grind Indiegogo campaign launches this Monday

By Lorry Kikta

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Grindhouse expert and indie horror director Jason Rutherford’s Masters of The Grind is an exhaustive exploitation exposee Help make horror history with your contribution! 

Grindhouse fans….you’re in for a bloody good time…

Masters of the Grind is 17 years in the making but needs your help. Director Jason Rutherford is launching an Indiegogo campaign Monday, July 23rd for post-production costs in an attempt to finish the project.

Rutherford, director of this year’s indie horror gem Shhh!, is an expert in exploitation cinema. He contributed archival materials to Pieces, I Drink Your Blood, The Curious Case of the Campus Corpse, Grizzly, Penitentiary, Maniac, Hi-Riders/The Bad Bunch, Wonder Women and Malibu High. He’s worked with Grindhouse Releasing, VCI, Code Red, Vinegar Syndrome and Blue Underground.

Now he’s taking that knowledge to bring a riveting documentary about the grindhouse directors, whose films graced the screens of the good ol’ sleazy theaters of 42nd street and Hollywood Boulevard in the 70’s, 80’s, and beyond.

Here is just a partial list of Grindhouse horror legends featured in the film:

Lawrence David Foldes (

Don’t Go Near the Park)

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  • Greydon Clark (Satan’s Cheerleaders)
  • Joel M. Reed (Bloodsucking Freaks)
  • Herschell Gordon Lewis (Two Thousand Maniacs!)
  • Jack Hill (Spider Baby)
  • Michel Levesque (Werewolves on Wheels)
  • James Bryan (Lady Street Fighter)
  • Ed Adlum (Invasion of the Blood Farmers)
  • William Lustig (Vigilante)
  • Robert Vincent O’Neil (The Psycho Lover)
  • Larry Cohen (Hell Up in Harlem)
  • Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains)
  • Gus Trikonis (The Swinging Barmaids)
  • David Durston (I Drink Your Blood)
  • William Sachs (Van Nuys Blvd.)
  • Rudy Ray Moore (The Human Tornado)
  • Sid Haig (Coffy)
  • Don Edmonds (Ilsa She Wolf of the SS)
  • Jamaa Fanaka (Penitentiary)
  • Ted V. Mikels (The Corpse Grinders)
  • Ray Dennis Steckler (The Thrill Killers)
  • Sybil Danning (Chained Heat)
  • William Dear (Northville Cemetary Massacre)
  • John “Bud” Cardos (Kingdom of the Spiders)
  • Francine York (The Doll Squad)
  • Clu Gulager (Hunter’s Blood)
  • Dyanne Thorne (Ilsa She Wolf of the SS)
  • Ross Hagen (Wonder Women)
  • Darby Hinton (Angel’s Brigade)
  • Diane Peterson (Hi-Riders)
  • Dean Cundey (Ilsa Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks)
  • Tom Keena (The G.I. Executioner)
  • Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger)
  • Tammy Taylor (Malibu High)
  • Johnny Legend (Young, Hot ‘n Nasty Teenage Cruisers)
  • David Hess (Last House on the Left)
  • Fred Lincoln (Last House on the Left)
  • Dr. Sharon Mitchell (Maniac)
  • Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers)
  • Victor Kanefsky (Bloodsucking Freaks)
  • Rosanne Katon (The Swinging Cheerleaders)
  • Meeno Peluce (Don’t Go Near the Park)
  • June Fairchild (The Student Body)
  • Andrew Prine (The Centerfold Girls)
  • David Sheldon (Lovely But Deadly)
  • Howard Maurer (Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks)
  • Austin Stoker (The Zebra Killer)
  • Marc Edward Heuck (Beat the Geeks)
  • Anna Biller (The Love Witch)
  • John Gulager (Feast)
  • Carl Crew (Blood Diner)
  • Victoria Paige Meyerink (Young Warriors)
  • Linnea Quigley (Don’t Go Near the Park)
  • Jim Vanbebber (Deadbeat at Dawn)
  • Peggy Steffans Sarno (A Taste of Flesh)
  • Joe Sarno (Sin in the Suburbs)
  • Eric Caidin ( Grindhouse Film Festival)
  • Brian Quinn ( Grindhouse Film Festival)

    • Watch the trailer here and stay tuned for more updates on the film’s progress!

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