Trash Cinephile is an irreverent guide to 99 intriguing examples of exploitation cinema from a wide variety of sub-genres. These are films that are often branded as B-movies, Trash films, and also rather unfairly as 'bad movies'. Many are so bizarre that they defy any kind of generic definition; which is why you will find the films discussed within these pages gathered together in eight very loosely themed chapters.
Blake Ryan was brought up on a literary diet of Stephen King, John Wyndham, Roald Dahl, and E.C. Horror comics. Sixties and seventies horror and exploitation cinema procured from a local Mom and Pop video store were also an influence.
His love of obscure exploitation cinema inspired a website, and then an exploitation film reference guide entitled Trash Cinephile.
Pestilence - A Grim Prairie Tale is his first work of fiction. It is an apocalyptic tale of horror set in New Mexico circa 1880. The influences are many; the gritty spaghetti western aesthetic of Leone, the brutal panache of Peckinpah and Fuller, the walking dead lore of George A. Romero, and just a hint of Stephen King's epic novel The Stand.
This unusual author continues to burn the midnight oils Herbert West-like in pursuit of giving life to his next literary monster.
