First came video and more recently high definition home entertainment, through to the internet with its streaming videos and not strictly legal peer-to-peer capabilities. With so many sources available, today s fan of horror and exploitation movies isn t necessarily educated on paths well-trodden Universal classics, 1950s monster movies, Hammer as once they were. They may not even be born and bred on DAWN OF THE DEAD. In fact, anyone with a bit of technical savvy (quickly becoming second nature for the born-clicking generation) may be viewing MYSTICS IN BALI and S.S. EXPERIMENT CAMP long before ever hearing of Bela Lugosi or watching a movie directed by Dario Argento. In this world, H.G. Lewis, so-called godfather of gore, carries the same stripes as Alfred Hitchcock, master of suspense. SPINEGRINDER is one man s ambitious, exhaustive and utterly obsessive attempt to make sense of over a century of exploitation and cult cinema, of a sort that most critics won t care to write about. One opinion; 8,000 reviews (or thereabouts.'